Academy Awards, USA 1953
| Won Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Alfred Newman |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Susan Hayward |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role Thelma Ritter | |
| Best Costume Design, Color Charles Le Maire | |
| Best Sound, Recording Thomas T. Moulton (20th Century-Fox Sound Department) |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Walter Lang
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Fox)
Susan Hayward plays Jane Froman, an aspiring nightclub singer who becomes a national sensation, only to be seriously injured in a plane crash and have to fight her way back to recovery and stardom. Along the way she has romantic complications involving her manager-husband and the pilot of the plane which crashed. Hayward's acting is fine but she overcompensates for her lip synching numbers, of which there are very, very many. It also gets bogged down in patriotic flag waving during her USO stint which takes up nearly the last half of the film.
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