This film is over seventy years old and looks to me as fresh as ever, and if we ( as I do ) consider film as an art form then let us look at other art films. Painting is an obvious comparison. Static but then so are stills from films, and freeze framing certain images from this film I could see it had stood the test of time. Has Vermeer dated ? Of course not. Neither has Dorothy McGuire, looking beautiful and quietly elegant, and yes sexy as she is being sexy in this film. Forget the top critics who supposedly know it all who put her down. In this film and opposite William Lundigan who plays her husband there is tremendous sensual chemistry. Opposite the right partner sexual sparks flew from her. In ' Mother Didn't Tell Me ' she marries a young doctor who never seems to have time to have sex with her, and it takes the advice from a woman friend played beautifully by the witty and equally fine June Havoc urges her to get her husband to give her children so as to get closer to him !!! In fact the dialogue sparkles with wit and most films lead up to sex in marriage ( in the 1940's, 50's ) but this one deals with it within marriage. This is a gem of a scenario, ably directed, and perhaps churned out by Warner Brothers but the cast alone makes it shine. The soundtrack even uses the same music it had for the Bette Davis churned out vehicle ' June Bride. ' That film, equally underrated worked except for a badly conceived ending, but this film works all the way. Acting can overcome routine films. The acting in this is spot on, flawless. It can be seen in a slightly inferior copy on YouTube, and it still glows.
Review of Mother Didn't Tell Me
