Storyline

Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. The next day, it appears that Valerie's former rival Marian Webster is the prime suspect. Or is suave police Captain Danbury just playing cat and mouse with her? Nicely catty dialogue.—Rod Crawford

Plot Keywords

accidental killing, 1940s, stage, discovering a dead body, curtain call, broadway, flashback, suspect, police captain, argument, newspaper columnist, terrace, staircase, piano, theater, restaurant, love, actress, actor, statuette

Short Review

(The)staging is more theatrical than cinematic, appropriate perhaps for a film so steeped in the culture of Broadway but less effective in building tension...

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