Night Movie Show - The Secret Heart - 1946 - Claudette Colbert

Night Movie Show - The Secret Heart - 1946 - Claudette Colbert
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✅ The Story ...

Lee (Claudette Colbert) is engaged to marry Larry Addams (Richard Derr), a spendthrift widower with two children, son Chase (Robert Sterling) and daughter Penny (June Allyson). Lee had been living in England with her guardian aunt, who didn't approve of the match since Larry was an alcoholic, and while returning to America on an ocean liner, she meets Chris Matthews (Walter Pidgeon), a close friend of Larry's.

Despite her loving feelings for Chris, she marries Larry, and moves to his farm in Rhode Island. Larry's talent is playing the piano, which he teaches Penny, but he gave up this ambition to work in a bank, to please his father.

This frustrated ambition has ruined his life, and over the next two years Lee tries to confront his alcoholism, while trying to win Penny's confidence. While Lee is out for the night with Chris, Larry dies, his body found at the bottom of a cliff. He had committed suicide after two years of marriage, and on his death, it is reported that Larry had embezzled money from his clients.

Lee sends Chris away and moves the family away from the farm, to New York where she takes a job to pay off Larry's debts, and withholds the truth from Penny, wanting to shield her from the stigma of scandal. Penny makes a hero out of Larry, who she believes died of a heart attack, and is unable to embrace Lee, who is now left to look after them alone.

Ten years later, Penny, who behaves strangely, has dropped out of school and plays the piano incessantly for her father's memory when nobody else is around, is the patient of psychiatrist Dr. Rossiger. Lee goes to see him, concerned about Penny's behaviour, and the story up to this point is recalled in flashback.

The doctor advises that they move back to the farm for the summer, since that is where the death occurred, and he believes that confronting the past will help cure Penny. Chase returns from the navy after three years and seeks a job with Chris, who now owns a shipyard. He introduces Penny to his navy friend Brandon Reynolds.

They all move to the farm, together with Chase's friend Kay Burns, where Chris reenters Lee's life after a ten-year absence, and Lee realizes that it was Chris she loved all along and let get away. Once at the farm, Penny becomes disenchanted with her father's memory when Chase tells her the truth, and becomes despondent, feeling that Chris is the only person she can confide in.

The Story unfolds ...

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✅ Credits :

Directed by : Robert Z. Leonard
Written by : Anne Morrison Chapin and Whitfield Cook
Story : Rose Franken and William Brown Meloney
Produced by : Edwin H. Knopf
Cinematography : George J. Folsey
Edited by : Adrienne Fazan
Music by : Bronislau Kaper
Production Company : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by : Loew's Inc.
Release Date : December 25, 1946

✅ Genre : #comedymovies - #romancemovies - #dramamovies

✅ Cast :

Claudette Colbert as Leola 'Lee' Addams
Walter Pidgeon as Chris Matthews
June Allyson as Penny Addams
Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Rossiger
Robert Sterling as Chase N. Addams
Marshall Thompson as Brandon Reynolds
Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Stover
Richard Derr as Larry Addams
Patricia Medina as Kay Burns
Eily Malyon as Miss Hunter
Dwayne Hickman as Chase (as a Child)

✅ Film Information Source :

SOURCE : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sec...