In Name Only

In Name Only

Infobox Film | name = In Name Only


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director = John Cromwell
producer = George Haight
writer = Bessie Breuer (novel)
Richard Sherman (screenplay)
starring = Cary Grant
Carole Lombard
Kay Francis
music = Roy Webb
cinematography = J. Roy Hunt
editing = William Hamilton
distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
released = August 18 1939
runtime = 94 minutes
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:24512
imdb_id = 0031477

"In Name Only" is a 1939 romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis. It was based on the novel "Memory of Love" by Bessie Breuer.

Plot

Alec Walker (Cary Grant) puts up with a loveless marriage to Maida (Kay Francis) until he meets widow Julie Eden (Carole Lombard). They fall in love and he asks his wife for a divorce. She refuses; she married him solely for his social position and wealth and won't give them up. Though he knows it, she is such a skillful liar, she has his parents (Charles Coburn, Nella Walker) convinced that Julie is the fortune hunter, out to destroy a happy marriage.

Julie breaks up with Alec since she can't see any future with him. Alec becomes so distraught, he gets drunk and falls asleep in a hotel room, leaving a window open in the middle of winter. As a result, he becomes dangerously ill. The doctor tells Alec's father that he would have no trouble recovering if he hadn't lost the will to live. When Alec calls out her name in his delirium, the doctor strongly recommends that she be brought to him.

Mr. Walker reluctantly lets Julie speak to Alec; she lies to him, telling him that Maida will divorce him. Mr. Walker steps out of the room for a moment. Maida arrives, but Julie blocks her from seeing Alec, pleading with her not to shatter his hopes and promising to leave once he recovers. Alec's parents return without Maida hearing them enter. She then coldly tells Julie she gave up the man she really loved in order to marry Alec, and that she won't give him up because she wants his father's much greater wealth. Mrs. Walker gasps, alerting Maida to her blunder. Mr. Walker then advises her to get whatever she can from Alec, because she won't inherit anything from him.

Cast

*Carole Lombard as Julie Eden
*Cary Grant as Alec Walker
*Kay Francis as Maida Walker
*Charles Coburn as Richard Walker
*Helen Vinson as Suzanne Ducross
*Katherine Alexander as Laura Morton
*Jonathan Hale as Dr. Ned Gateson
*Nella Walker as Grace Walker
*Alan Baxter as Charley
*Maurice Moscovitch as Dr. Muller
*Peggy Ann Garner as Ellen Eden, Julie's daughter

External links

*imdb title|id=0031477
*tcmdb title|id=2238


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