I Take This Woman (1940) - Video Detective

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Cast & Crew

I Take This Woman is a 1940 American drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr. Based on the short story "A New York Cinderella" by Charles MacArthur, the film is about a young woman who attempted suicide in reaction to a failed love affair. The doctor who marries her attempts to get her to love him by abandoning his clinic services to the poor to become a physician to the rich so he can pay for her expensive lifestyle.

Original Release

02/02/1940

Cast

Name	Character

Spencer Tracy	Karl Decker
Kent Taylor	Phil Mayberry
Hedy Lamarr	Georgi Gragore
Paul Cavanagh	Bill Rodgers
Verree Teasdale	Madame Marcesca
Mona Barrie	Sandra Mayberry
Laraine Day	Linda Rodgers
Louis Calhern	Dr. Duveen
Marjorie Main	Cashier (scenes deleted)
Jack Carson	Joe

(see additional cast & crew)

Directors

W.S. Van Dyke, Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg

Writers

Charles MacArthur, James Kevin McGuinness, Ben Hecht

Cast

Name	Character

Spencer Tracy	Karl Decker
Kent Taylor	Phil Mayberry
Hedy Lamarr	Georgi Gragore
Paul Cavanagh	Bill Rodgers
Verree Teasdale	Madame Marcesca
Mona Barrie	Sandra Mayberry
Laraine Day	Linda Rodgers
Louis Calhern	Dr. Duveen
Marjorie Main	Cashier (scenes deleted)
Jack Carson	Joe
Frances Drake	Lola Estermont
George E. Stone	Sid
Willie Best	Sambo
Don Castle	Ted Fenton
Dalies Frantz	Joe Barnes
Reed Hadley	Bob Hampton
Lowden Adams	Phil's Butler
King Baggot	Man in Subway
Polly Bailey	Mrs. Glutz - Woman in Clinic
Arthur Belasco	Minor Role