Dearest Enemy
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This live TV adaptation of the Broadway musical "Dearest Enemy" from 1925 is based on an American Revolutionary War incident in September 1776 when Mary Lindley Murray, under orders from General George Washington, detained General William Howe and his British troops by serving them cake, wine and conversation in her Kips Bay, Manhattan home long enough for some 4,000 American soldiers, fleeing their loss in the Battle of Brooklyn, to reassemble in Washington Heights and join reinforcements to make a successful counterattack.
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Cast
13 people
Anne Jeffreys
Betsy Winthrop
Also in
Topper
Dick Tracy
Robert Sterling
John Copeland
Known for
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Johnny Eager
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Mrs. Murray
Known for
The Uninvited
Cyril Ritchard
Gen. Howe
Known for
The Hobbit
Blackmail
Donald Burr
Cornwallis
Also in
Annie Get Your Gun
Don Driver
Courier
Also in
Naughty Marietta
Lelia Martin
Amanda
Known for
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Wynne Miller
Clara
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Elaine Spaulding
Adele
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Greta Gray
Florence
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Byron Halstead
Gen. Tryon
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Lewis Brooks
Gen. Clinton
Max Liebman Director
United States release November 26, 1955 · Produced in United States
Production
NBC Studios
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 26, 1955
TV · NBC
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