In this story a few of Hayward's performances resemble other story lines that she has performed. Same performance in I'll Cry Tomorrow; and the cat fight in the powder room the same as in Valley of The Dolls. Marsha Hunt was strictly wooden as the part of the secretary Martha; Lee Bowman was strictly unsympathetic as the long suffering husband who knew at the beginning that is wife was a lush. Only relief was Eddie Albert as his friend; he brought reasoning to both parties. With the interjection of Carl Esmond as Dr. Lorenz as the go between husband and wife to explain what we now know as alcoholism as a disease was ahead of it's time. I know at the end she had said she hit rock bottom; but did she?
Review of Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
