Invitation (1952)

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Van Johnson

Dan I. Pierce

Dorothy McGuire

Ellen Pierce

Ruth Roman

Maud Redwick

Louis Calhern

Simon Bowker

Ray Collins

Dr. Warren Pritchard

Michael Chekhov

Dr. Fromm

Lisa Golm

Agnes

Diane Cassidy

Molly

Stapleton Kent

George

Barbara Ruick

Sarah

Norman Field

Arthur

Matt Moore

Paul

Pat Conway

Bill
(as Patrick Conway)

Alex Gerry

Mr. Redwick

Lucille Curtis

Mrs. Redwick

Bette Arlen

Tennis Player
(uncredited)

Barbara Billingsley

Miss Alvy
(uncredited)

Dick Cherney

Restaurant Patron
(uncredited)

Director
- Gottfried Reinhardt
Writers
- Paul Osborn
- Jerome Weidman
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Not bad...just kind of awkward and strange.

The plot to "Invitation" is very odd to say the least and it's really a one of a kind picture. A woman (Dorothy McGuire) has learned a couple important things that folks she loved failed to mention to her: doctors expect her to be dead within a year due to her heart condition and thta her husband was paid by her father to marry her! How is the husband (Van Johnson) going to deal with all this?!

The plot was weird, confusing and hard to believe. I did, however, love Johnson't monologue with his wife late in the film...it was very sweet. A money-losing picture that isn't as bad as you might assume.

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Trivia
The haunting theme music by Bronislau Kaper was actually introduced two years earlier in MGM's A Life of Her Own (1950), but became a jazz standard under the title "Invitation", especially associated with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson.