Singapore Woman
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jean Negulesco
Brenda Marshall
David Bruce
Virginia Field
Jerome Cowan
Rose Hobart
Film Details
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Synopsis
At a dockside bar in Singapore, a group of wealthy people, including David Ritchie and Jim and Alice North are shocked to see Vicki Moore, a former acquaintance, drunk and down on her luck. David remembers when he first met Vicki, the night her father, Sir Stanley Moore, agreed to lend him the money for his rubber project: Vicki returns from an evening out to find Roy Bennett, a former lover, waiting in her room. He threatens to kill her and, as she runs out of the room, kills himself. The next day when the police question the Moores and David, Mrs. Bennett, Roy's wife, accuses Vicki of murder and puts a curse on her. From that time, men associated with Vicki have died or lost everything. This night, after the rest of the party leave the bar, David returns to talk to Vicki. She is rude and demands that he buy her drinks, but when a fight breaks out in the bar, David carries Vicki back to his plantation. The next morning he explains to a hungover Vicki that he owes his success to her father and intends to pay him back by taking care of her. Leaving her to decide for herself if she will stop drinking, David returns to Singapore. There he finds his fiancée, Claire Weston, has arrived two weeks early. He makes an excuse to avoid taking her to the plantation and returns alone because he intends to take Vicki back to Singapore. A heavy storm blows in that night, however, forcing David to remain at the plantation, and he succumbs to his attraction to Vicki. The next morning, David tells Vicki about Claire and she pretends that the previous night meant nothing to her. Angrily, David leaves for town, but a broken bridge forces him to return unexpectedly. A distraught Vicki confesses that although she cares for him, she always lashes out when she is hurt. After the bridge is repaired, David leaves for town, but his business suffers because he cannot decide between Vicki and Claire. Finally, David decides to re-open the Moore copper mines in order to restore Vicki's inheritance. Meanwhile, Claire drives out to the plantation, determined to learn what has happened between her and David, and finds him with Vicki. Vicki talks to Claire and realizes that Claire is more interested in David's position than in him. Because of this, when David asks Vicki to marry him after the mines are opened, she accepts, but then learns that her husband, John Wetherby, whom she believed to be dead, is alive and wants money from her. Vicki suggests that they drive out to the mines to talk to David and on the way they have a serious automobile accident. When David learns that Vicki is married, he leaves the hospital without seeing her. Vicki recovers and begs David's friend North to give David a letter. In return she promises never to see David again. In the letter, she transfers complete ownership of the mines to David. When David learns that Wetherby died that morning, he rushes after Vicki and finds her waiting in the dockside bar for a ship. They leave the bar together and Vicki finally believes that her jinx is broken.
Director
Jean Negulesco
Cast
Brenda Marshall
David Bruce
Virginia Field
Jerome Cowan
Rose Hobart
Heather Angel
Richard Ainley
Dorothy Tree
Bruce Lester
Connie Leon
Douglas Walton
Gilbert Emery
Stanley Logan
Abner Biberman
Eva Puig
Ian Macwolfe
Charles Irwin
Ernie Stanton
Lowden Adams
Jack Richardson
Garrett Craig
George Campeau
Marten Lamont
Lyle Moraine
Harry Cording
Chester Gan
Gloria Franklin
Anthony Warde
Frank Hagney
David Thursby
Leyland Hodgson
Maureen Roden-ryan
Louise Brien
Ann Edmonds
Leonard Mudie
Alexis Smith
Alec Harford
Louis Vincenot
Wedgewood Nowell
Jack Davidson
Crew
Adolph Deutsch
Everett Dodd
Laird Doyle
Leo F. Forbstein
Bryan Foy
Damon Giffard
Bill Kissel
Hugh Macmullan
Ted Mccord
Charles Novi
Robert Presnell
Allen Rivkin
Jack Saper
Francis J. Scheid
Harlan Thompson
Louis P. Vincenot
M. Coates Webster
Perc Westmore
Film Details
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Trivia
Warner Bros. suspended Jeffrey Lynn for refusing to play a part in this film.
Eight actors listed in studio records for roles this film did not appear: Reporters Ernie Stanton, Lowden Adams, Jack Richardson, Garrett Craig and George Campeau; Lyle Moraine (Young Man), Frank Hagney (Foreman) and Wedgwood Nowell.
Notes
The working titles of this film were Singapore and Jinx Woman. According to a Hollywood Reporter news item dated December 10, 1941, Warner Bros. contract player Jeffrey Lynn was suspended by the studio for refusing to accept a part in the film. A February 10, 1941 Hollywood Reporter news item stated that Howard Jackson was assigned to write the score, but his contribution to the completed film has not been confirmed. The film was a remake of the 1936 Warner Bros. film Dangerous, starring Bette Davis and directed by Alfred E. Green (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40; F3: 0938). That film was written by Laird Doyle, who is given story credit for Singapore Woman by SAB.
