From my Facebook archives, May 11, 2015:
I'll Be Seeing You. Selznick, 1944. This wartime romantic drama, starring Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten, is yet another of Ginger's films that deserves to be more widely recognized as a classic. Yet it clearly has a fair number of devoted fans. I had heard virtually universally positive things about this movie since learning about it last year. And I was not disappointed when we finally watched it last week.
It certainly is a tear-jerker. But not in an manipulative way. Ginger plays a woman on a Christmas furlough from prison, while Joseph Cotten plays a traumatized soldier on a similar furlough from a psychiatric hospital. They meet and then the story unfolds.
The supporting cast, including a teenage Shirley Temple and the always-welcome Spring Byington, is excellent. With the Christmas and New Years setting, this has deservedly become a favorite holiday film of many of those who have been fortunate enough to discover it.
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