The Man I Married

The Man I Married alternative title I Married a Nazi is a 1940 drama film starring Joan Bennett and Francis Lederer.

While he goes to nazi gatherings, she tries to find out something about Gerhardt, with the help of Kenneth Delane Lloyd Nolan, foreign correspondent in Berlin. They find out he has been killed and bring the money to the widow, who doesnt want to leave Germany to be near her husband. They assist to scenes of deliberate cruel denigration of people by Nazis. Carol and Eric decide to divorce as he is in love with Frieda, who has put all sorts of things in his mind, but he wants to keep his son, as he is German too, he says, whereas Carol doesnt intend to leave Ricky in Germany. Finally the grandfather Hoffman tells his son, that if he doesnt let go the son with his mother to the United States, he will go to the Police and tell them that his mother was a jewess. Faced with the fact to be a jew as in judaism the affiliation is matrilineal he breaks down, as for the Nazis its the worst that can be. Frieda leaves him disgusted. Carol and Ricky leave for New York. Delane who had hoped to get a leave to go back home brings them to the station and tells her he has to stay anotheryears.New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther called the antiNazi propaganda film restrained, frank and factual and generally entertaining cinematically. He singled out Lederers performance for praise, but of Bennett he wrote, she does little more than model dresses and express incredulity. ........

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