Hedy Lamarr is "The Strange Woman" in this 1946 film also starring Louis Hayward, Hillary Brooke, Alan Napier, and George Sanders.
Hedy plays Jenny, an ambitious child who hates being poor and grows into a beautiful woman who hates it even more. Her father is an abusive drunk, and one night, to escape him, Jenny runs to the home of the richest man in town, Isaiah Poster (Gene Lockhart).
It's decided at a meeting of some of the townsmen that Jenny needs to get married, or else she'll be forced to return to her father. Isaiah has an obvious lust for Jenny and manipulates the conversation so that it's decided he would be the best choice, though he's old for her.
Now rich and the town benefactress, Jenny welcomes home Isaiah's son and her childhood friend (Hayward) and works the situation so that he stays in town, though, attracted to her, he feels it's best if he leaves. Then she meets her friend Meg's boyfriend (Sanders).
Set in Bangor, Maine, the accents are all over the place, though it's a minor concern. The atmosphere is dark and a smacks of being low-budget. Nevertheless, it's an absorbing film with a wonderful performance by Hedy Lamarr in a Scarlett O'Hara-type role.
Lamarr was such a great beauty that she's hardly ever considered a true actress, but she was up to the challenge of this role. With her now well-known intellectual abilities, she was obviously a very remarkable woman.
Hedy plays Jenny, an ambitious child who hates being poor and grows into a beautiful woman who hates it even more. Her father is an abusive drunk, and one night, to escape him, Jenny runs to the home of the richest man in town, Isaiah Poster (Gene Lockhart).
It's decided at a meeting of some of the townsmen that Jenny needs to get married, or else she'll be forced to return to her father. Isaiah has an obvious lust for Jenny and manipulates the conversation so that it's decided he would be the best choice, though he's old for her.
Now rich and the town benefactress, Jenny welcomes home Isaiah's son and her childhood friend (Hayward) and works the situation so that he stays in town, though, attracted to her, he feels it's best if he leaves. Then she meets her friend Meg's boyfriend (Sanders).
Set in Bangor, Maine, the accents are all over the place, though it's a minor concern. The atmosphere is dark and a smacks of being low-budget. Nevertheless, it's an absorbing film with a wonderful performance by Hedy Lamarr in a Scarlett O'Hara-type role.
Lamarr was such a great beauty that she's hardly ever considered a true actress, but she was up to the challenge of this role. With her now well-known intellectual abilities, she was obviously a very remarkable woman.