I will take you up on that offer, panto .. with due recompense, of course
Now, since we're on the subject of tear-jerkers, can anyone find me/or recall this film (the name of which I don't know).
Here's the plot:-
It's a 50's film, at a guess. There is a white lady with a blonde white daughter. Her housekeeper is black, but her daughter could pass as Mediterranean. They're all very close.
But as the daughter of the black woman grows up, she disowns her mother due to her ethnicity. She becomes a show girl, and her mother comes to visit her one night. Her daughter, embarrassed, tells her colleagues that she's the maid.
The black lady dies of a broken heart, and at her funeral, her daughter literally throws herself at the coffin.
It's the saddest thing I've ever seen ... and I'm pretty sure that Mahalia Jackson (a very famous black gospel singer in RL) was the singer at the funeral.
Help me, ladies. I saw it once, with my mother, when I was a child and I haven't seen it since.