The Lady in Question (1940)
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Synopsis of The Lady in Question
Columbia's The Lady in Question is a remake of the French Gribouille, a Raimu vehicle from 1939. Brian Aherne plays Andre Morestan, the seeming contently paterfamilias of a bourgeois Parisian family. Summoned for jury duty, Morestan at first believes that accused murderess Natalie Rougin (Rita Hayworth) is guilty, but eventually takes pity on the homeless girl and invites her to live with his family after her acquittal. Things get pretty dicey when Morestan's impressionable young son Pierre (Glenn Ford) falls in love with the enigmatic Natalie and begins committing petty crimes to finance their elopement-leading to a situation not unlike the one that got the girl arrested in the first place! In the original Gribouille, it was abundantly clear that both father and son had a yen for their pretty guest, but this menage a trois has been toned down in the Hollywood version, with Morestan remaining more or less faithful to his long-suffering wife Michelle (Irene Rich). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of The Lady in Question
- Glenn Ford - Pierre Morestan
- Brian Aherne - Andre Morestan
- George Coulouris - Defense Attorney
- Evelyn Keyes - Francoise Morestan
- Curt Bois - Henri Lurette
- Sumner Getchell - Fat Boy
- Louis Adlon - Court Clerk
- Vernon Dent - Gendarme
- Theodore Lorch - Juror
- Fred Rapport - Alternate Juror
- Hamilton MacFadden - Guard
- Julius Tannen - Judge
- Jack Rice - Newly Married Juror
- Jack Raymond - Expressman
- George Davis - Customer
- Eddie Laughton - Bit
- Harrison Greene - Jury Foreman
- James B. Carson - Wine Salesman
- Leon Belasco - Barber
- Rita Hayworth - Natalie Rouguin
- Irene Rich - Michele Morestan
- Lloyd Corrigan - Prosecuting Attorney
- Edward Norris - Robert LaCoste
- Frank Reicher - President of the Court
- Nicholas Bela - Nicholas Farkas
- Dorothy Burgess - Antoinette
- Carlton Elliott Griffin
- Alex Palasthy
- Frank Pharr - Juror
- William Castle - Juror
- William Stack - Mariner
- Ralph Peters - Pedestrian
- Ronald Alexander - Juror
- Emma Tansey - Flower Woman
- Earl Gunn - Angry Juror
- Fern Emmett - Nathalie Roguin
- Mary Bovard - Miss Morlet
- Director(s):
- Charles Vidor
- Writer(s):
- Lewis Meltzer
- Producer(s):
- B.B. Kahane
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