Remember The Day (1941)

An elderly school teacher (Claudette Colbert) hopes to see a presidential nominee (Shepperd Strudwick), who was a former pupil of hers. While waiting to see him, she reflects on her relationship with him when he was a boy (Douglas Croft) and how the man (John Payne) she loved came between them. Based on the play by Philo Higley and Philip Dunning and directed by Henry King (THE GUNFIGHTER). I was fearing that this would be another one of those "teachers that inspired me" movies, a subgenre I'm not fond of but although it flirts around that, it's more of a romance. It's pretty predictable down the line, however. When WWI breaks out and Payne marches off to war, you just know he won't be coming back! Colbert and Payne are appealing enough to cover up the corn but it's stale anyway you look at it. With Anne Revere, Frieda Inescort and Geraldine Hall.