The read
Critics rate it 28 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 75% of the 429 1940s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 28 points higher than audiences do.
74 audience votes
Key crew
- George CukorDirector
- Bronislau KaperOriginal Music Composer
- Elliot PaulScreenplay
- Donald Ogden StewartScreenplay
Cast
- Joan CrawfordAnna Holm
- Melvyn DouglasDr. Gustaf Segert
- Conrad VeidtTorsten Barring
- Osa MassenVera Segert
- Reginald OwenBernard Dalvik
- Albert BassermannConsul Magnus Barring
- Marjorie MainEmma Kristiansdotter
- Donald MeekHerman Rundvik
- Connie GilchristChristina Dalvik
- Richard NicholsLars-Erik Barring
- Charles QuigleyEric
- Gwili AndreGusta
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Themes
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