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A Woman's Secret

  • 19491949
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
1.8K
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Maureen O'Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Victor Jory, and Bill Williams in A Woman's Secret (1949)
DramaFilm-NoirMystery
Failed singer Marian Washburn confesses she shot her friend, successful singer Susan Caldwell, but her manager Luke Jordan and Detective Fowler doubt her story and cannot establish a reasona... Read allFailed singer Marian Washburn confesses she shot her friend, successful singer Susan Caldwell, but her manager Luke Jordan and Detective Fowler doubt her story and cannot establish a reasonable motive.Failed singer Marian Washburn confesses she shot her friend, successful singer Susan Caldwell, but her manager Luke Jordan and Detective Fowler doubt her story and cannot establish a reasonable motive.
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
1.8K
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    • Nicholas Ray
    • Herman J. Mankiewicz(screen play by)
    • Vicki Baum(from the novel "Mortgage on Life" by)
  • Stars
    • Maureen O'Hara
    • Melvyn Douglas
    • Gloria Grahame
    • Nicholas Ray
    • Herman J. Mankiewicz(screen play by)
    • Vicki Baum(from the novel "Mortgage on Life" by)
  • Stars
    • Maureen O'Hara
    • Melvyn Douglas
    • Gloria Grahame
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 47User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    Maureen O'Hara and Gloria Grahame in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Maureen O'Hara and Melvyn Douglas in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Melvyn Douglas in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, and Oliver Blake in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Melvyn Douglas, Jay C. Flippen, Victor Jory, and Bill Williams in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Melvyn Douglas and Victor Jory in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Maureen O'Hara and Melvyn Douglas in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Gloria Grahame in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Jay C. Flippen and Mary Philips in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Maureen O'Hara and Gloria Grahame in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Maureen O'Hara in A Woman's Secret (1949)
    Maureen O'Hara and Gloria Grahame in A Woman's Secret (1949)

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    Maureen O'Hara
    Maureen O'Hara
    • Marian Washburn
    Melvyn Douglas
    Melvyn Douglas
    • Luke Jordan
    Gloria Grahame
    Gloria Grahame
    • Susan Caldwell
    Bill Williams
    Bill Williams
    • Lee
    Victor Jory
    Victor Jory
    • Brook Matthews
    Mary Philips
    Mary Philips
    • Mrs. Fowler
    Jay C. Flippen
    Jay C. Flippen
    • Fowler
    Robert Warwick
    Robert Warwick
    • Roberts
    Curt Conway
    Curt Conway
    • Doctor
    Ann Shoemaker
    Ann Shoemaker
    • Mrs. Matthews
    Virginia Farmer
    Virginia Farmer
    • Mollie
    Ellen Corby
    Ellen Corby
    • Nurse
    Emory Parnell
    Emory Parnell
    • Desk Sergeant
    Fred Aldrich
    Fred Aldrich
    • Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    C. Bakaleinikoff
    C. Bakaleinikoff
    • Studio Recording Session Conductor
    • (uncredited)
    Guy Beach
    • Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    Conrad Binyon
    • Tommy
    • (uncredited)
    Oliver Blake
    Oliver Blake
    • Mr. Pierson
    • (uncredited)
      • Nicholas Ray
      • Herman J. Mankiewicz(screen play by)
      • Vicki Baum(from the novel "Mortgage on Life" by)
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    • Trivia
      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.
    • Goofs
      During the "incident" at the beginning of the film, the shadow of the boom mike is visible in the reflection of the mirror.
    • Quotes

      Luke Jordan: Where do you come from?

      Susan Caldwell: Azusa. Azusa, California.

      Luke Jordan: Azusa?

      Susan Caldwell: It's kind of a made-up word. Different letters. They put them together - that's how they got the name. Everything from A to Z, USA. A-ZU-SA.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening and closing credits are displayed on a page of sheet music.
    • Connections
      Referenced in You Must Remember This: MGM Stories Part 13: Gloria Grahame (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Estrellita
      (uncredited)

      Written by Manuel M. Ponce

      Sung by Gloria Grahame (dubbed by Kaye Lorraine)

    User reviews47

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    Long, long, long past its sell-by date. It's not even an interesting curiosity
    Compared to what we are presented with today in the cinema, A Woman's Secret and many films of that era are quaint antedeluvian oddities, and it would be easy to poke fun at them. But we should remember that there are a great many films of the time, for whatever reason, have stood the test of time and then some, that tastes change and what might now seem ludicrous was just what movie-goers wanted at the time, and finally that far more versatile technology has allowed our modern directors to put on screen which Nick Ray in 1949 could only have dreamed off. Having said all that, A Woman's Secret was pretty tacky even according to its contemporary standards.

    It is, at the end of the day, nothing more than a pretty mediocre potboiler. The story is daft, it can't make up its mind whether to be a noir or just a lighthearted drama, and the introduction of the police inspector's amateur sleuth wife is nothing short of bizarre. It didn't score for me at all.
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    • Jan 16, 2014

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    • Release date
      • February 7, 1949 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • French
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    • Filming locations
      • Hollywood, California, USA
    • Production company
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    • 1 hour 24 minutes
      • Black and White

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