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28 April 1950 (USA)
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Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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The studio should have pronounced this one D. O. A.
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(Credited cast)| Margaret Sullavan | ... | Mary Scott | |
| Wendell Corey | ... | Bradford 'Brad' Scott | |
| Viveca Lindfors | ... | Chris Radna | |
| Natalie Wood | ... | Polly Scott | |
| John McIntire | ... | Dr. Ralph Frene | |
| Ann Doran | ... | Louise Spears | |
| Richard Quine | ... | Brownie | |
| Jeanette Nolan | ... | Mona Frene | |
| Dorothy Tree | ... | Frieda Miles | |
| Raymond Greenleaf | ... | Mr. Caswell | |
| Urylee Leonardos | ... | Flora, the Maid |
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Originally announced as a vehicle for Irene Dunne and, later, Olivia de Havilland before Margaret Sullavan signed on.
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Margaret Sullivan, in a rare leading role, gets to sing her career swan song in an unfortunately lifeless sudser. She plays a middle-class housewife dying of an incurable disease.
The movie starts out as an interesting portrait of her wish to face this death with dignity. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is as maudlin as anything Hollywood has ever delivered -- and that's quite a statement. Some excellent character actors get to play well-meaning but ultimately self-absorbed guest stars in her life's terminal phase. Then, at the end, it further degenerates to completely unsatisfactory moralizing tone, wrapping up loose ends.
Roughly around this time, Mate, the movie's director, directed the classic film noir, D. O. A., where star Edmond O'Brien plays a man dying of interminable disease. I wish I could be more pleasant about Sullivan's overwrought valedictory performance, but in truth, it should have been buried in the film's can as D.O. A.