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Dishonored Lady

Dishonored Lady

  • Status: Released
  • 16-05-1947
  • Runtime: 85 min
  • Score: 5.7
  • Vote count: 23

Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.

Hedy Lamarr

Madeleine Damien

Dennis O'Keefe

Dr. David Cousins

John Loder

Felix Courtland

William Lundigan

Jack Garet

Morris Carnovsky

Dr. Richard Caleb

Natalie Schafer

Ethel Royce

Paul Cavanagh

Victor Kranish

Douglass Dumbrille

District Attorney O'Brien

Margaret Hamilton

Mrs. Geiger

Nicholas Joy

Mitchell

Archie Twitchell

Freddie Francher

Gino Corrado

Carl, Waiter

Dewey Robinson

Jim, Doorman

Edward Biby

Clerk

Fred Kohler Jr.

First Motorcycle Cop

Henry Hebert

Attorney's Assistant

Raoul Freeman

Bailiff

Wilbur Mack

Judge

Reid Kilpatrick

AP News Broadcaster

Jack Richardson

Passerby

Kam Tong

Courtland's Houseboy

Jack Deery

Club Patron

Dick Gordon

Club Patron

Paul Power

Club Patron

Robert Haines

Courtroom Spectator

Curt Furburg

Courtroom Spectator

Russell Meeker

Courtroom Spectator

James Flavin

Police Sergeant Patella

Robert B. Williams

Police Sergeant Bartlett

Harry Strang

Police Sergeant

Ian Wolfe

Dr. E.G. Lutz

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A pretty unremarkable vehicle for star Hedy Lamarr ("Madeleine Damien") as she portrays the fashion editor of a glossy New York magazine who burns the candle at both ends a bit too much. She eventually seeks the help of a psychiatrist "Dr Caleb" (Morris Carnosky) to help divert her from a mental breakdown. He suggests she quit her highly pressured job and to basically start her life all over again. It doesn't quite go to plan, as she soon becomes re-embroiled with a millionaire jeweller (and in his murder) and we end up in a court-room melodrama. The story twists and turns but not in any particularly interesting way; Lamarr is clearly the star but her performance is a bit soulless. So much more could have been done with the characterisation and the supporting cast don't add much value either.