The Two Mrs. Carrolls 1947

     Sally Morton is on holiday in Scotland and she meets struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll.  They begin to like each other but he doesn’t tell Sally that his is already married with a grade school aged daughter.  Sally and Geoffrey return to their own homes when the vacation is over.  Meeting Sally has inspired Geoffrey and he feels a renewed vitality in his painting.  He immediately begins a new painting of his wife.  Unfortunately, two years later his wife passes away and Geoffrey reconnects with Sally.  They marry and his daughter Beatrice comes to live with them.  Sally is a wealthy woman and she likes to entertain.  She invites her friend and former boyfriend Charles “Penny” Pennington for a dinner party.  He brings two wealthy American guests to join the party.  Cecily Latham is beautiful but icy and arrives with her doting mother.  Right after the party, Geoffrey begins to paint Cecily.     

     I didn’t know how this was going to turn out!!  I knew it was a very bad sign that Geoffrey started to paint Cecily.  He has painted Sally but he refuses to let her see the finished portrait?  He also arranges for his daughter Beatrice to begin attending boarding school?  Beatrice is very happy about meeting new friends and going away.  Also, what happened to Beatrice’s mother????  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

99 min, Crime directed by Peter Godrey with Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom, Patrick O’Moore, Ann Carter, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Barry Bernard, Colin Campbell, Peter Godfrey.

Note:  Imdb 6.8 out of 10, 67% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.5* out of 5* with 108 reviews, TCM Leonard Maltin 2.5* out of 4*, average user rating 3.1* out of 5*

Special Note:  Filmed at Warner Brothers Burbank Studios, 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California.  The release date for this film was delayed and there are possibly two reasons.  The film had a strong similarity to the 1944 film Gaslight and many thought Bogart’s performance was awful?   I was surprised to learn that the film did poorly at the box office and generally poor reviews in the US?  Earnings were $2,292,000 domestically and $1,277 foreign.