Secrets of a Model
{{short description|1940 film}}
{{One source|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox film
| name =Secrets of a Model
| image =
| caption =
| director =Sam Newfield
| producer =J.D. Kendis
| writer = Sherman L. Lowe
Arthur St. Claire
| starring = Cheryl Walker
Harold Daniels
Phyllis Barry
| music =
| cinematography = Jack Greenhalgh
| editing = George M. Merrick
| studio = Jay-Dee-Kay Productions
| distributor = Continental Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1940|04|11|df=yes}}
| runtime = 65 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Secrets of a Model is a 1940 American drama film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Cheryl Walker, Harold Daniels and Phyllis Barry. It was made as an independent exploitation film on Poverty Row.Pitts p.196
In the film, a waitress agrees to work as an artist's model. She has a one-night-stand with a wealthy man while drunk, and afterwards experiences a decline in both her health and her work life. She wakes up in a hospital, and later learns that the wealthy man is trying to seduce her former roommate.
Plot
In order to raise money for her mother's operation, waitress Rita Wilson turns to modelling for a sculpture. She encounters the wealthy Jack Thorndyke and after getting drunk at a party at his penthouse apartment, he takes advantage of her. She contracts a mystery illness and Jack refuses all her calls.
After that, she goes through a succession of increasing dead-end jobs and then faints in the street. Waking up in hospital, she is reunited with her old boyfriend, milkman Bob Grey. After recovering and agreeing to marry Bob, she now discovers that Jack Thorndyke is now trying the same tricks on her former roommate Sally.
Cast
- Cheryl Walker as Rita Wilson
- Harold Daniels as Jack Thorndyke
- Julian Madison as Bob Grey
- Phyllis Barry as Sally Adams
- Bobby Watson as Stuart Bannerman
- Grace Lenard as Jo Jo
- Eddie Borden as Customer
- Donald Kerr as Drunk at Party
References
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Bibliography
- Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0033033}}
{{Sam Newfield}}
Category:1940s exploitation films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Sam Newfield
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:Films with screenplays by Sherman Lowe
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