My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Directed by

Joseph H. Lewis

Genre

drama film, film noir, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 05m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 74 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman takes a job as a secretary for a wealthy widow. She wakes up one day to find everyone insists she is a different person, and she must uncover the truth.

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What happens

My Name Is Julia Ross is a 1945 American film noir thriller directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and starring Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, and George Macready. Its plot follows a young woman in England who is hired as a live-in secretary for an ailing widow, where she awakens one day and is gaslighted by those around her, claiming she is someone else. The screenplay is based on the 1941 novel The Woman in Red by Anthony Gilbert. The film received a loose remake called Dead of Winter (1987), starring Mary Steenburgen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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