The premise of Magnificent Obsession makes no sense

Jane Wyman is so much butcher than Rock in this. And Hatbara Rush is unappealing. But it does have Aggie, so there’s that.

I'm not sure how much there is to discuss. I mean, you're right.

The Wyman/Hudson follow-up All that Heaven Allows, doesn't make much sense, either. Jane has the best sex of her life with her hunky gardener but dumps him because her grown kids and Agnes Moorhead disapprove? Yeah. Okay.

Like the original with Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor, the male lead is more beautiful than the female lead. But at least you can believe Taylor would obsess over and chase after Dunne. With matronly looking Wyman, however, I don't know why Hudson would bother.

He’s indirectly responsible for her husband’s death and her blinding, so you can understand why her would have some sort of guilt-driven fixation.

The glamour couple

It's hard to believe that just a decade earlier Miss Jane Wyman was tarting it up as a sexy blond ingenue. But after spawning Ronnie's kids, she suddenly morphed into a Mamie Eisenhower-type Republican housewife.

"UGH!"

Jane Wyman had mostly played cute girlfriend types in films, and then got an unexpected break playing a rare serious part in "The Lost Weekend." That led to one of her best performance ever, as the hardened mother in "The Yearling," and then the next year she got to play Belinda in "Johnny Belinda," and was suddenly considered one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood. By that time, though, she was getting closer to middle age, so she was hard to cast. She was lucky Douglas Sirk came along, because he loved exploring the emotions of middle-aged women, and she got to do two of his most famous films with Rock Hudson for him.

"Magnificent Obsession" is a remake of a film from twenty years previous, and which had a stupid plot even then. But its color cinematography is spectacular, and it's undeniably some kind of classic because of its weird raw emotions. "All that Heaven Allows" is Sirk's masterpiece, though, and is probably Wyman's greatest performance.