The Two Mrs. Carrolls
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| Directed by | Peter Godfrey |
| Produced by | Executive producer: Jack L. Warner Producer: Mark Hellinger |
| Written by | Screenplay: Thomas Job Story: Martin Vale |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Barbara Stanwyck Alexis Smith Nigel Bruce |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley |
| Editing by | Frederick Richards |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | March 4, 1947 |
| Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United states |
| Language | English |
The Two Mrs. Carrolls is a 1947 film noir made by Warner Brothers. It was directed by Peter Godfrey and produced by Mark Hellinger, with Jack L. Warner as executive producer, from a screenplay by Thomas Job based on the play by Martin Vale. It starred Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith with Nigel Bruce.[1]
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[edit] Plot
An artist, Geoffrey Carroll, meets Sally while on a vacation in the country. They develop a romance but Carroll doesn't tell her he's already married.
Suffering from mental illness, Carroll returns home, where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He then marries Sally, but after a while he also paints Sally as the angel of death.
[edit] Cast
- Humphrey Bogart as Geoffrey Carroll
- Barbara Stanwyck as Sally Morton Carroll
- Alexis Smith as Cecily Latham
- Nigel Bruce as Dr. Tuttle
- Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Latham
- Patrick O'Moore as Charles Pennington
- Ann Carter as Beatrice Carroll
- Anita Sharp-Bolster as Christine
- Barry Bernard as Horace Blagdon
[edit] Critical reception
Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote, "Britisher Peter Godfrey...directs this inert and overwrought crime/melodrama that never gets over being stagy despite the teaming of Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck. There's almost no action, the dialogue is from hunger, and the familiar plot has been better done in many other films...This film never had much of a chance from the beginning. Only Alexis Smith's performance as the scheming other woman was pleasing."[2]
[edit] Cultural references
The film's title has often been used as an archetype in naming episodes of television shows, often having little or nothing in common plotwise with the film, most notably Dallas - "The Two Mrs. Ewings" (1989), Melrose Place - "The Two Mrs. Mancinis" (1994), The Nanny - "The Two Mrs. Sheffields" (1995), Frasier - "The Two Mrs. Cranes" (1996), The Simpsons - "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" (1997), and Weeds - "The Two Mrs. Scottsons" (2007). As well, there are the 1985 Dominick Dunne novel The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and the 1987 television movie of the same name, and the Lifetime Television Movie The Two Mr. Kissels (2008), starring John Stamos.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Two Mrs. Carrolls at the Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Schwartz, dennis. Ozus' World Movie Reviews, film review, October 20, 2006. Last accessed: June 9, 2008.
[edit] External links
- The Two Mrs. Carrolls at the Internet Movie Database
- The Two Mrs. Carrolls at AllRovi
- The Two Mrs. Carrolls at the TCM Movie Database
- Walker, John. (20 February 2011) "The two Mrs Carrolls (1947) film review". artdesigncafe. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
