The Bad and the Beautiful
The Bad and the Beautiful

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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 - including the writer, star and director - on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Bad and the Beautiful:

Lana Turner
Kirk Douglas
Walter Pidgeon
Dick Powell
Barry Sullivan
Gloria Grahame

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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 - including the writer, star and director - on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

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CinePassion - 10/10 by Fernando F. CroceThe master class in piquant flash tends to Hollywood's warts like sumptuous flowers
Guardian - 10/10 by Peter BradshawHollywood here looks diabolically seductive.
Total Film - 8/10 by Philip KempEven without a knowledge of the background, this is sharp, cynical fun.
Observer (UK) - 8/10 by Philip FrenchA warts-and-all portrait of Hollywood at its zenith, a tale of how the bad created something beautiful.
Time Out - 8/10 by Cath ClarkeDouglas gives a terrific study of male ego, all relaxed charm and going places.
Little White Lies - 8/10 by David JenkinsA gaudy soap opera that also manages to satirise gaudy soap operas. Hows about that?
Film and Felt - 7/10 by Gabe LeibowitzIf it's not quite Sunset Blvd., Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful stands on its own as a scathing portrait of Hollywood's cutthroat ways and means.
Chicago Reader - 6/10 by Dave KehrUnder Minnelli's direction it becomes a fascinating study of a man destroyed by the 50s success ethic, left broke, alone, and slightly insane in the end.
Cinema Sight - 6/10 by Wesley LovellThree disjointed stories awkwardly connected by a frayed thread.
User Review - 10/10 by Pera KThe essential film about Hollywood and movie-making. Up there with Sunset Blvd.! Twisted, dark and dramatic...

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