Alimony
Cast & Crew
Alfred Zeisler
Martha Vickers
John Beal
Hillary Brooke
Laurie Lind
Douglass Dumbrille
Film Details
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Synopsis
While searching for his missing daughter Kate, Paul Klinger goes to New York City and meets with Dan Barker, a songwriter who had a brief association with her. Although it has been a long time since Dan has seen Kate, who now calls herself Kitty Travers, Dan tells Paul what he knows about her life in New York. He begins his story at the time when he was living with his sweetheart, Linda Waring, at Mrs. Nesbitt's rooming house: One morning, Dan is busy writing songs when Kitty arrives at the rooming house looking for work as a model. After settling into the place, Kitty visits her friend, Helen Drake, who tells Kitty how easy it is to make a living posing as a co-respondent in alimony frame-up schemes. When Kitty fails to break into modeling, Helen introduces her to lawyer Burt Crail, her partner in the alimony racket. Crail decides to try out Kitty as one of his co-respondents, and quickly arranges to have her pose for a scandalous picture with a married man. Kitty does well working for Crail, but she eventually gives up the racket and turns her attention to Dan when she learns that Dan is on the brink of success. Dan writes a song for Kitty, with whom he has fallen in love, and later breaks off his engagement to Linda. Kitty, however, leaves Dan when she learns that the show that Dan was to write has been canceled. While Dan resumes his romance with Linda and marries her, the song he wrote for Kitty becomes a bit hit. Jealous of Dan's success, Kitty publicizes the fact that she was the inspiration for the song and insists on singing the song during Dan's two-month nationwide tour. While on the tour, Dan again falls in love with Kitty and leaves Linda. When the royalty money from his song dries up, however, Dan is again rejected by Kitty, and returns to Linda. Kitty later marries millionaire George Griswold as part of Crail's alimony scheme. Employing his usual method of framing unsuspecting husbands, Crail has a photographer take a picture of Griswold in another woman's arms. His scheme soon unravels, however, during the ensuing divorce trial, when it is proved that Griswold, suspecting a frame-up, had sent his double, Curtis P. Carter, to the apartment where the photograph was taken. Dan concludes his story by telling Paul that the divorce hearing resulted in the arrest of Crail, Kitty, Helen and one other accomplice. Moments after Dan finishes telling Paul about his daughter, news arrives that Kitty, now paroled, has been injured in an automobile accident. Paul races to his daughter's bedside, where he tells her that he will take her home and help her begin life anew.
Director
Alfred Zeisler
Cast
Martha Vickers
John Beal
Hillary Brooke
Laurie Lind
Douglass Dumbrille
James Guilfoyle
Marie Blake
Leonid Kinskey
Ralph Graves
William Ruhl
Harry Lauter
Crew
George Bricker
Royal K. Cole
Glenn Cook
Evelyn Cornwall
Archie Dalzell
Constantin J. David
Fred Frederick
L. Wolfe Gilbert
Joseph Gluck
Garry Harris
Julia Heron
Kiva Hoffman
Frank Jenkins
Edward C. Jewell
Anthony Z. Landi
Alexander Laszlo
Alexander Laszlo
Lawrence Lipton
Sherman L. Lowe
Sherman L. Lowe
Gayle Mcgarry
Ray Mercer
Morrison B. Paul
Morris Rosen
Geoffrey Warren
Gilbert Warrenton
Jerry Wright
Mack V. Wright
Film Details
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Notes
According to a February 17, 1949 Hollywood Reporter news item, production was postponed for a month for script revisions after the Breen Office objected to the depiction of divorce and alimony as an embezzlement scheme.
