The Damned Don't Cry

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Cast

Joan Crawford

as Ethel Whitehead

David Brian

as George Castleman

Steve Cochran

as Nick Prenta

Kent Smith

as Martin Blackford

Hugh Sanders

as Grady

Selena Royle

as Patricia Longworth

Jacqueline deWit

as Sandra

Morris Ankrum

as Jim Whitehead

Edith Evanson

as Mrs. Castleman

Richard Egan

as Roy Whitehead

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Joan Crawford always could portray the ambitious, strong-willed character really well - and she does it here too. Living an hand-to-mouth existence with her husband and young son, tragedy befalls her and she ("Ethel/Lorna") determines to start a new life. Initially flogging cigars in an hotel, but s...

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