The Strange Woman

1946
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1h 40m

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In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.

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6.5/10

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Trivia
Executive producer Hunt Stromberg declared his dissatisfaction with the original opening sequence of Edgar G. Ulmer's own daughter Arianne Ulmer who played the young Jenny - she was purportedly not nasty enough - and so he and Hedy Lamarr enlisted Douglas Sirk to re-shoot the scenes using Jo Ann Marlowe who had appeared in Sirk's own A Scandal in Paris (1946) earlier that year, and who had also featured as Joan Crawford's daughter Kay in Michael Curtiz' Mildred Pierce (1945).

Goofs
Ephraim paints "Nöel" rather than the correct "Noël."

Quotes
Lena Tempest: Honey, listen, with your looks you don't have to worry. You can get the youngest and best-looking man on the pier.
Jenny Hager: I don't want the youngest. I want the richest.

Alternate versions
The Strange Woman (1946). Restoration Produced by Jeff Joseph/SabuCat. Digital scan by Film & Video Transfer, Chatsworth, CA. Cineaste Restoration - Thad Komorowski.. Final Conforming & Cleanup by The Finishing Touch. The Strange Woman (Restored Version) copyright 2020 Jeff Joseph/SabuCat.

Connections
Featured in Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004)

Soundtracks
What Can You Do with a Drunken Sailor?
Traditional
Early 19th Century sea chanty
[Heard in tavern]

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7/10

Hedy is full of moral ambiguity

Made just after Hedy had departed MGM when she was still a top star and able to pursue roles with more depth than the glamour assignments handed her by Metro. She was one of the producers of this outing and selected Ulmer as director. Theirs was a contentious partnership but the result was one of Hedy's best performances.

If you can put aside the fact that the lead character has a Viennese accent and her father an Irish one when they are both lifelong natives of Bangor, Maine then there is much to enjoy. Hedy, stunningly beautiful as always, plays a deeply conflicted woman well and though the film veers wildly from morality tale to lurid melodrama it is certainly more fun than a lot of more highly thought of films.