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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
film by Heisler [1947]
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discussed in biography
- In Stuart Heisler: Films of the 1940s
” Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) was from a Dorothy Parker story and scripted by John Howard Lawson, who would soon be blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten. The drama boasted a superb performance by Hayward that earned the actress her first Academy…
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history of film
- In history of film: Decline of the Hollywood studios
…Boundaries, 1949), alcoholism (Stuart Heisler’s Smash-Up, 1947), and mental illness (Anatole Litvak’s The Snake Pit, 1948); the semidocumentary melodrama, which reconstructed true criminal cases and was often shot on location (Kazan’s Boomerang, 1947; Henry Hathaway’s Kiss of Death, 1947); and the film noir, whose dark, fatalistic
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