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A Woman's Secret (1949)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 ... See full summary » Director:Nicholas Ray |
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Marian Washburn
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Luke Jordan
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Susan Caldwell /
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Bill Williams | ... |
Lee Crenshaw
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Brook Matthews
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Mary Philips | ... |
Mrs. Mary Fowler
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Police Insp. Jim Fowler
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Assistant District Attorney Roberts
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Curt Conway | ... |
Doctor
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Mrs. Matthews, Brook's Mother
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Mollie the Washburn Maid
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Nurse who reads paper to Susan
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Emory Parnell | ... |
Police Lieutenant at Desk
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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. Written by Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
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EnglishRelease Date:
5 March 1949 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Mortgage on Life See more »Company Credits
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[pause]
Police Insp. Jim Fowler: They happen to be true.
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Music by Nacio Herb Brown
Lyrics by Gordon Clifford
Sung by Maureen O'Hara on the phonograph
Also sung by Gloria Grahame (dubbed by Kaye Lorraine)
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Nicholas Ray and Gloria Grahame met while shooting this film. They were married in Las Vegas shortly after completing the film. They chose Las Vegas because Ray loved to gamble and to allow Grahame to get a quickie divorce (after the required six weeks of residency in Nevada) from actor Stanley Clements. The day the divorced was granted, the two married. See more »Quotes
Police Insp. Jim Fowler: I'll admit mister that I've heard stories that make less sense than that.[pause]
Police Insp. Jim Fowler: They happen to be true.
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Soundtracks
"Paradise"Music by Nacio Herb Brown
Lyrics by Gordon Clifford
Sung by Maureen O'Hara on the phonograph
Also sung by Gloria Grahame (dubbed by Kaye Lorraine)
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A Woman's Secret boasts a distinguished pedigree. Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum wrote the novel, adapted for the screen by Herman (Citizen Kane) Mankiewicz, directed by the young Nicholas (In A Lonely Place) Ray and photographed by George Diskant. Its starry cast includes Maureen O'Hara and Gloria Grahame, Melvyn Douglas, Victor Jory, Bill Williams and the estimable character actor Jay C. Flippen. That's a lot of talent to be lavished on what is little more than a diverting piffle – a genteel mystery set in New York show-biz circles. Why, nobody even dies.
O'Hara plays a faded singer and Grahame her wildly successful protegée (Estrellita, or :Little Star'). One night a shot rings out, critically wounding Grahame. O'Hara confesses, claiming that she wouldn't let Grahame abandon the career she had built for her and through which she relived her own dreams. Grumpy musical gadfly Douglas doesn't buy the confession, and most of the movie unfolds through a series of flashbacks told from various points of view. But Citizen Kane it ain't.
Despite side-trips to Paris and Algiers (and a hotel key from Lafitte Parish, Louisiana), A Woman's Secret stays a tepid basin of soap-opera suds. Its most endearing element comes from police inspector Flippen and his amateur-sleuth wife Mary Philips, who steal every scene they're in (not that there's much to steal). Were they Hitchcock's inspiration for Alec McCowan and Vivien Merchant in Frenzy? They were the best thing about that movie, too.