As usual ,George Cukor directs his actresses masterfully;not only Lana Turner -who was rarely as good as here ,except for Sirk's ,Garnett's and Minelli's works)but also Ann Dvorak as a jaded aging model and Margaret Philips as the disabled wife who steals every scene she is in;on the other hand ,Ray Milland does not seem to be very interested in his part (I could mention at least ten movies in which he is much better than here ).
The script is average- for Cukor whose standards were often high-, borrowing from an older movie by John M.Stahl ,the prince of the thirties melodrama :"when tomorrow comes "(1939) later remade by Sirk as the mediocre "Interlude"; the trick of the sick wife was a bit hackneyed even in 1950.This is a rather talky movie,with an interminable final conversation between Turner and Barry Sullivan to make the viewer understand that now the model is in the same situation as Mary,which we already knew.
The script is average- for Cukor whose standards were often high-, borrowing from an older movie by John M.Stahl ,the prince of the thirties melodrama :"when tomorrow comes "(1939) later remade by Sirk as the mediocre "Interlude"; the trick of the sick wife was a bit hackneyed even in 1950.This is a rather talky movie,with an interminable final conversation between Turner and Barry Sullivan to make the viewer understand that now the model is in the same situation as Mary,which we already knew.