Indiscreet is a 1958

1958 in film

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 British

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 romantic comedy film

Romantic Comedy

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 directed by Stanley Donen

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 and starring Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...

 and Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...

. An actress falls in love with a man she believes to be married, who is secretly concealing from her the fact that he has no wife.

The film is based on the play Kind Sir by Norman Krasna

Norman Krasna

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. This was Grant's and Bergman's second film together, after Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

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's Notorious (1946). The film was remade for television in 1988

1988 in television

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 starring Robert Wagner

Robert Wagner

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 and Lesley-Anne Down

Lesley-Anne Down

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.

Plot

Anna Kalman is an accomplished London

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-based actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. Through her brother-in-law she meets a handsome economist, Philip Adams, and they fall in love.

However, he is keeping a secret from her. As opposed to being a married man who pretends to be single, Philip is a bachelor

Bachelor

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 who pretends to be married. When she learns of his lie, Anna becomes furious and works out a plan to get even.

Main cast

• Ingrid Bergman
  Ingrid Bergman
  Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
  
   - Anna Kalman
• Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...
  
   - Philip Adams
• Cecil Parker
  Cecil Parker
  Cecil Parker was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969....
  
   - Alfred Munson
• Phyllis Calvert
  Phyllis Calvert
  Phyllis Calvert was an English film, stage and television actress. She was one of the leading stars of the Gainsborough melodramas of the 1940s....
  
   - Margaret Munson
• David Kossoff
  David Kossoff
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   - Carl Banks
• Megs Jenkins
  Megs Jenkins
  Muguette Mary "Megs" Jenkins was an English character actress who appeared in British films and television programmes.-Life and career:...
  
   - Doris Banks

Awards

Indiscreet was nominated for three Golden Globes, two BAFTAs and one Writers Guild of America

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award, but failed to win any of them.