Watch My Reputation (1946) Free Online

Release Date: 1946

Cast: John Ridgely, Bobby Cooper, Warner Anderson, Eve Arden, Scotty Beckett, Esther Dale, George Brent, Barbara Stanwyck, Lucile Watson, Jerome Cowan

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, War film, Film adaptation

My Reputation is a 1946 wartime love story, directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Barbara Stanwyck portrayed Jessica Drummond, an upper-class 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). This film was an adaptation from Clare Jaynes' 1942 novel Instruct My Sorrows by screenwriter and novelist Catherine Turney. Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) is comforted by the executor of her husband's... MORE

My Reputation is a 1946 wartime love story, directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Barbara Stanwyck portrayed Jessica Drummond, an upper-class 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). This film was an adaptation from Clare Jaynes' 1942 novel Instruct My Sorrows by screenwriter and novelist Catherine Turney. Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) is comforted by the executor of her husband's estate, lawyer Frank Everett (Warner Anderson), who's been a family friend for years and, later, shows an interest in dating "Jess". Her mother (Watson) has worn black for decades, since her husband passed, and would love for her daughter to follow her example. Jess has two young boys: Kim (Scotty Beckett), who is fourteen, and Keith (Bobby Cooper), who's twelve. Both go off to school leaving their newly widowed mother at home alone to deal with her loneliness. She tries to reconnect with the "old gang" that she and her husband socialized with while he was alive, but finds they remind her too LESS