Talk About Jacqueline


Talk About Jacqueline is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Harold French and Paul L. Stein and starring Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann and Roland Culver. A woman tries to conceal her questionable past from her new husband. It was based on a 1926 novel by Katrin Holland which had previously been made into a 1937 German film Talking About Jacqueline.

Plot

Two sisters, Jacqueline and June, are very close and stand by each other, even though their stories separate them. The older sister, Jacqueline, has a sexually liberal backstory, and the younger is quite unspoiled by life. Jacqueline travels to the French Riviera for a change of scenery and to look for new adventures and search for an eligible bachelor who has no prior knowledge about her promiscuous past. She finds a suitable man, Doctor Michael Thomas, and they get married. Eventually, Jacqueline is haunted by her past, when her picture turns up in a tabloid newspaper, and her husband catches a glimpse of his new bride's flamboyant previous life. Jacqueline's sister June decides to help out her older sister to save her marriage from falling apart. She tells Michael that she is the one who has fooled around in the recent past. However, this information then gives her problems, when it finds its way to her own romantic interests, and threatens her own love life. Eventually, Jacqueline confesses her past to her husband and the other involved parties, rescuing her sister's reputation.

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