My Reputation

My Reputation is a 1946 wartime love story, directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Barbara Stanwyck portrayed Jessica Drummond, an upperclass widow from Chicago who innocently falls in love with an army officer George Brent, much to the consternation of her gossipy friends and domineering mother Lucile Watson. Her romance also pits her against her two teenage sons Scotty Beckett and Bobby Cooper. Screenwriter and novelist Catherine Turney wrote the script, which she adapted from Clare Jaynes 1942 novel Instruct My Sorrows.

When Jess finds herself lost somewhere on the slopes with a broken ski, she meets Major Scott Landis George Brent. He helps her back to the Abbotts lodge where she introduces them to Scott. After an evening of socializing, he spends the night downstairs on the sofa. That week, Jess and Scott get to know each other better, but she spurns his advances. Given her conservative upbringing, she accuses him of spoiling their good time, and she directs him to leave without an appropriate goodbye or discussion about any future.Back in Lake Forest, just outside Chicago, Jess finds herself alone again except for her longtime housekeeper amp cook Anna Esther Dale. Frank comes to call and is invited to join them for dinner. However, just then the phone rings and its Ginna, who tells Jess than she and Cary are out at a club where theyve spotted Major Landis. So, Jess asks Frank if they can go out instead of eating at home, and then goes to get all dressed up. Once at the club, Jess initiates bumping into Scott and finds out that hes been stationed in Chicago before he gets his orders for overseas, which could come at any time but refrains from telling Jess. ........

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