My Reputation (1946)A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him. Director:Curtis Bernhardt |
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My Reputation (1946)A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him. Director:Curtis Bernhardt |
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George Brent | ... | |
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Warner Anderson | ... |
Frank Everett
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Lucile Watson | ... |
Mrs. Mary Kimball
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John Ridgely | ... |
Cary Abbott
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Ginna Abbott
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Jerome Cowan | ... |
George Van Orman
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Esther Dale | ... |
Anna
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Scotty Beckett | ... |
Kim Drummond
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Bobby Cooper | ... |
Keith Drummond
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Leona Maricle | ... |
Riette Van Orman
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Mary Servoss | ... |
Mary
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Cecil Cunningham | ... |
Mrs. Stella Thompson
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Janis Wilson | ... |
Penny Boardman
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Ann E. Todd | ... |
Gretchen Van Orman
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Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
An ideal script for Douglas Sirk, charting the emotional liberation of a widow, but filmed without Douglas Sirk. Instead, Curtis Bernhardt commands a lush postwar production: the $5000 limits on set construction were lifted, and it shows. Extras crowd the screen, even in modest scenes, plus James Wong Howe contributes rich low-key lighting, Max Steiner produces an expressive [if undistinctive] score, and Edith Head whips up tasteful costumes. Bernhardt works best in the big scenes, but misjudges some of the lighter moments and cannot light a fire under his leading man, George Brent at his most stolid. Still, there's much to enjoy here: thoughtful dialogue, the stylized upper-crust social milieu, and expert performances, including an unusually sensitive one from Barbara Stanwyck. However, that slight [but crucial] ironic distance of Sirk is sorely missed.