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My Name Is Julia Ross is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joseph H. Lewis released in USA on 27 november 1945 with Nina Foch
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
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Add to a movie listMy Name Is Julia Ross is a 1945 film noir, having also some elements of Gothic fiction, directed by Joseph H. Lewis and based on the novel The Woman in Red by Anthony Gilbert. This drama is the first in a series of films noir directed by Lewis and features Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty and George Macready.
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In London, Julia Ross (Nina Foch) goes to a new employment agency, desperate for work. When Mrs. Sparkes (Anita Sharp-Bolster) learns that she has no near relations, she recommends Julia for a job as a live-in personal secretary to a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes (May Whitty). Mrs. Hughes approves and insists that she move that very night into her house. Two days later, Julia awakes as a prisoner at an isolated seaside estate in Cornwall.Actors
Nina Foch
(Julia Ross)
May Whitty
(Mrs. Hughes)
George Macready
(Ralph Hughes)
Doris Lloyd
(Mrs. Mackie)
Roland Varno
(Dennis Bruce)
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