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No Man of Her Own (1950)

No Man of Her Own poster
Directed by
Mitchell Leisen
Genre
drama film, film noir
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 48 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A pregnant woman is abandoned by her husband. She takes on the identity of a dead woman to start a new life. Her past eventually catches up with her.

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What happens

No Man of Her Own is a 1950 American film noir drama directed by Mitchell Leisen and featuring Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl and Lyle Bettger. Made and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the production is the second film Stanwyck made with director Mitchell Leisen. Its screenplay was adapted from Cornell Woolrich's 1948 novel I Married a Dead Man. Woolrich is cited in the film's opening credits by one of his commonly used pseudonyms, "William Irish". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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