"A woman trying to live her own life-A man who wouldn't let her-A wife living without love, fighting them both with the bitter weapons of a desperate heart!"

1939

1h 34m

7.0(58 votes)

Drama

Romance

Overview

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Cast & Crew

41 members

Acting

Cary Grant

Alec Walker

Acting

Carole Lombard

Julie Eden

Acting

Kay Francis

Maida Walker

Acting

Charles Coburn

Richard Walker

Acting

Helen Vinson

Suzanne

Acting

Katharine Alexander

Laura

Acting

Jonathan Hale

Dr. Gateson

Acting

Nella Walker

Mrs. Walker

Acting

Alan Baxter

Charley

Acting

Maurice Moscovitch

Dr. Muller

Acting

Peggy Ann Garner

Ellen

Acting

Spencer Charters

Gardener

Acting

James Adamson

Black Waiter on Train (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Arthur Aylesworth

Farmer on Truck (uncredited)

Acting

Lloyd Ingraham

Hospital Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Acting

Frank Puglia

Manager of Tony's Cafe (uncredited)

Acting

Grady Sutton

Paul Graham (uncredited)

Acting

Jack Chapin

Bellhop #1 (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Charles Coleman

Archie Duross (uncredited)

Acting

John Dilson

Head Train Steward (uncredited)

Acting

Fern Emmett

Hotel Chambermaid (uncredited)

Acting

Edward Fliegle

Night Clerk (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Byron Foulger

Owen the Clerk (uncredited)

Acting

Gus Glassmire

Yawning Hospital Attendant (uncredited)

No Image

Directing

Gordon Douglas

Steward (uncredited)

Acting

Jesse Graves

Train Waiter (uncredited)

Acting

Sam Harris

Party Guest (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Harold Hoff

Bellhop Bringing Bottle (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

John Laing

John the Chauffeur (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Mary MacLaren

Nurse at Desk (uncredited)

Acting

Harriet Matthews

Boat Passenger (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Tony Merlo

Waiter at Tony's (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Frank Mills

Bartender (uncredited)

Acting

Bert Moorhouse

College Man Asking About Game (uncredited)

Acting

Clive Morgan

Party Guest (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Sandra Morgan

Boat Passenger (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

George Rosener

Dr. Hastings at Hotel (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Robert Strange

Hotel Manager / Amorous House Detective (uncredited)

Acting

Kathryn Wilson

Party Guest (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Florence Wix

Party Guest (uncredited)

Acting

Allen Wood

Joe the Bellhop (uncredited)

No Image

Similar Movies

5.7

1987

Rolling Vengeance

A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.

Movie

7.6

1948

You the Rich

Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.

Movie

6.6

1986

Swati Muthyam

After an autistic man impulsively marries a young widow, she must move to the city and ensure the welfare of her new family, against the glare of societal judgement and financial struggle.

Movie

2024

Muse

A young artist struggles to capture the beauty of a young woman who has been recently crippled and bound to a wheelchair.

Movie

4.6

1995

Homage

The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daughter, a sexy television star. Unexpected twists and turns.

Movie

5.6

2025

Kadhalikka Neramillai

Does the idea of a perfect life leading to love, marriage and babies exist? Shriya finds it a challenge, especially when she meets men like Siddarth who think marriage is a recipe for disaster, and babies should be banned. When times are changing and relationships are evolving, the idea of love remains timeless- the more you resist it the more you will fall in love.

Movie

5.3

2014

Deliverance Creek

At the end of the Civil War, Belle Gatlin Barlowe, a widowed mother of three, faces uncertainty as she attempts to defend her family's land by any means necessary. When the corrupt local bank pushes Belle into becoming an outlaw, the stakes become personal, setting off a chain of events that force her to question whether it's better to be lawful or to survive.

Movie

2014

Reflection

Tara is a single mother, harried, overworked, and worried about her 8-year-old boy and his growing love for make-up and dresses. She struggles to find a balance for her and her son, but slowly unravels her true feelings towards her gender non-conforming child.

