The Lady in Question

The Lady in Question is a 1940 American comedy drama film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford.^[1] Director William Castle appears in a cameo as "Angry Juror".

Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford also teamed together in Gilda (1946), The Loves of Carmen (1948), Affair in Trinidad (1952) and The Money Trap (1965).

Synopsis

While serving on a Paris jury Andre Morestan (Brian Aherne) persuades his deadlocked peers to vote for the acquittal of Natalie Roguin's (Rita Hayworth), a young woman on trial for the death of a young man she had known. Securing her innocence, Morestan invites her to live and work at his bicycle shop so she can readjust to society. However, he decides to keep her true identity a secret, which soon begins to raise the doubts of his family, especially his son played by a very young Glenn Ford, who soon falls in love with her.

This was the first of five films in which Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth appeared together, most famously in their second film, Gilda, (1946); their off-screen liaisons soon transformed into an enduring, lifelong friendship.^[2]

Cast

• Brian Aherne as Andre Morestan
• Rita Hayworth as Natalie Roguin
• Glenn Ford as Pierre Morestan
• Irene Rich as Michele Morestan
• Evelyn Keyes as Francois Morestan
• George Coulouris as Defense attorney
• Edward Norris as Robert LaCoste
• Curt Bois as Henri Lurette
• Frank Reicher as President
• Sumner Getchell as Fat Boy
• Nicholas Bela as Nicholas Farkas

Unbilled

See also

• Gribouille (1937)

References

External links

• The Lady in Question at the Internet Movie Database
• The Lady in Question at AllMovie
• The Lady in Question at the TCM Movie Database
• The Lady in Question at the American Film Institute Catalog
• The Lady in Question at TV Guide (slightly shortened version of 1987 write-up originally published in The Motion Picture Guide)