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From: karenp@zeus.UUCP (Karen Palmer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re:  Leslie Caron movie
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Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 17:22:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 17:22:53 1983
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The name of that movie is  'Fanny'.  Fanny is the heroine who
falls in love with the young hero (???).  The reason she is
married off after he runs off to sea, is that she is pregnant.  It is
actually the young man's father who sets her up, to make amends for
what his son has done.  This is a small town, and gossip travels!
So she is coerced into marrying this much older man, since he is willing
to raise the child as his own.  When the young man (the real father)
returns, he wants some recognition as the father.  But Fanny refuses
him since her husband has given her and her son a good life and has
truly been the *real* father to the boy.  It ends with the old man
dying on the little boy's birthday and encouraging Fanny to marry the
young man, but we never know if she does.

I have enjoyed this movie also, more than once.  It is obvious that
Fanny loves the young hero, but deeply respects her husband.  Sort of
makes a bittersweet story.