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| Directed by | Joseph Santley |
| Produced by | William Jacobs |
| Screenplay by | Whitman Chambers C. Graham Baker |
| Based on | Novel: He Fell Down Dead by Virginia Perdue |
| Music by | Adolph Deutsch |
| Cinematography | Bert Glennon |
| Editing by | Christian Nyby |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 14, 1946 (United States) |
| Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Shadow of a Woman (1946) is an American drama film noir directed by Joseph Santley. The drama features Helmut Dantine and Andrea King. The film is based on the novel He Fell Down Dead written by Virginia Perdue.[1]
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Woman (King) on the verge of a breakdown marries a man (Dantine) she hardly knows, putting her in the path of fear and danger.
Recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz panned the film, writing, "A failure in every possible way. Joseph Santley flatly directs this film noir adapted from Virginia Perdue's novel He Fell Down Dead. The script by writers C. Graham Baker and Whitman Chambers was lacking credibility. The acting was hammy and unconvincing. The film offered hardly any entertainment value and the irrelevant story was more of a turn off than anything else. On top of all that, there were serious gaffes in the plotline that filled the story with holes the size of craters. This postwar B-film melodrama reunites Hotel Berlin co-stars Helmut Dantine and Andrea King. Shadow of a Woman might be remembered by film buffs only because it played in an early restaurant scene "How Little We Know", the Hoagy Carmichael song that Lauren Bacall sang in To Have and Have Not."[2]
TV Guide wrote about the screenplay, writing, "A slightly unrealistic story line hinders this drama that deals with a bride's terror."[3]