No Man of Her Own

Barbara Stanwyck chews her way through another knotty melodrama in No Man of Her Own, a fraughtly plotted and deliciously implausible story about a desperate woman who gets into trouble after accidentally assuming another woman’s identity. But first, an introduction to the characters. In particular Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck), initially encountered wailing and distressed outside an apartment door. Inside is Steve (Lyle Bettger) and his new woman. Steve has no intention of letting the sobbing Helen in, but he does slip enough money under the door for her to buy a train ticket for a one-way trip out of his life. If we haven’t worked it out already we soon will: Steve is a … Read more