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I Take This Woman is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Borzage released in USA on 2 february 1940 with Spencer Tracy
I Take This Woman (1940)
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Add to a movie listI Take This Woman is a 1940 American drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr. Based on the short story "A New York Cinderella" by Charles MacArthur, the film is about a young woman who attempted suicide in reaction to a failed love affair. The doctor who marries her attempts to get her to love him by abandoning his clinic services to the poor to become a physician to the rich so he can pay for her expensive lifestyle.
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On the way to New York in a ship, a famous psychiatrist, Dr. Karl Decker (Spencer Tracy), sees a young girl, Georgi (Hedy Lamarr) attempting suicide by jumping from the top because of a failed romance with Phil Mayberry (Kent Taylor). The doctor rescues her and makes her understand how to live by doing real work.Actors
Spencer Tracy
(Karl Decker)
Hedy Lamarr
(Georgi Gragore)
Jack Carson
(Joe)
Verree Teasdale
(Madame Marcesca)
Kent Taylor
(Phil Mayberry)
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