Smash Up Story Of A Woman

Nightclub singer Angelica marries fellow singer Ken, has children and stops pursuing her own career. However as Ken becomes more famous he spends more time on the road, leaving Angelica to be either alone or lost in the midst of crowds of admirers.

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And that brings us to this week’s movie: the 1947 feature “Smash-Up – The Story of a Woman.” The film was very unusual for its period by presenting alcoholism’s effect on a woman; usually, the typical heavy drinker in movies is a man. But beyond that novelty, the film is also unusual in a wide number of ways.

To fill her time and give her confidence she turns to drink. It isn't long before she is a slave to the drink and her life is falling down around her. A handful of films have tried to put alcoholism on screen – The Lost Weekend, Leaving Las Vegas to name two, but some are more successful that others. Smash Up (a daft title) uses alcoholism as a reason for a melodrama – but the way it uses it, it could have chosen any subject. Angelica has everything so even when she hits rock bottom she's still in a great flat surrounded by money! It's a little hard to like her for this reason and it's hard to see her alcoholism as a curse – more like selfish attention seeking. By the time the film gets to the `well, you see Ken.'

Moralising ending I'd lost interest in this person and wanted a more realistic view of alcoholism. Hayward is OK – she's not as hammy as she could have been, she could have gone all Betty Davis one us! But she still plays it up and she doesn't make a convincing drunk – even when going cold turkey she looks glamorous. I felt that another actress could have done a better job and still been understated. Overall this is not so much about alcoholism than a melodrama that uses drink as a plot device to put the main character over the edge.

Soapy and ultimately quite dull.

Reportedly inspired by the turbulent marriage of Dixie Lee and Bing Crosby, this unflinching, noirish drama details the life of rising nightclub singer Angie Evans (Susan Hayward), who suspends her career in order to raise a family with songwriter Ken Conway (Lee Bowman). But as Ken hits it big as a radio crooner, a jealous Angie finds comfort at the bottom of a bottle, and risks custody of her daughter.and their very lives.

Co-stars Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt. Standard; Soundtrack: English.