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Ladies in Retirement

The Great Broadway Melodrama Comes to Flaming Life on the Screen!

6.5(35)19411h 31m1

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.

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Released
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Language
English
  • film noir
  • housekeeper
  • gothic

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical9 Sept 1941
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical(Rated A)31 Dec 1941

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Ladies in Retirement was released on 9 September 1941.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    11/2/2013

    8/10

    As queer as mice in a cage. Ladies in Retirement is directed by Charles Vidor and adapted to screenplay by Garrett Ford from the Reginald Denham and Edward Percy play of the same name. It stars Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett and Isobel Elsom. Music is by Ernst Toch and cinematography by George Barnes. A housekeeper takes drastic action when the head of the household insi…

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    CinemaSerf

    3/28/2022

    7/10

    "Leonora Fiske" (Isobel Elsom) is a retired actress, a kindly soul, who lives in a remote cottage with her companion "Ellen" (Ida Lupino) and her maid. When "Ellen" asks if she might bring her sisters down to stay for a few days, they cause chaos to the old lady's normally ordered life and she asks them all to leave. Lupino has other ideas and is soon running the house as "Fiske" has "gone away". Unbeknown to her, th…

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