
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, Wallie, followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman. After a failed ... (Full plot summary below)
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Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, Wallie, followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman. After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world, not counting the first twenty with her mother.
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| Slant MagazineDan CallahanIn the '40s, Hayward had a distinctive and rather bitchy sex appeal and clear hunger for stardom that gave way in the '50s to a weary but still authoritative command of frank self-pity and tough-broad defiance. |
| User ReviewBrian Kfantastic movie!!!! susan hayward is the true reason why this movie was so good. she gives 1 of the most raw and intense performances by any actress i have ever seen before. she really takes the audience watching this on a tour of what being an alcoholic is like, how it starts,how far you will fall,and how you can come back. her performance is the perfect example of how the academy awards are fixed, because she gave the best performance of that year!!!! |
| User Reviewjay nI saw it a couple of weeks ago on TCM, it was amazing, I couldn't stop crying, that lady was an alcoholic to the max and you just felt her pain. |
| User ReviewCAROL HA good love story.This is about a singer.You will love it. |
| User Reviewdarryl chayward was in much better form in the life story of singer-actress lillian roth than as convict barbara graham. but she got her just due no matter what! |
| User ReviewFilm FTrue Story of Lillian Roth....Hayward Classic ..Must See... |
| User ReviewTamara SOne of the finest performances I have ever seen! I'm quite disappointed Susan Hayward didn't win the Oscar. |
| User ReviewSteve S***1/2 (out of four) Susan Hayward gives a gutsy performance and earned herself an Academy Award nomination for this 1955 drama. Hayward plays Broadway actress Lillian Roth (the film is based on Roth's autobiography). It chronicles her success on the stage and her descent into alcoholism. It realistically shows the slow painful crawl back for the actress. |
| User ReviewJohn BSusan Hayward seemed to relish these roles on the edge of what was expected in American cinema in the 50s. Here is the no holds barred biopic of Lillian Roth that raised the bar for biography films to an unprecedented level. |
| User ReviewWendy SThis is an unrelenting view into the world of an alcoholic. From Broadway star to the shame of the addiction, the decline is heartbreaking... Susan Hayward is astounding. Absolutely one of the best films/ performances I've seen in some time. |