Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Philip Dunne
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
Jean Simmons is the whole show. It is based on a play by Samson Raphaelson, and like many films based on a play feels staged at times. It took maybe half the film for me to warm up to Jean Simmons, but by the end I had an emotional involvement so rated this higher than is generally given. The lecherous French professor was entertaining, as was the mother-in-law from hell. A must for Jean Simmons fans, and anyone interested in a depiction of a liberated woman in the otherwise not-so-liberated 1950's.
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