Not as a Stranger

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.

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  Robert Mitchum

  Lucas Marsh
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  Olivia de Havilland

  Kristina Hedvigson / Kristina Marsh
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  Frank Sinatra

  Alfred Boone
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  Gloria Grahame

  Harriet Lang
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  Broderick Crawford

  Dr. Aarons
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  Charles Bickford

  Dr. Dave W. Runkleman
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  Myron McCormick

  Dr. Clem Snider
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  Lon Chaney Jr.

  Job Marsh
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  Jesse White

  Ben Cosgrove
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  Harry Morgan

  Oley