Starring Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, this drama follows a romance between a middle-aged, middle-class widow and a brawny young gardener. But this sets Cary against a society in which widows are expected to wither away of respectability, or at best to only ever have romantic entanglements with “not-deserving” men.

• All That Heaven Allows
• Jane Wyman
• Rock Hudson
• Agnes Moorehead
• Douglas Sirk