My Foolish Heart is a 1949 American romantic drama film[3] directed by Mark Robson, starring Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward.

(Some years earlier, Salinger had referenced Casablanca in his 1944 short story "Both Parties Concerned"; one of its characters, upon learning his wife has left him, re-enacts the "Play it, Sam" scene from the film with an imaginary pianist.)

The New Yorker wrote that it was "full of soap-opera clichés",[7] and, while allowing for "some well-written patches of wryly amusing dialogue", Time rejected it as a "damp fable ... the screenplay turns on all the emotional faucets of a Woman's Home Companion serial".

[8] Goldwyn biographer A. Scott Berg explained that "in the Epsteins' version, more than had ever been suggested [in the original story] was shown, resulting in a 'four handkerchief' movie with a farfetched plot".

Because of what Salinger's agent later called "'a terrible movie' made in the 1950s (sic)" of one of his stories,[10] the author never again relinquished control of his work to Hollywood filmmakers despite persistent interest in a screen adaptation of The Catcher in the Rye.