Editing Blossoms in the Dust (section)

==Reception ==
When the film premiered at [[Radio City Music Hall]], [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote "There is a shade too much of shining nobility in this film, too often tiny fingers tug deliberately on the heartstrings. And the dramatic continuity seems less spontaneous than contrived. The career of Mrs. Gladney is drawn out over a tedious stretch of time. But it is an affecting story and one which commands great respect ... As pure inspirational drama with a pleasant flavor of romance, 'Blossoms in the Dust' should reach a great many hearts."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B05E1DA153FE13BBC4F51DFB066838A659EDE |title=Movie Review - Blossoms in the Dust |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |author-link=Bosley Crowther |date=June 27, 1941 |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=December 14, 2015 }}</ref>

''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called the film "a worthy production on which much care has been showered by Mervyn LeRoy and others, but it is questionable as to draft. Though meritorious as to production value, cast and background, plus being in color, the picture fails to impress as being big." The review also called the film "a trifle over-done on occasion."<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 25, 1941 |title=Blossoms in the Dust |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |location=New York |publisher=Variety, Inc. |page=16 }}</ref>

''[[Film Daily]]'' wrote "Mervyn LeRoy is at his directorial best here, and makes the most of the fine screenplay fashioned by Anita Loos ... Greer Garson's performance is rousing, and that of Walter Pidgeon, as her husband, as inspiring as will be found in any '40-'41 picture."<ref>{{cite journal |date=June 23, 1941 |title=Reviews of New Films |journal=[[Film Daily]] |location=New York |publisher=Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. |page=6 }}</ref>

[[John Mosher (writer)|John Mosher]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' wrote "The subject matter receives very conventional treatment of the inspirational order, with an occasional tear, and, of course, a sad smile here and there."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Mosher |first=John |author-link=John Mosher (writer) |date=June 28, 1941 |title=The Current Cinema |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |location=New York |publisher=F-R Publishing Corp. |page=53 }}</ref>

''Blossoms in the Dust'' placed tenth on ''Film Daily'''s year-end poll of 548 critics naming the best films of 1941.<ref>{{cite journal |date=January 14, 1942 |title=GWTW Captures Critics' Poll |journal=[[Film Daily]] |location=New York |publisher=Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. |page=1 }}</ref>