Main Cast: Eve Arden, William Lundigan, Donald Briggs, Donnie Dunagan
Release Year: 1939
Country: US
Run Time: 63 minutes
Plot
Sigrid Gurie, the Swede from Brooklyn who in 1938 was touted as Sam Goldwyn's answer to Garbo, was taking whatever work she could get in 1939. Forgotten Woman casts Gurie as a woman unjustly sent to prison. Four years go by before the DA unearths new evidence that proves her innocence. But first, the guilty party must be rounded up--and that's no walk in the park, since the miscreant is an influential gangster. Forgotten Woman ran its course, made back its cost, then became the Forgotten Movie. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Review
Much maligned by contemporary commentators, and even a few modern critics, Sigrid Gurie actually does very well in this minor Universal drama, directed with his usual sense of economy and speed by Harold Young. Her Norwegian accent not terribly distracting (it was real in any case; she may have been Brooklyn born but was reared in Oslo), Gurie proves not to be the "Edsel" of the movies that her reputation declares, but a competent dramatic actress fully up to the demands -- slight as they may be -- of her role of a wrongfully jailed woman. A good supporting cast that includes the always amusing Eve Arden, as that Hollywood staple, the wisecracking best friend, helps of course. Miss Gurie, however, was doomed when Samuel Goldwyn's overproduced and mostly ridiculous The Adventures of Marco Polo (1939) landed with a thud in April of 1939. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
