The Second Face

We don’t get any look at heroine Ella Raines in the opening, chasing Claire (Rita Johnson) around LA in a panic then getting in a wreck, in the Eagle-Lion production, from a story and screenplay by the later-acclaimed Swiss-born writer Eugene Vale, The Second Face, 1950.

Ending the elaborate flashback in which Ella Raines played Phyllis, a talented but un-prepossessing fashion designer who got into a car wreck, first with her surgeon (Mauritz Hugo), then with shop owner Grandon Rhodes, who earlier found her unsatisfactory, in The Second Face, 1950.

This is meant to be the homely version of the heroine, Ella Raines as Phyllis from Fresno, appearing in Los Angeles where Claire (Rita Johnson), friend of a friend, awaits with her Allan (Roy Roberts) and fickle bachelor Jerry (John Sutton), in the Eagle-Lion feature The Second Face, 1950.