No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own
No Man of Her Own
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Produced by Richard Maibaum
Written by Sally Benson
Catherine Tunney (screenplay)
Starring Barbara Stanwyck
John Lund
Phyllis Thaxter
Jane Cowl
Lyle Bettger
Music by Hugo Friedhofer
Cinematography Daniel L. Fapp
Editing by Alma Macrorie
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) February 21, 1950
Running time 98 min.
Language English

No Man of Her Own is a 1950 drama starring Barbara Stanwyck.

It was the second she made with director Mitchell Leisen. It was based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, I Married a Dead Man. Woolrich is credited as William Irish in the film's opening credits.

The film was later remade in 1996 as Mrs. Winterbourne, starring Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake and Brendan Fraser. There is also a 1970 Bollywood remake, Kati Patang, for which Asha Parekh won the Filmfare Best Actress Award.[1]

Plot summary

Helen Ferguson, (Barbara Stanwyck), is eight months pregnant and unmarried.

When she goes to her unfaithful boyfriend Morley for help, all he gives her is a train ticket back to where she came from.

The train crashes while Helen is on board, and she is mistaken for the pregnant wife of another man who was killed on the train. She gives birth to her child and is accepted by the Harknesses, the family of the dead woman's husband, Hugh Harkness (who also was killed in the crash).

Since the family had never seen their son's new wife, they believe Helen to be her. The family believes her lapses of memory and uncertain behavior are taken to be after effects of the train wreck.

With a better life provided for her child, Helen continues the ruse while Bill Harkness(John Lund)who is the brother of the deceased Hugh Harkness, falls in love with her. The story takes a turn for the worse when her ex-boyfriend and father of her child tracks her down several months after the accident. Morley ( Lyle Bettger) was called in to identify the body at the morgue after the tragic train accident in the beginning of the film, and figures out through a series of events that she is hiding out and now married into money. Being the conniving fellow that he is, contacts Helen (or Petriece) and forces her into wedlock, but before his dastardly plan can take full effect, he winds up dead, and the real twist is who exactly the murderer is.

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