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A Treasure, 12 July 2002
10/10
Author: jhnhnngn from USA

No actress was ever more beautiful than Barbara Stanwyck in this film. Corny as can be, but I could watch it a thousand times. I wanted to show it in my American History class but don't know where to rent it. I was born in 1948 and this pix made me fall in love with a woman born in 1905 or 1907, and who has been dead 10 years. This is a real American treasure.

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Miss Stanwyck as everyman's girl., 26 July 2002
10/10
Author: jhnhnngn

Soap Operalike, yes. Weepy eyed, yes. Over the top, yes. Cornball to the hilt, yes. But, Barbara Stanwyck was absolutely beautiful in this film. No one can watch this and not fall in love with her. The rest of the cast was good too, but I was totally engrossed in her performance.

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seldom shown early Stanwyck, 28 August 2008
7/10
Author: ksf-2 from southwest US

Barbara Stanwyck, the gal who could play any role, is American Mary Archer, who is fawning over her cousin "Jeff" (Ralph Bellamy), until she meets the dashing German Hugo Wilbrant (Otto Kruger). They get married, and soon Germany is invading countries during WW I , which causes turbulence and troubles for the married couple and their family.

Its a shortie, at 68 minutes. I had seen Stanwyck in Ten Cents a Dance in 1931, and in that one, she was still very much a young girl, in style and appearance; in this film "Ever in my Heart", even though only two years has gone by, she is much more grown up, in looks and in sophistication. Too bad Donald Meeks scenes were deleted - he would have spiced up the plot, which could use some humor, with more than its share of sadness. Interesting scene where the little old ladies in the sewing circle giggle and gasp over the horrible things the enemy does to captured prisoners. Technically, the acting and story here are just fine, and I guess the plot would soon be a current event again with the coming of WW II, much less still be an issue with world events going on today. Producer Hal Wallis and Archie Mayo (director) would make eleven movies together in the 1930s.

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Creaky vehicle about the effects of propaganda on a marriage..., 19 August 2008
5/10
Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

BARBARA STANWYCK looks lovely in a series of close-ups that are held so long that you needn't wonder why the story drags so much. Director Archie Mayo must have been in love with her face because he lingers just a little too long on every loving close-up. All in all, she does a commendable job as a pretty Americn woman who falls in love with a German man and suffers the consequences when friends and colleagues destroy their relationship.

It's a non too subtle look at a German-American marriage at a time when Germany was launching into World War I. OTTO KRUGER is cast as her German husband, so there's not too much chemistry going on between Stanwyck and Kruger.

Poor RALPH BELLAMY has another one of his hapless roles as a man he describes as "an unromantic bachelor." It's soap opera from beginning to end, and I presume it was based on a stage play because it has that indoor look all the way through.

Some good minor supporting roles, but all in all it's a very predictable, very forgettable little item from Stanwyck's early career.

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Another Weeper, 8 April 2002
6/10
Author: boblipton from New York City

A well-intentioned but predictable soap opera. Although the script is better than most of Miss Stanwyck's roles of the period, this story, like most of her early roles, creaks, this time with unhappy sincerity and an over-the-top ending. The direction is capably handled and the cast is excellent. Otto Kruger, best known these days for his suave Hitchcockian villains, gets to play her sympathetic co-star.

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