I was only eight when I saw this mystery romance, but that was enough to make me a lifelong fan. Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb and Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. It isn't the mystery that shook me up, but the romance. Gene Tierney is at my alltime list of gorgeous movie ladies, a very classy lady. I of course identified with Dana Andrews, who plays a detective who probably came from a working class family much like mine, and winds up getting the classy lady once he finds out she has not been murdered after all.
Impossible dreams can come true.
The theme song can still make me dreamy about Genie. I was only four when this Henry Fonda flick hit the silver screen, and I'm sure I did not see it until I was in my early teens. Fonda was my maternal grandmother's favorite actor, not least because he almost always played a fellow who tried to help the poor folks. There is a scene in which one of the little Okie kids asks a waitress in a highway diner for a penny candy, because that's all he has. She gives him a candy while two husky truckdrivers look on, waiting to pay their bill.