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No Man of Her Own is a 1950 American film noir drama directed by Mitchell Leisen and featuring Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl and Lyle Bettger. Made and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the production is the second film Stanwyck made with director Mitchell Leisen.
No Man of Her Own: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter. A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.
No Man of Her Own is a film noir although it does not have the bleak conclusion of I Married a Dead Man. The difference in their endings derives from the mutually exclusive ways noir and melodrama deal with Helen’s social origins and opportunities.
Mar 13, 2012 · Brief Synopsis. Read More. Helen Ferguson, pregnant, penniless and dumped by her boyfriend Steve Morley, takes the identity of the pregnant Patrice Harkness, when she and her husband are killed in a train crash.
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Mar 27, 2012 · Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck assumes another woman's identity after surviving a train accident in this haunting drama based on a Cornell Woolrich (under the pseudonym, William Irish) novel, I MARRIED A DEAD MAN.
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No Man of Her Own. Rent No Man of Her Own on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. An unwed mother (Barbara Stanwyck)...
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Based on I Married a Dead Man, a novel by noir literary hero Cornell Woolrich (published under his William Irish pseudonym), Mitchell Leisen’s No Man of Her Own is not only one of noir’s more underappreciated films but it also features one of Barbara Stanwyck’s most underappreciated performances.
Eight months pregnant, penniless Helen Ferguson is on a train from New York City to her hometown of San Francisco, having been shunned by her former lover/the baby's father, Stephen Morley, whose parting gift to her was this one-way economy train ticket arguably to get her out of his life for good.
Callously jilted by the man who has made her pregnant, Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) survives a train crash and is mistaken for another woman, Patrice Harkness (Thaxter), who was killed in the crash. The woman, who she had befriended on the train, was...
Director Mitchell Leisen constructs a touching portrait of a loving American home in “No Man of Her Own,” before shattering it to pieces with bullets forged from spite and vengeance.
