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The Very Thought of You (1944)
A delightful romance filled with nostalgia and a surprise happy ending.
I was born in 1936 and must have seen this movie as a kid because during my entire lifetime as soon as I heard the song "The Very Thought of You" the image of Eleanor Parker comes to mind. This movie, probably more than any other from that era, takes me back to the "home front" mentality during the war. It tells a story so common during wartime of two people in love and the tension and worry so typical when the man went off to war, perhaps never to come back. It told of love making without the embarrassing display of sex that permeates so many of today's movies. Yes, it was naive, and it would probably bore today's generation because there are no car chase scenes, no violence and no vulgar language. But most of all it gives one a good feeling about being an American. Eleanor Parker and Dennis Morgan are ideally suited. A couple of things strain credibility; i.e.,living in a large two story house on a clerk's income, getting a telegram from the War Department that names both Dennis Morgan and Dane Clark of being wounded as if they were joined at the hip, but aside from that it is mainly honest in its portrayal of wartime life on the home front. I know, I had three older brothers that went off to war. Richard Lane