To each his own

"During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. Forced to give up her son to another family, she leaves for New York and builds a successful career for herself while loving him from afar."@en
"A romantic love story, told initially in flashback, rapidly gives way to a maternal melodrama culminating in the mother's meeting with her illegitimate son (who has been adopted into another family) in wartime London. As in The Reckless Moment and Mildred Pierce the realms of production (economic success) and reproduction (the mother's role) are effectively demarcated and separated. The heroine's stockpiling of money for her son only increases the pathos. The subtle rendering of the seduction and the illegitimate birth was designed to pass the censorship of the Hays Office. Olivia de Havilland won an Oscar for her performance."@en
"During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes herself to loving him from afar."@en