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Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Writers:

Charles Schnee (screenplay)
George Bradshaw (story)

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Release Date:

9 February 1953 (Brazil) more

Genre:

Drama | Romance more

Tagline:

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

Plot:

An actress, a director, and a writer are asked to help revive the career of ruthless Hollywood studio bigwig Jonathan Shields. However, all three are reluctant because they have all been used and betrayed by him in the past. full summary | full synopsis

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Awards:

Won 5 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations more

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(5 articles)

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Trash By Any Other Name...... more (72 total)


Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Additional Details

Also Known As:

Memorial to a Bad Man (USA) (working title)
Tribute to a Badman (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:

118 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | UK:A (original rating) | USA:Approved (certificate #16017) | UK:PG | Canada:PG (video rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15


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Trivia:

Lana Turner plays an actor whose career started as a movie extra. Turner started her own career as an extra in A Star Is Born (1937). more

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Jonathan is shining the flashlight at the girl up the roof, at one point he aims it away from her, but the light remains steadily focused on her legs. more

Quotes:

James Lee Bartlow: Yes, this is James Lee Bartlow... Paris?... Mr. Shields!... is Mr. Shields paying for this call?... All right, put him on... Hello, Jonathan? Drop dead. more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in L.A. Confidential (1997) more

Soundtrack:

Don't Blame Me more


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Trash By Any Other Name......, 28 June 2006
5/10
Author: brocksilvey from United States

This glossy, trashy soap opera of a movie has won all sorts of accolades and an idolatrous fan base, but its appeal is lost on me. It's filmed in chilly black and white, giving it the patina of an art film, but if this were filmed in blazing Technicolor, it wouldn't be any more distinguished than a heap of other 50s sudsers, like "Peyton Place" or "The Best of Everything." Vincente Minellis proved that he could do shadowy melodramas as well as colorful musicals, but his direction is still fairly anonymous. The pacing of the film itself, with its rigid flashback structure, is monotonous, and it's much too long. I get a kick out of Gloria Grahame in whatever she's in, so she was a welcome addition to the cast, but she's in the film for maybe ten minutes late into its running time, and I was too numbed by indifference by the time she appeared to regain interest. Dick Powell is the only other actor I really remember, mostly because his dry, cynical writer character was so far removed from the bouncy, googly-eyed boy-next-door roles he played in all of the Warners musicals.

Grade: C+

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