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No Sad Songs for Me (1950)

No Sad Songs for Me poster
Directed by
Rudolph Maté
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wife and mother learns she has terminal cancer. She keeps the news from her family while trying to arrange a new future for them.

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What happens

No Sad Songs for Me is a 1950 American drama film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Margaret Sullavan in her last film role as a woman dying of cancer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music Scoring in 1951. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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