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6.7/10   144 votes
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Director:
Rudolph Maté
Writers:
Ruth Southard (novel) and
Howard Koch (writer)
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Release Date:
28 April 1950 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
The studio should have pronounced this one D. O. A. more (9 total)

Cast

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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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Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:15 | UK:A
Filming Locations:
Ontario, California, USA
Company:
Columbia Pictures Corporation more

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Originally announced as a vehicle for Irene Dunne and, later, Olivia de Havilland before Margaret Sullavan signed on. more

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5 out of 29 people found the following comment useful.
The studio should have pronounced this one D. O. A., 23 June 2004
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Author: herbqedi from New York, NY

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.

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