filmsfan38 Olivia de Havilland won the Oscar for best actress in 1947 for "To Each his Own" a tearjerker, made in 1946. She was one of the great actresses of the day when movies were worth going to see. She made many good movies such as "Hush hush sweet Charlotte, Snake Pit are two good ones.They were released on DVD. But "To each his own is one of my personal favourites. 430 people on IMDb.com have rated this movie highly at 8/10 as of Sept./08, so why on earth has this good movie never been released on DVD. I am lucky to have it on video, but would rather have the DVD. In "To each His own", Olivia is Jody Norris, a small town girl working in her fathers store. She meets a handsome young air force pilot and they fall in love. He leaves to go to war and Olivia finds herself going to be a single mother. In those days young women were isolated and not supported when having a baby out of wedlock. Nothing like today. Olivia has a lot of heartache to go through, has the baby but faces further heartbreak. Her life moves on after she has the baby, who she was not able to keep, but I won't say any more. Get a hanky out for the ending. Studios, one of you need to get this movie out on DVD. If you can release a lot of junky movies on DVD, you can release this good classic on DVD. It would sell well. I'm tired waiting and getting older by the day. I've got about 100 good DVD movies, and need the DVD of this one as soon as possible.

dbdumonteil ...and I know that people will say it's soap opera !But to make that kind of soap opera,as Stahl,Minnelli and Sirk showed it through the years,it takes some kind of genius! First the structure:first a prologue ,then flashbacks and an epilogue ,which while going back to the present,connects all the links of the chain in an awesome way.It's not unlike Leisen's previous (and remarkable too) 'Hold back the dawn" : Lord Desham plays the same part as the director in the 1941 movie ;Although Jody does not tell her secret to him ,it's finally him who makes her dream come true."To each his own" possesses everything that makes a melodrama great: a "tearjerker" (not meant pejoratively) subject: the well known story of the unwed mother who's forced to leave her child to another family ,it recalls "the old maid" ,another classic where Bette Davis had a fate similar to her good friend Olivia de Havilland's; and ,another permanent feature of the genre,the heroine who has lost love (or who thinks that she 's through with it )and who begins a formidable business woman career (there are plenty of examples:Stahl's "Only yesterday" and "imitation of life" ,Sirk's "Written on the wind" );and a grandiose finale with a last line (I think it is our dance ,mother) to rival the best of the last lines.To write that De Havilland deserved her AA is to state the obvious.She actually plays three parts ,with the same talent.Like her peer Davis in "the old maid" ,she was not afraid of making herself look older or uglier .(see also "the heiress" "hold back the dawn" "snake pit" ).

cjohnso8 The title of the movie was misleading,but as a huge fan of Ms. de Havilland, I watched this movie. It was a very tender story of the enduring and endearing love a mother had for her child.It brought to mind the contrast of today's societal views of unwed mothers(as it were).The story made me even more grateful to have 3 wonderful sons.I would love watch this movie with my mom and my five sister,on the day before mothers' day. What a good way to have your 'tears jerked'! What a celebration of motherhood!I will be happy when it is released on DVD. Hopefully very soon.

dougandwin As an unreserved fan of Olivia de Havilland I have to say that this was not her best film despite the fact that she acted her role brilliantly and won an Academy Award for it. I genuinely believe the film was let down by a very average supporting cast, not the least of whom was the very forgettable John Lund. Only Bill Goodwin, Roland Culver and Mary Anderson gave suitable support. The story line today seems very unbelievable, but stood up very well in the Forties. Mitchell Leisen did an excellent job of directing, and the aging of Olivia as Josephine Norris was very good. Her acting as a young beautiful girl( smitten with a flier) to the somewhat frustrated middle-aged woman was quite brilliant - the make-up was good and made the transition very believable. When one compares Miss de Havilland with her performances in "The Snake Pit" amd "The Heiress", I find it hard to believe she did not end up with 3 Oscars!