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...Jane Wyman provides the tears, the blue veil, the old age, and part of the stardom. The movie opens with her giving birth to her child, continues through the death of her soldier-husband and baby, and climaxes in her decision to give up marriage and devote herself to the blue veil, the sign of a children's nurse...
...After looking into their library records, Librarian Wyman W. Parker found that University of Cincinnati students took out an average of only 5.6 unassigned books last year, and compared today's reading habits with those of another student whose library record he had checked up on: Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes, 19 President of the U.S., who signed out 36 outside books a year during his four years at Kenyon College (1838-42). ¶Said Harold Taylor, president of Sarah Lawrence College: "I don't blame youth for its present moral confusion as much...
...Blue Veil, a much slicker job with an imposing cast, tells the sad, sad story of a determinedly selfless woman (Jane Wyman) who goes through life (in four episodes) mothering other people's children and hiding her sorrows behind the traditional blue veil of the old-world governess. The picture is well calculated to please the kind of audiences who confuse a good cry with a good movie...
Thanks largely to a fine performance by Charles Laughton as a bumbling, middle-aged widower trying to woo his baby's pretty governess, The Blue Veil's first episode could hold its own as part of an omnibus film like Quartet. Governess Wyman, a widow who has lost her own baby, gently parries Widower Laughton's attentions and loses him willingly to his designing secretary (Vivian Vance), who thereupon cuts her adrift from the household and from the little toddler she has grown to love...
From that point on, The Blue Veil, though acted and directed with praiseworthy restraint, grows increasingly maudlin. Succeeding episodes merely repeat Governess Wyman's plight in triplicate, each time heaping her with keener deprivations and sanctifying her with brighter nobility. Marriage beckons Jane a second time, and with it a good man's love, but she remains always a substitute mother, never a bride...