1948 - US
Director
George Stevens
Starring
Irene Dunne
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This is a perfectly good film of a sort that doesn’t necessarily interest me, but for a classic family drama with just the right balance of humor and pathos, it probably doesn’t get much better. What does interest me, of course, is Irene Dunne, giving if not her best performance then certainly her second best after her should-be iconic role in The Awful Truth: not so much for the more obvious accent work in the role of a first-generation Norwegian immigrant in an era when it was attempted seldomly and always poorly (ahhh, the vaguely British pan-European invented accent of Old Hollywood…), but for every expressive, deeply felt, utterly human glance and gesture. The Golden Age was full of personalities, types, and symbols, but there were far fewer real and versatile actors… Irene Dunne was such an actor, and could have worked her pure magic in any film era.
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