Pluskylang Great Film overall

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

CarolT2 I have never been a Barbara Stanwyck fan, I have tried watching her highest rated films. I caught some of My Reputation last Sunday, and was interested in it. I'm at the end of watching it on TCM On Demand. It's now one of my favorite films.I suggest you watch it if it is available. Today is the last day for my cable system's on demand feature,

jjnxn-1 Barbara Stanwyck's self proclaimed favorite amongst her films this classy soap opera is uniformly well acted and well appointed. It would seem after viewing the film that she was so fond of it because it afforded her the opportunity for many shades of emotion as a recent widow struggling with conflicting feelings. First there are the responsibilities to her young sons who are still recovering from the loss of their father something that is being constantly pointed out by her shrew of a mother, the great Lucile Watson. At first she seems resigned to basically being a professional widow sacrificing any life of her own for her duties and then suddenly George Brent enters the picture and she starts to realize that perhaps there might be a chance for something of her own again, an idea supported by her good friend Eve Arden but then her judgmental mother and false friends make her question her right to happiness. Good stuff movingly enacted.

nomoons11 Any time I see a Stanwyck film I've never seen or am not familiar with I jump on it pretty quickly. I was never on-board with her being a sex symbol or bombshell or really that attractive but one quality she possessed was that she could act....and she could do it well. Stanwyck's husband dies and she's is expected to mourn in black forever and her mother continually tells her so. She's tired of being pushed into a corner and she decides to try things a little bit different. She goes with friends skiing and meets a man she falls head over heels for. After all this her circle of friends start to spread rumors about her and her reputation and how she's not acting like someone who should after the death of her husband.I think the one performance I took away from this was the mother character. She was a seriously nosey busybody who continually inflicted her old school wisdom about staying in mourning for her spouse for life. From her personality you can tell the reason why she did was cause no one would wanna deal with this old harpy. I mean she plays one of these characters who you just wanna smack through the screen. Barbara Stanwyck does her usual job of A grade acting so expect that.I think this film is a time piece of old standards in the way people thought back in the day. Watching, you'll be baffled at why it is or was anyone's business what this lady did 6 months after her husband died. She committed no crime. She just wanted to love again and get out of her previously sheltered life an spread her wings and try something different. Problem is that she has to deal with the "old standards" of the day. I can't imagine sitting back and taking any individuals take on my life and me just accepting or nodding my head in agreement. Thankfully, she gets some courage and bucks the system and the results are an improvement for her life.

wes-connors Well-heeled widow Barbara Stanwyck (as Jessica "Jess" Drummond) is tearful following the death of her husband. The free-spirited Ms. Stanwyck doesn't want to wear black during the day, which infuriates appearances-conscious mother Lucile Watson (as Mary Kimball). Stanwyck becomes scared and lonely at night, especially after sending cheerful sons Scotty Beckett and Bobby Cooper (as Kim and Keith Drummond) off to boarding school. She fills her days by volunteering at the hospital, but, "When the day is over and I go up to that empty room," Stanwyck sobs, "the house is closing down on me!" Fearing a mental breakdown, Stanwyck accepts an invitation to go skiing with wise-cracking pal Eve Arden (as Ginna Abbott).Stanwyck gets lost on the slopes, and is rescued by manly George Brent (as Scott Landis). He fills her needs, which ignites gossip among those who feel Stanwyck cut her mourning period short. Mr. Brent tells Stanwyck he's not the marrying kind, but adores seeing her regularly. Tongues really wag after Stanwyck is spotted entering Mr. Brent's room. Ultimately, the affair causes Christmas vacationing youngsters Beckett and Cooper to run away from home. This part is a dramatic highlight, but the film seems to move both too slow and too fast at other times. A scene establishing the boys' sadness on their father's death, and more about Ms. Watson's character, would have been nice. Stanwyck and Watson are fun to watch.****** My Reputation (1/25/46) Curtis Bernhardt ~ Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Scotty Beckett