Grace of My Heart

Grace of My Heart is a 1996 film written and directed by Allison Anders, set in the pop music world, starting in New Yorks Brill Building early 1960s era, weaving through the California Sound of the mid 60s and culminating with the adultcontemporary scene of the early 1970s.

Edna Buxton Illeana Douglas is a steel heiress from Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, who wants to be a singer and enters a talent contest. The story begins with a conversation between herself and her mother Christina Pickles with regard to what she will sing and what she will wear. At her mothers insistence, she reluctantly makes a plan to sing Youll Never Walk Alone. Edna is even less thrilled about her mothers choice of wardrobe, calling it uncomfortable. Her mother responds with a cutting remark, Perhaps its not the dress. Perhaps its you who doesnt fit, dear.Backstage at the contest, she meets a blues singer named Doris Shelley Jennifer Leigh Warren. Doris advises Edna to follow her heart, and the two women trade dresses. Clad in Doriss sleek black dress, Edna sings Hey There instead. Despite the fact that she wins the contest, she loses the respect of her mother, who has since left the theater in humiliation. ........

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