Product Description

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/23/2007 Run time: 94 minutes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22840 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2007-10-30
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 94 minutes

Customer Reviews

Another Outstandng Performance by Barbara Stanwyck!!
"My Reputation" is another one of those treasures that are not well known. The story line was very good and the acting was great too! Plus it was a Christmas movie--so how can you go wrong! Some of the topics covered were very serious--false accusations, an overbearing mother, empty nest syndrome and making the correct choices that are unselfish and not just for the thrill of today but mindful of future consequences of our actions. Barbara Stanwyck did it again--she can make you cry because she is so believable in her parts. Another one of her tear-jerkers is "Stella Dallas" which also deals with a mother making unselfish choices for the benefit of her child. Although "My Reputation" is a serious movie, and might not hold everyone's attention, there is nothing inapproriate for family viewing. (Don't be misled by her sultry pose on the cover--she plays a classy character.)

My Reputation - An Interesting Study of 1940's Attitudes.
Any film graced by the presence of Hollywood great Barbara Stanwyck is worth a look, and although My Reputation is a study of the more strait jacketed morals of the forties, the fine performance of Barbara Stanwyck, stops this movie just short of becoming an over emotional, pius mess.
Stanwyck plays the role of a recently widowed woman with two pre-teen sons
both away at school. Her mother - played by the screens most dominant matriarch, the laudable Lucille Watson - is horrified when her daughter refuses to don the black garb of mourning, as she herself has worn continually for many years since the passing of her husband.
Stanwyck is restless, doesn't believe her life at thirty is over, and accepts an invitation from her friend (Eve Arden) to join her and her husband ski-ing.
It is here she meets the always pleasant George Brent - who made a career out of playing what were essentially support roles to the great women stars of the thirties and forties. He made 12 movies with Bette Davis, who adored him, plus others with Myrna Loy, Greta Garbo, Jean Arthur, Claudette Colbert,Anne Sheridan, and a host of others.
Sparks fly when Brent meets Stanwyck and although she makes it plain she
doesn't have casual affairs, she falls for him and begins dating him.
The gossip mongers are horrified, and there is a scene where Stanwyck takes Brent to a party so she can introduce him to her friends and quell their speculation, which has by now reached her sons ears.
The dialogue is snappy and to the point, and Stanwyck, combined with Eve Arden at her sarcastic best, keep the picture from becoming turgid, weighed down with the drama.
Stanwyck was one of the giants of the Golden Age of movies and she proves her worth here as she gives her best eforts yet again.

Well done melodrama
I first found this small treasure on Turner Classic Movies. Deals with a woman (Stanwyck) who is widowed at an early age with two early teen boys in the upper-class Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, IL. She's expected, not only by society but her socialite mother (played to perfection by Lucille Watson), to follow a path of strict decorum that many widows were expected to follow back in those days. However, Stanwyck decides to throw away alot of those old practices and pave the way for herself and stumbles upon a brash, handsome and suitable Army officer (George Brent)for frindship and romance. Needless to say all does not settle well with mother (Watson) or her social community. Thank God best friend Eve Arden is their for support. Good script, solid acting by all