- The Blue Veil
Infobox Film
name = The Blue Veil
image_size = 200px
caption = Original film poster
director =Curtis Bernhardt
producer =Jerry Wald Norman Krasna
writer =François Campaux (story)Norman Corwin
narrator =
starring =Jane Wyman Charles Laughton Joan Blondell
music =Franz Waxman
cinematography =Franz Planer
editing =George Amy
distributor =RKO Radio Pictures
released =26 October 1951
runtime = 113 min.
country = U.S.
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0043350"The Blue Veil" (1951) is a film drama made by Wald/Krasna Productions and released by
RKO Radio Pictures . It tells the story of a child torn between the competing claims of his birth mother and his adoptive mother. The film is currently in litigation and is not available fortelevision orvideo .It stars
Jane Wyman ,Charles Laughton ,Joan Blondell ,Richard Carlson ,Agnes Moorehead ,Audrey Totter ,Cyril Cusack ,Natalie Wood ,Vivian Vance ,Dan O'Herlihy , andHarry Morgan ."The Blue Veil" was nominated for
Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jane Wyman) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Joan Blondell). It was directed byCurtis Bernhardt and produced byJerry Wald andNorman Krasna withRaymond Hakim as associate producer. The screenplay was byNorman Corwin from the story byFrançois Campaux . It is a remake of theFrench language movie from1942 "Le Voile bleu".Reportedly, in the last few years of her life, Jane Wyman admitted to friends that of the 83 films she had made, "The Blue Veil" was her favorite.
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*imdb title|id=0043350|title=The Blue Veil
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