
Oldboy
2003
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
Stuart Heisler
Fred Elliott
Angie Evans
Steve Nelson
Martha Gray
Ken Conway
Dr. Lorenz
7/7/2022
6/10
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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