When Strangers Marry

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Robert Mitchum, Kim Hunter, Neil Hamilton, and Dean Jagger in When Strangers Marry (1944)

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.

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Robert Mitchum

Fred Graham
(as Bob Mitchum)

Kim Hunter

Mildred 'Millie' Baxter

Dean Jagger

Paul Baxter

Neil Hamilton

Police Lieutenant Blake

Lou Lubin

Jacob Houser

Milton Kibbee

Charlie
(as Milt Kibbee)

Dewey Robinson

Newsstand Owner

Claire Whitney

Wife on Train

Edward Keane

Husband on Train

Virginia Sale

Hotel Chambermaid

Dick Elliott

Sam Prescott

Lee 'Lasses' White

Old Man
(as Lee White)

Marta Mitrovich

Baby's Mother

Billy Nelson

Louisville Driver

Fred Aldrich

Police Detective
(uncredited)

Lennie Bluett

Dancer at Big Jims
(uncredited)

Marie Bryant

Dancer in Big Jims
(uncredited)

William Castle

Man in Photograph Given to Police.
(uncredited)

Director
- William Castle
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Trivia
The cast credits in the original release are just the same as they appear on IMDb, with Dean Jagger in first position, Robert Mitchum in third position, and Rhonda Fleming uncredited. When the film was retitled and re-released in 1949, Jagger's and Mitchum's positions were reversed, with Mitchum now in first position and Jagger in third position. Uncredited Fleming, who only appears in the final episode aboard the train, is now prominently included among the leading players in the closing credits. This is the version most frequently shown on cable TV on Turner Classic Movies.

Goofs
In the movie, the famous Bleecker Street of Manhattan's Greenwich Village is misspelled as Bleeker.

Connections
Featured in Stars of the Silver Screen: Robert Mitchum (2013)

Soundtracks
Boogie Woogie
(uncredited)
Music by Lorenzo Flennoy

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6/10

On short acquaintance

Some important names were getting good exposure for their talents in When Strangers Marry. In front of the camera were Kim Hunter and Robert Mitchum. And behind are director William Castle later famous for horror pictures and Dimitri Tiomkin whose music scores were usually in films with far bigger budgets and vistas than When Strangers Marry.

Young Kim Hunter arrives in New York where she's on impulse married salesman Dean Jagger on short acquaintance. He's been delayed in Philadelphia and tells her to go to his flat and set up housekeeping. A helpful friend in Robert Mitchum proves even more helpful when Jagger is delayed for quite some time.

Good reason he has been delayed. The opening shows the homicide of a drunk and flannel mouth Dick Elliott who was bragging about the $10,000.00 he had even dropping large bills on the barroom floor. The next thing we see is the hotel maid finding the body and the cops Philly have a lead the suspect has gone to New York.

Where Neil Hamilton of the NYPD takes over and Jagger looks good for it to a disbelieving Hunter.

Not the greatest of noir films. But When Strangers Marry gave Robert Mitchum his first taste of a genre where at RKO he would get some really great roles and become a mega-star. Hunter and Jagger do well in their parts.

For a look at some movie legends developing I would give When Strangers Marry a viewing.