Young Widow (1946)

Young Widow is a 1946 drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin, starring Jane Russell and Louis Hayward. It focuses on Joan Kenwood, a young journalist who can't get over her husband's death in World War II. Kenwood is reminded in large ways and small of her late husband during every one of her assignments.

With The Outlaw still being withheld from general release, Young Widow represented the first time that most filmgoers ever saw a 25-year-old Jane Russell on the screen.



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Synopsis

Set during WWII, journalist Joan Kenwood (Jane Russell), whose Air Corps photographer husband was killed on an air mission, returns to New York City from England. The managing editor of the newspaper for which she worked, Peter Waring (Kent Taylor), offers Joan work, but she despondently rejects it and instead stays with two aunts on their farm in Virginia. Unable to stop thinking about the death, however, she decides to return to New York.

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