A sensitive family story with interesting complications of relationships: What do you do when you reach your 8th birthday and suddenly find out that you are not a natural daughter but adopted, so that your sisters, who have grown up with you all these years, no longer are your true sisters? Ann Blyth handles it perfectly and never shows the shock she is in, but puts on a stiff upper lip and continues to do what she has to do for her graduation. Farley Granger is her boyfriend, and he has an important say in this, which steadies her for her final act when she is making a speech at the graduation. Jane Wyatt as the mother is also perfect, but the main thing here is the perfect acting, it is totally convincing and natural all the way, like a true drama taken directly out of life, and that makes this film invaluable. To this comes Victor Young's lovely music which couldn't fit better into the picture. This is a film to love for giving important food for considerable afterthought.
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