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I want to live like a man ... and still be a woman!Plot Keywords:
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Hilda Crane-The 1950s Version of A Bimbo **1/2 moreCast
(Credited cast) | Jean Simmons | ... | Hilda Crane |
 | Guy Madison | ... | Russell Burns |
 | Jean-Pierre Aumont | ... | Prof. Jacques De Lisle |
| Judith Evelyn | ... | Mrs. Stella Crane |
| Evelyn Varden | ... | Mrs. Burns |
| Peggy Knudsen | ... | Nell Bromley |
| Gregg Palmer | ... | Dink Bromley |
| Richard Garrick | ... | Dr. Joe Francis |
| Jim Hayward | ... | Mr. Small |
| Sandee Marriott | ... | Cab Driver |
| Don Shelton | ... | Caterer |
| Helen Mayon | ... | Maid |
| Marie Blake | ... | Clara (as Blossom Rock) |
| Jay Jostyn | ... | Minister |
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Disappointing film starring Jean Simmons as a wayward woman who returns home following her second divorce and is immediately courted by wealthy Guy Madison and Professor Jean Pierre Aumont.
Aumont plays his usual cad like character here. He sees Hilda as merely a sex object with whom he can cavort with at any time in a back alley relationship.
There is an excellent performance by Evelyn Varden as Mrs. Burns, mother to Guy Madison here. A woman who has a supposed heart condition each time her son becomes serious with a woman, Varden gave a truly excellent performance as a common mother, ready to dig up any dirt she can on her prospective daughter-in-law. She is vicious to the hilt and will do anything to stop this marriage including dying on the day of the wedding.
The Hilda Crane character does not develop here. Wearing her mink coat and discussing her 2 failed previous marriages, we really don't know what is making this lady tick even when Madison finds in her a hotel with the professor and she attempts suicide.
The ending is absolutely too sugar coated. The loose ends are not tied up in an ending that Hallmark would stage.