
A Woman's Secret
by Maureen O'Hara (Marian Washburn),
Gloria Grahame (Susan Caldwell),
Melvyn Douglas (Luke Jordan,Policeman),
Bill Williams (Lee Crenshaw),
Victor Jory (Brook Matthews),
Mary Philips (Mrs. Fowler),
Jay C. Flippen (Inspector Fowler),
Robert Warwick (Roberts),
Curt Conway (Doctor),
Ann Shoemaker (Mrs. Matthews),
Virginia Farmer (Mollie),
Ellen Corby (Nurse),
Emory Parnell (Desk Sergeant),
Dan Foster (Stage Manager),
Alphonse Martell (Waiter),
Eddie Borden (Waiter),
Charles Wagenheim (Piano Player),
Marcelle De LaBrosse (Baker),
Lynn Whitney (Actress),
Rory Mallinson (Benson),
Lee Phelps (Policeman),
Mickey Simpson (Policeman),
Guy Beach (Policeman),
Tom Coleman (Policeman),
Raymond Bond (Dr. Ferris),
Bill Purington (Intern),
Alvin Hammer (Fred),
Bernice Young (Nurse),
Lorelei Vitek (Waitress),
John Goldsworthy (Harold,Harold),
Frederic Nay (Master of Ceremonies),
Forbes Murray (Mr. Emory),
Frank Marlowe (Whitey),
Donna Gibson (Girl),
Evelyn Underwood (Girl),
Ralph Montgomery (Photographer),
John Parrish (Prof. Camelli),
Oliver Blake (Mr. Pierson),
Paul Guilfoyle (Moderator),
Jack Rourke (Announcer),
Norman Nesbitt (Announcer),
Conrad Binyon (Messenger Boy),
Ralph Stein (Mr. Harris),
Robert Malcolm (Bit),
Carroll Clark (Art Director),
Russell A. Cully (Special Effects),
Albert S. D'Agostino (Art Director),
George E. Diskant (Cinematographer),
Herman J. Mankiewicz (Producer,Screenwriter),
Nicholas Ray (Director),
Nicholas Ray (Director),
John Laing (Radio Announcer),
Sherman Todd (Editor),
C. Bakaleinikoff (Studio Recording Session Conductor),
James Conaty (Ship Passenger),
Bert Davidson (Radio Director),
Marcel de la Brosse (French Baker),
Friedrich Hollaender (Composer),
Friedrich Hollaender (Composer),
Vicki Baum (Screenwriter),
Vicki Baum (Screenwriter),
Clem Portman (Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer),
Francis M. Sarver (Sound Effects),
Herman Mankiewicz (Screenwriter),
A. Wolcott (Sound/Sound Designer),
Harley Miller (Set Design)
Format: DVD
ISBN: 883316574065
Publication Date: 08/21/2012
Edition Description: Full Frame
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.
Choose options

A Woman's Secret
Sale price$15.99
New Releases
The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing
Anthony Bourdain
Hardcover
Sale price$40.00
Bonds of Hercules (Deluxe Limited Edition) (B&N Exclusive Edition)
Jasmine Mas
BN Exclusive
Sale price$32.00
















