Synopsis

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood’s top movie makers.
Vincente Minnelli
Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll, Vanessa Brown, Paul Stewart, Sammy White, Elaine Stewart, Ivan Triesault, Barbara Billingsley, Francis X. Bushman, Louis Calhern, Kathleen Freeman, Ned Glass, May McAvoy, Sandy Descher, Bess Flowers, Madge Blake, Marietta Canty, Dabbs Greer, Eve McVeagh, Hadda Brooks, Stanley Andrews, Franklyn Farnum, Sam Harris, Kenner G. Kemp, Harold Miller, Roger Moore, William H. O’Brien, Pat O’Malley, Jeffrey Sayre
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