That Certain Woman

1937
Approved
1 Std. 33 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

1736

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, and Dwane Day in That Certain Woman (1937)

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Drama Romance

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuMary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

1736

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Mrs. Rogers
(as Katherine Alexander)

Mary Philips

Amy
(as Mary Phillips)

Minor Watson

Tilden

Sidney Toler

Detective Neely

Charles Trowbridge

Dr. James

Norman Willis

Fred

Herbert Rawlinson

Dr. Hartman

Tim Henning

Kenyon

Dwane Day

Jackie

Richard DeNeut

Boy
(as Dickie DeNeut)

John Hamilton

American
(Gelöschte Szenen)

Edward Keane

Opposing Counsel
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With Bette Davis rising quickly through the ranks at Warner Brothers, she was able to choose her leading men, and for That Certain Woman (1937) she chose Henry Fonda. Their lives had intersected a decade earlier when they worked in the same New England summer stock company. Even before that portion of their lives, they had met when Fonda gave the 17-year-old Davis a tour of Princeton University. One night, Fonda later wrote, while he and a friend took Davis and her sister out for a tour of the campus by moonlight, he nervously gave Davis an innocent kiss on the lips. A few days later he received a letter from her: "I've told mother about our lovely experience together in the moonlight. She will announce the engagement when we get home." Fonda was so naïve that he wasn't sure at first whether this was a joke! Davis remembered and liked Fonda enough to request him for this film and then again for Jezebel - die boshafte Lady (1938).

Patzer
The screen shows a newspaper page with headlines, photographs, and a box in large type, all part of a full-page gangster story. However, only some of the text that can be seen around the edges is part of the story. The rest is "dummy" type, about clothes for college men or electrical equipment.

Zitate
Lloyd Rogers: [to Mary] Money! I've got loads of it, and I'm one of the unhappiest men in the world!

Crazy Credits
The opening credits roll up.

Verbindungen
Featured in Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)

Soundtracks
'Cause My Baby Says It's So
(1937) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played during the scene at the bar

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4/10

One of the sappiest plots in film history

Audiences will groan at the character of Mary Donnell. Bette Davis is normally looking out for number one--and she's definitely her good old self in the first half of the movie. The widow of a gangster, Donnell has become a super-competent legal secretary for a respected attorney in a big firm. She fends off unwanted press attention and generally handles herself quite well as a tough single girl in the big city.

She becomes the mistress of her married boss at the law firm (although the Hays Office undoubtedly required the removal of any breath of sexual content here, it should be pretty obvious to all what is going on). In the second half of the movie, which focusses on Jack Merrick (Henry Fonda), whom Donnell has always loved, she achieves peaks of self-sacrifice that will send you staggering to the bathroom to throw up.

This is the sort of film that gives soap opera a bad name.