Musical. But Joan Crawford does not sing. Every single musical number is awful - especially the one where she plays in - I guess you would call it "brown face"? She's impersonating a Cuban, I think.
It's the supposedly touching story of an arrogant star whose heart is conquered by a blind piano player.
It's maudlin, there are a lot of long speeches - including an interesting one in which the blind piano player explains to a fellow jazz musician that he can never love her because he met her after he became blind and therefore can't picture her face...interesting but, at the end of the day, I really couldn't see why he would want the impossible harpy whose face he can picture as opposed to a really nice girl who he can't see.
If you must watch, I advise you to fast-forward all musical numbers.
One star, for her costumes. Will not watch again.
PS - remind you of anything? Like "The Miracle Woman"? That movie is better.
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