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The Bad and the Beautiful

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The Bad and the Beautiful
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NR,1hr 58min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 15, 1953
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon  ...more
Synopsis: Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the film's industry's most interesting glimpses at itself. Actress Gloria Lorrison (Lana Turner), director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell) are invited to a meeting at a Hollywood sound stage at the request of producer Harry Pebbel (Walter Pidgeon). Pebbel is working with studio chief Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas), whose studio is in ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Vincente Minelli's self-reflexive, highly stylized profile of a charmingly manipulative producer (Kirk Douglas) seeking a comeback is one of the most cynical and enjoyably trashy films that Hollywood has ever made about itself. Appearing during the height of noir, when the movie business was taking a more jaundiced view of itself in films like Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Big Knife (1955), the film ... Full Review
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Kirk Douglas
Jonathan Shields
Lana Turner
Georgia Lorrison
Walter Pidgeon
Harry Pebbel
Dick Powell
James Lee Bartlow
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