list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around My Foolish Heart on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/My_Foolish_Heart/67391/default.aspx Title: My Foolish Heart
Year: 1949
Director: Mark Robson
Plot: Producer Samuel Goldwyn dishes up sentiment by the bowlful with My Foolish Heart. Susan Hayward is (somewhat unconvincingly) cast as a wide-eyed girl from Idaho who meets bon vivant Dana Andrews at a Manhattan party. Their brief affair results in a pregnancy, but since Andrews has been killed in the war, Hayward marries a man she doesn't love to give her child a name. The experience turns the girl into an embittered alcoholic, but she sees the light before she can cause grief for her baby. Based on a story by J. D. Salinger (the only one of this reclusive author's stories ever translated to film), My Foolish Heart strains credulity to the breaking point, but was popular enough to yield a hit title song, which is still a standard on "easy listening" FM radio stations. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:00:51 GMTMy Foolish Heart1949Mark RobsonProducer <a href="/players/P____91976/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Samuel Goldwyn</a> dishes up sentiment by the bowlful with My Foolish Heart. <a href="/players/P____31331/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Susan Hayward</a> is (somewhat unconvincingly) cast as a wide-eyed girl from Idaho who meets bon vivant <a href="/players/P_____1708/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Dana Andrews</a> at a Manhattan party. Their brief affair results in a pregnancy, but since Andrews has been killed in the war, Hayward marries a man she doesn't love to give her child a name. The experience turns the girl into an embittered alcoholic, but she sees the light before she can cause grief for her baby. Based on a story by J. D. Salinger (the only one of this reclusive author's stories ever translated to film), My Foolish Heart strains credulity to the breaking point, but was popular enough to yield a hit title song, which is still a standard on "easy listening" FM radio stations. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide11http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/v32923liubc.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/My_Foolish_Heart/67391/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/4/29/27966.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 4/29/2008 4:00:51 PM
Body: Alright, it’s not actually a film review, but in a letter of correspondence from 1981, to lover Janet Eagleson, the Catcher in the Rye author does pan the original Indiana Jones film. However, it’s difficult to say the man doesn’t have good taste in movies. In the same handwritten note, he also mention that he enjoyed Truffaut’s The Last Metro. Behold the great American novelist’s actual words: …Have seen no good movies, except The Last Metro…I got hooked into seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, which might be excused for its unwitty, unfunny awful socko-ness if it had been put together by Harvard Lampoon seniors… I guess it’s not all that amazing, but I find Salinger’s comments interesting because I’d always figured he was a curmudgeonly hater of films. Part of my misconception is due to Holden Caulfield’s attitude toward cinema in Catcher, and part is due to Salinger’s refusal to permit a movie adaptation of Catcher or any other works post-My Foolish Heart (an adaptation of Salinger’s story “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” that apparently resulted in the author’s subsequent refusals). Yet according to Salinger’s daughter Margaret (via Wikipedia), who wrote the memoir Dream Catcher, the author was in fact a film buff. She even listed his favorite films as Gigi, Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, and the comedies of the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy. However, according to Joyce Maynard (also via Wikipedia), an ex-lover who also wrote a memoir, Salinger “loves movies, not films.” Of course, that would mean that he should have loved Raiders and disliked Truffaut, right? Anyway, you can bid on the letter with the Last Metro and Raiders comments in an Ebay Live Auction tomorrow evening, or if you’re short the few thousand bucks, you can just look at the photo of it on the auction’s listing. [via Empire] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:00:51 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com4/29/2008 4:00:51 PMAlright, it’s not actually a film review, but in a letter of correspondence from 1981, to lover Janet Eagleson, the Catcher in the Rye author does pan the original Indiana Jones film. However, it’s difficult to say the man doesn’t have good taste in movies. In the same handwritten note, he also mention that he enjoyed Truffaut’s The Last Metro. Behold the great American novelist’s actual words: …Have seen no good movies, except The Last Metro…I got hooked into seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, which might be excused for its unwitty, unfunny awful socko-ness if it had been put together by Harvard Lampoon seniors… I guess it’s not all that amazing, but I find Salinger’s comments interesting because I’d always figured he was a curmudgeonly hater of films. Part of my misconception is due to Holden Caulfield’s attitude toward cinema in Catcher, and part is due to Salinger’s refusal to permit a movie adaptation of Catcher or any other works post-My Foolish Heart (an adaptation of Salinger’s story “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” that apparently resulted in the author’s subsequent refusals). Yet according to Salinger’s daughter Margaret (via Wikipedia), who wrote the memoir Dream Catcher, the author was in fact a film buff. She even listed his favorite films as Gigi, Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, and the comedies of the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy. However, according to Joyce Maynard (also via Wikipedia), an ex-lover who also wrote a memoir, Salinger “loves movies, not films.” Of course, that would mean that he should have loved Raiders and disliked Truffaut, right? Anyway, you can bid on the letter with the Last Metro and Raiders comments in an Ebay Live Auction tomorrow evening, or if you’re short the few thousand bucks, you can just look at the photo of it on the auction’s listing. [via Empire] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/pregnancy/MemberTagFilms.aspxpregnancy
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