| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture Miklós Rózsa |
United Artists
Directed by Julien Duvivier
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
An elderly Merle Oberon and her former boyfriends recall their lives together from atop a Boston hotel. As a teenager, Merle says "golly" in every other sentence and is oblivious to the interest of the new family doctor Joseph Cotten. The dialogue in many of these scenes is both forced and irritatingly juvenile. Thankfully about half way through the film Merle falls in love with a rugged sailor and spends the night with him at a remote seaside hideaway. The set pieces, on windy, snow-swept nights, are almost lyrical in their mood. Merle's rapid change from teenager to woman is a bit of a stretch, but the film is better for it. The rest of the plot unfolds in a rather predictable way, with diversions into her work with blind children.
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