When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway producer.
Acting
Ginger Rogers devours scenes as the paranoid, theatrical Carlotta.
Production
Lavish CinemaScope interiors of penthouse apartments and backstage chaos.
Director
Nunnally Johnson
Van Heflin
Peter Denver
Reginald Gardiner
Brian Mullen
Gene Tierney
Iris Denver
Peggy Ann Garner
Nancy Ordway
Ginger Rogers
Carlotta Marin
George Raft
Detective Bruce
Virginia Leith
Claire Amberly
Otto Kruger
Gordon Ling
Cathleen Nesbitt
Lucia Colletti
Skip Homeier
John Amberly
Hilda Simms
Anne
Mabel Albertson
Sylvia (uncredited)
Bea Benaderet
Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)
Nesdon Booth
Police APB Man (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Ginger Rogers' first film in three years; she reportedly took the role specifically to play against her wholesome image.
Nunnally Johnson wrote the screenplay himself, loosely adapting a 1925 stage play—explaining why the theatrical world feels so lived-in.
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