All Mine to Give
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| Directed by | Allen Reisner |
| Produced by | Sam Wiesenthal |
| Written by | Dale Eunson (novel) |
| Screenplay by | Katherine Albert |
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The Day They Gave Babies Away (novel) Cosmopolitan (1946) |
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Glynis Johns Cameron Mitchell Rex Thompson |
| Narrated by | Rex Thompson |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | William V. Skall |
| Edited by | Bettie Mosher |
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| Distributed by | Universal-International |
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100-103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
All Mine to Give (British title: The Day They Gave Babies Away) is a 1957 Technicolor melodrama film starring Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, and Rex Thompson. When first one parent, then the other dies, six children have to look after themselves in the American west of the mid-19th century.
This story is based on a true-life story set in Wisconsin, based on an article The Day They Gave Babies Away by Dale Eunson and Katherine (Albert) Eunson, which first appeared in the December 1946 issue of Cosmopolitan.
A year later, the story would be published as a book with the same title. Original US TV version The Day They Gave Babies Away, starring Brandon deWilde, aired on the CBS anthology show Climax! on December 22, 1955.
Eunson and his wife Katherine also went on to write the screenplay for the movie adaptation.
The exteriors of the film were filmed in Big Bear, California, Idyllwild, California and Mt. Hood, Oregon.
Robert and Mamie Eunson (Cameron Mitchell and Glynis Johns) are Scots who have just landed in America (the year is 1856), having been invited there by Mamie's uncle. They arrive in the tiny logging village of Eureka, only to be informed that both uncle and his cabin have been incinerated in a house fire. The Eunsons are assisted by the friendly locals in reconstructing the house and Robert takes to tipping timber.
Mamie is heavily pregnant upon their reaching Eureka; she delivers baby Robbie (Rex Thompson) soon after the cabin is completed. Robert eventually starts a successful boat building business and Mamie gives birth to five more children: Jimmy (Stephen Wootton), Kirk (Butch Bernard), Annabelle (Patty McCormack), Elizabeth (Yolanda White), and Jane (Terry Ann Ross). The Eunsons are prospering and happy until little Kirk is diagnosed with diphtheria. Mamie and Kirk are quarantined while Robert takes the other children away. The boy recovers, but the goodbye kiss Kirk gave his Dadda before his departure proves fatal, and Robert succumbs.
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