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Originally Posted by BadNick
I have a crack or two...and I recall that story line, but can't think of it at the moment...will dwell on it.
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"...I imagine you're thinking of one segment from the 1952 omnibus film O. Henry's Full House. It dramatizes five stories by O. Henry, the master of the twist ending, the third of which is "The Last Leaf." It's about two Manhattan sisters, the younger of whom (Anne Baxter), gets pneumonia during a blizzard. Feverish, she becomes convinced that her life is bound up with that of the dried-out tree whose leaves are dropping rapidly..."
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Nice going, Nick. But, I don't know who O. Henry is, nor heard of his works. Some mainstream movie must've incorporated the story into the film as an homage, because of how I'm remembering it, the film I'm thinking of has a plot unto itself, and the story of "The Last Leaf" serves as a sampling, a hinting, an interlude, into the grander scheme of things. I'd say it could be from that film "Big Fish", in which all it is just stories, but I've never actually seen that film.
(I do have a weird habit of remembering books I've read and recalling the memories of them as movie scenes; not sure why. Still, this seems to be too vivid to just be my imagination.)