Paul Newman plays a scumbag bootlegger and Ann Blyth lip-syncs her way to tragedy. What's not to love?
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
Acting
Paul Newman dialing slimeball charisma to 11 in an early role.
Costume
Orry-Kelly gowns doing heavy lifting while Blyth does not.
Production
Michael Curtiz somehow making a soundstage feel like Chicago.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Ann Blyth
Helen Morgan
Paul Newman
Larry Maddux
Richard Carlson
Russell Wade
Gene Evans
Whitey Krause
Alan King
Benny Weaver
Cara Williams
Dolly Evans
Virginia Vincent
Sue
Edward Platt
Johnny Haggerty
Walter Woolf King
Florenz Ziegfeld
Juanita Moore
Backstage Maid
Herb Vigran
Finney (uncredited)
Dorothy Green
Mrs. Wade
Warren Douglas
Mark Hellinger
Iris Adrian
Klingman's Secretary
Walter Winchell
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