The Bad and the Beautiful
I took you out of the gutter... I can fling you back!
Film19521h 58m
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- Director
- Vincente Minnelli
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1952-12-25
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
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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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