A Woman's Face

1941

Action / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 82% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 4262 4.3K

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Plot summary

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Director

George Cukor Photo
George Cukor

Top cast

Connie Gilchrist Photo
Connie Gilchrist as Christina Dalvik
Reginald Owen Photo
Reginald Owen as Bernard Dalvik
Henry Daniell Photo
Henry Daniell as Public Prosecutor
Marjorie Main Photo
Marjorie Main as Emma Kristiansdotter
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1 hr 46 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Box134 8 / 10

An excellent movie!

An exciting cast, an excellent story, excellent acting. Joan Crawford is perfect as a malevolent blackmailer who has a change of heart after her facial disfigurement is repaired.The story progresses in an interesting way, with the plot unfolding during a murder trial. Each witness builds the story line, and the script has many unexpected plot twists, making this film anything but predictable.This film is a good example of how skillful film makers create special effects without high-tech gadgetry. It's wonderful that we have films like this to show us what real movie-making is like.
Reviewed by blanche-2 8 / 10

Garbo's loss - Crawford's gain

Thanks to "A Woman's Face," Joan Crawford's slumped career had a badly needed revival, and Greta Garbo's career ended. Garbo had a choice of "A Woman's Face" or "Two-Faced Woman," but she refused to play a character with a deformity. So she made the disastrous "Two-Faced Woman" instead and retired, her face free of scars and her life free of films.Ingrid Bergman made the original movie in Sweden, and in the hands of MGM, it translated quite well with a superb performance from Joan Crawford, perhaps the best of her career, as a scarred, bitter woman who makes her living from blackmail. Her story is told in a series of flashbacks, as each character testifies at the woman's trial.The performances, from MGM's able stable, are very good - Melvyn Douglas as a doctor, Conrad Veidt as an evil man who wants to use Crawford for his own ends (he described himself in this film as "Lucifer in a tuxedo"), Osa Massen, Albert Basserman, Donald Meek, Henry Daniell, George Zucco, and Marjorie Main. Richard Nichols, as the little boy Lars-Erik, sports the same southern accent in Sweden as he did in France in "All This and Heaven, Too." Crawford is excellent, and one wonders if the role of Anna didn't strike a chord with her given her difficult childhood. Under Cukor's direction, she handles the role beautifully.A very good movie, and an exciting sleigh ride at the end that you won't want to miss.
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