A Woman's Secret (1949)
A Woman's Secret (1949)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6600 kbps | 4.4Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:24:00 | USA | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 6600 kbps | 4.4Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:24:00 | USA | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
Susan is in the hospital with a bullet near her heart. Marian has told the police that she shot Susan in a rage as Susan was giving up singing. Marian and Luke found Susan when she was a failure. A singer with a limited range, she was a diamond in the rough which Marian and Luke taught how to walk, dress and talk. With the singing lessons, Marian had hoped that she would have the career that Marian would have had if she had not lost her voice. Even though Susan is a scatterbrain girl, Luke does not believe that Marian would have been capable of shooting her. Luke hopes that Detective Fowler will be able to find out the truth and free Marian.
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Bill Williams, Victor Jory, Mary Philips, Jay C. Flippen, Robert Warrick, Curt Conway, Ann Shoemaker, Virginia Farmer, Ellen Corby, Emory Parnell, Fred Aldrich, C. Bakaleinikoff, Guy Beach, Conrad Binyon, Oliver Blake, Raymond Bond, Eddie Borden, Tom Coleman, James Conaty, Bert Davidson, Marcel De la Brosse, George Douglas, Dan Foster, Donna Gibson, John Goldsworthy, Paul Guilfoyle, Alvin Hammer
A Woman's Secret (1949)
A Woman's Secret (1949)
Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz adopts the same prismatic-flashback technique he'd used so well in Citizen Kane for the 1949 filmic soap opera A Woman's Secret. Based on a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum, the film begins with the shooting of nightclub singer Susan Caldwell (Gloria Grahame). Marian Washburn (Maureen O'Hara), who'd coached Susan into the Big Time, confesses to the shooting. Neither Marian's piano-player friend Luke Jordan (Melvyn Douglas) nor police inspector Fowler (Jay C. Flippen) completely buy her story, and it is their probing investigation of the facts that sparks the flashback parade. The film details in sometimes clever, sometimes maudlin fashion the perils of living one's life vicariously through the accomplishments of others. Though filmed before director Nicholas Ray's "official" debut feature They Live by Night, A Woman's Secret was released afterward.
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A Woman's Secret (1949)
