My Foolish Heart (1949)
- Starring:
- Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, (more)
- Director(s):
- Mark Robson
Synopsis of My Foolish Heart
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, Rovi
Complete Cast of My Foolish Heart
- Dana Andrews - Walt Dreiser
- Kent Smith - Lew Wengler
- Jesse Royce Landis - Martha Winters
- Karin [Katharine] Booth - Miriam Ball
- Phillip Pine - Sgt. Lucey
- Edna Holland - Dean Whiting
- Marietta Canty - Grace
- Regina Wallace - Mrs. Crandall
- Phyllis Coates - Girl on Phone
- Edward Peil Sr. - Conductor
- Susan Hayward - Eloise Winters
- Lois Wheeler - Mary Jane
- Robert Keith - Henry Winters
- Todd Karns - Her Escort
- Martha Mears - Nightclub Singer
- Jerry Paris - Usher
- Barbara Woodell - Red Cross receptionist
- Gigi Perreau - Ramona
- Sam Ash - Spectator
- Marcel dela Brosse - Waiter
- Director(s):
- Mark Robson
- Writer(s):
- Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
- Producer(s):
- Samuel Goldwyn
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