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Dishonored Lady

1947, Movie, NR, 86 mins

Dishonored Lady: Review

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Lamarr and Loder were husband and wife in real life when this film was made, but Lamarr was the behind-the-scenes producer and boss. Loder's character was killed off early in the film; the actors divorced not long after the movie's completion. Lamarr plays a mentally unstable magazine editor. After a suicide attempt (shades of LADY IN THE DARK), she is eventually referred to psychiatrist Carnovsky, who tells her she must leave her high-pressure job and seek calmer pastures elsewhere. She alters her identity (but not that gorgeous face) and moves to Greenwich Village, where she becomes a painter and meets scientist O'Keefe. Love blooms quickly (especially in a movie that's less than 90 minutes long) and they plan to wed. O'Keefe is called out of New York briefly and Lamarr visits a local nightclub where she runs into Loder, a rich jeweler with whom she'd once had a 14-karat fling. He takes her home that night, but she wants to get away from him as her heart belongs to O'Keefe now, so she slips out the rear door while he is answering the doorbell at the front. The visitor is Lundigan, an employee of Loder who once stole some jewels and is coming to plead with Loder not to turn him in to the cops. He promises to make full restitution. Loder won't budge, so Lundigan kills him. But Lamarr was the last person to be seen with Loder and she's arrested for the crime. The trial takes place and O'Keefe, now learning of her past and her relationship with Loder, will not see her. Lamarr becomes so depressed she refuses to defend herself and sits in her chair, totally blank. Carnovsky sees her mental condition and realizes that she must be innocent, so he prevails on O'Keefe to come to her side. O'Keefe tells Lamarr how much he loves her and she is shocked out of her stupor and begins to fight for her life. They take her testimony, go through it, return to the victim's house, dust for fingerprints, find those of Lundigan, and confront him with the evidence. He admits to having killed Loder, and Lamarr and O'Keefe are happily together at the fadeout. This was a stage play in its original form and quite a bit spicier than what was seen on the screen, where the tight censorship of the era toned the proceedings down. Lamarr had improved as an actress by this time and more than held her own with her costars. The major problem is Stevenson's nearly nonexistent direction; one gets the distinct impression that Lamarr did whatever she pleased and refused to listen to anyone else's comments on her acting. The picture came out well enough despite that, but it never excited enough moviegoers to gross much money. Originally played on stage by Katherine Cornell. leave a comment
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