Our Very Own

Our Very Own (1950)

SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S unforgettable, compelling entertainment triumph!

During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.

Date of release
1950-07-27
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
Director
David Miller

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Our Very Own is a 1950 American drama film directed by David Miller and starring Ann Blyth, Farley Granger and Jane Wyatt. The screenplay written by F. Hugh Herbert focuses on a teenage girl who learns that she was adopted as an infant.

Production

Producer Samuel Goldwyn wanted to return to the simple family values portrayed in the Andy Hardy films that MGM had released a decade earlier. Farley Granger thought the script was "pointless and meandering", but as a Goldwyn contract player, he faced suspension if he refused to make the film. He felt that director David Miller was "a perfectly nice man", but "no help to anybody".

Jane Wyatt, on loan from 20th Century Fox, was disappointed to find herself cast as an advice-dispensing mother after having played a succession of sophisticated roles opposite Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and Gregory Peck. She had little regard for the role until a few years later, when she was cast in the successful television series Father Knows Best as a direct result of her performance in Our Very Own.

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