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25 December 1955 (USA)
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Filmed on location; inside a woman's soul. more
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Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward)...
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Won Oscar.
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5 nominations
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You'll Be Optimistic Tomorrow After Seeing this Film
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Susan Hayward | ... | Lillian Roth | |
| Richard Conte | ... | Tony Bardeman | |
| Eddie Albert | ... | Burt McGuire | |
| Jo Van Fleet | ... | Katie Roth | |
| Don Taylor | ... | Wallie | |
| Ray Danton | ... | David Tredman | |
| Margo | ... | Selma | |
| Virginia Gregg | ... | Ellen | |
| Don 'Red' Barry | ... | Jerry (as Don Barry) | |
| David Kasday | ... | David as a Child | |
| Carole Ann Campbell | ... | Lillian as a Child | |
| Peter Leeds | ... | Richard | |
| Tol Avery | ... | Fat Man |
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117 min
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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According to actress Patty Duke, she made one of her very first movie appearances in this film as a non-speaking extra eating a pretzel. She and Susan Hayward were infamously teamed years later in Valley of the Dolls (1967).
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Continuity: Lillian sits at a desk and begins to write a suicide note on a pad of paper. When she rises from the desk to walk to the window the pad of paper, as well as the pen, are nowhere in sight.
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[alcoholic Lillian is desperate for a drink - mother drops the glass bottle on the floor, shattering it]
Lillian Roth: OH! Look what ya did! And ya DID IT ON PURPOSE! You're still trying to make me do what you want, to be what you want! I can't be anything except what I am! Look, look what did you drop that bottle for? What are you trying to do, drive me crazy? Go on, GET THE BOTTLE! GET IT NOW!
Katie Roth: All right! All right! All right, it's my fault, huh? I made you become an actress, you didn't want to, all right. I've been a bad mother, you had to support me, all right! All right! ALL RIGHT, EVERYTHING! Just this, and for once in your life you're gonna hear it...
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Lillian Roth: OH! Look what ya did! And ya DID IT ON PURPOSE! You're still trying to make me do what you want, to be what you want! I can't be anything except what I am! Look, look what did you drop that bottle for? What are you trying to do, drive me crazy? Go on, GET THE BOTTLE! GET IT NOW!
Katie Roth: All right! All right! All right, it's my fault, huh? I made you become an actress, you didn't want to, all right. I've been a bad mother, you had to support me, all right! All right! ALL RIGHT, EVERYTHING! Just this, and for once in your life you're gonna hear it...
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Referenced in An Early Frost (1985) (TV)
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The Vagabond King Waltz
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One of the best pictures ever made showcasing the talent of the brilliant Susan Hayward.
Miss Hayward was never better as Lillian Roth. Her drunk scenes are unbelievably realistic. Just ask any alcoholic.
Susan Hayward was equally matched by the terrific supporting performance of Jo Van Fleet as her mother. Van Fleet would win the coveted Oscar that same year (1955) for "East of Eden." I'll never understand why. She was far better as Katie Roth.
Hayward, who did her own singing, did very well. It is even said that Lillian Roth tried to emulate Hayward, when trying to make a comeback.
The film co-stars Ray Danton as Hayward's ill-fated finance, whose death from an apparent rapidly growing brain tumor, sets Roth on a downward spiral. Don Taylor, who would later become a director, is effective as Wallie, the guy who Roth marries when she is dead drunk. Richard Conte steals the show as the brutal Tony, who takes Roth for a ride, before she dumps him in California.
Eddie Albert, in one of his greatest roles, is terrific as Burt McGuire from AA. A recovering alcoholic, still hesitant about life, he acted beautifully in some memorable scenes.
Hayward's singing and dancing, especially in the number, Sing You Sinners from the Vagabond King, is marvelously staged.
Susan Hayward began her long trek in playing troubled women in the 1947 hit Smash-Up: The Story of A Woman. Both she and Eddie Albert got great experience for their parts, 8 years later, in this fabulous movie.