Academy Awards, USA 1942
| Won Oscar | Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color Cedric Gibbons Urie McCleary Edwin B. Willis |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role Greer Garson | |
| Best Cinematography, Color Karl Freund W. Howard Greene |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
Greer Garson gets swept off her feet by Walter Pidgeon, marries him and moves to Texas where he runs a flour business. They have a child after a few years but tragedy strikes. She starts a daycare operation and the house is filled with children. This eventually leads to a home for orphans and what we call today an adoption agency. She crusades in the state senate for the elimination of "illegitimate" on birth certificates. Sincere but melodramatic portrait of the real-life Edna Gladney, paints in broad strokes, albeit in beautiful Technicolor.
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