A Woman's Face is a 1941 MGM film based on the play, Il Etait Une Fois by Francis de Croisset. The film starred Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, and Conrad Veidt. In the film, set in Stockholm, Crawford plays Anna, a physically scarred woman, who blackmails others to survive. Anna has a series of operations to restore her face, in order to secure the attraction of the man she loves. Later, she falls under his influence, and goes on trial for murder.
Anna Holm is a blackmailer, who because of a facial scar, despises everyone she encounters. When a plastic surgeon performs an operation to correct this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between the hope of starting a new life, and a return to her dark past. Written by Kelly
