Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)

★ 6.2 1h 43m IMDb

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman

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Cast

Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward as Angie Evans Died 1975 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress. After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the lead...
Lee Bowman
Lee Bowman as Ken Conway Died 1979 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Lee Bowman (December 28, 1914 – December 25, 1979) was an American film and television actor. According to one obituary, "his roles ranged from romantic lead to worldly, wisecracking lout in his most...
Marsha Hunt
Marsha Hunt as Martha Gray Died 2022 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Marsha Hunt (born Marcia Virginia Hunt; October 17, 1917 – September 7, 2022) was an American actress, model and activist, with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film...
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert as Steve Nelson Died 2005 · Rock Island, Illinois, USA Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 - May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in...
Carl Esmond
Carl Esmond as Dr. Lorenz Died 2004 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) Carl Esmond (born Karl Simon June 14, 1902 – December 4, 2004) was an Austrian-born American film and stage actor, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Although his age was given as 33 in the passenger li...
Carleton Young
Carleton Young as Fred Elliott Died 1994 · New York City, New York, USA Carleton Scott Young (October 21, 1905 - November 7, 1994) was an American character actor known for his deep voice who performed in more than 200 American television and film roles..

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CinemaSerf 6/10 Jul 07, 2022
A sort of role-reversal of "A Star is Born" as Susan Hayward portrays a successful nightclub singer who marries a struggling lyricist - Lee Bowman. When his career takes off, she becomes disheartened and turns to the bottle - putting herself and her young daughter at risk. Hayward is rather good in this - she is convincing as both a singer (thanks, largely, to the tones of Peg La Centra) and a drunk; and does engender a feeling of sympathy. Regrettably, the rest of the cast are unremarkable and the ending reduces her performance to little more than that of a pathetic failure. It's worth a watch, but only because you can see the star quality in Hayward's performance rather than anything peculiar to this story.

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