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In Name Only (1939)

Drama | 94 minutes
3,38 17 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 94 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: John Cromwell

Stars: Carole Lombard, Cary Grant and Kay Francis

IMDb score: 7,0 (3.892)

Releasedate: 18 August 1939

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In Name Only plot

"A woman trying to live her own life-A man who wouldn't let her-A wife living without love, fighting them both with the bitter weapons of a desperate heart!"

A rich, married man falls for another woman, but belittles his vengeful, possessive wife, who will do whatever it takes to get hold of a portion of his fortune.

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mrklm

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A dated melodrama that pulls out all the stops to make you as a viewer pull out the tissues. Success seems assured with Cary Grant and Carole Lombard, but there is little chemistry visible between the two, who respectively play a rich, married man and a widow with a daughter who fall head over heels for each other. Kay Francis is Grant's wife who is so resentful that she does everything she can to sabotage a new relationship for her husband. The central problem is that neither relationship is very convincing, and the scenario is quite predictable. In 1939, the laws regarding divorce were also a lot stricter than they are now, so all the fuss surrounding ending the marriage feels a bit dated in 2017.

With the very capable John Cromwell as director, this could have been a strong film, but a lack of chemistry between the three leads and a meow screenplay make this nothing more than a nice time-filler.

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Movsin

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In a somewhat lame beginning, Cary Grant uses all his powers of persuasion and distinguished charm to win the favor of the beautiful Carole Lombard and so the film skips along for a while in romantic superficiality, without any realistic basis.
When there is a turnaround (Kay Francis's tight explanation to the two lovers about what is about to happen is the best scene of the film.), and the film seems to become more substantive , there are too many negatives: Who the hell relies on the address on a postcard to track down a relative of an unconscious man? The way Grant plays a terminally ill person is substandard and what does he actually have. The improbability in which the doctor assumes that the presence of one important person can cure the sick person. The way Lombard plays the therapist and the way she allowed John Cromwell, perhaps relieved, to end it with a "We dreamed, but now it's real" (and nothing has been resolved).
Too bad because I love films from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and certainly Cary Grant, but I thought this was very mediocre.

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I forgive the film that the romance between Grant and Lombard feels a bit contrived, because after a somewhat rocky start

the film goes full-on drama.

I've said before that I've never found Grant convincing in drama roles, but here he does very well.

Despite her somewhat modest screen time, Kay Francis steals the show a bit, her modest and manipulative falsity is very convincingly portrayed.

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