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Melodrama at its most confident, The Bad and the Beautiful is an ode to moviemaking that offers unblinking insight into the ugly egos that have shaped Hollywood history. Read Critics Reviews
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Jul 24, 2020 · As an opportunity for the women who were voiceless in Newton’s photographs to finally speak, “The Bad and the Beautiful” is enlightening and provocative. Yet while it raises questions about individualized female empowerment as it is tied to fashion and capitalism, it then fails to adequately answer them.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 80% from 49 reviews with the consensus: "Melodrama at its most confident, The Bad and the Beautiful is an ode to moviemaking that offers unblinking insight into the ugly egos that have shaped Hollywood history." Awards and honors
Dick Powell has a neat writer-ish cynicism to him, and it is only him and the vivacious Gloria Grahame that threaten to steal the show. A gratingly melodramatic Lana Turner is the only conspicuously bad player. However at the heart of The Bad and the Beautiful lies the powerful turn by Kirk Douglas.
135 User reviews. 93 Critic reviews. 86 Metascore. Won 5 Oscars.
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Rarely seen but frequently referenced in film studies lecture rooms, Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is a twisted tale of the rise and fall of Kirk Douglas’ ruthless Hollywood producer Jonathan Shields and one of the greatest ‘movies about movies’ to ever come out of Hollywood. Read More.
