A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
There's too much unintended mystery about A Woman's Secret for it to be anything but spotty entertainment.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
22 Oct 2007
fresh:
Entertaining, and less routine than it sounds.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
11 Feb 2006
rotten:
Nicholas Ray directed it, though his touch is apparent only in the handling of the unstable Grahame character; otherwise, it's probably his stodgiest, driest piece of work.