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The Most UNDERRATED film.

posted 16 years ago by ape69716
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I found the DVD To Each His Own at some dvd shop where they sell rare dvd's,
After about a 1/2 year of it sitting in my collection, I finally got around to watching it.
The reason I bought it was because I am a fan of Miss de Havilland and this was her first Academy Award Winning Movie so it was a must have.
After watching I was blown away by the sentimental value and moral of the movie.
It was very moving and the brilliant ending has your emotions up.
I was shocked to come to IMDB to find not many posts on it, which means this film is truly underrated.
Olivia de Havilland nails the role and truly deserved the Oscar.
Watch if U find it.

[–] deadpan_diva 16 years ago

I cry like a baby everytime I watch that final scene. It's probably one of my favorite scenes ever. And i'ts so satifying and everything I want it to be unlike White Banners. White Banners is a great movie but the ending is not nearly as satifying.

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[–] Blondfashionisto 14 years ago

I just saw it for the first time on TCM and I agree whole-heartedly. I loved Stella Dallas and this movie is definitely in the same vein. How great you were able to get it on DVD - I've looked on-line and don't see a copy - Not even in the TCM Vault Classic Movies.

I hope it does come out on DVD again...

Christopher

'There’s a name for you ladies, but it’s not used…Outside a kennel! (Crystal Allen)'

[–] shadycady 14 years ago

I agree that this move is fantastic, and I really loved watching this film on TCM last night with my 10 year old daughter.

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[–] Blondfashionisto 14 years ago

Good for you! It's great to expose children to classic movies - I did so with my nieces. It's a real 'history' lesson - Plus, the dialogue helps children learn to speak properly.

Christopher

'There’s a name for you ladies, but it’s not used…Outside a kennel! (Crystal Allen)'

[–] wishingwell57 14 years ago

Thank you so much for caring to teach your nieces proper English. Our language is being trashed.

[–] Moon_and_New_York_City 14 years ago

I watched it last night for the very first time, primarily because I am an Oscar buff and I want to see all the Academy Award winning films and performances I can before I die, a bucket list kind of thing.

I have never been a huge fan of ODH, although I love "Gone With the Wind" naturally but here, she was quite good. I was surprised actually, at how good. My experience has generally been, the Oscar winning actors prior to the advent of method acting in 1950 or so, tended to be quite hammy ala Ray Milland in "The Lost Weekend".

But Miss DeHavilland really moved me, particularly in the scene where she broke down and told her father she was pregnant. And as much as I didn't want to cry, well..... by the time her son tapped her on the shoulder and said, "I believe this is our dance, Mother".... I totally lost it.

Great film.

"the best that you can do is fall in love"

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[–] bluestocking-7 14 years ago

I also love Stella Dallas and Barbara Stanwyck in it. Her tragedy is the ironic reversal of Jody's and both movies have a wedding to mark off the crucial stage of separation or reunion.

Stella Dallas participated in her daughter's full upbringing and was there up to the marriageable age but has to sever off ties at the wedding to ensure her daughter's future.

Jody Norris missed out on the upbringing years. She'll get a second chance starting from the day of the wedding and be there for the grandchildren but how do you make up for all those "cute and cuddly" years when your own child is a wee thing dependent on you.

If TCM air these movies back to back with Terms of Endearment, there wouldn't be enough Kleenex in the store to get me through.

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[–] boxerrebellion 7 years ago

Jody's son had the 'cute & cuddly' years, with the mother who raised him. Yes, adoptees miss being raised by their birth mothers, but generally those mothers couldn't give them the life they would wish for their child. It takes a lot of love to allow a child to be adopted, and Jody could have stopped it right there at the beginning if she had told the doctor it was her child. She likely would have had to leave town, and try to work while raising a child... that is not the road she chose.

[–] AuntSissy 14 years ago

You are so lucky to have found it on DVD! I love this movie! The only thing that I think they got wrong was how they aged Jody. I figure that at the end of the movie she could have only been in her 40's but with the dark makeup around her eyes, etc., it made her look like she was sick. Hollywood used to have a misconception as to what people looked like as they aged. Look at Elizabeth Taylor in "Giant" when Leslie grew older. Elizabeth has never looked like that as she got older and Olivia de Havilland certainly didn't look like Jody as she grew older. Look at her in "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". She was about 48 when she made that and was still a knockout. I just wish they hadn't made Jody look so bad, especially since she was a cosmetic mogul!