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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
“I took you out of the gutter... I can fling you back!”
Drama, Romance · 1h 58m
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Cast
Lana Turner
Georgia Lorrison
Kirk Douglas
Jonathan Shields
Walter Pidgeon
Harry Pebbel
Dick Powell
James Lee Bartlow
Barry Sullivan
Fred Amiel
Gloria Grahame
Rosemary Bartlow
Leo G. Carroll
Henry Whitfield
Gilbert Roland
Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
Paul Stewart
Syd Murphy
Vanessa Brown
Kay Amiel
Elaine Stewart
Lila
Sammy White
Gus
Crew
- Director
- Vincente Minnelli
- Screenplay
- Charles Schnee
- Director of Photography
- Robert Surtees
- Original Music Composer
- David Raksin
- Editor
- Conrad A. Nervig
- Producer
- John Houseman
Details
- Release date
- 1952-12-25
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget
- $1,558,000
- Box office
- $3,373,000