{"product_id":"0883316574065","title":"A Woman's Secret","description":"Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz adopts the same prismatic-flashback technique he'd used so well in \u003ci\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/i\u003e for the 1949 filmic soap opera \u003ci\u003eA Woman's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e. Based on a novel by Vicki (\u003ci\u003eGrand Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e) 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. Flippen) completely buy her story, and it is their probing investigation of the facts that sparks the flashback parade. The film details in sometimes clever, sometimes maudlin fashion the perils of living one's life vicariously through the accomplishments of others. Though filmed before director Nicholas Ray's \"official\" debut feature \u003ci\u003eThey Live by Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Woman's Secret\u003c\/i\u003e was released afterward.","brand":"ALLIED VAUGHN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42674167119933,"sku":"0883316574065","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/0883316574065_p0.jpg?v=1771587098","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/0883316574065","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}