Name: The Invisible Woman
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Released: 1940-12-27
Duration: 72 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles, Oskar Homolka

1940·Comedy·1h 12m

7.0

★

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland

kidnapping

gangster

professor

sequel

revenge

black and white

scientist

model

invisible person

invisibility

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Cast

Virginia Bruce

Kitty Carroll

John Barrymore

Professor Gibbs

John Howard

Richard Russell

Charles Ruggles

George

Oskar Homolka

Blackie

Edward Brophy

Bill

Donald MacBride

Foghorn

Margaret Hamilton

Mrs. Jackson

Shemp Howard

Frankie

Anne Nagel

Jean

Kathryn Adams

Peggy

Maria Montez

Marie

Crew

A. Edward Sutherland

Director

Gertrude Purcell

Screenplay

Frank Skinner

Original Music Composer

Joe May

Original Story

Curt Siodmak

Original Story

Virgil W. Vogel

Assistant Editor

Popular Reviews

32 reviews

Kian Roberts

An interesting twist on the original story with moronic gangsters and a rather humorous ending. Overall, extremely meh.> "Hereditary!"

Kian

5.0★ · 04/06/26

An interesting twist on the original story with moronic gangsters and a rather humorous ending. Overall, extremely meh.

"Hereditary!"

An interesting twist on the original story with moronic gangsters and a rather humorous ending. Overall, extremely meh.

"Hereditary!"

christy

6.0★ · 02/18/26

I liked John Barrymore but this was just okay. I would've enjoyed more of Virginia Bruce kicking ass. I didn't find the butler to be funny at all. This is much simpler than the previous Invisible Man films.

Hhh

7.0★ · 01/06/26

the cat!!!

David

4.0★ · 10/19/25

Really hard to fuck up but somehow this does