My Reputation
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| Directed by | Curtis Bernhardt |
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Jack L. Warner Henry Blanke |
| Written by | Clare Jaynes (novel) |
| Screenplay by | Catherine Turney |
| Based on | Instruct My Sorrows |
| Starring |
Barbara Stanwyck George Brent Eve Arden Lucile Watson Scotty Beckett Bobby Cooper |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Edited by | David Weisbart |
| Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
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94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3 million (US rentals) |
My Reputation is a 1946 wartime love story, directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Barbara Stanwyck portrayed Jessica Drummond, an upper-class widow from Chicago who innocently falls in love with an army officer (George Brent), much to the consternation of her gossipy friends and domineering mother (Lucile Watson). Her romance also pits her against her two teenage sons (Scotty Beckett and Bobby Cooper). Screenwriter and novelist Catherine Turney wrote the script, which she adapted from Clare Jaynes' 1942 novel Instruct My Sorrows. Barbara Stanwyck's costumes were designed by Edith Head.
When her beloved husband dies after a long illness, Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is comforted by the executor of her husband's estate, lawyer Frank Everett (Warner Anderson), who's been a family friend for years and, later, shows an interest in dating "Jess". Her mother (Lucile Watson) has worn black for decades, since her husband passed, and would love for her daughter to follow her example. Jess has two young boys: Kim (Scotty Beckett), who is fourteen, and Keith (Bobby Cooper), who's twelve. Both go off to school leaving their newly widowed mother at home alone to deal with her loneliness. She tries to reconnect with the "old gang" that she and her husband socialized with while he was alive, but finds they remind her too much of him. She's even accosted by one of them, George Van Orman (Jerome Cowan), when he brings her home one night. Fortunately, she has a real friend in Ginna Abbott (Eve Arden), whom she runs to, and stays with, the night she was accosted. Ginna and her husband Cary (John Ridgely) invite Jess to spend a week's vacation at Lake Tahoe with them.
When Jess finds herself lost somewhere on the slopes with a broken ski, she meets Major Scott Landis (George Brent). He helps her back to the Abbott's lodge where she introduces them to Scott. After an evening of socializing, he spends the night downstairs on the sofa. That week, Jess and Scott get to know each other better, but she spurns his advances. Given her conservative upbringing, she accuses him of spoiling their good time, and she directs him to leave without an appropriate goodbye or discussion about any future.
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