Expert: Mel - 11/26/2008

Question
Can you help please. I watched this movie about 34 to 35 years ago on British TV. It was in black and white. It was set firstly in the USA. It centred on one woman. She was engaged to a pilot, I think. He went off to war and she had a baby. He was killed and she left ithge baby boy on the steps of wealthy neighbours who brought him up. She saw him as he grew up. The second war comes and he is in it, maybe also a pilot. The film ends ,in England, I think ,with the son comng up to her at some get together and saying I think this is our dance, Mother. Very tearful, I was.

Answer
Hello Katrina,

This is the 1946 film "To Each His Own", for which Olivia DeHavilland won the Oscar for Best Actress.

STORY OUTLINE: To Each His Own covers more than twenty years in the life of Josephine "Jody" Norris (Olivia DeHavilland), a successful American-born businesswoman now working in London as an air raid warden. Jody thinks back to an earlier time in her life when she had fallen in love with a handsome WWI fighter pilot named Bart Cosgrove (John Lund). Shortly after she becomes pregnant by Cosgrove, Jody learns he has been killed in action. To avoid public scandal, she concocts a scheme to keep her child, but it backfires. Her son, who later becomes a fighter pilot like his late father, doesn't know who his real mother is. But Jody's confidante, Lord Desham (Roland Culver), does, and he believes it's his duty to right the situation.

Here's a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Each_His_Own_(film)


Glad to be of help. Cheers........Mel.