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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
Ida Lupino’s bitter anti–family values smackdown stars Claire Trevor as a tough-as-nails stage—er, make that court—mother who will stop at nothing to mold her tennis prodigy daughter into a national champion.
Nov 30, 2017 · A tennis star (Sally Forrest) confronts her ambitious mother (Claire Trevor) and ruthless promoter (Carleton G. Young) in Ida Lupino’s “Hard, Fast and Beautiful.”
An intriguing little melodrama from the underrated Lupino, with Trevor as an ambitious, domineering mother who pushes her daughter (Forrest) to become a tennis.
