I really liked this movie so very much. I did not get in on the beginning, but when I saw the cast I knew it had to be a classic. I love the old Black and White films. Was raised on them on television. Claudette Colbert and Joseph Cotton were so good together as best friends, and her husband gone off to help fight the War. His almost grown two daughters left behind with the Mother Claudette Colbert. Showed how things were back then, and how hard it was waiting letters from sweethearts, husbands, and fathers. Dreading receiving telegrams.
It is a very warmhearted movie, with something for everyone who is a movie buff of the old movies, when Movie Stars were larger then life. I liked being able to recognize many character actors in this film. The navy man in the bowling alley I recognized as Guy Madison. It must have been one of his first movie roles. He was blonde, and so very young. I canceled watching some new movie on LMN to watch this movie to its end. Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple were the daughters. I never had seen them in a film together. They seemed to fit their roles very well. I really got a feel for the canteens where young women from the town were encouraged to come to dance with the lonely soldiers. Many young men and women found their sweethearts that way. Young women did all they could to help the war effort by helping out at the red cross. Wonderful movie even though one might need a hankie or two. These kinds of movies are hard to come by these days, because there was just so much genuine feelings throughout the movie. It makes watching it as if you bring away from it not just that it is a good story, but that you felt like you might have relived a part of history for those who were not even born as yet at the time this movie was made, but it gave you feeling you were having a birds eye view of how it was.
It is a very warmhearted movie, with something for everyone who is a movie buff of the old movies, when Movie Stars were larger then life. I liked being able to recognize many character actors in this film. The navy man in the bowling alley I recognized as Guy Madison. It must have been one of his first movie roles. He was blonde, and so very young. I canceled watching some new movie on LMN to watch this movie to its end. Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple were the daughters. I never had seen them in a film together. They seemed to fit their roles very well. I really got a feel for the canteens where young women from the town were encouraged to come to dance with the lonely soldiers. Many young men and women found their sweethearts that way. Young women did all they could to help the war effort by helping out at the red cross. Wonderful movie even though one might need a hankie or two. These kinds of movies are hard to come by these days, because there was just so much genuine feelings throughout the movie. It makes watching it as if you bring away from it not just that it is a good story, but that you felt like you might have relived a part of history for those who were not even born as yet at the time this movie was made, but it gave you feeling you were having a birds eye view of how it was.