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Hard, Fast and Beautiful is a 1951 American drama film directed by Ida Lupino and starring Claire Trevor. It is loosely based on the 1930 novel American Girl by sports-fiction author John R. Tunis, which was an unflattering and thinly veiled fictionalization of the life of the tennis star Helen Wills Moody.
Hard, Fast and Beautiful!: Directed by Ida Lupino. With Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton G. Young, Robert Clarke. Tennis prodigy Florence Farley is torn between romance and her mother's ambitions.
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- Drama, Romance, Sport
- Ida Lupino
- 1952-02-07
Hard, Fast and Beautiful! - Ida Lupino (1951) cine ufsc. 4.51K subscribers. Subscribed. 161. 14K views 3 years ago. Hard, Fast and Beautiful! Laços de Sangue ...more.
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Hard, Fast, and Beautiful (1951) is about a talented tennis player whose greedy, ambitious mother pushes the girl up the ranks in professional tennis. Lupino later said that the characters were based on fact, but would not reveal who the real-life models were for the tennis champ and her grasping mother.
- Ida Lupino, James Anderson
- Claire Trevor
Jan 12, 2016 · [Narrator] Ida Lupino was a teenage. movie star in the 1930's. In 1951, as a director and producer, she made Hard, Fast, and Beautiful, one of the great dramas about a teenage star.
- Condé Nast
- 5 min
Mar 10, 2010 · When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis prodigy who could be Milly's ticket to money and fame. Released in 1951, Hard, Fast and Beautiful foresaw our modern era of big-time women's sports -- and of driven parents who would stop at nothing ...
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Dec 28, 2017 · Hard, Fast and Beautiful. By Richard Brody. December 28, 2017. Ida Lupino directed this tough and worldly 1951 drama, about a mother whose ambitions for her daughter bring the family to...
