Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
- family
- motherhood
- passing for white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Susan Kohner — Sarah Jane (18)
- Robert Alda — Allen Loomis
- Dan O'Herlihy — David Edwards
- Karin Dicker — Sarah Jane (8)
- Terry Burnham — Susie (6)
- John Vivyan — Young man
- Lee Goodman — Photographer
- Ann Robinson — Showgirl
- Troy Donahue — Frankie
- Sandra Gould — Receptionist
- David Tomack — Mr. McKenney
- Directed
- Douglas Sirk
- Written
- Allan Scott, Eleanore Griffin
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 322 ratings
- Studio
- Universal International Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
