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The Secret Heart is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Z. Leonard released in USA on 25 december 1946 with Claudette Colbert

The Secret Heart (1946)

The Secret Heart
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Released in USA 25 december 1946
Length 1h37
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating64% 3.2449853.2449853.2449853.2449853.244985

The Secret Heart is a 1946 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and starring Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon and June Allyson.

Synopsis

Lee (Claudette Colbert) is engaged to marry Larry Adams (Richard Derr), a spendthrift widower with two children, son Chase (Robert Sterling) and daughter Penny (June Allyson). Lee had been living in England with her guardian aunt, who didn't approve of the match since Larry was an alcoholic, and while returning to America on an ocean liner, she meets Chris Matthews (Walter Pidgeon), a close friend of Larry's. Despite her loving feelings for Chris, she marries Larry, and moves to his farm in Rhode Island. Larry's talent is playing the piano, which he teaches Penny, but he gave up this ambition to work in a bank, to please his father. This frustrated ambition has ruined his life, and over the next two years Lee tries to confront his alcoholism, while trying to win Penny's confidence. While Lee is out for the night with Chris, Larry dies, his body found at the bottom of a cliff. He had committed suicide after two years of marriage, and on his death, it is reported that Larry had embezzled money from his clients. Lee sends Chris away and moves the family away from the farm, to New York where she takes a job to pay off Larry's debts, and withholds the truth from Penny, wanting to shield her from the stigma of scandal. Penny makes a hero out of Larry, who she believes died of a heart attack, and is unable to embrace Lee, who is now left to look after them alone.

Actors

Claudette Colbert

(Lee Addams)Walter Pidgeon

(Chris Matthews)June Allyson

(Penny Addams)Patricia Medina

(Kay Burns)Lionel Barrymore

(Dr. Rossiger)
And :
Robert Sterling
Marshall Thompson
Elizabeth Patterson
Richard Derr
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