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...begins in a squalid Pennsylvania mining town. Helen Chernen (Ida Lupino), trapped as the wife of a grimy animal who sleeps in his long underwear, schemes to escape from it all with her pretty, teen-age sister-in-law Katherine (Joan Leslie). The arrival of a team of vaudeville hoofers, Runkel (Jack Carson) & Collins (Dennis Morgan), provides the opportunity. When the hoofers entrain for the next stop, the girls are members of the party-Katherine as Runkel's wife and Helen as boss...
Thereafter, hard-bitten Helen Chernen, capable of any chicanery, arranges destiny with a stilettoed hand. She breaks up Runkel & Collins, installs Katherine as Runkel's dancing partner, then jettisons Runkel to get the girl a chance on Broadway. Next she destroys their marriage, drives Runkel to suicide, finally soars to a champagne triumph on Katherine's conquests as a musicomedy star. But for Katherine the corruption of success, at first intoxicating, finally becomes too gory; she runs off with the man Helen loves. Nothing is left for Helen but the river...
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