
Plot
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

Anne Jeffreys
Betsy Winthrop

Robert Sterling
John Copeland

Cornelia Otis Skinner
Mrs. Murray

Cyril Ritchard
Gen. Howe

Donald Burr
Cornwallis

Donn Driver
Courier

Lelia Martin
Amanda

Wynne Miller
Clara

Elaine Spaulding
Adele

Greta Gray
Florence

Byron Halstead
Gen. Tryon

Lewis Brooks
Gen. Clinton

Evan Wright
American Soldier