After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
Acting
Hepburn's trembling restraint vs. Taylor's coiled menace.
Direction
Minnelli's shadows swallow the Garroway mansion whole.
Cinematography
Staircases that feel like traps, mirrors that lie.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Katharine Hepburn
Ann Hamilton
Robert Taylor
Alan Garroway
Robert Mitchum
Michael Garroway
Edmund Gwenn
Professor Hamilton
Marjorie Main
Lucy
Jayne Meadows
Sylvia Burton
Clinton Sundberg
Mr. Warmsley
Dan Tobin
Joseph Bangs
Kathryn Card
Mrs. Foster
Leigh Whipper
George
Charles Trowbridge
Justice Putnam
James Westerfield
Henry Gilson
Billy McClain
Uncle Ben
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mitchum filmed all his scenes in just five days, creating maximum impact with minimal screen time—a ghost before he's even seen.
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