L'autre

Original title: In Name Only

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Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis in L'autre (1939)

After a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue.After a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue.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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7.0/10

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Awards
- 2 wins total

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Cary Grant

Alec Walker

Carole Lombard

Julie Eden

Kay Francis

Maida Walker

Charles Coburn

Mr. Walker

Helen Vinson

Suzanne Duross

Katharine Alexander

Laura

Jonathan Hale

Dr. Gateson

Nella Walker

Mrs. Walker

Alan Baxter

Charley

Maurice Moscovitch

Dr. Muller
(as Maurice Moscovich)

Peggy Ann Garner

Ellen

Spencer Charters

Gardener

James Adamson

Black Waiter on Train
(uncredited)

Arthur Aylesworth

Farmer on Truck
(uncredited)

James Carlisle

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Jack Chapin

Bellhop #1
(uncredited)

Charles Coleman

Archie Duross
(uncredited)

Oliver Cross

Party Guest
(uncredited)

Director
- John Cromwell
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Trivia
This movie was intended to be a reunion of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, but following the failure of L'impossible Monsieur Bébé (1938) at the box office from the previous year, Hepburn left RKO after being deemed box office poison. Carole Lombard subsequently was brought in as her replacement.

Goofs
When Alec checks into a hotel near the end, he opens a room with the key to #1522. Then the next morning when the hotel staff find him still in the room, they enter room #1524.

Quotes
Alec Walker: [after being asked who was on the phone] I haven't the remotest notion. She calls me up every now and then and we talk. I call her my telephone dream girl. It's practically weird.

Alternate versions
Also shown in a computer colorized version.

Connections
Featured in Kisses (1991)

Soundtracks
Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful)
(uncredited)
Music attributed to John Reading (17th century)
Words translated from the Latin by Frederick Oakeley (1841)
Played as background music on Christmas Eve

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7/10

thoroughly absorbing

The presence of Grant and Lombard drew me to this one on American Movie Classics, though I thought the script might a bit of a handkerchief-wringer. To my surprise the story was thoroughly absorbing and involving, as well as being a great study of the manners and mores of the era. And of course, Cary Grant and Carole Lombard carry the whole thing through with their wonderful performances. Well worth a see.