A Woman's Secret

interesting
I purcased the video for the song, "Paradise," that Gloria Graham sings in her audition. This the most erotic rendition I've ever heard of this wonderful ol' tune.

The film is pedestrain, at best. Its premise is inchoherent and is never explained. Addditionallly, there other semi-major coherent lapses.

Nonetheless, it's a pleasure to see Gloria Graham and Murine O'Hara working together.

NICHOLAS RAY, OPUS 2
*** 1949. Directed by Nicholas Ray. A WOMAN'S SECRET's screenplay was an adaptation of Vicki Baum's Mortgage On Life written by Herman J. Mankiewicz. Maureen O'Hara confesses to the police that she's just shot Gloria Grahame but neither his friends neither Police Insp. Jim Fowler believe her. Nicholas Ray's second film is not as good as his first one THEY LIVE BY NIGHT They Live by Night / Side Street (Film Noir Double Feature) but is still enjoyable. The most interesting idea of the film, apart of the flashback building, is the way Maureen O'Hara describes herself as Gloria Grahame's double. She lives through Gloria -Estrellita- Grahame since the day she lost her voice. Unsettling. If you own a multi zone DVD player, you can buy a DVD zone 2 of this film at Amazon.fr.

"A Woman's Secret (1949) ... Maureen O'Hara ... RKO Radio Pictures"
RKO Radio Pictures present "A WOMAN'S SECRET" (1949) (85 mins/B&W) (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Starring Maureen O'Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Bill Williams & Victor Jory, directed by Nicholas Ray and released in March 5, 1949, our story line and film is an early gem from Nicholas Ray, who would go on to greater things, but who shows his abilities here ... told in flashback, it's the story that leads to the death of singer Susan revealed as the ungrateful, selfish and deceitful protége of Marian, who has devoted her life to making Susan's career a success after her own ambitions had been thwarted --- Good cast in a well directed story.

Under Nicholas Ray (Director), Herman J. Mankiewicz (Producer), Vicki Baum (novel Mortgage on Life), Herman J. Mankiewicz (Screenwriter), Nacio Herb Brown (Original Music), Frederick Hollander (Original Score), George E. Diskant (Cinematographer), Sherman Todd (Editor), Clark Burke (Production Design), Carroll Clark (Art...

Click to Editorial Reviews