Because of You (film)
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Because of You is a 1952 film starring Loretta Young
, surprising in that it showed a provocative "sexy side" of Ms. Young, quite different than her usual dignified brunette "nice girl" part.
Through the kindness of prison psychiatrist Dr. Breen (Alexander Scourby), Christine turns her life around in prison, becoming a nurse's aide in the infirmary. Upon her release, Christine gets a job at a respectable hospital, where she falls in love with wounded combat pilot Steve Kimberly (Jeff Chandler) an architect from good family. Will she ever be able to reveal her sordid past without sending the emotionally fragile Steve off the deep end? When it's clear that Steve has fallen hard, she faces the dilemma of what and when to tell him. Her probation officer encourages her to tell him the truth. But his wounded psyche makes her decide to keep her past a secret. They marry and again, Ms. Young reveals not only a warm loving spouse but a downright, sexy newly-wed on her honeymoon. Her decision has melodramatic consequences...but not at first. As long as her old boyfriend is locked up in prison, and with her name change, Christine, believes she is safe. She and Steve have a happy marriage, and soon enjoy the announcement of the birth of a child - though Steve shows he isn’t completely well as he is a little reluctant at first to share Christine even with a child. But after the new addition, a lovely daughter, he seems more stable and happy. She devotes herself to her husband and daughter. All is wonderful until her old gangster boyfriend, fresh out of prison, Mike shows up one day, holding her daughter and letting her play with his gun. She pleads with him to release her daughter - she has no money but offers him all she has if he will just leave.
He is willing to let bygones be bygones as long as she drives him down south of the border into Mexico. He promises if she will do that - he will never bother her again. Trapped, she agrees. But nothing turns out as he promises. After another robbery, there is a high speed chase and a crash. Mike is killed instantly. Loretta and daughter survive the wreck physically-but there are plenty of emotional problems as a result.
An enraged Jeff accuses Christine (while still in the hospital recuperating from the wreck) of being a tramp and immediately files for divorce and gains full custody of the child. He refuses to listen to her side of the story - only taking her prison record, the fact that she was with her old gangster boyfriend and fact that she put his daughter in danger.
Crushed, forbidden from seeing her daughter, she looks for any job to fill the hours; Loretta takes a job as an assistant fora magician. Always searching for her daughter, one day she meets up with her sister-in-law, who was Steve's twin, who feels like she got a bad deal so comes to her aid. She has her perform with the clown at a children's party. Since this is years later, the child does not know that Loretta is her mother. The kid has hang-ups. (Who wouldn't after all this?) She falls in love with the Magic Lady who agrees to come to her house for a few days and show her some attention and love. Unexpectedly, Jeff comes home and there are fireworks. One in which she points out that their daughter has serious problems and need the care of a mother. If he has found one fine. She leaves quietly – ready to never see her child again.
But Christine's magic has cast its spell; Jeff looks for her and finds her at her parent's farm, taking a splint off of an animal. Steve is no longer the emotionally fragile patient, he has healed and once he got over his anger at his sister's subterfuge, he searched his soul to realize that he needs her now as a equal partner to share life with and to help his daughter grow up to be a strong young women. The End or should we say the Beginning?
Movie Trivia: The title song, "Because of You
", was Tony Bennett
's first hit recording, reaching #1 in 1951 and becoming one of his many signature songs.
Loretta Young
Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...
, surprising in that it showed a provocative "sexy side" of Ms. Young, quite different than her usual dignified brunette "nice girl" part.
Plot summary
The movie opens with her as a sexy blonde girlfriend, still a little fresh off the farm. Blonde 'doll' Christine Carroll preparing to marry her handsome boyfriend, finds out too late that her fiancé Mike (Alex Nicole) is a gangster and once he slips stolen merchandise into her purse, she becomes his unwitting accessory. The big secret is that though she went to jail, she was innocent of the crime.Through the kindness of prison psychiatrist Dr. Breen (Alexander Scourby), Christine turns her life around in prison, becoming a nurse's aide in the infirmary. Upon her release, Christine gets a job at a respectable hospital, where she falls in love with wounded combat pilot Steve Kimberly (Jeff Chandler) an architect from good family. Will she ever be able to reveal her sordid past without sending the emotionally fragile Steve off the deep end? When it's clear that Steve has fallen hard, she faces the dilemma of what and when to tell him. Her probation officer encourages her to tell him the truth. But his wounded psyche makes her decide to keep her past a secret. They marry and again, Ms. Young reveals not only a warm loving spouse but a downright, sexy newly-wed on her honeymoon. Her decision has melodramatic consequences...but not at first. As long as her old boyfriend is locked up in prison, and with her name change, Christine, believes she is safe. She and Steve have a happy marriage, and soon enjoy the announcement of the birth of a child - though Steve shows he isn’t completely well as he is a little reluctant at first to share Christine even with a child. But after the new addition, a lovely daughter, he seems more stable and happy. She devotes herself to her husband and daughter. All is wonderful until her old gangster boyfriend, fresh out of prison, Mike shows up one day, holding her daughter and letting her play with his gun. She pleads with him to release her daughter - she has no money but offers him all she has if he will just leave.
He is willing to let bygones be bygones as long as she drives him down south of the border into Mexico. He promises if she will do that - he will never bother her again. Trapped, she agrees. But nothing turns out as he promises. After another robbery, there is a high speed chase and a crash. Mike is killed instantly. Loretta and daughter survive the wreck physically-but there are plenty of emotional problems as a result.
An enraged Jeff accuses Christine (while still in the hospital recuperating from the wreck) of being a tramp and immediately files for divorce and gains full custody of the child. He refuses to listen to her side of the story - only taking her prison record, the fact that she was with her old gangster boyfriend and fact that she put his daughter in danger.
Crushed, forbidden from seeing her daughter, she looks for any job to fill the hours; Loretta takes a job as an assistant fora magician. Always searching for her daughter, one day she meets up with her sister-in-law, who was Steve's twin, who feels like she got a bad deal so comes to her aid. She has her perform with the clown at a children's party. Since this is years later, the child does not know that Loretta is her mother. The kid has hang-ups. (Who wouldn't after all this?) She falls in love with the Magic Lady who agrees to come to her house for a few days and show her some attention and love. Unexpectedly, Jeff comes home and there are fireworks. One in which she points out that their daughter has serious problems and need the care of a mother. If he has found one fine. She leaves quietly – ready to never see her child again.
But Christine's magic has cast its spell; Jeff looks for her and finds her at her parent's farm, taking a splint off of an animal. Steve is no longer the emotionally fragile patient, he has healed and once he got over his anger at his sister's subterfuge, he searched his soul to realize that he needs her now as a equal partner to share life with and to help his daughter grow up to be a strong young women. The End or should we say the Beginning?
Movie Trivia: The title song, "Because of You
Because of You (1940 song)
"Because of You" is a popular song. It was written by Arthur Hammerstein and Dudley Wilkinson in 1940. It was used in the 1951 film I Was an American Spy....
", was Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
's first hit recording, reaching #1 in 1951 and becoming one of his many signature songs.