Lydia (1941)
Directed by Julien Duvivier / Alexander Korda
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Synopsis by Tana Hobart
Adapted from a French movie entitled Un Carnet de Bal, this is a story of love unrequited. In one of her best performances, Merle Oberon portrays an elderly woman who has spent her life waiting for a man whom she had a brief liaison with but who never returned for her as he had promised. Casting aside three suitors over a forty year period, she has spent her life in solitude. When a party is arranged and all three of her spurned suitors show up, a surprise fourth is also present--her original true love. Denouement is somewhat of a surprise in this romantic love story.
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old-flame, love, lover, memory, recollection, reunion, ball [dance], elderly, family, France, life, marshal, performer, return, romance, sentimental, surprise, woman
