Academy Awards, USA 1947
| Won Oscar | Best Writing, Original Screenplay Muriel Box Sydney Box |
Universal Pictures
Directed by Compton Bennett
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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The luminous Ann Todd is Francesca: a suicidal girl pulled from a river and sent to a psychiatrist for evaluation. Under hypnosis, we learn her long, sad story from her orphaned childhood to tortured teen. She is groomed to be a concert pianist under the iron hand of an uncle. She achieves great success in her career but her personal life is a complete mess. She gets separated from her first love, can't commit to another and is always under the watchful eye of her uncle. Her psychiatrist eventually cures her of her various neuroses, but in a contrived, anticlimactic ending she must choose one among the many men in her life to which to commit. Moodily photographed in striking black and white by Reginald H. Weyer.
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