Hedy Lamar is absolutely gorgeous playing this dishonorable lady...who is pegged accurately by the physiatrist who finds her after having been thrown from her car after wrapping it around a tree on his property, as a very beautiful woman who doesn't care what happens to her. He returns her home with his business card, making her promise to call him before throwing herself off the Brooklyn Bridge.
Back home we discover she works for a magazine as their art editor and she makes questionable choices about the men she sees...allowing herself to be used, manipulated and made love to. Leading this questionable life that she mirrored after her artist father...the ultimate love them and leave them and who cares about the consequences.
Turns out the doctor was right and before killing herself for good...Madeline Damien contacts the doctor and he starts therapy right away. She quits her job, gives up her apartment and moves into a tiny boarding house where she continues to get therapy and under an assumed name tries her hand at painting again. She seems to be finding some level of happiness in this simple life...and she meets one of her neighbors a poor research physician from Oregon who convinces her to draw blood cells for his research report. He ends up having success around the same time that a wealthy former paramour locates her through a P. I., who not only finds her but makes a copy of her apartment key for him!
The wealthy former paramour ends up murdered and our Madeline Damien is implicated, which is how our research doctor finally finds out her real identity and past. Thinking her new life and love is gone, Madeline doesn't allow her lawyer to put up a fight as she is accused of murder and goes on trial.
Great film! I am surprised this isn't more popular. It is an interesting study in the double standard for men and women. Hedy is of course gorgeous in this film and does a great job both with the apathetic role and the change to happiness and true love. The handsome and unquestioning Oregon doctor is well played by Dennis O'Keefe.
Madeline Damien has been successful in a man's world, playing a man's game...including sleeping around. The problem is nothing seems to make her happy. Women gossip about her, men including her boss take advantage of her and use her beauty and promiscuity to their advantage without thinking about the consequences to her. Meanwhile their opinion of her remains low...even though she is lining their pockets with money. She is afraid to tell the doctor about her promiscuous past because she is afraid to loose the happiness that she has found with him...but he has been in the military and lived a life up until this point...no one is asking the good doctor to account for his sex life.
Great film, great study in the double standard of the sexes at the time.
Back home we discover she works for a magazine as their art editor and she makes questionable choices about the men she sees...allowing herself to be used, manipulated and made love to. Leading this questionable life that she mirrored after her artist father...the ultimate love them and leave them and who cares about the consequences.
Turns out the doctor was right and before killing herself for good...Madeline Damien contacts the doctor and he starts therapy right away. She quits her job, gives up her apartment and moves into a tiny boarding house where she continues to get therapy and under an assumed name tries her hand at painting again. She seems to be finding some level of happiness in this simple life...and she meets one of her neighbors a poor research physician from Oregon who convinces her to draw blood cells for his research report. He ends up having success around the same time that a wealthy former paramour locates her through a P. I., who not only finds her but makes a copy of her apartment key for him!
The wealthy former paramour ends up murdered and our Madeline Damien is implicated, which is how our research doctor finally finds out her real identity and past. Thinking her new life and love is gone, Madeline doesn't allow her lawyer to put up a fight as she is accused of murder and goes on trial.
Great film! I am surprised this isn't more popular. It is an interesting study in the double standard for men and women. Hedy is of course gorgeous in this film and does a great job both with the apathetic role and the change to happiness and true love. The handsome and unquestioning Oregon doctor is well played by Dennis O'Keefe.
Madeline Damien has been successful in a man's world, playing a man's game...including sleeping around. The problem is nothing seems to make her happy. Women gossip about her, men including her boss take advantage of her and use her beauty and promiscuity to their advantage without thinking about the consequences to her. Meanwhile their opinion of her remains low...even though she is lining their pockets with money. She is afraid to tell the doctor about her promiscuous past because she is afraid to loose the happiness that she has found with him...but he has been in the military and lived a life up until this point...no one is asking the good doctor to account for his sex life.
Great film, great study in the double standard of the sexes at the time.