''Secrets of a Model'' is a 1940 American
drama film
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directed by
Sam Newfield
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and starring
Cheryl Walker
Cheryl Walker may refer to:
*Cheryl Walker (actress)
Cheryl Walker (August 1, 1918 – October 24, 1971) was an American fashion model and actress.
Early years
Walker was born in South Pasadena, California, to Everett Dale and Pauline S. W ...
,
Harold Daniels
Harold Daniels was an actor and then a director of American films. He directed about 14 films.
The 1958 ''Terror in the Haunted House'' he directed was the first to use the technique known as '' Psychorama''.
Filmography Director
*'' They Met in ...
and
Phyllis Barry
Phyllis Barry (born Gertrude Phyllis Hillyard; 7 December 1908 – 1 July 1954) was an English film actress. Born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Seth Henry and Bertha (née Giles) Hillyard, Barry appeared in over 40 films b ...
. It was made as an
independent
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exploitation film
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on
Poverty Row
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.
[Pitts p.196]
Synopsis
In order to raise money for her mother's operation,
waitress
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Rita Wilson turns to modelling for a
sculpture
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. She encounters the wealthy Jack Thorndyke and after getting drunk at a party at his
penthouse apartment
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, he takes advantage of her. She contracts a
mystery illness and Jack refuses all her calls. 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
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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
Cheryl Walker may refer to:
*Cheryl Walker (actress)
Cheryl Walker (August 1, 1918 – October 24, 1971) was an American fashion model and actress.
Early years
Walker was born in South Pasadena, California, to Everett Dale and Pauline S. W ...
as Rita Wilson
*
Harold Daniels
Harold Daniels was an actor and then a director of American films. He directed about 14 films.
The 1958 ''Terror in the Haunted House'' he directed was the first to use the technique known as '' Psychorama''.
Filmography Director
*'' They Met in ...
as Jack Thorndyke
*
Julian Madison
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People
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* Julian (gi ...
as Bob Grey
*
Phyllis Barry
Phyllis Barry (born Gertrude Phyllis Hillyard; 7 December 1908 – 1 July 1954) was an English film actress. Born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Seth Henry and Bertha (née Giles) Hillyard, Barry appeared in over 40 films b ...
as Sally Adams
*
Bobby Watson
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Music career
Watson was born in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. He ...
as Stuart Bannerman
*
Grace Lenard
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as Jo Jo
*
Eddie Borden
Edgar Mason Borden (May 1, 1888 – June 30, 1955) was an American film actor who started his career in vaudeville as an acrobat and then successfully turned to comedy. Throughout the 1920s, he toured in the Keith, Orpheum and Pantages vaudev ...
as Customer
*
Donald Kerr
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as Drunk at Party
References
Bibliography
* Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940''. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
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1940 films
1940 drama films
American drama films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Sam Newfield
1940s English-language films
1940s American films
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