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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
Jul 30, 2019 · Hard, Fast and Beautiful. Average California teenager Florence Farley (Sally Forrest) accepts an invitation to an exclusive country club from handsome Gordon McKay (Robert Clarke). When Florence's ...
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- Ida Lupino
- Drama
- Claire Trevor
Hard, Fast and Beautiful In the late 1940's, after nearly two decades of portraying intense, vivid characters in such films as High Sierra (1941), The Hard Way (1943), and Road House (1948), actress Ida Lupino and her then-husband Collier Young formed their own production company, The Filmakers, and began turning out a series of remarkable low ...
- Ida Lupino, James Anderson
- Claire Trevor
Young professional tennis player Florence Farley (Sally Forrest) rockets to championship heights thanks to the constant pressure put on her by her greedy and ambitious mother, Millie Farley (Claire Trevor), who intends to live high off of her daughter's professional earnings. But, at the top of her game and in the depths of depression, the ...
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1951. USA. 16mm. 78 minutes. The daring, perpetually underrated films of actress-turned-director Ida Lupino stand as taboo-busting dissections of 1950s America. This 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 ...
