Secrets of a Model is a 1940 American drama film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Cheryl Walker, Harold Daniels and Phyllis Barry. It was made as an independent exploitation film on Poverty Row.[1]
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Secrets of a Model | |
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Directed by | Sam Newfield |
Written by | Sherman L. Lowe Arthur St. Claire |
Produced by | J.D. Kendis |
Starring | Cheryl Walker Harold Daniels Phyllis Barry |
Cinematography | Jack Greenhalgh |
Edited by | George M. Merrick |
Production company | Jay-Dee-Kay Productions |
Distributed by | Continental Pictures |
Release date | April 11, 1940 |
Running time | 65 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
In order to raise money for her mother's operation, waitress Rita Wilson turns to modelling for a sculpture. She encounters the wealthy Jack Thorndyke and after getting drunk at a party at his penthouse apartment, 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 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.
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