The Lady in Question

The Lady in Question
Directed by	Charles Vidor
Produced by	B.B. Kahane
Written by	Jan Lustig Lewis Meltzer
Based on	Gribouille 1937 French film by Marcel Achard
Starring	Brian Aherne Rita Hayworth Glenn Ford
Music by	Lucien Moraweck
Cinematography	Lucien Andriot
Edited by	Al Clark
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	August 7, 1940
Running time	80 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

The Lady in Question is a 1940 American comedy drama film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford.^[1] Director William Castle appears in a cameo as "Angry Juror".

Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford also teamed together in Gilda (1946), The Loves of Carmen (1948), Affair in Trinidad (1952) and The Money Trap (1965).

Synopsis

While serving on a Paris jury Andre Morestan (Brian Aherne) persuades his deadlocked peers to vote for the acquittal of Natalie Roguin's (Rita Hayworth), a young woman on trial for the death of a young man she had known. Securing her innocence, Morestan invites her to live and work at his bicycle shop so she can readjust to society. However, he decides to keep her true identity a secret, which soon begins to raise the doubts of his family, especially his son played by a very young Glenn Ford, who soon falls in love with her.

This was the first of five films in which Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth appeared together, most famously in their second film, Gilda, (1946); their off-screen liaisons soon transformed into an enduring, lifelong friendship.^[2]

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

See also

• Gribouille (1937)

References

1. Allmovie.com
2. Glenn Ford: A Life (Wis. 2011) by Peter Ford

External links

• The Lady in Question at the Internet Movie Database
• The Lady in Question at AllMovie
• The Lady in Question at the TCM Movie Database
• The Lady in Question at the American Film Institute Catalog
• The Lady in Question at TV Guide (slightly shortened version of 1987 write-up originally published in The Motion Picture Guide)