The Lady Confesses is a 1945 American film noir directed by Sam Newfield and released by Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation. It stars Mary Beth Hughes, Hugh Beaumont, and Edmund MacDonald.
The film is in the public domain as it was not renewed following its initial 28-year copyright term.
Plot While on the verge of being divorced, Norma Craig disappears. Seven years later, when her husband Larry Craig is planning to marry Vicki McGuire, Norma returns and tells Vicki that neither she nor anybody else can marry Larry. After Norma is found dead, both the young woman and her fiancé find themselves mixed up with a crooked nightclub owner, whom the police suspect of the murder.
Cast Mary Beth Hughes as Vicki McGuire Hugh Beaumont as Larry Craig Edmund MacDonald as Lucky Brandon Claudia Drake as Lucile Compton Emmett Vogan as Police Capt. Brown Barbara Slater as Norma Craig Edward Howard as Detective Harmon Dewey Robinson as Steve Carol Andrews as Margie Jack George as Apartment House Manager (uncredited) Charles King as Beach Cop (uncredited) Frank Mayo as Coroner (uncredited) Harold Miller as Nightclub Dance Extra (uncredited) Jerome Root as Bill (uncredited)
Soundtrack "Dance Close To Me, Darling" (Written by Robert Unger and Al Seaman) "It's All Your Fault" (Written by Cindy Walker) "It's A Fine Old World" (Written by Smith, Kuhstos, and Blonder)
See also Presumption of death
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