Our own selves
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Our own self (alternatively: the second mother) |
| Original title | Our Very Own |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Miller |
| script | F. Hugh Herbert |
| production | Samuel Goldwyn |
| music | Victor Young |
| camera | Lee Garmes |
| cut | Sherman Todd |
| occupation | |
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Our own self (original title: Our Very Own , alternative title: The Second Mother ) is a feature film and family drama by David Miller from 1950. The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1951 for its sound engineering .
action
Gail Macaulay is a teenager about to graduate from high school . During an argument with her younger sister Joan, Joan tells her that she is adopted , so that Fred and Lois Macaulay are not her parents. Gail is shocked, even though her friend Chuck and her stepmother assure her that it doesn't matter.
She decides to look for her birth mother. The adoptive mother makes contact through her lawyer, but Gail can't wait and drives from Los Angeles to Long Beach , where Mrs. Lynch, her birth mother, lives. The reunification does not go as Gail imagined: Although the mother is friendly, she does not want to tell her second husband about her daughter. She returns to her family. At her graduation party, Gail gives a speech about the real meaning of family.
background
The film was intended as a step towards countering the growing importance of television . Goldwyn's idea was that a return to simple family values could help hold its own against TV. The film was not among the twelve most commercially successful films of 1950, but it was an economic success for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
reception
Bosley Crowther ruled for the New York Times that an adopted teen's problems were only superficially staged in this machine-made film.
Farley Granger , who plays the friend of Gail Macaulay wrote in his autobiography that the script futile ( pointless was) and meandering. The main female role was designed as sweetly as an overdose of sweetener, his own role amorphous. The director was a very nice man, but he was of no help to anyone.
nomination
For his work on our own I was Gordon Sawyer for the Oscars 1951 in the category Best Sound for the Oscar nominated. The award went to Thomas T. Moulton for Everything About Eva .
Web links
Our own self in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Farley Granger / Robert Calhoun: Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway , Macmillan, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-35774-0 . P. 91.
- ^ John Howard Reid: Success in the Cinema Money Making Movies , (Vol. 19 of the "Hollywood Classics" series), Lulu 2006, ISBN 978-1-84728-088-6 . P. 34.
- ↑ Bosley Crowther, THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; 'Our Very Own,' Starring Ann Blyth and Farley Granger, Shown at the Victoria , The New York Times, July 28, 1950.
- ↑ 1951 Academy Awards on IMDb .