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Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

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Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences which rival daytime drama for unrelenting misery and melodrama, Edna marries flour-mill owner Sam Gladney (Walter Pidgeon). They have a baby, who dies shortly after Edna discovers that she can never have any other children. To give her life some meaning, Edna sets up the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society, which specializes in caring for illegitimate children and

Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Drama, Classics

Anita Loos

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Result is a sentimentally sugary flavor which also extends over the romantic portions of the film. There is no comedy relief.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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With lovely Greer Garson playing the leading role, the spirit of the story is maintained on a level generally above its frequent insipid spots.

March 25, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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It was a noble deed and a noble effort to make a biography about a woman who was virtually unknown outside Texas, but the picture was long, overly teary, and didn't excite too many people at the box office, although it did make money.

January 31, 2012 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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Littered with stilted melodrama, wooden dialogue, and over-the-top courtroom showdowns.

December 11, 2008 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

One of the weakest films to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, this biopic of Edna Gladney is uncharacteristically poorly scripted by Anita Loos and poorly helmed by Mervyn LeRoy.

February 12, 2008 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

So intent on packing as many events as possible into a relatively slim 100 minutes that it can't devote enough time to developing any of them.

February 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | Comment

Pretty Technicolor, but the tearjerking is shameless.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

This successful weepy revealed Garson's red hair in Technicolor for the first time, but was more significant for being the first of eight films she made with Pidgeon.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Blossoms in the Dust

Greer Garson is one of the best actresses I have ever seen on film. I have only seen three of her films the two above mentioned and "Pride and Prejudice". It might be astonishing to think that I used to call Greer Garson, Greta Garbo. Strange, because they're acting if so different even if their names sound alike. My

September 4, 2005
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Katie Martin

HAS ALL THE MAKINGS OF A CLASSIC MGM FILM - OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION VALUES, A GREAT CAST, GOOD WRITING AND EXPERT DIRECTION. GREER GARSON IS SUPERB AND HER FREQUENT CO-STAR, WALTER PIDGEON GIVES A FINE, LOW KEY PERFORMANCE. ITS A TEARJERKER DONE WITH GREAT STYLE. FOTSY CLASS ALL THE WAY.

April 10, 2005
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James Higgins

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