Susan Hayward gives another all-out performance in this attempt to exploit the success of Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend with a similar story about a female alcoholic. According to Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg in “Hollywood in the Forties”:
“Susan Hayward played a nightclub entertainer who hits the bottle and the skids, with severe romantic rivalry from a jealous and nasty Marsha Hunt on the way (an excellent sequence shows the two women fighting hysterically in evening dress in a nightclub powder room, shot partly from floor level). Stanley Cortez's shadowy and supple camerawork is consistently worth watching, at one time using a shot through a glass (à la Humoresque) of Hayward starting a number. The film has a soft sheen, a feeling of luxury and almost claustrophobic sumptuousness....”