Alimony (1949)

• Director
  • Alfred Zeisler
• Writers
  • George Bricker(story)
  • Royal K. Cole(screenplay)
  • Lawrence Lipton(story)
• Stars
  • Martha Vickers
  • John Beal
  • Hillary Brooke

  One thing you can say about Alimony: It tackled a subject that virtually everyone in Hollywood was intimately familiar with. Martha Vickers plays a ruthless young woman who has hit upon a clever (if not original) method of fattening her bank account. She seeks out relationships with wealthy married men, gets them to leave their wives to marry her, then cooks up "alienation of affection" and "adultery" cases against them. As a result, she invariably leaves the divorce court with a huge alimony settlement. Eventually she graduates from breaking hearts to breaking laws, and is thrown in the calaboose for her troubles.