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British Army major Coleman, who has lost his memory, escapes from an insane asylum in the confusion of armistice celebrations. Greer Garson helps him evade the authorities, and they eventually marry, settling down to a peaceful, idyllic English country existence. At Liverpool on business, Coleman is struck by a car, regains his memory, forgets his wife, and returns to resume his life as the squire of Random Hall. Reviving the family fortunes, he gains the title of "Industrial Prince of England." Meanwhile his wife traces him, becomes his private secretary. Coleman marries her again, this time for business reasons. Finally...
Died. Professor Arthur Lloyd James, 58, linguistics authority, wife-killer; by his own hand (hanging) ; in his cell at Broadmoor Insane Asylum, England. Professor of phonetics at London University, longtime linguistics adviser to the British Broadcasting Corp., he was committed to the asylum in 1941 after murdering his concert violinist wife, Elsie Owen. He explained to police: "I could not cope with my work. Rather than expect her to face the bleak future, I decided she should...
Born in Paris in 1868, Jane Avril was the bastard daughter of an Italian nobleman and a morbid demimondaine whose cruelty for a while sent Jane to an asylum. Avril never had a dancing lesson. She and Lautrec probably first met at the Moulin Rouge in 1889. She had a son,* and in the year Lautrec died (1901) took the boy to New York, but returned in a month to her beloved Paris...
...apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone a la cat, husband decides to put Simone in an asylum. In the showdown, the pragmatic psychiatrist kisses Simone, gets the shock of his life...
...story is about a shell-shocked soldier (Mr. Colman) who, as "John Smith," emerges in a daze from an asylum on Armistice Night, 1918. A jolly, warmblooded music-hall actress, Paula (Miss Garson), picks him up in the fog, nurses him to health and the altar. They are happily tucked away in a little cottage, complete with baby, when "Smithy," job-bent, is jolted from his amnesia by a street accident in Liverpool and remembers he is Charles Rainier, son of an aristocratic family. Unaware of cottage, wife and child, he goes home to Random Hall to resume life...