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No Man of Her Own is a 1950 American film noir drama directed by Mitchell Leisen and featuring Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl and Lyle Bettger. Made and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the production is the second film Stanwyck made with director Mitchell Leisen.
No Man of Her Own: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter. A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.
An unwed mother (Barbara Stanwyck) assumes a dead bride's identity and moves in with her rich in-laws.
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Helen Ferguson, pregnant, penniless and dumped by her boyfriend Steve Morley, takes the identity of the pregnant Patrice Harkness, when she and her husband are killed in a train crash.
Eight-months-pregnant Helen Ferguson is dumped by her boyfriend, the crook Stephen 'Steve' Morley, who gives her a train ticket to New York to stay with his new girlfriend. On the train, Helen befriends the also-pregnant Patrice Harkness and her husband Hugh Harkness, who are returning from Europe.
Stanwyck plays the unmarried and pregnant Helen Ferguson who, after being discarded by her slimy boyfriend Steve Morley (Lyle Bettger), boards a train and befriends another pregnant woman who’s traveling home with her new husband to meet his family for the first time.
No Man of Her Own is a women’s film as well as a film noir. When Steve comes to Caulfield and jeopardizes the security of the Harkness’s, the present and future matriarchs each take action to save their family.
