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Dear Heart [VHS]

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long after it has been viewed. The best actress of our century (perhaps of all time) blossoms in the role of a small town postmaster attending a convention in NYC who has all but given up on her dream of husband and home.

Staying at the same hotel: a travelling saleman who is tired of his unattached, immature and uncommitted life. He is adroitly and touchingly played by the versatile actor Glenn Ford. Perfect casting!

This film is directed by Delbert Mann, who directed the innovative movie "Marty," in which Hollywood glamor was dropped for a story about physically plain but very human and vulnerable people.

Above all, this is a movie about people who are trying to change, not only their lives, but themselves. Even Ford's fiance, played by the ever talented Angela Lansbury, stubborn and stuck in her ways, desires a new life. Unfortunately, it is not the one which Ford has in mind for himself.

With sterling performances, a marvelous director, a tender and very moving story, and some of the best character actors in the business backing the whole film up, this film is a winner for all time. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and yes, it got a few tears out of me (albeit tears of joy) at the film's end.

Are there any guys out there that ever "get it". In this film, one of them actually realizes the differences between a fling, a fraud and a floozy and he actually chooses to love the girl that is just herself...kind, caring and intersted in him. Geraldine Page is one of the greats and this performance is lesser known than the others, but it is pulled together beautifully by this wonderful artist. You actually feel the expectaion, the heartbreak, the resignation and the blissfulness of this free spirit, content upon being herself and finding love before she is too old. I cry every single time I see this film...tears of joy that a guy could cut through the chaos of his life and libido and actually fall in love with the woman he might not have selected for himself, but discovers is his perfect match.
Wonerful and recommended very highly.

After reading through the other reviews (with an exception or two), my faith in my fellow reviewers is restored. I have watched this great little movie so many times. I can still just watch the last five minutes alone and be sobbing by the end credits. It is a very personal favorite of mine for so many reasons. As many men could probably relate to "Marty", so can many women relate to "Miss Evie Jackson". The moral of the story: to thine own self be true...........and pass the tissues, please.

The first time I saw this movie, I loved it; Of course, Ms Page is good; the best, but I think portraying a middle aged postmistress at her annual postal convention and meeting a travelling salesman may just change things for her; Ok, you have this sweet,little middle aged lady(Geraldine Page), who is in NYC for her annual Postal Convention, and she happens to meet Glenn Ford, who unfortunately is up there to meet up with his fiancee(Angela Lansbury)and son, and finding out that things are not as cracked up as they can be; One of the sweetest scenes in the movie is where Page and Ford are waiting for a room and looking out the window, and somehow, they end up kissing; so romantic; a nice sleeper of a film that's cute and enjoyable;

This film came out just as I was new in Chicago, in a new city, with a new job, in a terrible lirttle apartment and so so alone. I was 25 and had all but given up ever finding love. I think I saw this movie about eight times because I could identify with the story so much. I felt no one understood me but at least this movie did. Soon after the movie left the theatre out of the blue love came to me. It was literally love at first sight and in fact both of us that day felt that at this party we were invited to we would be meeting our life partner. We of course only discovered that fact later. We were together 30 wonderful years until death separated us. When I look back at the little boy I was, so isolated, so lonely, I know the happy ending of this film is true to life. Geraldine Page is a wonder in this film, but so is everyone other actor in the screen. The feeling for New York City is keen and observant. I hope one day it comes out on DVD. It did nice box office in its time but is almost forgotten today.

I see this film whenever I can. It's a longtime favorite of mine & has some of the sharpest character acting in secondary roles of any film from the period (early 60s). But its main appeal is the central encounter between the Page & Ford characters, two lonely people who've fallen into routines they hate but can't get out of. The satiric depiction of the postal workers' convention is all too accurate -- New York conventions aren't much different even now. There are so many good things in the film: the beatnik son who locks himself in his room, the Italian maitre d' who seats the couple outside in the cold at Ford's insistence, the "understanding" Phyllis (Lansbury), who is "through doing" & thinks she's broadminded to tolerate a partner's affair, the couple's awkward meeting at the overcrowded hotel restaurant, the cheap blonde who knows the guy behind the counter at the hotel across the street . . . Page is luminous in the main role, & Ford's a lot more palatable than he was in other films. The music effectively sets the tone of the film. There's nothing I don't like about this movie. A small classic in its way, & proof that director Mann (who won awards for directing "Marty") had a lot of talent.

This movie tops the BEST that I've ever seen. Geraldine Page and Glenn Ford are magnificant in this movie. Page's script of comic lines are so well said. This is a sign of an excellent actress. (She also did superb in the 1985 movie Trip to Bountiful). I can't help but watch it over and over again. The theme Dear Heart is nicely woven throughout the movie. It's too bad there's not a sequal to this movie. All in all, a five-star movie you must see!

One of the great actresses of her generation, shines in this sweet, simple & yes, kindacorny, film. It takes place in a far off time when "spinster" was a common term & a 3-martini lunch was the order of the day. Few actresses, other than Page, could have pulled off such a role without seeming foolish. The scene with Glenn Ford in an empty N.Y. apartment is heart-breaking.

Keep a look out for some of the great film character actors; Barbara Nichols, Ruth McDevitt, Richard Deacon, Alice Pearce, Patricia Barry, the great Mary Wickes and a pre-Mame Angela Lansbury (playing the type of role she grew to hate!). No one can equal them today!

A great movie, No, but certainly one that can be watched repeatedly with much pleasure.

I happened to come across this film on American Movie Classics a few years ago and absolutely fell in love with this film. I think characters are dead-on, and I disagree with some of the reviews here that say Geraldine Page's character, Evie, is too "corny". I know a lot of women (and men too) like Evie, really nice people whom the world ignores or dismisses too easily. Furthermore, those same people, like Evie, somehow, find that one person who doesn't dismiss them, and rest is history. "Dear Heart" doesn't pander or talk down to the audience, like too many romantic films. This is a winner!

Probably one of the most romantic Films ever made, starring Geraldine Page and Glenn Ford as the unlikely couple thrown together by chance circumstances.

This Movie gives Geraldine Page an opportunity to show what a versatile actress she really is. Compare this role, say, to that which she plays in 'What Ever Happened To Aunt Alice' and you'll see what I mean! From the moment this Movie starts, you are endeared to the character Evie Jackson; her simple and child-like innocence and vulnerability moves you to tears, and will capture your heart from the beginning. From saving message cards sent to herself as mementoes from a 'lonely' trip away from home alone - to paying Bellboys to 'page' her name for nothing more than to feel 'wanted'... Evie Jackson is one of those people who is naturally 'nice', and blissfully unaware of it; someone nobody misses until they are gone from this life... Somehow, Glenn Ford's character is no-where near good enough for her, but we rejoice in the ending that makes life worth living for Evie.

A Romantic comedy that although has amusing moments, they are, at times, so terribly sad and full of melancholia, they make us want to cry...

We are still longing for this Movie to come out on DVD, and perhaps now, having lost Glenn Ford recently, this may just happen, but the Video was only ever available in the USA, and so we may still have a long wait...

True Movie Magic!