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Nora Prentiss

  • 19471947
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 51m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
1.8K
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Ann Sheridan and Kent Smith in Nora Prentiss (1947)
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A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.
IMDb RATING
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1.8K
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    • Vincent Sherman
    • N. Richard Nash(screen play)
    • Paul Webster(story)
    • Jack Sobell(story)
  • Stars
    • Ann Sheridan
    • Kent Smith
    • Bruce Bennett
    • Vincent Sherman
    • N. Richard Nash(screen play)
    • Paul Webster(story)
    • Jack Sobell(story)
  • Stars
    • Ann Sheridan
    • Kent Smith
    • Bruce Bennett
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 59User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    Ann Sheridan in Nora Prentiss (1947)
    Robert Alda, Ann Sheridan, and Kent Smith in Nora Prentiss (1947)
    Ann Sheridan in Nora Prentiss (1947)
    Kent Smith in Nora Prentiss (1947)
    Creighton Hale, Ann Sheridan, and Kent Smith in Nora Prentiss (1947)
    Ann Sheridan and Kent Smith in Nora Prentiss (1947)
    Ann Sheridan and Kent Smith in Nora Prentiss (1947)
    Rosemary DeCamp and Kent Smith in Nora Prentiss (1947)
    Robert Alda, Creighton Hale, Ann Sheridan, and Kent Smith in Nora Prentiss (1947)
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    Ann Sheridan and Kent Smith in Nora Prentiss (1947)

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    Ann Sheridan
    Ann Sheridan
    • Nora Prentiss
    Kent Smith
    Kent Smith
    • Dr. Richard Talbot
    Bruce Bennett
    Bruce Bennett
    • Dr. Joel Merriam
    Robert Alda
    Robert Alda
    • Phil Dinardo
    Rosemary DeCamp
    Rosemary DeCamp
    • Lucy Talbot
    John Ridgely
    John Ridgely
    • Walter Bailey
    Robert Arthur
    Robert Arthur
    • Gregory Talbot
    Wanda Hendrix
    Wanda Hendrix
    • Bonita Talbot
    Helen Brown
    • Miss Judson
    Rory Mallinson
    Rory Mallinson
    • Fleming
    Harry Shannon
    Harry Shannon
    • Police Lieutenant
    James Flavin
    James Flavin
    • District Attorney
    Douglas Kennedy
    Douglas Kennedy
    • Doctor
    Don McGuire
    Don McGuire
    • Truck Driver
    Clifton Young
    Clifton Young
    • Policeman
    John Alvin
    John Alvin
    • San Francisco Bay Ferry Boat Dispatcher
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Jerry Baulch
    • Newspaper Man
    • (uncredited)
    Brooks Benedict
    Brooks Benedict
    • Patron at Dinardo's
    • (uncredited)
      • Vincent Sherman
      • N. Richard Nash(screen play)
      • Paul Webster(story)
      • Jack Sobell(story)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Sheilah Graham reported that Ann Sheridan had an infection in one ear during production, and during the final shots of the film, could only be photographed from one side.
    • Goofs
      When the surgeons are washing up for an operation, before gloves, the elder surgeon touches the door before going inside the surgery room, which would break sterility.
    • Quotes

      Dr. Richard Talbot: [finishing her bandage] There, it doesn't look bad.

      Nora Prentiss: The bandage or the leg?

      Dr. Richard Talbot: Young lady, I...

      Nora Prentiss: Can't you decide, doctor?

      Dr. Richard Talbot: Well, I made the bandage. I didn't make the leg.

      [Nora laughs]

    • Connections
      Edited into The Green Fog (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      Would You Like a Souvenir?
      Music by M.K. Jerome

      Lyrics by Jack Scholl and Eddie Cherkose

      Performed by Ann Sheridan

      [Nora sings the song during her act]

    User reviews59

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    7/10
    Ailments of the heart.
    Dr. Richard Talbot's teenage daughter runs to the kitchen window one morning and joyfully declares "It's Spring. Something's stirring." Later, when the good doctor is applying a bandage to the injured knee of a shapely chanteuse named Nora Prentiss, we are left in little doubt as to what that 'something' is!

    This film is yet another variant on the theme of 'amour fou' which is capable of raising one to the heights and dragging one to the depths. As this tragic but highly implausible tale unfolds, credibilty is stretched to the utmost but Vincent Sherman somehow succeeds in covering most of the plotholes. Mr. Sherman is an extremely capable director and he is fortunate here to have Anton Grot's production design, the evocative cinematography of James Wong Howe and Franz Waxman's dramatic score.

    It is customary to dismiss actor Kent Smith as being rather bland but he surprised me in this and engages our sympathy as the hapless doctor whose slow descent into the abyss is painful to behold. Suffice to say this is essentially a vehicle for Ann Sheridan whose role was expanded by order of Jack Warner. What can one say of Miss Sheridan? She combined oodles of 'oomph' with what one critic has described as 'no nonsense pragmatism.' She left us far too early but is still here thanks to the magic of film.
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    • Release date
      • February 22, 1947 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • The Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    • 1 hour 51 minutes
      • Black and White

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