The Bad and the Beautiful
I took you out of the gutter... I can fling you back!
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12/25/1952Runtime
118 minsOverview
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$1,558,000Revenue
$3,373,000Homepage
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A glamorous but caustic anatomy of Hollywood ambition, told through the testimonies of three people destroyed by one man's ruthless climb to the top. The film luxuriates in moral complexity and the terrible costs of genius.
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Lana Turner
Georgia Lorrison
Kirk Douglas
Jonathan Shields
Walter Pidgeon
Harry Pebbel
Dick Powell
James Lee Bartlow
Barry Sullivan
Fred Amiel
Gloria Grahame
Rosemary Bartlow
Leo G. Carroll
Henry Whitfield
Gilbert Roland
Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
Paul Stewart
Syd Murphy
Vanessa Brown
Kay Amiel
Elaine Stewart
Lila
Sammy White
Gus
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