The Lady in Question

The Lady in Question is a 1940 American comedy drama film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. It is a remake of the 1937 French film Gribouille.

This was the first of five films in which Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth appeared together, most famously in their second film, Gilda (1946). They also teamed together in The Loves of Carmen (1948), Affair in Trinidad (1952) and The Money Trap (1965). Their off-screen liaisons were soon transformed into an enduring, lifelong friendship.

Plot
While serving on a Paris jury Andre Morestan (Brian Aherne) persuades his deadlocked peers to vote for the acquittal of Natalie Roguin (Rita Hayworth), a young woman on trial for the death of a young man she had been seeing. Securing her acquittal, Morestan invites her to live and work at his bicycle and music shop when no one else will give her a job. However, he decides to keep her true identity a secret, which soon begins to raise doubts within his family. His son (Glenn Ford) soon falls in love with her, even though he knows who she is.

Eventually, Andre is persuaded by a fellow former juror that she was in fact guilty. He goes to the authorities, but learns from them that new evidence has turned up that completely exonerates her.

Cast
 Brian Aherne as Andre Morestan
 Rita Hayworth as Natalie Roguin
 Glenn Ford as Pierre Morestan
 Irene Rich as Michele Morestan
 Evelyn Keyes as Francois Morestan
 George Coulouris as Defense attorney
 Edward Norris as Robert LaCoste
 Curt Bois as Henri Lurette
 Frank Reicher as President
 Sumner Getchell as Fat Boy
 Nicholas Bela as Nicholas Farkas

Unbilled

Dorothy Burgess……Antoinette
Hamilton MacFadden……First guard
Leon Belasco……Barber
Julius Tannen……Judge
Philip Van Zandt……Court clerk
Jack Rice……Newly married juror

Harrison Greene……Jury foreman
William Castle……Angry juror
Carlton Griffin……Juror
Ronald Alexander……Juror
Ted Lorch……Juror
Louis Adlon……Clerk

George Davis……Customer
Jack Raymond……Expressman
Vernon Dent……Gendarme
Gino Corrado……Delivery man waiting for trunks
Eddie Laughton
Fern Emmett

References

External links
 
 
 
 
 The Lady in Question at TV Guide (slightly shortened version of 1987 write-up originally published in The Motion Picture Guide)

Category:1940s comedy-drama films
Category:American films
Category:American comedy-drama films
Category:American remakes of French films
Category:Columbia Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Charles Vidor
Category:Films set in France
Category:Films set in Paris
Category:Juries in fiction
Category:American black-and-white films