Details

Release year: 1952

Storyline

Nightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.

Top credits

Directors

Vincent Sherman

Writers

Cast

Rita Hayworth — Chris Emery
Glenn Ford — Steve Emery
Alexander Scourby — Max Fabian
Valerie Bettis — Veronica Huebling

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• The production is credited to the Beckworth Corporation, named for Rita Hayworth and her daughter Rebecca Welles, but Beckworth wasn't an actual production company. It was a tax dodge set up by Hayworth and Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn to allow her fee for the film to be considered a capital gain rather than a salary, and therefore taxed at a lower rate.

• Rita Hayworth practiced hard to try to do her own singing, but finally musical director Morris Stoloff hired Jo Ann Greer to dub Rita's voice. Greer and Hayworth worked well together and she later dubbed Rita in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) and Pal Joey (1957).

• Columbia boss Harry Cohn was concerned about Rita Hayworth's ability to handle the dialogue after an absence of several years from films, so instructed director Vincent Sherman to concentrate instead on shots where she should be reacting to the dialogue of others.