The Bad and the Beautiful poster
Director Vincente Minnelli
Screenplay Charles Schnee

The Bad and the Beautiful

Tagline: I took you out of the gutter... I can fling you back!

Release Date: 1952-12-25

Duration: 118 minutes

Synopsis

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 on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Casting

  • Kirk Douglas
    Jonathan Shields
  • Steve Forrest
    Actor in Georgia's Screen Test (uncredited)
  • Gilbert Roland
    Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
  • Kathleen Freeman
    Miss March (uncredited)
  • Sandy Descher
    Little Girl Screaming on "Cat Man" Set (uncredited)
  • Gloria Grahame
    Rosemary Bartlow
  • Walter Pidgeon
    Harry Pebbel
  • Leo G. Carroll
    Henry Whitfield
  • George J. Lewis
    "Far Away Mountain" Test Actor #2 (uncredited)
  • Barry Sullivan
    Fred Amiel