The Woman in the Hall
Jean Simmons, Great Star of "Hamlet" and "Great Expectations" in a Thrilling New Role!
1947 | 93m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Jack Lee |
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| Writer: | Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple, G.B. Stern |
| Staring: |
| Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 27, 1947 |
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| Director: | Jack Lee |
| Writer: | Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple, G.B. Stern |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | courtroom, cons and scams, con woman |
| Production Companies | J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Wessex Film Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Apr 27, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Ursula Jeans | Lorna Blake |
| Jean Simmons | Jay Blake |
| Cecil Parker | Sir Halmar Barnard |
| Joan Miller | Susan |
| Edward Underdown | Neil Inglefield |
| Susan Hampshire | Young Jay |
| Jill Raymond | Molly Blake |
| Ruth Dunning | Shirley Dennison |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Jack Lee | Director, Screenplay |
| Ian Dalrymple | Screenplay |
| G.B. Stern | Novel, Screenplay |
| H.E. Fowle | Director of Photography |
| C.M. Pennington-Richards | Director of Photography |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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It is quite unusual to find Ursula Jeans in a leading role, and she does it rather well in this rather twisted story of a women who makes her way in life by lying and deceit. She must raise her two daughters, and does so by various means of extortion and malversation. As her daughters grow up, they ... cannot distinguish between right or wrong, nor truth and lie - so when Jeans finally dupes poor old Cecil Parker into marriage, the years of dishonesty and duplicitousness finally begin to catch up with them all. Jean Simmons and Jill Freud are both competent as the daughters - Simmons (only 18 here) has yet to quite work out how to own the camera in the way she later became natural at - and the eagle eyed might spot a very early outing from Susan Hampshire. The story has it's moments, but it does drag rather - and the lack of any characters with whom we might empathise (save for Jeans' constant flow of gullibles) brings a certain "who cares" to the story... It is a well made piece of cinema, though - just nothing particularly noteworthy.