Susan Slade
“She always meant to hold them off. She never could until she met the boy who understood...”
1961 · 1 h 56 min
Delmer DavesCast
Troy Donahue 
Dorothy McGuire 
Connie Stevens 
Lloyd Nolan 
Brian Aherne 
Grant Williams
Credits
Written by: Doris Hume
Plot
A young woman gets pregnant and her family hides the baby as her mother's, and she struggles with the secret.
Sinekatalog’s take
Delmer Daves's melodrama, with Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens and Dorothy McGuire, is glossy, sudsy and sincere, a Warner soap of its time.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.3 / 10 (1,063 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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