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A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.
Ann E. Todd
- Gretchen Van Orman
- (as Ann Todd)
Leah Baird
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Ellsworth Blake
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Oliver Blake
- Dave
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFirst film since the inception of the "Production code" in the 1930's to show a double bed in a married couple's bedroom.
- GoofsOn first visit to the Major's apartment, the door opens on the left-hand side, but when leaving the apartment the second time, the door opens on the right hand side.
- Quotes
Jessica Drummond: How neat you are, Frank!
Frank Everett: That's what comes of being a bachelor all your life.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music (2019)
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Irresistible suds, fine Stanwyck
"My Reputation" is a good example of a certain kind of vintage Hollywood product: it's glossy, yet carries certain real truths. In beautifully modeled black and white, set in a tony upper-class milieu, and with one of Max Steiner's creamiest scores, it examines a young matron's search for autonomy, when her husband dies after a long illness. Set in 1942, it makes numerous references to the war, so possibly this post-war film was meant to allude to the loss that many wives suffered due to the war (or it was one of those films made during the war but not released for several years).
I think Barbara Stanwyck was incapable of giving a bad performance. Whatever the material, she shone and was absolutely "there." Early in the film there is a scene in which she reads a letter that her late husband had written in the knowledge that it would be read after his death, and she is devastating. There's a kind of bookend scene at the film's end when she tries to explain to her children the nature of her love for a man who has come into her life after their father's death, and again she breaks your heart. In much of that scene she is in shadow as she speaks, so that her voice alone carries the emotion.
I think Barbara Stanwyck was incapable of giving a bad performance. Whatever the material, she shone and was absolutely "there." Early in the film there is a scene in which she reads a letter that her late husband had written in the knowledge that it would be read after his death, and she is devastating. There's a kind of bookend scene at the film's end when she tries to explain to her children the nature of her love for a man who has come into her life after their father's death, and again she breaks your heart. In much of that scene she is in shadow as she speaks, so that her voice alone carries the emotion.
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- hildacrane
- Dec 10, 2005
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- Budget
- $1,106,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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