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Best movie of this year hands down!

So much average

Really Surprised!

Best movie ever!

. . . if American Women ever gain access to a Birth Control Pill with this War-on-Promiscuity feature from the Pre-Pill 1940s Period, MY REPUTATION. Self-centered Chicago-area widow "Jessica" is so Hot-to-Trot here that she's willing to abandon her two young teen sons as prey for any passing Tom, Dick, or John Wayne Gacy in order to enjoy a Brief New York City Sexcapade with the first playboy to ski down her mounds. Worse yet, strumpet Jessica is willing to risk this New York Sex Lark even WITHOUT the Pill! Any contemporary viewer of MY REPUTATION should have been able to read the Writing on the Bathroom Stall should the USA's Loose Jessicas have a Pill upon which to rely: Half of all marriages ending in divorce, half of all kids born illegitimately in a fatherless state, and half of all future U.S. Presidents running through multiple First, Second, or even Third Ladies in their desperate search for a wench who can keep it zipped. MY REPUTATION constitutes Warner Bros.' last-ditch warning to American Womenfolk to police THEMSELVES, before Her hard-pressed men are forced to impose some form of Sharia Law or HANDMAID'S TALE.

this movie could have been a lot better with an attractive man in the George Brent part.he is one of the most dull and unattractive actors from that time period... (yes-and even when he was much younger) i'm still amazed that he came out of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland....his career has always perplexed me--he is just not appealing in any way at all.....and i don't like the self-confidant way he manhandled Barbara Stanwyck at the cabin--only someone really studly should ever be that self-confidant and even then....it was as nauseating as the "old friend" who forcibly kissed her in his car earlier in the film..

Widowed socialite in her early 30s, expected by her two boys, her mother, and her friends to grieve her husband's death for a lengthy period of time, instead meets and falls in love with a randy, masculine soldier--a man who clearly informs her he's not the marrying kind. Although she isn't quite the motherly type, Barbara Stanwyck gives yet another of her sterling performances in the lead. Whether standing up to the gossipy biddies in her town or trying to explain her definition of love to her sons, Stanwyck never hits a false note. Warner Bros. apparently had little faith in the film's appeal, keeping it on the shelf for two years, and yet it's a solid example of the 'woman's picture', a classy nosegay with one of those beautiful Hollywood finales at the train station. **1/2 from ****

Surprisingly,this film has never been set up as a woman's lib type film which it certainly is. Barbara follows all the conventional rules,marriage,children,then it all falls apart. Her husband dies,her two boys are leaving for boarding school,everything is all arranged but what is Barbara to do. Her mother wants her to be in permanent mourning like she has for 25 years and be her companion. Barbara tries to fill her life with volunteer work and fending off advances from her friends' husbands,who all seem to think she's accessible since she's a widow. The entry of George Brent as a new man on the scene wakes her up and makes the neighbors gossip/ Barbara has done nothing wrong but the rule of the day is she causing a scandal,even her sons are mad at her. Her pal Eve Arden talks her into a skiing trip where she finds romance with Brent. The director said Max Steiner's score was one of his less pompous ones and it's used well through the film,serving as a love song,triumphant march when Barbara goes to Brent's apartment and a beautiful farewell scene at train station. I loved the part where Barbra enters Brent's apartment and exclaims its' beauty when all of a sudden she sees the bedroom and the music stops with a thump. Definitely a movie to see,not on tape or DVD unfortunately,wish it were. By the way,the Max Steiner score was reused for The McConnel Story starring Alan Ladd and June Allyson.