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Invitation is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gottfried Reinhardt released in USA on 29 january 1952 with Van Johnson
Invitation (1952)
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Add to a movie listInvitation is a 1952 melodrama starring Van Johnson and Dorothy McGuire as a happily married couple, until the wife learns a secret about her husband. The film was based on the short story "R.S.V.P." by Jerome Weidman. The theme song "of the same name" has since become a jazz standard.
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Ellen Pierce (Dorothy McGuire) is very happily married to architect Dan (Van Johnson). However, due to a bout of rheumatic fever in her childhood, her heart is weak and she cannot exert herself too much; how frail she is, she does not really know. Her wealthy father (Louis Calhern) and the family doctor (Ray Collins) have kept from her the fact that she probably only has a few more months to live.Actors
Van Johnson
(Dan Pierce)
Dorothy McGuire
(Ellen Pierce)
Ruth Roman
(Maud Redwick)
Louis Calhern
(Simon Bowker)
Ray Collins
(Warren Pritchard)
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