Sans ton amour

Well done soap-opera theatrics where injured soldier, Jeff Chandler, falls for nurse Loretta Young and the two soon wed and have a lovely daughter. Sounds typical with a poor girl marrying a rich, handsome businessman like Jeff.

The big secret is that Loretta was in jail as no one believed her innocence in the participation of a robbery.

She never told Jeff about her former life. Years later, the guy who led her down this path, suddenly shows up one afternoon and kidnaps her with the child. After another robbery, there is a high speed chase and the guy is killed instantly. Loretta and daughter survive the wreck physically-but there are plenty of emotional problems as a result.

An enraged Jeff accuses Ms. Young of being a tramp and immediately files for divorce and gains full custody of the child.

Loretta takes a job as an entertainer for children's parties. Her sister-in-law comes has her come over. Since this is years later, the child does not know that Loretta is her mother. The kid has hangups. (Who wouldn't after all this?) Unexpectedly, Jeff comes home and there are fireworks.

While we see many clichés here, the film is nicely done with Chandler showing that he was a good actor. His emotional outbursts are believable. Young is subdued but as always turns in a competent performance.

The film was originally supposed to be called "Magic Lady," but there is no magic here. Just a tale of tell your entire background to your mate-to-be.

Nothing can be confirmed about the true events regarding Loretta, Clark Gable, and their daughter, Judy. Loretta and Clark had an affair and Loretta went to a lot of trouble to keep anyone from knowing she had an affair or a child conceived from said affair. How it pertains to this film in my learned opinion is interesting. Loretta plays a parent who is forced out of her daughter's life but whose love bridges all adversity and she never stops loving and trying to get back into her daughter's life. It is said that Clark met Judy once and never saw her again. This happened sometime around 1950 when Clark and Loretta made "Key to the City". Was Loretta bothered that Clark saw his daughter once and that's all he wanted? Notably, "Because of You" was released in 1952 and not long after "Key to the City". In this film, Loretta is seen as a parent who could not possibly mirror what Clark was as a father to Judy. Loretta is as prim and proper as she always was during this period. After the first couple of scenes, that open the film, have her as a blond and dating a gangster. She is not exactly playing against type when she's doing that for barely the first 5 minutes. If she meets bad luck after that, the viewer is led to believe it's just her past and happenstance that she is meeting bad luck. She is still seen as proper and "holier than thou". In the past several years, her family has claimed that her affair with Clark was really a date rape and that's how she got pregnant. We(the public) are getting fed that when those events happened nearly a century ago. This is a message film to me and a drama. Not a very good one and made to make Loretta's character appear as the ultimate loving parent. Her co-star's character, played ably by Jeff Chandler, is nothing more than secondary. He probably took the part so he could play the male lead in a romantic saga for the first time. His celluloid career was just beginning but was later cut short by his unfortunate premature death. The drama is flimsy at best and I could write a better screenplay in less than 2 hours. I would guess Loretta, as a big shot long time movie star, got someone to snap up a story like this in no time. And to get it produced and filmed. I think she is indirectly slandering Clark Gable as a father and if Clark saw "Because of You", I'm sure he was aware of this fact. I think he may have had only one meeting with his daughter is really because of mom(Loretta). I hope what happened between that couple and their daughter goes away. We don't need to hear from the estate of that family(Loretta Young's) down the line about the relationship that Clark Gable and Loretta Young had anymore. Loretta saving face for nearly a century after Judy was born has become a tremendous bore. I recommend other films Loretta made that don't have her playing the world's greatest and most loving mother in the history of mankind. Class is dismissed.

The film is nothing but fluff--not even enjoyable fluff. I watched this film because I'm a fan of Loretta Young. It's a bit of a soap-opera and the plot is so unbelievable it's laughable. I found myself laughing at how silly the story was because it didn't make much sense. I found Chandler's character to be a bit annoying. He was always butt-hurt at something Young's character did or didn't do. What a cry baby!

A perfect choice if you love old melodrama ;the subject is not unlike that of "Madame X "which was filmed several times : a good woman,deprived of the custody of her only child, thrown out of her desirable house ,complete with servants..

Loretta Young is not very convincing as a gangster's moll with a blond wig ,but she's the nurse every patient would like to have ;and she's even better as a conjurer's assistant ; the "magic performance" scenes are the best and we do believe the show can brighten up a sullen child,suffering because something is defin itely lacking in her life of luxury; the scene when Young appears to Chandler in the mirror in also a good moment.

Have you ever watched a film where one of the main characters was just too dumb to be believable? Sure, in a comedy such as "Talladega Nights" you expect this...but not in a drama like "Because of You"!

When the story begins, Christine (Loretta Young) is engaged to a sleazy man. When he gets arrested, she is arrested as well...though she is innocent. Regardless, she's sent to prison. While inside, she is trained as a nurse's assistant and upon release, she gets a job at a hospital...all the while on parole. During the course of her duties, she falls in love with a wounded vet who is suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. He is a swell guy but emotionally fragile...and she doesn't tell him about her past. She also agrees to marry him...but does so in Mexico so her parole officer doesn't know.

Years pass and she's been off parole most of this time. Her life is great and her new husband, Steve (Jeff Chandler), is not just a nice guy but is quite rich. However, when her old scummy boyfriend returns, her life is suddenly in chaos....and, once again, Christine says and does the wrong thing. This is a HUGE problem in the picture...as again and again, Christine make terrible choices...and dumb ones at that. So many that I found her character annoying and it detracted from the movie. And, believe it or not, there is STILL a lot more to the film after all this.

While I was not impressed with Young's performance (she was WAY too passive to be believable), Chandler's performance, especially when he learned the truth, was amazingly good. I also though the film went on too long...as the big confrontation scene between the couple occurred too early...and the impact of this seemed muted because of this.