Pun Salad

IMDB genrecizes this as 'Crime | Drama | Film-Noir', so I guess it qualifies as an entry in our marathon. A free-to-me Amazon Prime streamer, it is so-so. Hedy Lamarr is the protagonist, so I spent a lot of time thinking "Whoa, she's pretty."

But I never forgot to add "… and I admire her brain as well."

Hedy plays Madeleine, a hard-charging, hard-living editor of a high-end fashion magazine. But at the beginning of the movie she's cracking up, driving her car recklessly, crashing into the country estate of Dr. Richard Caleb. Who is (Dickensian coincidence) a shrink, diagnosing Madeline with … something that requires her to adopt a new identity, cut ties with her old life, rent a dingy flat (from Margaret Hamilton!), and take up painting. Also taking up with the handsome doctor that lives downstairs.

But eventually the sleazy people who so beleaguered her in her old life (including Lovey Howell from Gilligan's Island!) track her down and threaten to drag her back into her old haunts and habits. And it almost works, to the extent that one of the sleaziest gets murdered, and Madeline appears to be the likeliest suspect.

Will the handsome doctor forgive Madeline for her deceptions and work to clear her name? No spoilers here!

Oh, yeah: William Lundigan plays one of the sleazeballs, which led me to recall my days watching "Men In Space", where he played astronaut Col. Edward McCauley. I had a space helmet labeled "McCauley"… ah, here it is.