Dishoned Lady finds Hedy Lamarr taking on a role originated by Katherine Cornell in a play on Broadway that ran 127 performances during the Depression era 1930 season. Lamarr plays the high powered art director of a fashion magazine who has quite the active love life. Kept on a string by her are accountant William Lundigan, her boss and jeweler real life husband John Loder and research scientist Dennis O'Keefe whom when she first him, he has no idea about her fame and character.
The film opens with a suicide attempt where psychiatrist Morris Carnovsky is on the scene and she becomes a patient. With the Code in place we never get a frank discussion of her illness which is nymphomania. That in itself hampers the development of the characters who except for Lamarr are quite one dimensional.
Three men are involved with her, one of them dies, one of them did it, and one of them winds up with her. No real suspense in identifying who is who as you watch the film.
Still 84 minutes of Hedy Lamarr is also a pleasure.
The film opens with a suicide attempt where psychiatrist Morris Carnovsky is on the scene and she becomes a patient. With the Code in place we never get a frank discussion of her illness which is nymphomania. That in itself hampers the development of the characters who except for Lamarr are quite one dimensional.
Three men are involved with her, one of them dies, one of them did it, and one of them winds up with her. No real suspense in identifying who is who as you watch the film.
Still 84 minutes of Hedy Lamarr is also a pleasure.