My first viewing of Ava Gardner wasn't a bad experience, bu I can't say her acting was particularly phenomenal, compared to someone like Barbara Stanwyck, although she is very attractive.
Barbara is a beautiful socialite in New Orleans who falls helplessly in love with Mark, a ruthless man who cares for himself more than anyone. However, when he suggests that they throw caution to the wind and run away together she arranges to meet him later that night to do so. But her uncle intervenes at the last minutes and she cannot make it. Mark takes this as a sign that she isn't interested and leaves without her. Years later Mark appears again, this time married to a stuck up woman and totally uninterested in Barbara. That is, until he hears that she has inherited a large amount of money from her grandmother... It has elements of 'An Affair to Remember' and 'The Heiress' and I really enjoyed it. Robert Mitchum wasn't much of an actor but certainly has a screen presence, and Melvyn Douglas is rather good as the pervy, money-grabbing cousin.
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