My Reputation (1946)
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
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Synopsis by Mark Deming
A woman struggling to rebuild her life becomes the victim of uncharitable rumors in this sudsy drama. After the recent death of her husband, and with her sons away at school, Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is lonely and out of sorts -- and uninterested in the potential suitors her mother, Mrs. Kimball (Lucile Watson), chooses for her. Jessica joins her close friend Ginna Abbott (Eve Arden) on a skiing trip and meets Maj. Scott Landis (George Brent), a handsome man who is clearly attracted to her. Jessica makes it clear that she has no interest in a short-term fling, and upon returning home, she meets Frank Everett (Warner Anderson), a sweet but dull man whom she begins dating. Frank is willing to marry Jessica, but by chance she meets Scott again, and while she's not willing to be seduced by him, she finds him more exciting and alluring than Frank. As Jessica debates the merits of passion vs. security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers who speculate that her relationship with Scott has become inappropriately intimate for a new widow. My Reputation was shot in 1944, but it wasn't released until 1946, as the studio believed that it would be better received after the end of WWII.
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army, attraction, bachelor, child, conflict, couple, dating, death, disapproval, extramarital-affair, family, family-disapproval, father, friendship, gossip, husband, insult, love, manager, memory, military, mother, mountains, neighbor, nightclub, offer, officer, party, plans, proposal [romantic], provider, puberty, public, reputation, romance, scandal, school, single-parent, son, train [locomotive], war, widow/widower
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