''I, Jane Doe'' is a 1948 American

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directed by John H. Auer and written by Lawrence Kimble and Decla Dunning. The film stars

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, John Carroll,

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Gene Lockhart Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957)"Gene Lockhart"
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and

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Plot

When the police find a French woman next to the bullet-ridden body of Stephen Curtis, she refuses to give her identity. She is arrested and goes on trial as "Jane Doe", and is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Stephen's widow Eve Curtis suddenly turns up. A former attorney, Eve decides to return to her practice and personally represent her husband's condemned killer. It is discovered that Jane Doe is several months pregnant. Her execution is delayed until after the baby is born, at which point a persuasive Eve gains her a new hearing in court. Jane Doe tells her story. Her real name is Annette Dubois. She was in France on the day the American pilot Stephen Curtis's plane was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. After hiding him at great risk and faking Stephen's death to fool German soldiers searching for him, they become lovers. Stephen leaves but promises to come back to her. The war ends but he never returns. Ashamed to tell her family what happened, Annette travels to New York City where he lived, finds Stephen and intends to shoot him. Someone else is there with a gun ahead of her, however: Eve, equally angry with Stephen for making her quit work as a lawyer and wait for him to return, then betraying her.

Cast

as Eve Meredith Curtis * John Carroll as Stephen Curtis *

as Annette Dubois / Jane Doe *

Gene Lockhart Edwin Eugene Lockhart (July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957)"Gene Lockhart"
''The ...

as Arnold Matson *

as William Hilton *

as Phyllis Tuttle * Adele Mara as Marga-Jane Hastings *Roger Dann as Julian Aubert * James Bell as Judge Bertrand *

Leon Belasco Leon Belasco (born Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky; 11 October 1902 – 1 June 1988) was a Russian-American actor and musician who had a career in film and television that spanned from the 1920s to the 1980s, appearing in more than 100 films. ...

as Duroc *

John Litel John Beach Litel (December 30, 1892 – February 3, 1972) was an American film and television actor. Early life Litel was born in Albany, Wisconsin. During World War I, he enlisted in the French Army and was twice decorated for bravery. B ...

as Horton *Eric Feldary as Reporter *

Francis Pierlot Francis Pierlot (July 15, 1875 – May 11, 1955) was a stage and film actor with over 90 film credits between 1914 and 1953. The Massachusetts-born actor's first film credit was in 1914, but he did not begin appearing in films full-time until ...

as Father Martin *Marta Mitrovich as Marie *John Albright as Reporter

References

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* 1948 films 1940s English-language films American war drama films 1940s war drama films Republic Pictures films Films directed by John H. Auer Films scored by Heinz Roemheld American black-and-white films 1948 drama films 1940s American films English-language war drama films {{war-drama-film-stub