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Bette Davis, Bonita Granville, Claude Rains, Franklin Pangborn, Gladys Cooper
In this 1942 melodrama, founded on the novel by Olivia Higgins Prouty (who also wrote the novel on which Stella Dallas was based), Bette Davis stars as Charlotte Vale, a dowdy, repressed woman who, ov...( read more
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A terrific melodrama, the potentially trashy pitfalls of which are neatly sidestepped by way of classy production values and sensitive performances, not least from Bette Davis at her very best. She plays a highly-strung, ugly-duckling spinster who, cured of her neuroses by a psyc...( read more)
I cannot imagine how it is that I've never seen this. A masterful performance of the phoenix-like Charlotte Vale character by the beautiful and very canny Bette Davis. I can see why she fought to get this plum part. Davis so inhabits this role that it is hard to tell where she...( read more)
didn't do much for me. claude rains was the best actor & his parts were small as well as inconsequential. it was very slow & i found it boring. it was a story full of emotion, but when you've seen one of these plain type efforts you've seen 'em all. it wasn't exactly par with bri...( read more)
"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.". Great Classic The strenght of the film lies both in the great love story and in the troubled childhood relationship with her mother and similar child.
Bette Davis really makes this film. In the period this movie was made, it was risky to allow yourself to look ugly and unattractive. I love the emotion in this film, and how relatable the main character is. The love story has been done many times, but it?s the realistic unique...( read more)
