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A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.
Ann E. Todd
- Gretchen Van Orman
- (as Ann Todd)
Leah Baird
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Ellsworth Blake
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Oliver Blake
- Dave
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFirst film since the inception of the "Production code" in the 1930's to show a double bed in a married couple's bedroom.
- GoofsOn first visit to the Major's apartment, the door opens on the left-hand side, but when leaving the apartment the second time, the door opens on the right hand side.
- Quotes
Jessica Drummond: How neat you are, Frank!
Frank Everett: That's what comes of being a bachelor all your life.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music (2019)
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Satisfying High-Class Weepie
An ideal script for Douglas Sirk, charting the emotional liberation of a widow, but filmed without Douglas Sirk. Instead, Curtis Bernhardt commands a lush postwar production: the $5000 limits on set construction were lifted, and it shows. Extras crowd the screen, even in modest scenes, plus James Wong Howe contributes rich low-key lighting, Max Steiner produces an expressive [if undistinctive] score, and Edith Head whips up tasteful costumes. Bernhardt works best in the big scenes, but misjudges some of the lighter moments and cannot light a fire under his leading man, George Brent at his most stolid. Still, there's much to enjoy here: thoughtful dialogue, the stylized upper-crust social milieu, and expert performances, including an unusually sensitive one from Barbara Stanwyck. However, that slight [but crucial] ironic distance of Sirk is sorely missed.
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- Jun 24, 2000
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- Budget
- $1,106,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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