The Bad and the Beautiful

• Movie

  Type

• 1952

  Year

• 1h 58m

  Runtime

• ★ 7.3

  Rating

• Drama / Romance

  Genre

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.

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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

Gilbert Roland

Victor 'Gaucho' Ribera

Leo G. Carroll

Henry Whitfield

Vanessa Brown

Kay Amiel

Paul Stewart

Syd Murphy

Sammy White

Gus

Elaine Stewart

Lila