Claire (1956)

A doctor (George Montgomery) brings his new bride (Angela Lansbury) to the home he shared with his first wife, who died in a drowning accident. The Siamese cat in the household seems to resent the new wife's presence, perhaps because she knows the bride's dark secret. Directed by Frank Tuttle (THIS GUN FOR HIRE), this was originally shot for the Screen Director's Playhouse, a television anthology series. It's a straightforward mystery with just a touch of the supernatural ably acted by Lansbury and Montgomery. Lansbury might go a tad too far with her hysterics which makes it a bit easier to figure out the ending. It's refreshing that the cat is presented as a source of good as opposed to the movies' usual association of cats with evil. With Lillian Randolph and Jean Willes.