Undercurrent (1946) on Netflix
Passed19461h 56mDramaFilm-NoirThriller
Ann Hamilton, a chemist's daughter, weds industrialist Alan Garroway after a quick courtship. He makes her a society wife, but grows angry whenever she asks about Michael, his long-lost brother.
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Plot summary
Alan Garroway, a wealthy businessman, comes to visit Ann Hamilton's father, a scientist, and Ann and Alan fall in love and marry soon afterward. Ann is from a middle-class family and knows almost nothing about her husband's past or his relatives. He remakes her as an elegant society wife. In the days after the wedding she meets his high society friends, among them a woman Alan once had a relationship with. Mrs. Foster, Alan's neighbor, mentions his brother Michael. When Ann asks about him, Alan says the brothers became estranged and lost contact. He becomes enraged whenever she brings Michael up.
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- Monya Andreas Saleswoman (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Undercurrent (1946)
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid David O. Selznick $25,000 and RKO $75,000 to borrow Robert Mitchum, who was shooting two other films at the same time, Desire Me and The Locket, prompting Vincente Minnelli to joke about how Mitchum kept his sleepy-eyed look.
- Katharine Hepburn did not hide her low opinion of Robert Mitchum and was unhappy that Vincente Minnelli was directing, which made Minnelli nervous; the two became good friends, annoying Robert Taylor, who feared the film would become a Hepburn showcase.
