Young Widow (1946)
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Synopsis of Young Widow
With The Outlaw still being withheld from general release, Young Widow represented the first time that most filmgoers ever saw Jane Russell on the screen. Unfortunately, she was hardly at her best in this lachrymose tale of a woman named Joan Kenwood, who can't get over her husband's death in WW II. A journalist by profession, Joan is reminded in large ways and small of her late husband during every one of her assignments. Sympathetic ex-soldier Jim Cameron (Louis Hayward) follows Joan around throughout the picture, hoping against hope that she'll eventually forget her husband and pay some attention to him. Featured in the supporting cast is Faith Domergue, who like Jane Russell was a well-endowed Howard R. Hughes "discovery." Young Widow was based on the four-hanky novel by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Young Widow
- Jane Russell - Joan Kenwood
- Faith Domergue - Gerry Taylor
- Kent Taylor - Peter Waring
- Connie Gilchrist - Aunt Cissie
- Steve Brodie - Willie
- Richard Bailey - Bill Martin
- James Burke - Motorcycle Cop
- Gerald Mohr
- Dick Wessel - Cabby
- William Murphy - Army Lieutenant
- James Flavin - Conductor
- Louise Beavers
- Louis Hayward - Jim Cameron
- Marie Wilson - Mac
- Penny Singleton - Peg Martin
- Cora Witherspoon - Aunt Emeline
- Norman Lloyd - Sammy
- Walter S. Baldwin - Miller
- George Lloyd - Man on Platform
- Harry Barris - Officer's Club Pianist
- William Newell
- George Meader - Photographer
- Jimmie Dodd - Officer Friend
- Director(s):
- Edwin L. Marin
- Writer(s):
- Margaret Buell Wilder, Richard Macaulay
- Producer(s):
- Hunt Stromberg
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