At first, I was afraid the 1946 Deception, directed by Irving Rapper, would be awash in background music, but it isn’t. It simply offers some good music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in a setting with serious musicians, one of them played by Bette Davis.

Imdb.com: “After marrying her long-lost love [Paul Heinreid], a musician [Davis] finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer [Claude Rains] who is besotted with her.” This constitutes Deception‘s drama. Notwithstanding, adapted from a play, the film is pretty talky, I enjoyed it. I have actually seen very little of Davis in movies; here, she’s an accomplished actress. Rains plays a contemptible man elegantly (of course).