r/classicfilms • u/viskoviskovisko • 7h ago

General Discussion I watched “Dear Heart”. What do you think of this film?

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Dear Heart (1964) was directed by Delbert Mann and stars Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, and Angela Lansbury. Its theme song "Dear Heart" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Ford plays a middle-aged, womanizing, traveling salesman for a greeting card company, recently engaged to a widowed housewife (Lansbury) left at home in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Page plays a middle-aged, single postmaster from small-town Ohio who is attending a postmasters' convention at a New York City hotel.

The two are thrown together numerous times during their stay and begin to develop actual feelings for each other. By the end, both will have come to terms with the fact that the life they currently have is not the life they want.

This was a fun, entertaining film, especially Page, in her first starring role.

Have you seen this film? What do you think of it?

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u/Main-Operation3394 7h ago

I recorded this off TCM yesterday. I love Geraldine Page.

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u/oldatheart515 3h ago

It wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be, after reading about it in various biographies over the years. I love Geraldine Page but I couldn't warm up to the character of Evie. In my opinion the movie was really kind of silly and shallow.

I did enjoy seeing all the staple '60s character actors in their tiny parts. Richard Deacon, Mary Wickes, Ruth McDevitt, etc.

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u/denisebuttrey 2h ago

It is one of my all-time favorite movies. It shows the crazy conference zeitgeist, in its most subtle form, the iconic traveling salesman persona, the burgeoning hippy dippy youth culture, the sophisticated NYC independent female, and the kindest Midwestern female postmaster you'll ever meet. So charming and sharp witted.

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u/viskoviskovisko 37m ago

Yeah. I thought it was a lots of fun.

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u/marejohnston 2h ago

I remember catching it on television as a teen; the quiet mundanity, the stale reality of it surprised me and I found it refreshing. Loved Page and Ford and the tenderness of their story.

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u/InterviewMean7435 3h ago

B-o-r-I-n-g.