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A Life of Her Own is a 1950 American melodrama film directed by George Cukor and starring Lana Turner and Ray Milland. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart focuses on an aspiring model who leaves her small town in the Midwest to seek fame and fortune in New York City .
- Margaret Phillips
Margaret Phillips had a stage career lasting from the 1940s...
- Sara Haden
Sara Haden (born Catherine Haden, November 17, 1898 [1] –...
- Margaret Phillips
A Life of Her Own: Directed by George Cukor. With Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell, Louis Calhern. A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.
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- Drama, Mystery
- George Cukor
- 1950-09-01
9,748ft. Lily Brannel James, an aspiring model, sets out from her small hometown in Kansas to New York City to apply to the Thomas Caraway Model Agency. After she is hired by Tom Caraway, Lily is befriended by a former top Caraway model, Mary Ashlon, who advises her on the rules of the business. That evening, Mary arranges a double date for her ...
- George Cukor, Jack Greenwood, Howard Koch
- Lana Turner
Aug 14, 2015 · Published in the print edition of the August 24, 2015, issue, with the headline “A Life of Her Own.”
Small-town Kansas girl Lily James is the latest model working for the Thomas Callaway Agency in New York City. Despite her small-town roots, Lily is streetwise because of her tough growing-up experiences, so she is a good judge of character.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl Ann Dvorak, whose performance carries the story until she commits suicide twenty minutes into the film.
Cleverly adapted by playwright/screenwriter Isobel Lennart from Rebecca West's 1935 novella The Abiding Vision, the scenario details the expeditious transformation of Lily James (Lana Turner) from corn-fed Great Plains bombshell to worldly Manhattan cover girl.