The smashing Susan Hayward stars in this noirette that, in 1947, warns women in the strongestterms-melodrama-not to give up their day jobs when Johnny comes marching home.Hayward's Angie Evans is a popular nightclub singer who abruptly quits apromising career so that her songwriter husband can give her everything sheneeds. After that, what she needs is a stiff drink, and then another. A scathingattack on the American dream of consumerism and leisure is at the film's core,verbalized (as so often) by a Voice of Authority, the family doctor: "You'vetaken all responsibility away from her, and left her life with no values."The film undermines the "weepie": Angie may have to literalize herscars, but she won't be taking all the blame. John Howard Lawson, regarded as theleading ideologist among the Communist filmmakers, wrote the screenplay from astory by Dorothy Parker.