Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
Ann Blyth
as Helen Morgan
Paul Newman
as Larry Maddux
Richard Carlson
as Russell Wade
Gene Evans
as Whitey Krause
Alan King
as Benny Weaver
Cara Williams
as Dolly Evans
Virginia Vincent
as Sue
Edward Platt
as Johnny Haggerty
Walter Woolf King
as Florenz Ziegfeld
Juanita Moore
as Backstage Maid
Herb Vigran
as Finney
Dorothy Green
as Mrs. Wade