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- Lily James (Lana Turner) moves from her small hometown in Kansas to New York City, with dreams of becoming a successful model. Despite a close friend's suicide, Lily's determination leads to fame and fortune. But when she meets a rich mine owner named Steve Harleigh (Ray Milland), Lily realizes that money alone cannot buy happiness.
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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. The film was produced by Voldemar Vetluguin and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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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
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.
Lily James (Lana Turner) moves from her small hometown in Kansas to New York City, with dreams of becoming a successful model. Despite a close friend's suicide, Lily's determination leads to fame...
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- George Cukor
- Drama
- Lana Turner
A Life of Her Own was Turner's comeback film after a two-year suspension from MGM. She'd been suspended for refusing to take a non-starring part in The Three Musketeers (1948), a part she eventually did play. During the suspension, she married her third husband, millionaire Bob Topping, and traveled abroad.
- George Cukor, Jack Greenwood, Howard Koch
- Lana Turner
A Life of Her Own ★★½ 1950. Turner stars as a farm girl who takes her dream of becoming a top model to the Big Apple. She signs with an agency and is befriended by Dvorak, an aging model, who acts as her mentor.
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.
