| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Irene Dunne |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role Maria Ouspenskaya | |||
| Best Art Direction Van Nest Polglase Alfred Herman | |||
| Best Music, Original Song Buddy G. DeSylva For the song "Wishing" | |||
| Best Picture (RKO Radio). | |||
| Best Writing, Original Story Mildred Cram Leo McCarey | |||
RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Leo McCarey
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer fall in love on a cruise ship. After docking in New York, they agree to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building. Boyer makes it but Dunne is run over in the street on the way and is no longer able to walk. During her long recovery she takes up teaching music at an orphanage and he becomes a successful painter. Their reunion is bittersweet. Admittedly Boyer and Dunne have great chemistry, but simply too cloying and melodramatic, especially those singing orphans.
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