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My Name Is Julia Ross
My Name Is Julia Ross is a 1945 film noir, having also some elements of Gothic fiction, directed by Joseph H. Lewis and based on the novel "The Woman in Red" by Anthony Gilbert. This drama is the first in a series of films noir directed by Lewis and features Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty and George Macready.
Plot.
In London, Julia Ross (Nina Foch) goes to a new employment agency, desperate for work. When Mrs. Sparkes (Anita
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- Anita Sharp-Bolster as Sparkes (as Anita Bolster)
- Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Mackie
Reception.
Reception Critical response.
Film critic Bosley Crowther wrote a mixed review, "The director and scenarist of the Ambassador's new mystery, "My Name Is Julia Ross", deserve a B-plus for effort at least. It is quite evident that they strived earnestly to whip up excitement and suspense, but somehow that electrifying quality which distinguishes good melodrama is lacking in this transcription of the