August 15 movie: H.M. Pulham, Esq. Robert Young is a rich Bostonian who spends the movie in flashback, thinking about the life he could have had as a New York adman with career woman Hedy Lamarr. Based on a book by John P. Marquand, this was a thoughtful, sensitive character study of the two leads: where they came from, what they gave each other & why they didn't last. I don't know what the book was like, but the tone of the movie is a wistful look back on lost opportunity.
Good supporting work by Charles Coburn as Young's father, Van Heflin as the best friend, and especially Ruth Hussey (Liz Imbrie from The Philadelphia Story) as the Boston woman everyone wants Young to marry. But I have to close with a major "Boo!" to TCM for messing up the schedule for this movie, so the DVR cut off about a minute before it ended. I think I have the gist of it but it would have been nice to actually see the ending.
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How come it has my last name in it...?
Hedy Lamarr is the most beautiful woman ever created. End of discussion