We Are Not Alone

We Are Not Alone is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Paul Muni, Jane Bryan, and Flora Robson. The screenplay concerns a doctor who hires a woman as a nanny for his son. When his wife becomes jealous, tragedy consumes all involved. The film is based on the 1937 novel We Are Not Alone by James Hilton, who adapted his novel with Milton Krims. Cast Paul Muni as Dr. David Newcome Jane Bryan as Leni Krafft Flora Robson as Jessica Newcome Raymond Severn as Gerald Newcome Una O'Connor as Susan Henry Daniell as Sir Ronald Dawson Montagu Love as Major Millman James Stephenson as Sir William Clintock Stanley Logan as Sir Guy Lockhead Cecil Kellaway as Judge Alan Napier as Archdeacon Eily Malyon as Archdeacon's Wife Douglas Scott as Tommy Baker Crauford Kent as Dr. Stacey Billy Bevan as Mr. Jones Holmes Herbert as Police Inspector John Powers as Charley Colin Kenny as George Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Raymond Olaf Hytten as Mr. Clark (uncredited) Reception Frank Nugent praised the film in his The New York Times review, writing "his [James Hilton's] We Are Not Alone emerges as a film of rare tenderness and beauty, compassionate and grave, possessed above all of the quality of serenity...one of the most soundly written films of the year, one of the best directed and, of course, one of the most brilliantly played."