Top billed cast

1. 

   Lana Turner

   Georgia Lorrison

2. 

   Kirk Douglas

   Jonathan Shields

3. 

   Walter Pidgeon

   Harry Pebbel

4. 

   Dick Powell

   James Lee Bartlow

5. 

   Barry Sullivan

   Fred Amiel

6. 

   Gloria Grahame

   Rosemary Bartlow

7. 

   Leo G. Carroll

   Henry Whitfield

8. 

   Gilbert Roland

   Victor "Gaucho" Ribera

9. 

   Paul Stewart

   Syd Murphy

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Reviews

A review by tmdb28039023

Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-08-30

The Bad and the Beautiful is sort of like Old Hollywood’s Rashomon. Three characters appear before a fourth to tell a story about a fifth; the three stories are different but interrelated, and the moral of each is the same: studio chief Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) is a major a--hole and to know him is to hate him.

Each tale is bookended by film producer Harry Pebbel (Walter Pidgeon) sarcastically condoling with the teller, pitying them for their blindness to the fact that Shields was a blessing in disguise. Without him, movie star Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner) was "a drunk and a tram...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,558,000.00

Revenue
$3,373,000.00

Keywords

• movie business
• rise and fall
• flashback
• hollywood
• black and white
• told in flashback