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"A respected middle-aged widow with two grown children rejects socially acceptable alternatives for the love of a younger man outside her social circle. Sirk uncovers something of the paradox of middle America in the fifties - gleaming surfaces masking a crisis in values - by using the elements of the woman's melodrama from within to expose the confining complacency and emotional aridity of small town middle-class life."@en
"Fiction. Mélodrame sentimental. Kary, riche veuve esseulée, tombe éperdument amoureuse de son jeune jardinier, Ron Kirby. Ils décident de se marier. Mais très vite ce projet est contrarié par les enfants et amis de Cary qui voient d'un mauvais oeil cette liaison "marginale". Avec Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel. LES SUPPLÉMENTS contiennent, entre autres, un film de François Ozon réalisé en 2007, "Quand la peur dévore l'âme" (25 min)."
"L'histoire d'une veuve qui renonce, a cause de sa famille, a refaire sa vie avec un homme plus jeune et d'une autre classe sociale que la sienne."
"A wealthy widow marries her much younger gardner and becomes the target of small town gossip."
""Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk's heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, and frames-within-frames to convey the loneliness and isolation of a matriarch trapped by the snobbery of her children and the gossip of her social-climbing country club chums"--DVD sleeve."
"A widow faces the anger of her family and friends when she becomes romantically involved with a younger man."
"An attractive wealthy New England widow defies social constraints when she falls for her much younger gardener."
"An attractive wealthy New England widow defies social constraints when she falls for her much younger gardener."@en
"Una joven y acomodada viuda inicia un romance con su jardinero. Poco después deciden casarse, pero se encuentran con el rechazo de los hijos de la mujer y de su círculo social."
"The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others."@en
"The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others."@en
"Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener."@en
"Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener."
"A sad widow falls in love with the gardener at her winter home, and marries him despite local prejudice [c.f. Halliwell's]."@en
"Cary Scott is a member of small town New England's well to do Country Club set. Recently widowed, her life is bound by the strict social conventions of her class, making her feel both stifled and achingly lonely. When she meets Ron Kirby, a handsome younger outdoorsman, the two share an instant and unshakable attraction."@en
"Cary Scott is a member of small town New England's well to do Country Club set. Recently widowed, her life is bound by the strict social conventions of her class, making her feel both stifled and achingly lonely. When she meets Ron Kirby, a handsome younger outdoorsman, the two share an instant and unshakable attraction."
"A heartwarming story of a wealthy New England widow who defies social constraints when."