Dishonored Lady

1947 CrimeDrama 85 minutes Directed by Robert Stevenson

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About Dishonored Lady

Madeleine Damian, fashion editor at Boulevard, is blackmailed by her old assistant Jack Garet and pursued by advertiser Felix Courtland. After a suicide attempt she quits, changes her name, and goes back to painting. Neighbor David Cousins, a researcher, has her draw cells for a paper and asks her to marry him. Courtland finds her. Garet kills Courtland with a cigarette lighter after a quarrel over a stolen stone. Police arrest Madeleine. At the trial David fights Garet, who confesses. Madeleine still will not marry until she is sure of herself. At the airport, Dr. Caleb tells her not to run, David arrives, and the plane leaves without her.

Cast & crew

More about Dishonored Lady

Robert Stevenson directed. Edmund H. North wrote the screenplay from the 1930 play by Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes. Hunt Stromberg produced. The Hays Office held the start past a January 1945 target because of two affairs and a night the script treated as sordid. Those scenes were cut, along with a Mexico City episode and lines about Madeleine's parents. Shooting ran from early May to late July 1946. United Artists released it on 16 May 1947. It is also known as Sins of Madeleine.

Themes

  • A new name and a paintbox
  • Courtland killed with a lighter
  • She stays off the plane
  • Madeleine Damian
  • Jack Garet
  • Felix Courtland
  • David Cousins
  • blackmail
  • trial

Look

Lucien Andriot shot the film at California Studios.

Music

Carmen Dragon composed the score.

Preservation

A copy is on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • Hedy Lamarr and John Loder, who plays Courtland, were married during the shoot and divorced later in 1947.
  • Dennis O'Keefe plays David Cousins. William Lundigan plays Jack Garet. Morris Carnovsky plays Dr. Richard Caleb.
  • Natalie Schafer, Paul Cavanagh, Douglass Dumbrille, and Margaret Hamilton are in the supporting cast.
  • Lucien Andriot photographed it. Carmen Dragon wrote the music. Nicolai Remisoff designed the sets.
  • Wikipedia says the picture went over budget and failed at the box office.

Scenes

  • Garet bludgeons Courtland with a cigarette lighter after Madeleine has left in the rain.
  • David arrives at the airport as the plane leaves without her.

Influenced by

  • Dishonored Lady (1930 play)

Also available

  • Internet Archive (dishonored_lady)