Nora Prentiss

Nora Prentiss is a 1947 blackandwhite drama film noir directed by Vincent Sherman, and starring Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett and Robert Alda. Sherman also directed leading lady Sheridan in another 1947 film noir, The Unfaithful. The cinematography is by cinematographer James Wong Howe, and the music was composed by Franz Waxman.

When the film was released, the staff at Variety magazine gave the film an unfavorable review. They wrote, Nora Prentiss is an overlong melodrama, a story of romance between a married man and a girl. But its never quite believable. Ann Sheridan makes much of her role but the production has unsympathetic slant for leads and a lack of smoothness ... Sheridan is the singer, and has two tunes to warble. As the doctor, Kent Smith is okay dramatically in a part that doesnt hold much water. Bruce Bennett, costarred, has little to do as a medico friend of Smiths.Critics call the movie one of the best womans noir. Film historian Bob Porfirio notes, Unlike such other Ann Sheridan or Joan Crawford motion pictures as The Unfaithful, Flamingo Road, and The Damned Dont Cry, Nora Prentiss does not lapse into a romantic melodrama that might detract from the maudit sensibility, the quintessential element of film noir. ........

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