Madonna of the Seven Moons (1946)

Very intense and interesting story. Also I found it fascinating that they were that advanced in their knowledge of how trauma affects the brain , especially since the medical community *just* diagnosed schizophrenia as dis associative identity disorder in recent years. I didn't expect them to tackle this subject so honestly and that was very refreshing. The scientific approach made the plot line of the movie totally realistic and believable even though it was a melo drama. Each character was well casted and well played, especially the woman in the lead role and her husband and lover. I liked this movie better tan the 10 faces of Eve. Excellent movie would watch again

Part Merle Oberon and part Maria Montez, former convent girl Phyllis Calvet leads two lives: one a great lady, the other a fiery gypsy. Her husband (Peter Glenville) and daughter (Patricia Roc) find clues to try and find her after she disappears to return to the gypsy colony she had previously disappeared from a year before. This second personality has her involved with the equally fiery Stewart Granger who vows revenge when he comes to think she is stepping out on him.Handsome to look at but on occasion a pretentious bore, this isn't a total fiasco, but not one of Gainsborough's true classics. The film actually is more interesting when it shows Calvert's emotions erupting as she transforms into her alter. Dulcie Gray steals every scene she is in as a feisty housekeeper, exclaiming at one point that "If they expect something to eat, the only thing they'll get is a piece of my mind". It should be noted that the cause of Calvert's split personality is pretty daring for its day, showing that since the British censors were quite different than the American Hays code, they could get away with things the major studios in Hollywood couldn't. I must also make a mention that in addition to the excellent art direction, the film's sound quality (particularly with its music) is striking as well.

Ah, those dear dead days beyond naivety ... when no one found it even a smidgen strange that in a film set entirely in Rome and Florence the entire cast spoke as if at the Hunt Ball in Cheltenham, when the make-up department didn't think it necessary to make Phyliis Calvert at least SEEM old enough to be the mother of Patricia Roc rather than her kid sister (there was, in fact, less than a year between them)when it didn't occur to anyone involved that berets are worn by men in France rather than Italy and ... oh well you get the picture. Poor Phyllis Calvert is so out of her depth as a feral knife-wielding, cigarette smoking gypsy-type wanton that the waters are above her head but probably Margaret Lockwood was working that week and Jean Kent was thought only fit for support. Stewart Granger is on hand doing his usual 'it's all about ME, screw the picture' bit and a bemused time is had by all.

I enjoyed this movies more than some of the stuff turning up on our screens today. While some of the acting wasn't brilliant the story line was excellent and the characters were interesting, if not over the top sometimes.Phyllis Calvert played the the lead very well. Extremely well spoken, something you don't find in movies of late.Worth a look...