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Man I Married, The

(1940) - 77 min - NR

An American woman married to a German returns to Germany in 1940 with her husband and son in order to sell the family business. She is asked by a Jewish man to get money to his relative in a concentration camp. That and her husband's seeming affair with an old girlfriend complicate the trip substantially in Germany at the beginning of World War II
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Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Otto Kruger, Anna Sten
Genre
Drama

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This film was made in 1940 and is one of the earliest of the Hollywood productions to be openly critical of the Nazis and Hitler. It stars Joan Bennett, as Carol, and Francis Lederer as her husband. Great fashion as Joan is a fashion editor in New York and wears gorgeous dresses, suits and hats. She has one nightgown that looks like its made of feathers! She is married to a German, Eric, who has lived in New York for 15 years and they have one son, 7 years old. At the beginning of the film she is taking a three month leave of absence to go back to Germany with Eric to sell his family's business. A doctor friend comes to their apartment and asks them to take some money to his brother who is being held at Dachau. He says the only way to get out is to bribe the guards. So, good-hearted Carol agrees. She appears mostly to be unaware of anything except herself during most of the movie. In Germany and an old sweetheart of Eric's seems to be ever-present. Next thing you know, Eric has told her about the money they are taking to Dachau and she warns him not to do it. Carol has words with her that it's not her business and something about "everything" being the business of the new German state comes up. All of a sudden Carol realizes that Eric has fallen in love with this woman. Carol decides to go back to New York even though Eric wants to stay and try and get more money for the family business. Carol meets an American newspaperman who smartens her up on what is really going on. Then Eric refuses to allow the son to go back to New York because he is the future of the new Germany. But, then Eric's kindly old father steps in. He announces to Eric, in front of the Nazi-party-member girlfriend, that Eric's hopes of rising in the party might not happen because Eric's mother was a Jewess. The Girl friend storms out, Eric sits with his head in his hands and Carol and the son board a train with the newspaperman saying he'll see them in New York once the war is over. In Black and White

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