Autumn Leaves (1956) on Netflix
Millicent Wetherby, a typist working from home, meets Burt Hanson, a lonely younger Army veteran, in a diner. She urges him toward someone his own age; a month later he proposes.
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- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb6.9/103,744 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes91%
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Plot summary
Millicent Wetherby supports herself as a typist working from her own home. One evening she meets Burt Hanson, a lonely Army veteran younger than she is, in a diner. They share a date at the beach. Milly tells him he should be with a woman his own age. A month later Burt is waiting at her home, and they celebrate the department store job he has taken. He proposes inside a movie theater. She refuses at first, then changes her mind as he walks away.
Cast
- Dick Gordonas Concert Attendee (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Autumn Leaves (1956)
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- The screenplay of Autumn Leaves was written by Jean Rouverol and Hugo Butler, but the credit was given to Jack Jevne as a front because Rouverol and Butler were blacklisted when the film was released.
- The film was retitled from The Way We Are to cash in on the popularity of the song "Autumn Leaves", which Nat King Cole performs in the film.
- The song used in Autumn Leaves was introduced by Yves Montand in the French film Les Portes de la Nuit in 1946, and became popular in the United States through a 1955 piano version by Roger Williams.
