To Each His Own is a 1946 film which tells the story of an unwed mother, following World War I, who gives up her son for adoption and loves him from afar. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson and Roland Culver. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Photo still of Olivia de Havilland. ... Mary Anderson (July 28, 1859 - May 29, 1940) was an American stage actress. ...
It won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) and was nominated for Best Writing, Original Story. The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Award for Best Story was the Academy Award that was the predecessor to the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay which was introduced in 1940. ...
I say apparently because this movie is so damned subtle that a careless viewer won`t even realize any bundle of joy is about to arrive, much less any sex happened, until five minutes later in a scene with her doctor.
The movie seems to make a potentially offensive case that a "real" mother cannot be both a single mother and a successful career woman at the same time.
Quite right, but the movie fails to appreciate the fact de Havilland`s character was forced to give up that child at birth, and also that during her years as sitter, she probably acknowledged the child`s needs a great deal more than the vain woman the child actually lived with.
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