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The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates everyone around him. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee, and stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland.
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- David Raksin
- US$1,558,000
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The Bad and the Beautiful: Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell. An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
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- Drama, Romance
- Vincente Minnelli
- 1953-02-09
Unscrupulous movie producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) is a child of Hollywood who ruthlessly toils his way to the top of the studio system, discarding movie star Georgia (Lana Turner),...
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- Lana Turner
- Vincente Minnelli
- Drama
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In Hollywood, film director Fred Amiel, movie star Georgia Lorrison, and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow, at the top of their respective professions, each receives a telephone call from Paris from movie producer Jonathan Shields, who they either refuse to speak to or for who they only have nasty, curt words if they do in their estrangement from him.
The Bad and the Beautiful, American film drama, released in 1952, that—highlighted by an Academy Award-nominated performance by Kirk Douglas—helped solidify the unflattering popular image of the ruthless Hollywood mogul. The film, most of which is told in flashback, traces the rise and fall of.
- Lee Pfeiffer
The Bad and the Beautiful (1953) is probably the quintessential "Hollywood according to Hollywood" film; so it's appropriate that it stars the quintessential movie star - Lana Turner. Turner plays Georgia Lorrison, the trampy, alcoholic daughter of a legendary actor.