As a teenager I saw the movie of the same title, starring Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews, before the Roman Catholic newspaper came out with the rating of "C" for CONDEMNED! I was happy that I squeezed in the movie before I saw the rating, otherwise, I would not have gone. What can I say? I was a good Catholic girl.
The romantic song played throughout the film, which the critics panned, but which I loved.
The New Yorker wrote that it was "full of soap-opera clichés," and, while allowing for "some well-written patches of wryly amusing dialogue," Time rejected it as a "damp fable....the screenplay turns on all the emotional faucets of a Woman's Home Companion serial.
"My Foolish Heart" surely turns on all my emotional faucets. I'd say it was my age at the time, but I own the video, and I still watch with pleasure. The movie was adapted from a story by J. D. Salinger, titled "Uncle Wiggliy in Connecticut", and, as Salinger disliked what had been done to his story, he never again relinquished control of his other publications to Hollywood.
Oh, and critics panned the song, too. Still, I think Margaret Whiting sings a lovely version? What do the critics know?
Quote from Wikipedia.
This must be one of the earliest songs I remember from childhood, though I gather that I used to do a mean performance of Buttons & Bows when I was a three-year-old.
ReplyDeleteRoger, you made my day! The picture in my imagination of you singing "Buttons and Bows" at the age of three will stay with me.
ReplyDeleteThe avatar on this account is me, a year or two later, if that helps your imagination any.
ReplyDeleteYou as Little Lord Fauntleroy?
ReplyDeleteMy Laughing Cavalier phase.
ReplyDeleteThe Little Cavalier seems to be smiling rather than laughing. You not sucking your thumb, are you?
ReplyDeleteQuarrying my nose, maybe?
ReplyDeleteNo, no, no! Let's leave it at thumbsucking.
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