Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 4
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: N/A
Critic Reviews: 2
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 2
liked it
Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 113
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.
Mar 5, 1949 Wide
Jan 16, 1991
All Critics (7) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (4) | DVD (1)
There's too much unintended mystery about A Woman's Secret for it to be anything but spotty entertainment.
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.
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.
The tidied up gem of a mess still gives off an awful stink.
It is hard to believe that a film directed by Ray and written by Mankiewicz could be anything less than brilliant.
Entertaining, and less routine than it sounds.
An early gem from Ray, who would undoubtedly go on to greater things, but who, at the very least, shows promise here.
| 35% | The Hangover Part II |
| 25% | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Par... |
| 81% | Kung Fu Panda 2 |
| 44% | Cowboys & Aliens |
| 83% | Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
| 25% | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Par... |
| 88% | Lady and the Tramp |
| 69% | A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas |
| 21% | Fireflies in the Garden |
| 45% | The Rebound |
Journey 2 Not Worth the Trip
What are his 10 best movies ever?
See the all-new action-packed trailer!
Five new Marvelous pictures