To Each His Own (film)
- Olivia de Havilland: Jody Norris
- Mary Anderson: Corinne Piersen
- Roland Culver: Lord Desham
- Phillip Terry: Alex Piersen
- Bill Goodwin: Mac Tilton
- Virginia Welles: Liz Lorimer
- Victoria Horne: Sister Daisy Gingras
- Handle Barnett: Daniel Norris
- Frank Faylen: Babe
- Willard Robertson: Dr. Hunt
- Arthur Loft: Bernadock Clinton
- Virginia Farmer: Mrs. Cora Clinton
- Doris Lloyd: Miss Pringle
- Clyde Cook: Mr. Harkett
- Ida Moore: Miss Clafin
- Mary Young: Mrs. Nix
- John Lund: Capt. Bart Cosgrove / Gregory Piersen
Mother's heart is an American feature film from the year 1946.
Action
London during the Second World War. The American Jody Norris remembers the summer of 1918 at the end of the First World War. Jody is swarmed by Alex Piersen, but it rejects. After a night of love with the young soldiers Bart Cosgrove Jody is pregnant. A doctor advises her to abort the child for health reasons. When she learns, however, that Bart Cosgrove died in the war, she decides to carry the child. Secretly her son is born. The nurse Daisy Gingras is the child of a neighbor, so that no scandal is created in her small hometown. This neighbor is the child but to Corinne Piersen further, which is now married to Alex Piersen and had just lost her own child. The boy is given the name Gregory. Jody now regularly visited their son at his friend Piersens. When she asks Corinne to work as the governess in the Piersens, Corinne beats of this request. Jody proves her out that Gregory actually was her son. Corinne does not want to give up the adopted son because she feared to lose her husband Alex to Jody. Alex is still in love with Jody.
Jody moved to New York and opened there with her friend Mac Tilton a company. Mac Tilton too would like to marry Jody. But she rejects him as well. As Jody learns that Alex and Corinne Piersen are almost broke, blackmailed Jody Corinne. Should she return to her Gregory, she would lend her money. Gregory finally comes to Jody. However, after only a short time Gregory homesick without knowing the Piersens, that he now lives with his mother right. Gregory finally returns to the Piersens. Jody leaves New York and goes to London.
In London, Jody expected the young soldier Gregory Piersen who wants to marry his girlfriend Liz Lorimer. Jody's new friend Lord Desham explains Gregory on ultimately who Jody Norris actually is. At the wedding, he asks his true mother to dance.
Reviews
" Well played and staged Hollywood drama. "
Awards
Olivia de Havilland was awarded for her performance at the Oscar ceremony in 1947 with the Oscar for Best Actress. Screenwriter Charles Brackett received a nomination for Best Original Story.
Trivia
- The Bollywood movie Aradhana with Sharmila Tagore is based on this film.