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No Man of Her Own is a 1950 film starring Barbara Stanwyck. It was the second she made with...
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No Man of Her Own is a 1950 film starring Barbara Stanwyck. It was the second she made with director Mitchell Leisen. It was based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, I Married a Dead Man.
The film was later remade in 1996 as Mrs. Winterbourne, starring Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake and Brendan Fraser. There is also a 1970 Bollywood remake, Kati Patang, for which Asha Parekh won the Filmfare Best Actress Award.
Helen Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck), an unwed mother on the run, is mistaken for a fellow passenger killed in a train wreck. She gives birth to her child and is accepted by the family of the dead woman's husband (who also was killed in the wreck). With a better life provided for her child, she continues the ruse while falling in love with the dead man's brother (John Lund). Unfortunately her old boyfriend (Lyle Bettger) finds out where she is and blackmails her. Desperate to protect herself and her baby, Helen agrees to meet with the old boyfriend. She brings a gun and shoots him, only to realize he is already dead. Her faux mother-in-law, with a bad heart, tries to claim guilt for the killing in a note while dying, but the murderess is revealed to be another girlfriend of the
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