It's a meladrama, often slated as a sentimental 'woman's picture'. However, Bette Davis is superb - those eyes!
The story, based on the 1941 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, goes like this.
Dowdy, dutiful daughter Charlotte [Bette Davis]...
After a nervous breakdown caused by her dommineering mother, goes on a criuse & falls for doe-eyed, unhappily married architect Jerry [Paul Henreid] & under goes a remarkable transformation.
After a nervous breakdown caused by her dommineering mother, goes on a criuse & falls for doe-eyed, unhappily married architect Jerry [Paul Henreid] & under goes a remarkable transformation. Never has smoking looked so glamorous/sexy as, when Jerry lights two cigarettes & passes one to Charlotte...
Their love can never be, but she finds solice in helping his troubled daughter Tina.
Their love can never be, but she finds solice in helping his troubled daughter Tina. The final scene's words 'Don't let's ask for the moon Jerry, we have the stars' are unforgetable.
At which point, I weep every time, perhaps because when ever Little Buddy & I are together we always look @ the stars!
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