A Friday-night (commercial-free!) showing courtesy of KCTS, the local PBS affiliate, and a lesser-known title from a terrific year in movies.
Not quite melodrama, nearly comedy, just about romantic, but almost a medical drama. How's that grab you? Did I mention Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart (playing the guy who doesn't get the girl - what a surprise!), and ... Ronald Freakin Reagan?
AND! Henry Travers, who a couple of years later would be immortalized as Clarence Oddbody, the misfit angel in "It's A Wonderful Life." His small speech, encouraging a colleague that his medical practice is worthwhile, rang some bells....
George Brent, as the romantic lead, oozes Clark Gable charm. But Clark Gable was busy making another movie that year. Guess that worked out for him. Actually, put Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman in there together under the direction of Douglas Sirk, and it's a workable 1950's soap opera. Ahead of its time, we'll call it.
Most memorable line: "It's a rotten business, doctoring!"
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