Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Olivia de Havilland | ... | Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris (as Olivia De Havilland) | |
Mary Anderson | ... | Corinne Piersen | |
Roland Culver | ... | Lord Desham | |
Phillip Terry | ... | Alex Piersen | |
Bill Goodwin | ... | Mac Tilton | |
Virginia Welles | ... | Liz Lorimer | |
Victoria Horne | ... | Nurse Daisy Gingras | |
Griff Barnett | ... | Daniel Norris | |
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Alma Macrorie | ... | Belle Ingram |
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Billy Ward | ... | Gregory - Younger (as Bill Ward) |
Frank Faylen | ... | Babe | |
Willard Robertson | ... | Dr. Hunt | |
Arthur Loft | ... | Bernadock Clinton | |
Virginia Farmer | ... | Mrs. Cora Clinton | |
Doris Lloyd | ... | Miss Pringle |
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar. Written by Mark Foltz <foltz@triton.wustl.edu>
I caught this one on a late-night TV broadcast some years ago and was immediately hooked by Olivia's beautiful performance (plus being a sucker for tear-jerking stories with a flashback structure, I'm embarrassed to admit.) With Paramount's finest artisans and technicians in all departments to enhance her return to the screen, Olivia's Oscar was well-earned, indeed.
Other IMDb comments on this title are "on the money" (except for the one nay-sayer...Can't please everyone!) but no one mentioned John Lund's (as Gregory, Josephine Norris' long-lost son, rediscovered during his wartime London leave) constantly having to exclaim "Holy Canarsie!" before nearly every line of his dialog. After the first couple of times I wanted to scream at him, "Oh, stuff it!" But then, we're all guilty of overusing certain expressions, but THAT one was REALLY annoying. No wonder the script failed to win the Academy Award. So there!