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Name: The Bad and the Beautiful
Released: 1953-1-15
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan

The Bad and the Beautiful

NR
1h 58m
1953

80%

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Academy Award-winner Kirk Douglas ("Lust for Life," "Gunfight at O.K. Corral") stars in this drama about the life of an ambitious Hollywood producer, as seen through the eyes of a writer, a director, and an actress. Nominated for six Oscars, it won five, including Best Screenplay. Douglas was nominated for Best Actor. Gloria Grahame ("Oklahoma!," "Crossfire") received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") delivers what many consider to be her finest performance as Douglas' actress lover. With Oscar-nominee Walter Pidgeon ("Mrs. Miniver," "Forbidden Planet"). Directed by Academy Award-winner Vincente Minnelli ("Gigi," "An American in Paris ").

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Producer:

John Houseman

Writer:

Charles Schnee

Cast:

Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll, Vanessa Brown, Paul Stewart, Sammy White, Elaine Stewart, Ivan Triesault

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

80%

Critics Consensus: Melodrama at its most confident, The Bad and the Beautiful is an ode to moviemaking that offers unblinking insight into the ugly egos that have shaped Hollywood history.

Reviews

InSession Film

Dave Giannini

This world goes on without us, and a mostly anti-Hollywood film can be read in more than one way, which is wildly more interesting than anyone more specific ending.

Bad proves Minnelli to be one of the most assured and powerful names in the world of cinematic melodrama, and his ability to bring to the genre the sense of tension found more often in noir pictures, really makes this film a singular and esoteric entrant.

The Bad and the Beautiful is a lot of film, and seems always on the verge of getting somewhere. But it never does.

Brilliant as the film undoubtedly is, ingeniously shaped and textured, it remains, with its lack of a developing centre, too insubstantial.

August 31, 2020

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Courier Mail (Australia)

Courier Mail Staff

MGM gathered together a galaxy of stars... and to my mind attempted to make another All About Eve. Instead, they just made another film with one of the most incoherent stories I've ever tried to decipher.

August 31, 2020

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