Tad Pole . . . if American Women ever gain access to a Birth Control Pill with this War-on-Promiscuity feature from the Pre-Pill 1940s Period, MY REPUTATION. Self-centered Chicago-area widow "Jessica" is so Hot-to-Trot here that she's willing to abandon her two young teen sons as prey for any passing Tom, Dick, or John Wayne Gacy in order to enjoy a Brief New York City Sexcapade with the first playboy to ski down her mounds. Worse yet, strumpet Jessica is willing to risk this New York Sex Lark even WITHOUT the Pill! Any contemporary viewer of MY REPUTATION should have been able to read the Writing on the Bathroom Stall should the USA's Loose Jessicas have a Pill upon which to rely: Half of all marriages ending in divorce, half of all kids born illegitimately in a fatherless state, and half of all future U.S. Presidents running through multiple First, Second, or even Third Ladies in their desperate search for a wench who can keep it zipped. MY REPUTATION constitutes Warner Bros.' last-ditch warning to American Womenfolk to police THEMSELVES, before Her hard-pressed men are forced to impose some form of Sharia Law or HANDMAID'S TALE.

enoemos51 this movie could have been a lot better with an attractive man in the George Brent part.he is one of the most dull and unattractive actors from that time period... (yes-and even when he was much younger) i'm still amazed that he came out of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland....his career has always perplexed me--he is just not appealing in any way at all.....and i don't like the self-confidant way he manhandled Barbara Stanwyck at the cabin--only someone really studly should ever be that self-confidant and even then....it was as nauseating as the "old friend" who forcibly kissed her in his car earlier in the film..

moonspinner55 Widowed socialite in her early 30s, expected by her two boys, her mother, and her friends to grieve her husband's death for a lengthy period of time, instead meets and falls in love with a randy, masculine soldier--a man who clearly informs her he's not the marrying kind. Although she isn't quite the motherly type, Barbara Stanwyck gives yet another of her sterling performances in the lead. Whether standing up to the gossipy biddies in her town or trying to explain her definition of love to her sons, Stanwyck never hits a false note. Warner Bros. apparently had little faith in the film's appeal, keeping it on the shelf for two years, and yet it's a solid example of the 'woman's picture', a classy nosegay with one of those beautiful Hollywood finales at the train station. **1/2 from ****

BumpyRide I'm sure that both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford must have passed on this script. This vehicle seems right up Crawford's alley, but to play a widow with two boys in prep school, certainly would not have appealed to her. Stanwyck, while doing a fine job, seems out of place in this Warner production. All the production values are there (including practically every stock player that Warner's had under contract) but I couldn't get passed Joan Crawford's presence that seemed to echo throughout the film. Perhaps this is somewhat dated material for I couldn't see why anyone would raise a well penciled eyebrow for her "dating" a service man, during WWII no less. Of course this material would be revisited with "All That Heaven Allows', with Jane Wyman dating a younger man instead of a service man. A nice time capsule of a movie.