My Reputation

My Reputation
Directed byCurtis Bernhardt
Screenplay byCatherine Turney
Based onInstruct My Sorrows
1942 novel
by Clare Jaynes
Produced byHenry Blanke
Jack L. Warner (executive producer)
StarringBarbara Stanwyck
George Brent
Eve Arden
Lucile Watson
Scotty Beckett
Bobby Cooper
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited byDavid Weisbart
Music byMax Steiner
Distributed byWarner Brothers
Release date
  • January 25, 1946 (1946-01-25)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,106,000[1]
Box office$3 million (US rentals)[2] or $4,001,000[1]

My Reputation is a 1946 American romantic drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Barbara Stanwyck portrays an upper-class widow whose romance with an army officer causes trouble for her gossiping friends, domineering mother and young sons. Catherine Turney wrote the script, an adaptation of Clare Jaynes' 1942 novel Instruct My Sorrows. Stanwyck's costumes were designed by Edith Head.

  1. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 26 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. ^ "60 Top Grossers of 1946". Variety. 8 January 1947. p. 8.