Spotlight: Women’s Pictures

Back in the day, moviegoers called chick flicks “women’s pictures.” Make sure you have a box of tissues handy as you watch these melodramatic tearjerkers. For an excellent discussion of the genre, visit AMC’s filmsite.org.

Some of my favorites include:

• All That Heaven Allows (1955)
• Dark Victory (1939)
• The Heiress (1949) (see my review)
• Magnificent Obsession (1954)
• Now, Voyager (1942)