Movie

2025

Mommy's Perfect Match

Monica was born into the darkness of abuse and forged in trauma. Once triggered, Monica embarks on a journey using her manipulative personality - filled with mistrust, fear, and a desire to be loved, to seek a mother figure who will love her unconditionally or die trying. Who says love doesn’t cost a thing?

Movie

8.1

1950

All About Eve

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Movie

8.0

1999

The Sixth Sense

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

Movie

7.9

1939

Gone with the Wind

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Movie

7.1

1963

Contempt

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

Movie

7.2

2006

Snow Cake

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

Movie

5.0

2002

Mary's Sons

After the death of her husband and teenage son, a woman puts an ad in a newspaper for a surrogate child.

Movie

7.2

1989

Driving Miss Daisy

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.

Movie

7.4

2000

Erin Brockovich

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

Movie

7.3

2003

21 Grams

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

Movie

6.4

2005

Secret Lives

An art professor is informed that the husband she thought died ten years before has just been murdered. So she starts to research her husband's secret life in search of the reason he disappeared and who might have killed him.

Movie

7.0

1995

Antonia's Line

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

Movie

Recommended Movies

7.3

1939

Midnight

An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

Movie

6.2

1953

Appointment in London

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.

Movie

6.0

1957

The Pride and the Passion

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.

Movie

6.7

1935

Alice Adams

In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?

Movie

6.0

1933

Supernatural

After her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When a fake psychic claims to have a message from Roma's dead brother, he coaxes her into participating in a séance. While her fiancé first believes the séance is nothing more than a scam, he eventually realizes that the vengeful spirit of an executed murderer has possessed Roma's body.

Movie

6.3

1935

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

Everyweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion Forsythe on her return to the states from Europe, seeking to convince her to write her biography as a feature for his magazine. One of Marion's old beaus, now running for U.S. Senator from their home state, also comes calling.

Movie

6.4

1938

Topper Takes a Trip

Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.

Movie

5.6

2005

Cool Money

Charismatic thief Bobby Comfort escapes from prison, clears himself of all charges, and returns to a home life he finds unsatisfying. Though he is devoted to his wife and daughter, his old life comes calling, both figuratively and literally, in the form of idea man Sammy Nalo. With the help of Comfort's old partner, they begin robbing posh New York City hotels, while second cousin and bumbling cop Phil Parris thinks he can turn Comfort to the straight and narrow.

Movie

7.4

2018

Cold War

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

Movie

6.0

2010

East of Main Street: Asians Aloud

In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, HBO presents a collection of perspectives from a diverse group of Asian Americans.

Movie

6.1

2013

Main Krishna Hoon

In answer to an orphan boy's prayers, the divine Lord Krishna comes to Earth, befriends the boy, and helps him find a loving family.

Movie

6.4

2021

Mainstream

A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.

Movie

5.8

2024

Main Atal Hoon

Statesman and poet Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee's eloquence and vision shaped India's destiny. A look at his remarkable life as he led his country through a challenging period of change and development as the 10th Prime Minister of India.

Movie

5.7

2014

Main Tera Hero

Seenu loves Sunaina but they're chased by a stalking cop, an infatuated beauty and her mafia don dad - can Seenu's heroics work?

Movie

6.5

2012

Fugitive at 17

Suspected of murdering her best friend, a teenage computer-hacker goes on the run to find the real killer.

Movie

5.6

2012

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

Rahul and Riana meet each other for the first time, get drunk, and awake the next morning to find that they have gotten legally married to each other.

Movie

6.2

1956

Main Street

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.

Movie

6.0

1989

Maine Pyar Kiya

After Suman's father leaves her in the care of another family while he travels abroad, she falls in love with Prem. However, in order to for them to marry, Prem has to prove to Suman's father that he is not the same as his own dad.

Movie

6.3

1988

Bird Thongchai Concert #1/1988 Kaolao ThongChai (Mai-Ngok)

Relive the magic of Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre's captivating performance at Bangkok Youth Center in 1988

Movie

5.7

1990

Men at Work

Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.

Movie