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It's a man's world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in it: be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak.
In the first of three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel, who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion to high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one a high-rolling racketeer abuses her.
When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.
Original Release
04/07/1950
US Release
04/07/1950
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Joan Crawford | Ethel Whitehead (Lorna Hansen Forbes) / Ethel Whitehead |
David Brian | George Castleman (Joe Caveny) / George Castleman |
Steve Cochran | Nick Prenta |
Kent Smith | Martin Blackford |
Hugh Sanders | Grady |
Selena Royle | Patricia Longworth |
Jacqueline deWit | Sandra |
Morris Ankrum | Jim Whitehead |
Edith Evanson | Mrs. Castleman |
Richard Egan | Roy Whitehead / Roy |
Directors
Writers
Harold Medford, Jerome Weidman, Gertrude Walker, Joan Crawford
Cast
Name | Character |
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Joan Crawford | Ethel Whitehead (Lorna Hansen Forbes) / Ethel Whitehead |
David Brian | George Castleman (Joe Caveny) / George Castleman |
Steve Cochran | Nick Prenta |
Kent Smith | Martin Blackford |
Hugh Sanders | Grady |
Selena Royle | Patricia Longworth |
Jacqueline deWit | Sandra |
Morris Ankrum | Jim Whitehead |
Edith Evanson | Mrs. Castleman |
Richard Egan | Roy Whitehead / Roy |
Bob Alden | Messenger |
Bonnie Bannon | Woman in Casino |
George Baxter | Mr. Fredericks - Syndicate Boss |
Paul Bradley | Castleman's Assistant |
Kathryn Card | Mrs. Sullivan |
Tristram Coffin | George - Maitre d'Hotel at Grady's |
Herschel Daugherty | Rewrite Man |
Diane DeLaire | Castleman's Secretary |
Forrest Dickson | Woman on Street |
Jay Eaton | Gambler at The Hacienda |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jerry Wald | Producer |