Black Widow

Writer, producer and director Nunnally Johnson goes big city opening his big melodrama, introducing Van Heflin as Broadway producer Peter, Gene Tierney his wife, Ginger Rogers his party-throwing star, Reginald Gardiner her doormat husband, in Black Widow, 1954.

Having flashed back to the arrival of impetuous Nanny (Peggy Ann Garner) in New York, she surprises her uncle (Otto Kruger) at home, then Claire and John (Virginia Leith, Skip Hoemeier) on the job, in writer-producer-director Nunnally Johnson's Black Widow, 1954.

Cop George Raft is questioning Broadway producer Peter (Van Heflin) and wife Iris (Gene Tierney) after the apparent suicide of a young woman who had been living in their apartment, when his star, their friend and neighbor Carlotta (Ginger Rogers) makes her entrance, in Black Widow, 1954.

Partial spoiler here, as Broadway producer Peter (Van Heflin) collects acrtress wife Iris (Gene Tierney) at the airport, not quite having mentioned that the ambitious young woman writer he's been helping is living in their apartment, in writer, producer and director Nunnally Johnson's Black Widow, 1954.

A young stage hopeful (Peggy Ann Gardner), is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer (Van Heflin) in Black Widow (1954).