The broad details of the movie are, of course, the same. No Man of Her Own definitely sticks more closely to the original spirit of Woolrich’s novel. This book is firmly described as a drama, appropriate for a story dealing with mistaken identity, blackmail, and murder. Winterbourne and No Man of Her Own are both based on the same book, I Married a Dead Man, written by Cornell Woolrich and published in 1948. What, I thought to myself, is going on here? Could Mrs. Sure enough, the desperate pregnant woman wakes up panicked and decidedly un-pregnant at a hospital, only to find herself misidentified as a dead man’s wife. It was somewhere around the train accident that I started to experience a strange sense of d éjà vu. ![]() ![]() No Man of Her Own caught my eye, a 1950 film starring the ever-moody and beautifully tense Barbara Stanwyck. Years later, I would search Netflix for “noir” and scroll through a list of noir films. ![]() It’s fun to see Ricki Lake and Brendan Fraser in full 90s getup attempting to set up a plot about unwed mothers, literal train wrecks, domestic abuse, and murder into a screwball comedy. ![]() It’s an entertaining, lighthearted, and strange movie. We giggled over the ridiculous plot, the fun overacting of Ricki Lake, the suaveness of Brendan Fraser – all of the things that make Mrs.
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