My Foolish Heart

directed by Mark Robson
Category: "Drama"
Year of Release:1949
Date Added:07/29/2021
Date Watched:07/29/2021
Description:Eloise (Susan Hayward), a college girl, meets Walt (Dana Andrews) and falls in love. When she's caught out of the dorm with him one night, she gets expelled. She gets a job in New York and she and Walt continue dating. WWII begins and Walt is called up. But first, they spend a week together and Eloise gets pregnant. Walt is killed in a plane crash. After he's dead, Eloise gets a letter from him asking her to marry him. To cover her pregnancy, Eloise marries Lew, the fiance of her best friend who has always had a crush on her. Years later, her marriage in shambles, Eloise realizes how much she's hurt others. She leaves Walt, who marries his old fiance and Eloise stays with her and Walt's daughter.
My Rating:8

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Review - My Foolish Heart

I'm not usually a fan of sad movies, but Hayward was excellent in this as the small-town girl who moves to the big city, falls in love, and then is trapped in hard, lonely solitude with nobody to turn to. At least the ending was redemptive, with her realizing how she's hurt others in her attempt to survive and determining to love her daughter.

Reviewed by Roger on 2021-07-29 17:03:41

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