Love from a Stranger

April. 18,1937      
Rating:
6.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.

Ann Harding as  Carol Howard
Basil Rathbone as  Gerald Lovell
Bruce Seton as  Ronald Bruce
Jean Cadell as  Aunt Lou
Joan Hickson as  Emmy
Donald Calthrop as  Hobson
Ben Williams as  Ship's Steward (uncredited)

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