My Foolish Heart (1949)
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72% of users liked it
(215 ratings)
Producer Samuel Goldwyn dishes up sentiment by the bowlful with My Foolish Heart. Susan Hayward is (somewhat unconvincingly) cast as a wide-eyed girl from Idaho who meets bon vivant Dana Andrews at a Manhattan party. Their brief affair results in a pregnancy, but since Andrews has been killed in the… More Producer Samuel Goldwyn dishes up sentiment by the bowlful with My Foolish Heart. Susan Hayward is (somewhat unconvincingly) cast as a wide-eyed girl from Idaho who meets bon vivant Dana Andrews at a Manhattan party. Their brief affair results in a pregnancy, but since Andrews has been killed in the war, Hayward marries a man she doesn't love to give her child a name. The experience turns the girl into an embittered alcoholic, but she sees the light before she can cause grief for her baby. Based on a story by J. D. Salinger (the only one of this reclusive author's stories ever translated to film), My Foolish Heart strains credulity to the breaking point, but was popular enough to yield a hit title song, which is still a standard on "easy listening" FM radio stations. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Mark Robson
- Written By
- Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 25, 1949 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Salinger was so dismayed at what Hollywood did to his story, that it was the first and last time that they got their hands on one of his stories.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Susan Hayward received the first of her five Oscar nominations fo this well-acted medlodrama (woman's picture), loosely based on J.D. Salinger's story.
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Cast
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Dana Andrews
as Walt Dreiser
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Susan Hayward
as Eloise Winters
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Kent Smith
as Lew Wengler
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Lois Wheeler
as Mary Jane
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Jesse Royce Landis
as Martha Winters
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Robert Keith
as Henry Winters
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Karin [Katharine] Booth
as Miriam Ball
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Todd Karns
as Her Escort
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Phillip Pine
as Sgt. Lucey
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Martha Mears
as Nightclub Singer
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Edna Holland
as Dean Whiting
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Jerry Paris
as Usher
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Marietta Canty
as Grace
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Barbara Woodell
as Red Cross receptionist
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Regina Wallace
as Mrs. Crandall
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Sam Ash
as Spectator
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Phyllis Coates
as Girl on Phone
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Marcel dela Brosse
as Waiter
- Kerry O'Day
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Edward Peil Sr.
as Conductor
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Gigi Perreau
as Ramona
- Billy Lord
- Tom Gibson
