All I Desire is a 1953 American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson, Lori Nelson, and Maureen O'Sullivan.

In about 1910, Naomi Murdoch, who has not been back to see her husband or children in the small town of Riverdale, Wisconsin since she abandoned them at the turn of the 20th century to become a stage actress, is struggling near the bottom of the bill in a traveling vaudeville show.

The first person he tells is Dutch Heinemann, the owner of the hunting and fishing store, whose affair with Naomi was part of the reason she left.

When she gets to her family's home, Naomi is greeted enthusiastically by Lily, but her eldest daughter Joyce, who has taken on the role of running the household, is bitter about her mother's long absence.

After the play, the Murdochs host a party at their home, Naomi charms the high schoolers, and feelings between her and Henry begin to resurface.

[4] Douglas Sirk originally shot a darker, sadder ending, but the producer Ross Hunter substituted a happier one.

[2] Richard Long, who has a horseback-riding scene with Stanwyck in the film, later played her eldest son in all 122 episodes of the series The Big Valley (1965-9).