The Secret Heart
- Released on
- Runtime
- 97 mins
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
Cast
- Claudette Colbert
- Walter Pidgeon
- June Allyson
- Lionel Barrymore
- Robert Sterling
- Marshall Thompson
- Elizabeth Patterson
- Richard Derr
- Patricia Medina
- Eily Malyon
- Anne Lacey
- Dwayne Hickman
- Barbara Billingsley
- Anna Q. Nilsson
- King Baggot
- Joan Beeks
- Ruth Brady
- Chester Clute
- Hume Cronyn
- Frank Darien
- Boyd Davis
- Drew Demorest
- Donald Dewar
- John Webb Dillion
- Hal Hackett
- Harry Hayden
- Leyland Hodgson
- Alexander Pollard
- Virginia L. Randolph
- Clinton Rosemond
- Jeffrey Sayre
- Wyndham Standing
- Audrey Totter
- Dick Winslow
Director
- Robert Z. Leonard
Producers
- Edwin H. Knopf
Screenwriter
- Whitfield Cook
- Anne Morrison Chapin