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The Two Mrs. Carrolls is a 1947 film noir made by Warner Brothers. It was directed by Peter Godfrey and produced by Mark Hellinger, with Jack L. Warner as executive producer, from a screenplay by Thomas Job based on the play by Martin Vale. It starred Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith with Nigel Bruce. An artist, Geoffrey Carroll, meets Sally while on a vacation in the country. They develop a romance but Carroll doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Carroll returns home, where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and... MORE

The Two Mrs. Carrolls is a 1947 film noir made by Warner Brothers. It was directed by Peter Godfrey and produced by Mark Hellinger, with Jack L. Warner as executive producer, from a screenplay by Thomas Job based on the play by Martin Vale. It starred Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith with Nigel Bruce. An artist, Geoffrey Carroll, meets Sally while on a vacation in the country. They develop a romance but Carroll doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Carroll returns home, where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He then marries Sally, but after a while he also paints Sally as the angel of death. Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote, "Britisher Peter Godfrey...directs this inert and overwrought crime/melodrama that never gets over being stagy despite the teaming of Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck. There's almost no action, the dialogue is from hunger, and the familiar plot has been better done in many other films...This film never had much of a chance from the beginning. Only Alexis Smith's performance as the scheming other woman was pleasing." The film's title has often been used LESS