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The Magic of Ordinary Days
The Magic of Ordinary Days is a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on a novel of the same name by Ann Howard Creel and adapted as a teleplay by Camille Thomasson. It was directed by Brent Shields, produced by Andrew Gottlieb and stars Keri Russell, Skeet Ulrich, and Mare Winningham.
The film first aired on CBS on January 30, 2005, and received an encore broadcast on the same network exactly five years later.
During World War II, Olivia "Livy" Dunne, a Denver minister's daughter, is pregnant by a US Navy flight instructor on furlough. To cover up his daughter's unwed pregnancy, her father quietly compels the reluctant Livy to marry, arranging with another minister to find a suitable willing husband.
Hearing of Livy's dilemma, Ray Singleton agrees to marry without having met her. Though young, personable, and a family man, Ray has little opportunity to find a wife in a remote southeastern Colorado farming region where young women are scarce. Ray lost both his parents prior to the war and his younger brother, Daniel, during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Having studied archeology in graduate school, Livy had aspirations to travel and is bored with farm talk around crops and the weather. A man of few words, Ray is a hard worker, kind, honest and patient, whose daily activity is focused on working his ancestral farm. Learning of her graduate treatise on Heinrich Schliemann, the eager-to-please Ray checks out a book on Schliemann from the local library. Livy finds native American arrowheads among Ray’s grandparents’ former belongings.
Livy secretly writes several letters to Lieutenant Edward Brown, her baby's father, but receives no response. A visit by her sister further complicates matters. With her husband in the military, her lonely sister wants Livy to leave Ray, suggesting they make up stories of her husband’s drunken violent nature to justify the separation. Livy cannot do this, as Ray is a good man.
As most young men are at war, Ray's farm is supplemented by Japanese Americans internees from nearby Camp Amache. Feeling isolated, Livy befriends two sisters from the camp, Florence and Rose Umahara, both college students before being interned, finding intellectual stimulation and comfort in their friendship.
A letter finally arrives from Lt. Brown, which Ray picks up during a routine post office run. Upset that Livy has furtively contacted the lieutenant, Ray goes off for the evening to reflect. In the letter, Lt. Brown insists he couldn't be her baby’s father. Distraught, Livy confides in Ray’s married sister, Martha, a neighbor. Remaining unjudgmental, Martha affirms to Livy how much Ray loves her, but she advises Livy to leave quickly if determined to go. Believing she has decided to leave, Ray tells Livy he loves her and gives her his mother's wedding ring, saying that he knows she will be happy one day when she forgives herself. Decided to leave, Livy affirms at the family Thanksgiving gathering that she has learned from them what unconditional love is.
The Magic of Ordinary Days
The Magic of Ordinary Days is a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on a novel of the same name by Ann Howard Creel and adapted as a teleplay by Camille Thomasson. It was directed by Brent Shields, produced by Andrew Gottlieb and stars Keri Russell, Skeet Ulrich, and Mare Winningham.
The film first aired on CBS on January 30, 2005, and received an encore broadcast on the same network exactly five years later.
During World War II, Olivia "Livy" Dunne, a Denver minister's daughter, is pregnant by a US Navy flight instructor on furlough. To cover up his daughter's unwed pregnancy, her father quietly compels the reluctant Livy to marry, arranging with another minister to find a suitable willing husband.
Hearing of Livy's dilemma, Ray Singleton agrees to marry without having met her. Though young, personable, and a family man, Ray has little opportunity to find a wife in a remote southeastern Colorado farming region where young women are scarce. Ray lost both his parents prior to the war and his younger brother, Daniel, during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Having studied archeology in graduate school, Livy had aspirations to travel and is bored with farm talk around crops and the weather. A man of few words, Ray is a hard worker, kind, honest and patient, whose daily activity is focused on working his ancestral farm. Learning of her graduate treatise on Heinrich Schliemann, the eager-to-please Ray checks out a book on Schliemann from the local library. Livy finds native American arrowheads among Ray’s grandparents’ former belongings.
Livy secretly writes several letters to Lieutenant Edward Brown, her baby's father, but receives no response. A visit by her sister further complicates matters. With her husband in the military, her lonely sister wants Livy to leave Ray, suggesting they make up stories of her husband’s drunken violent nature to justify the separation. Livy cannot do this, as Ray is a good man.
As most young men are at war, Ray's farm is supplemented by Japanese Americans internees from nearby Camp Amache. Feeling isolated, Livy befriends two sisters from the camp, Florence and Rose Umahara, both college students before being interned, finding intellectual stimulation and comfort in their friendship.
A letter finally arrives from Lt. Brown, which Ray picks up during a routine post office run. Upset that Livy has furtively contacted the lieutenant, Ray goes off for the evening to reflect. In the letter, Lt. Brown insists he couldn't be her baby’s father. Distraught, Livy confides in Ray’s married sister, Martha, a neighbor. Remaining unjudgmental, Martha affirms to Livy how much Ray loves her, but she advises Livy to leave quickly if determined to go. Believing she has decided to leave, Ray tells Livy he loves her and gives her his mother's wedding ring, saying that he knows she will be happy one day when she forgives herself. Decided to leave, Livy affirms at the family Thanksgiving gathering that she has learned from them what unconditional love is.