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The Imperfect Lady (Paramount) is the spirited daughter (Teresa Wright) of a late-Victorian shopkeeper (Reginald Owen). Touring with a dancing troupe against papa's wishes, she meets and falls in love with Ray Milland, who tries to appeal to the audience going & coming: he is standing for Parliament as a Liberal, and he is the brother of a lord (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After the young people are married, it develops that Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi, she--and her husband--will be forever compromised. She and the audience know that it was a perfectly innocent night she spent with the musician--but will the British voters believe it? These faintly lubricous difficulties are ultimately straightened out in a court trial.

The film is prettily produced and directed. Teresa Wright does delicate things with her eyes a little too often and too mechanically, as if she knew better than to put her heart into this kind of dated nonsense. She is quite right.

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