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      A Woman's Secret

      1949 1 hr. 25 min. Drama List
      43% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 36% 100+ Ratings Audience Score 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, Luke Jordan (Melvyn Douglas), helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell (Gloria Grahame), to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member This is an underrated film. First, you have director Nicholas Ray perfecting his craft (only his third feature) with a Herman Mankiewicz script. Then there's Maureen O'Hara and Gloria Grahame in prime form. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member A strange but tedious movie, an inside look at both the entertainment business and policing, but built on/around a flimsy/stupid mystery/premise, and full of unappealing characters (even or especially when designed--transparently--to be appealing). Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member A alternative take on the 'mystery' crime drama, but by no means an exhilarating one with a subdued conclusion. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member This film makes very little sense. The behaviour of the heroine is illogical. A waste of time. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Surprisingly dull and turgid film from the usually reliable Nicholas Ray. Gloria Grahame's off kilter character is the only aspect of the film that seems to have any touch of director Ray. However, this was Ray's first outing as a director, though it was released after "They Live by Night" and "Knock on Any Door", so maybe we can cut him a break. He did go on to make "In a Lonely Place" the following year. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Without Gloria Grahame this would be a routine potboiler but it does have her and she is a saucy scheming delight that lifts the film up several notches. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Variety Staff Variety There's too much unintended mystery about A Woman's Secret for it to be anything but spotty entertainment. Oct 22, 2007 Full Review Geoff Andrew Time Out Entertaining, and less routine than it sounds. Feb 11, 2006 Full Review Dave Kehr Chicago Reader Nicholas Ray directed it, though his touch is apparent only in the handling of the unstable Grahame character; otherwise, it's probably his stodgiest, driest piece of work. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com One of the few really weak films in Nicholas Ray's otherwise brilliant career. Even the acting is not very good, compared to In a Lonely Place, in which Ray's then wife-actress Gloria Grahame also stars. Rated: C Mar 8, 2011 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The tidied up gem of a mess still gives off an awful stink. Rated: B- Mar 28, 2008 Full Review TV Guide It is hard to believe that a film directed by Ray and written by Mankiewicz could be anything less than brilliant. Rated: 2/4 Oct 22, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis 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, Luke Jordan (Melvyn Douglas), helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell (Gloria Grahame), to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
      Director
      Nicholas Ray
      Screenwriter
      Herman J. Mankiewicz
      Production Co
      RKO Pictures
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Oct 18, 2012