A Woman's Face (1941)

NR05/09/1941Drama, Thriller1h 46m
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HOW COULD THIS WOMAN WIN A MAN'S LOVE...HIS KISSES...HIS EMBRACES...?

Overview

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

Top Billed Cast

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    Joan Crawford

    Anna Holm

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    Melvyn Douglas

    Dr. Gustaf Segert

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    Conrad Veidt

    Torsten Barring

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    Osa Massen

    Vera Segert

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    Reginald Owen

    Bernard Dalvik

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    Albert Bassermann

    Consul Magnus Barring

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    Marjorie Main

    Emma Kristiansdotter

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    Donald Meek

    Herman Rundvik

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    Connie Gilchrist

    Christina Dalvik

Joan Crawford ("Anna") is on top form in this adept Cukorian adaptation of Francis de Croisset's play. Set in Sweden, she is a young girl scarred after an accident in her home many years earlier. Feeling herself rejected by society, she turns to petty blackmail with "Barring" (Conrad Veidt) and alights on the cheating wife "Vera" (Isa Massen) of plastic surgeon "Gustaf" (Melvyn Douglas). Whilst amidst her extortion attempts, she is apprehended by the doctor who mistakes her for a burglar. Persuaded not to call the police by his wife, "Gustaf" turns his attention to her disfigurement, and offer...