Dearest Enemy
1955This 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.
Acted in
Anne Jeffreys
as Betsy Winthrop
Robert Sterling
as John Copeland
Cornelia Otis Skinner
as Mrs. Murray
Cyril Ritchard
as Gen. Howe
Donald Burr
as Cornwallis
Donn Driver
as Courier
Lelia Martin
as Amanda
Wynne Miller
as Clara
Elaine Spaulding
as Adele
Greta Gray
as Florence
Byron Halstead
as Gen. Tryon
Lewis Brooks
as Gen. Clinton
Evan Wright
as American Soldier