All I Desire (1953)
- Starring:
- Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Douglas Sirk
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All I Desire an early exercise in Douglas Sirk Baroque, is set at the turn of the century. Long divorced from her husband Richard Carlson, itinerant actress Barbara Stanwyck returns to her home town to watch her daughter perform in a high school play. Stanwyck decides to turn over a new leaf and devote herself to the daughter she's never known. This she finds next to impossible, thanks to ugly small-town gossip attending her return. The film was obviously building up to an unhappy ending, but producer Ross Hunter intervened, tacking on an unbelievably upbeat denouement. This artistic outrage evidently didn't hurt Hunter's relationship with director Douglas Sirk, inasmuch as the two would continue to successfully collaborate in the future. All I Desire is based on a novel by Carol Brink. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Barbara Stanwyck - Naomi Murdoch
- Lyle Bettger - Dutch Heinemann
- Maureen O'Sullivan - Sara Harper
- Richard Long - Russ Underwood
- Dayton Lummis - Col. Underwood
- Billy Gray - Ted Murdoch
- Brett Halsey
- Richard Carlson - Henry Murdoch
- Marcia Henderson - Joyce Murdoch
- Lori Nelson - Lily Murdoch
- Lotte Stein - Lena Engstrom
- Fred Nurney - Peterson
- Guy Williams
- Charles Hand
- Director(s):
- Douglas Sirk
- Writer(s):
- James Gunn, Gina Kaus, Robert Blees
- Producer(s):
- Ross Hunter
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