Three Secrets

98 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$1.4 million^[1]

Three Secrets is a 1950 American drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal and Ruth Roman.^[2] It was released by Warner Bros.

Plot

A private plane crashes in the California mountains and a 5-year-old boy survives. Little else is known except the child is an orphan.

Susan Chase believes the boy could be hers. Before she was wed to lawyer Bill Chase, she was involved with a Marine during the war, and became suicidal later, putting their child up for adoption. Bill has never been told Susan's secret.

Newspaper reporter Phyllis Horn investigates the crash. She, too, has a secret, having given birth after a divorce from husband Bob Duffy, who has since remarried.

A third woman, Ann Lawrence, turns up at the crash site as well. Ann was once a chorus girl, involved with wealthy Gordon Crossley, who spurned her after she became pregnant. Scorned, Ann bludgeoned him to death, and served five years in prison for manslaughter, giving up the baby. The boy appears to be hers, but she believes Susan is better qualified to give the child a good home.

Cast

• Eleanor Parker as Susan Adele Connors Chase
• Patricia Neal as Phyllis Horn
• Ruth Roman as Ann Lawrence
• Frank Lovejoy as Bob Duffy
• Leif Erickson as Bill Chase
• Ted de Corsia as Del Prince
• Edmon Ryan as Hardin
• Larry Keating as Mark Harrison
• Katherine Warren as Mrs. Connors
• Arthur Franz as Paul Radin
• Frank Fenton as Sheriff Neil MacDonald
• Kenneth Tobey as Officer
• Frank Wilcox as Charlie
• Jay Adler as City Editor
• Billy Bevan as Ed Jackson

See also

• List of American films of 1950

References

External links

• Three Secrets at IMDb
• Three Secrets at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Three Secrets at the TCM Movie Database