Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel

TO EACH HIS OWN (1946)

Directed by Mitchell Leisen. During World War I, Olivia De Havilland has an illegitimate child by an airman who dies. Her former beau, now married, adopts the child. A complicated plot ensues in which Olivia becomes a cosmetics tycoon, meets the child (now John Lund in his debut, as a Yank airman) in the London Blitz, always without revealing the truth. With her good friend and beau Roland Culver she helps him marry a girl. Much is improbable or implausible, but the film is affecting nonetheless, the performances are of high caliber, and the last line "I think this is our dance, mother" is a gem. The movie has been variously called a women's picture, a soaper and the like but this is like calling a Dobosch torte just chocolate cake. For oldies-goodies fans undaunted by sentimentality, a ver nice work. (Edwin Jahiel)