The Howards of Virginia (1940)




Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke - The Howards of Virginia




Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Howards of Virginia

Deborah Del Vecchio and Ton Johnson
Peter Cushing, The Gentle man of Horror and His 91 Films
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1992

Donald Deschner
The Films of Cary Grant
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Books with an entry on The Howards of Virginia

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001