Expert: Mel - 3/31/2009

Question
I am trying to get the name of a movie that probably came out in the 40's, or 50's.  I do not have any actor names.It
took place in World was 11.  A very good looking guy was raised by someone else other than his biological mother. As he grew up, she was know as an aunt, or family friend.  At the end of the movie, he figures out she was his real mother.  He walks up to her and says; mother, may I have this dance. He is wearing his brown Army uniform.  She was so shocked that he knew she was his real mother.  They slow dance.  I want to purchase this movie and I have no idea who was in it, or the name of it. Please help! :>) Connie

Answer
Hello Connie,

This sounds like the 1946 film "To Each His Own", for which Olivia DeHavilland won an 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.