The Nurse's Secret

Lee Patrick stars in the title role of The Nurse's Secret. The secret that this nurse has is that she is working undercover and incognito at a mansion where a young heir has died. The coroner has ruled it suicide.

Still the homicide cop Regis Toomey has his doubts and he places his girlfriend Patrick in the home as an attending nurse to the maiden aunt owner Clara Blandick. The idea is to pick up any loose information she gets and report to Toomey. When Blandick gets herself poisoned Patrick finds herself in a nice jackpot.

This B film from Warner Brothers probably might have had Pat O'Brien in the lead with Ann Sheridan had it been an A film. It's hand me down material all right, but served up well.

There are a lovely household full of suspects and with a running time of little over an hour it keeps a good clip in its pace. Later the same year Lee Patrick gets her career role as Sam Spade's secretary in The Maltese Falcon. She never did break through the ranks into A players.

The Nurse's Secret does show Lee Patrick's capability in a lead which sadly she never had too many chances at.