‘The Blue Veil’: A Meditation on Motherhood

Instead of typical entertainment fare, this film tenderly, if tragically, revisits the idea of motherliness.

Stephanie Rawlins (Natalie Wood, L) and Louise Mason (Jane Wyman), in "The Blue Veil. RKO Radio Pictures/MovieStillsDB

NR | 1 h 53 min | Drama | 1951

Coping with the death of her newborn, young World War I widow Louise Mason (Jane Wyman) starts what she figures will be a temporary job, caring for Freddie, the baby of widower Fred K. Begley (Charles Laughton). Begley interviews ladies for the permanent job but hires none.