Directed by:
Joseph H. LewisScreenplay:
Muriel Roy BoltonCinematography:
Burnett GuffeyCast:
Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno, Doris Lloyd, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Olaf Hytten, Queenie Leonrad, Evan Thomas, Leyland Hodgson (more)Plots(1)
Cult figure and B-movie auteur Joseph H. Lewis directed this taut exercise in film noir. Julia Ross (Nina Foch), an American receiving medical treatment in London, finds herself short on money and takes a job as secretary for Mrs. Hughes (May Whitty), the matriarch of a large estate. Julie meets Mrs. Hughes' son Ralph (George MacReady), a mysterious gentleman with a facial scar, shortly before eating lunch and falling into a deep sleep. When she awakes, she's in a different home with a high fence, and everyone around her insists that she's Ralph's wife, just home after a stay in a mental institution. My Name Is Julia Ross was one of Lewis' first "prestige" productions; begun as a ten-day B-picture, studio heads were so impressed with the results that they expanded the schedule by eight days to give the picture more polish. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Nina Foch
Netherlands
Best movies:
Prescription: Murder (1968) (TV movie)
Spartacus (1960)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Dame May Whitty
UK
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
Madame Curie (1943)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
George Macready
USA
Best movies:
Paths of Glory (1957)
Detective Story (1951)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Roland Varno
Best movies:
The Blue Angel (1930)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Doris Lloyd
UK
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The Sound of Music (1965)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
To Each His Own (1946)
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Ireland
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Olaf Hytten
UK
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Casablanca (1942)
Queenie Leonrad
UK
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
Mary Poppins (1964)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Evan Thomas
Canada
Best movies:
If I Were King (1938)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Leyland Hodgson
UK
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Charles McNaughton
UK
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
To Each His Own (1946)
Reginald Sheffield
UK
Best movies:
Random Harvest (1942)
To Each His Own (1946)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Leonard Mudie
UK
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Ottola Nesmith
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)