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A Woman's Secret is a 1949 American film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Maureen O'Hara, Gloria Grahame and Melvyn Douglas. Written and produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz, the film was based on the novel Mortgage on Life by Vicki Baum. [2]
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Nicholas Ray
- Mortgage on Life, 1946 novel, by Vicki Baum
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
A Woman's Secret: Directed by Nicholas Ray. With Maureen O'Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Bill Williams. 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.
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But A Woman's Secret, the 1949 film about a has-been singer (Maureen O'Hara) whose life is almost ruined by her ungrateful protegee (Grahame) was the farthest he ever went into pure soap opera. Yet it also offers an intriguing, more mordant version of a subject filmed with more success in All About Eve (1950).
- Nicholas Ray, Doran Cox
- Maureen O'hara
Desk Sergeant. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Fred Aldrich. ... Policeman (uncredited) C. Bakaleinikoff. ... Studio Recording Session Conductor (uncredited) Guy Beach.
A Woman's Secret (1949) is a jealous woman murder melodrama with film noir pretensions, which casually mixes the woman genre with the thriller to create a mood movie.It's a good nod of the hat towards the notion of the Woman's Picture, much beloved of the forties filmmaking frater-hood, who when they were not feminising fatality, had plenty other background tropes to develop into motion pictures.
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A Woman's Secret. A popular singer, Marian Washburn (Maureen O'Hara), suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player ...
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A Woman's Secret is directed by Nicholas Ray and adapted to screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz from the novel "Mortgage on Life" written by Vicki Baum. It stars Maureen O'Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Victor Jory and Jay C. Flippen. Music is by Friedrich Hollaender and cinematography by George E. Diskant.
