Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on August 4, 2014

Blossoms in the Dust Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Written by Anita Loos and Robert Wainwright 1941/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer First viewing/Warner Archive DVD I thought this well-made biopic was just OK. The story is a dramatization of the work of Edna Gladney (Greer Garson) who ran an orphanage in Texas   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on April 1, 2011

In Blossoms in the Dust, Edna (Greer Garson) has witnessed the struggles and injustices that illegitimate children face all her life.  When her adopted sister, Charlotte (Marsha Hunt) becomes engaged, that fact that she is a foundling is revealed and her future mother-in-law refuses to let her son m   read more