Our Very Own (1950)
If you’re going to watch two movies about adoption, check out Our Very Own and Secrets & Lies. The latter is extremely heavy, but and the former is a great precursor for all other adoption movies made in the following decades.
Ann Blyth is a happy teenager, and the biggest problems in her life are a bratty younger sister, Natalie Wood, and a new television that takes longer than expected to install. Isn’t that a wonderful life? Ann’s parents are Donald Cook and Jane Wyatt, in a perfect audition for her claim to fame Father Knows Best, which started a few years later. After her eighteenth birthday, Ann’s happiness is cut short by her other sister Joan Evans, who blurts out t he awful truth that Ann is adopted. Of course, Ann instantly feels incomplete and needs to meet her birth parents before she can move on with her life. The rest of the film shows a perfectly realistic journey, earning its Oscar nomination for F. Hugh Herbert’s screenplay. Check out this staple in adolescent, suburban problems.
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Ann Blyth is a happy teenager, and the biggest problems in her life are a bratty younger sister, Natalie Wood, and a new television that takes longer than expected to install. Isn’t that a wonderful life? Ann’s parents are Donald Cook and Jane Wyatt, in a perfect audition for her claim to fame Father Knows Best, which started a few years later. After her eighteenth birthday, Ann’s happiness is cut short by her other sister Joan Evans, who blurts out t he awful truth that Ann is adopted. Of course, Ann instantly feels incomplete and needs to meet her birth parents before she can move on with her life. The rest of the film shows a perfectly realistic journey, earning its Oscar nomination for F. Hugh Herbert’s screenplay. Check out this staple in adolescent, suburban problems.
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru, and thanks "Classic Movies Kristine Rose" for posting!
More Ann Blyth movies here!