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In Name Only is a 1939 romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis, directed by John Cromwell. It was based on the 1935 novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer. The fictional town where it is set, Bridgefield, Connecticut, is based on the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut.
In Name Only: Directed by John Cromwell. With Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn. After a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue.
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- Drama, Romance
- John Cromwell
- 1939-08-18
In Name Only. Drama • 1939 • 1 hr 34 min. English audio. CC. Buy or rent. Cary Grant and Carole Lombard star in the heart-wrenching romantic drama of a young widow, the man she loves selflessly...
With a fictional Connecticut village established by road sign in the opening shot, director John Cromwell introduces Carole Lombard (as "Julie") fishing, Cary Grant (as "Alec") in jodhpurs, the promising meet-cute, though it's no comedy, co-starring Kay Francis, In Name Only, 1939.
- John Cromwell, Dewey Starkey
- Carole Lombard
Wealthy Alec Walker (Cary Grant) finds himself in a depressing and passionless marriage to Maida (Kay Francis), and is shocked to discover that she has heartlessly married him only for the...
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- Carole Lombard
- John Cromwell
- RKO Pictures
IN NAME ONLY is Cary Grant's 34th movie and his third movie with Carole Lombard, the other two being SINNERS IN THE SUN in 1932, and THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK in 1933. This is a dark melodrama, revealing the loveless marriage between Alec Walker (Cary Grant) and Maida Walker (Kay Francis).
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Cary Grant, her leading man in In Name Only, had also gained such a comic reputation with The Awful Truth (1937) and Bringing Up Baby (1938). While Grant and Lombard are superb in their roles, audiences expected to see a winning slapstick comedy, not a melodramatic tearjerker manipulated in the favor of Kay Francis by director John Cromwell.
