No Man of Her Own
No Man of Her Own

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In a mansion in Caulfield, Illinois, Patrice Harkness and Bill Harkness are waiting for the police. Meanwhile, she recalls her life in San Francisco. The eight-month pregnant Helen Ferguson is dumped by her boyfriend, the crook Stephen 'Steve' Morley, who gives a train ticket to her to New York to stay with his new girlfriend. In the train, Helen befriends the also pregnant Patrice Harkness and her husband Hugh Harkness that are returning from Europe. When they go to the toil... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in No Man of Her Own:

Barbara Stanwyck
John Lund
Jane Cowl
Phyllis Thaxter
Lyle Bettger
Henry O'Neill

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In a mansion in Caulfield, Illinois, Patrice Harkness and Bill Harkness are waiting for the police. Meanwhile, she recalls her life in San Francisco. The eight-month pregnant Helen Ferguson is dumped by her boyfriend, the crook Stephen 'Steve' Morley, who gives a train ticket to her to New York to stay with his new girlfriend. In the train, Helen befriends the also pregnant Patrice Harkness and her husband Hugh Harkness that are returning from Europe. When they go to the toilet, Patrice asks Helen to hold her wedding ring to avoid losing it, but there is an accident and only Helen survives. She is mistaken by the Hatkness family as being Patrice and welcomed by Mrs. Harkness, Mr. Harkness and Bill at home. Helen decides to pose of Patrice thinking in the future of her baby Hugh and the family treats her like a daughter. Out of the blue, Steve meets Helen in a club and blackmails her, promising to destroy the lives to Mr. and Mrs. Harkness. Now Helen realizes that she must kill Steve to protect her son and the old couple. What will she do?

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User Review - 8/10 by Luke WSomewhat preposterous story given credence by superior acting and direction. Remade with more of a comedic twist as Mrs. Winterbourne but this one is much better in every department,
User Review - 6/10 by Greg WCommitted performance by Stanwyck redeems Cornell Woolrich weeper/noir--Another mistaken identity story...but a good one!!
User Review - 6/10 by Stella DActually, the Title Is a Lie For Most of the Film What's surprising to me about this movie is not that they later remade it with Rickie Lake in the Barbara Stanwyck role, though I'll admit that's a bit surprising. No, the surprising thing is that the movie got made at all. After all, Barbara Stanwyck has a child out of wedlock in it. I mean, for a movie from 1950, that's shocking. Oh, she gets married at the end, as we all know she's going to from the minute the love interest is introduced. But the fact remains that she is a fornicator, and she only sort of suffers because of it. At least, in the Code sense. We can reasonably expect her to die for her sins in most Code movies, if they're willing to let those sins happen at all. Mostly, they weren't. Barbara Stanwyck seems to have been the go-to source for skirting the very boundaries of what the Code would permit. This is the woman, after all, who played Gypsy Rose Lee in a movie long before Natalie Wood ever did. Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is heavily pregnant. She begs the father of her baby, Steve Morley (Lyle Bettger), for help, and what he gives her is a one-way train ticket to New York. While she's on the train, she meets Hugh (Richard Denning) and Patrice (Phyllis Thaxter) Harkness. They are kind to her, even insisting that she eat with them in the dining car, whether she can afford to pay for her own meal or not. They are going to see his family. Helen and Patrice are in the train bathroom, and Patrice hands Helen her wedding ring to wear while Patrice washes her hands. She tells Helen to slip it on so it won't get lost. And at that improbable moment, there is a train wreck. Naturally. And Patice and Hugh are killed, and Helen is wearing Patrice's wedding ring, and so she is mistaken for the Mrs. Harkness no one has ever seen. The baby is delivered by emergency c-section, and the Harkness family begs the woman they think to be Patrice to come stay with them so they can raise Hugh's son. Helen wants what's best for her son, so she agrees. And slowly, she comes to love the Harkness family--especially Hugh's brother, Bill (John Lund.) However, Helen has a past, and it catches up. Graham says the two versions of this movie are very similar, but I couldn't say, having never seen the remake. He says this version is more melodramatic, but to be perfectly honest, this is a ludicrous situation. Oh, the movie goes out of its way to make it less ridiculous. Bill Harkness married the real Patrice in Paris, which is why his family had not yet met her. And in 1950, there's something more of a possibility that there wouldn't be pictures, although it's still a little unbelievable that there isn't so much as a wedding snapshot. However, in order for Helen to pull off her deception, she has to count on never seeing anyone who had ever met the real Patrice Harkness. She had better hope that Patrice was an orphan--raised in an orphanage. After all, just one visit from even a cousin would be enough to bring down the charade, since Helen only has as much information as she was able to glean in an hour or so. The Harknesses are willing to forgive much, but there's only so much possible. Of course, the movie goes out of its way to establish that Helen was Not a Gold Digger. She doesn't want any of the Harkness money for herself. Her whole reason for going along with the mistake is to ensure that her son will have a name and that he will not want for anything when he gets older. When her "father-in-law" (Henry O'Neill) tells her that he is changing his will so that she will get three-quarters of his estate after "Duchess" (Jane Cowl) is cared for, she freaks right out. Helen is not in this for the money. Even if she had not be unconscious for a considerable length of time after the crash, she never would have claimed to be Patrice Harkness on her own. It was just that, by the time she was aware of what was going on, everyone thought that was who she was. It was the names engraved on the wedding band, you see. And Patrice's ill-fated statement that she didn't believe in bad luck. Which is possibly the silliest moment in the entire movie, but there you are. As I write this, a friend's baby is in an incubator. I have no doubt that everything will be fine, but the fact remains. Women are willing to do a lot to protect their babies. It also means that I was a little more struck than I think many people would be by the fact that Helen was not allowed to touch her son for much of her hospital stay, that they were afraid that it would be bad for mother and child. I find it a little alarming that any hospital would really seriously consider letting a mother not touch her child for a week and tell her that, if she was allowed to, she would be lucky. Helen's son (whose name I don't remember, because it doesn't matter) is being raised in a loving extended family, even if it isn't quite his own. Their servant, Josie (Esther Dale), is as much a member of the family as a housekeeper, pestering the elder Mrs. Harkness about her health and getting snippy if she doesn't think everything is going just right. But there is still, to me at least, a tiny worm of concern about how that missed contact with his mother will influence that boy's life further down the road.

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