Film Friday: To Each His Own (1946)
In honour of Olivia de Havilland's 100th birthday, which is today, this week on «Film Friday» I bring you the picture for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, To Each His Own (1946) opens in London during World War II, where a middle-aged American woman named Jody Norris (Olivia de Havilland) is spending New Year's Eve with lonely Englishman Lord Desham (Roland Culver), whom she has just casually met. After Jody saves Desham's life, he invites her to supper, but she turns him down to meet a train. Onboard is Lieutenant Gregory Pierson (John Lund), the son of Jody's friends from her small hometown of Pierson Falls. While she waits, Jody recalls the story of her life, beginning in the summer just before the end of World War I, when she rejected a marriage proposal from Lieutenant Alex Pierson (Phillip Terry), who then weds Corinne Sturgess (Mary Anderson). Olivia de Havilland with John Lund, Ronald Culver and Bill Goodwin...