The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Directed by

Vincente Minnelli

Genre

drama film, flashback film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 303 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A film producer alienates everyone around him with his manipulative and ruthless behavior. The story is told through the perspectives of three people whose lives he damaged.

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What happens

The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American melodrama film that tells the story of a film producer who alienates everyone around him. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee and stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland. The Bad and the Beautiful won five Academy Awards (including Grahame as Best Supporting Actress) of six nominations in 1952, a record for the most awards for a film not nominated for Best Picture or for Best Director. In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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