Nancy With the Lying Face

Of stealing, a girl was accused
Her ego, too fragile, was bruised
And so, in a panic
she turned klepto-manic
The Locket, with flashbacks, just oozed



In director John Brahm's The Locket (1946), Laraine Day plays Nancy, a woman whose troubled past is revealed in a flashback within a flashback within a flashback, a labyrinthine structure well suited to post-war film noir and psychological melodrama. (Click on poster to enlarge)