A young bride's marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband is trying to starve his young son to death in order to claim an inheritance the boy is ...
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Helmut Dantine | ... | Dr. Eric Ryder | |
| Andrea King | ... | Brooke Gifford Ryder | |
| William Prince | ... | David G. MacKellar | |
| John Alvin | ... | Carl | |
| Becky Brown | ... | Genevieve Calvin | |
| Richard Erdman | ... | Joe (as Dick Erdman) | |
| Peggy Knudsen | ... | Louise Ryder | |
| Don McGuire | ... | Johnnie | |
| Lisa Golm | ... | Emma | |
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Larry Geiger | ... | Philip Ryder |
| Monte Blue | ... | Mike | |
| J. Scott Smart | ... | Timothy Freeman (as Jack Smart) | |
| Leah Baird | ... | Mrs. Calvin | |
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Lottie Williams | ... | Sarah |
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A young bride's marital bliss is replaced by shades of suspicion when she suspects that her husband is trying to starve his young son to death in order to claim an inheritance the boy is entitled to. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
14 September 1946 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Der Schatten einer Frau See more »Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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(uncredited)
Music by Hoagy Carmichael
[Second dance number played at the Gypsy Room]
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This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Cincinnati Monday 17 September 1957 on WKRC (Channel 12); it first aired in Boston Wednesday 16 January 1957 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Bloomington IN Saturday 30 March 1957 on WTTV (Channel 4), in Portland OR Tuesday 16 April 1957 on KLOR (Channel 12), and in San Diego CA Tuesday 21 May 1957 on KFMB (Channel 8). See more »Goofs
About one hour into the film, Brooke addresses a letter to Dr. Norris. In close-up the envelope is small (letter size) and the address is written almost to the right edge. However in the next wider shot, the envelope is larger (business size) and the address is more centered. See more »Soundtracks
How Little We Know(uncredited)
Music by Hoagy Carmichael
[Second dance number played at the Gypsy Room]
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Honeymooning after a whirlwind courtship, newlyweds Andrea King and Helmut Dantine cross the palm of a Gypsy fortune-teller with silver to have their futures read. The crone's face collapses like an ill-baked souffle when she gazes on Dantine's life-lines. `I haf nut'ing to tell you,' she stammers, then slithers off into the night.
Next day at the beach, a boulder the size of an asteroid rolls down a hill, almost squashing Dantine the first of many such `accidents' which befall him. Her groom, King decides, has enemies. Back in San Francisco, King settles into his gloomy old Nob Hill mansion, inhabited too by his widowed sister and his crippled nephew, who welcome her coldly. Another surprise is a sickly young son by a previous marriage, of whom (and of which) King knew nothing.
Dantine, it turns out, is a quack doctor whose diet regiments cause his patients to drop like flies. His son, on the other hand, is heir to a fortune, and his regimen of nothing but orange juice begins to look to King like a plot to kill him....
Shadow of a Woman (meaningless title, by the way) is nothing more than a watchable programmer. Both principals were European-born, Dantine in Vienna (retaining a heavy accent), King in Paris (accent-free, though her English is wooden). The movie accepts and reproduces the conventions of the `jep' with few, if any, new twists: Dantine is a controlling husband who decides everything for his wife (a role he would reprise the next year in Whispering City), including how she feels `You're tired;' `You're hysterical.' King, however, shows more spunk, and earlier on, than most of the swooning wives this kind of melodrama requires. If you can swallow its conventions, Shadow of a Woman is not a bad hour and a quarter sort of a dress rehearsal for The House on Telegraph Hill five years later, a better movie that, especially in its setting, resembles it.