Torch Song
“Tough Baby - a wonderful love story with the star of "Sudden Fear" and for the first time you'll see her in Technicolor”
1953 · 1 h 30 min
Charles WaltersCast
Joan Crawford 
Michael Wilding 
Gig Young 
Marjorie Rambeau 
Harry Morgan 
Dorothy Patrick
Credits
Written by: 
John Michael Hayes
Plot
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't want anyone, until a blind pianist enters her life.
Sinekatalog’s take
Charles Walters's Technicolor melodrama, with Joan Crawford and Michael Wilding, is wonderfully overblown and camp.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.6 / 10 (1,703 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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