Paula (reissued as The Silent Voice) is a 1952 American film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, and starring Loretta Young, Kent Smith, and Alexander Knox. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Plot

Distraught after her second miscarriage, and learning definitively she could never have children, Paula Rogers, while driving at night, accidentally injures a child. Confused, and also expected to attend a function that honors her husband, Paula tries to follow the child to the hospital but the farmer who witnesses the accident believes Paula to be drunk, so he takes the child in his truck and drives away before Paula can get into her car. She tries to follow but is too far away and gets stuck at a train crossing, losing sight of the farmer’s truck. She attempts to tell her husband about the incident, but has trouble finding the right time.