Reception
Otis Guernsey, Jr. in the New York Herald Tribune wrote, "Joan Crawford has another of her star-sized roles...she is vivid and irritable, volcanic and feminine...Here is Joan Crawford all over the screen, in command, in love and in color, a real movie star in what amounts to a carefully produced one-woman show."
Torch Song was regarded as a return for Joan Crawford, who when the picture was released, was fresh off an Academy Award nod for her performance in Sudden Fear, the previous year.
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