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I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)

APPROVED 117 min  -  Biography | Drama | Music  -   25 December 1955 (USA)
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Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty... See full summary »

Director:

Daniel Mann

Writers:

Helen Deutsch (screenplay), Jay Richard Kennedy (screenplay), and 3 more credits »
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Susan Hayward ...
Richard Conte Richard Conte ...
Tony Bardeman
Eddie Albert ...
Burt McGuire
Jo Van Fleet ...
Katie Roth
Don Taylor Don Taylor ...
Wallie
Ray Danton Ray Danton ...
David Tredman
Margo Margo ...
Selma
Virginia Gregg Virginia Gregg ...
Ellen
Don 'Red' Barry Don 'Red' Barry ...
Jerry (as Don Barry)
David Kasday David Kasday ...
David as a Child
Carole Ann Campbell Carole Ann Campbell ...
Lillian as a Child
Peter Leeds Peter Leeds ...
Richard
Tol Avery Tol Avery ...
Fat Man
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Storyline

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, Wallie, followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman. After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world, not counting the first twenty with her mother. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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Plot Keywords:

Marriage | Drink | Divorce | Alcoholic | Alcoholics Anonymous  | See more »

Taglines:

She fell from fame to shame! See more »

Genres:

Biography | Drama | Music

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

(USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Und morgen werd' ich weinen See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See more »
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
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Trivia

Appearing together for the only time on film were Eddie Albert (playing Burt McGuire) and his wife Margo (portraying Selma). The couple were wed from December 5, 1945 until Margo's death on July 17, 1985. See more »

Goofs

Anachronisms: Although most of the film takes place in the 1920s and 1930s, the clothes, hairstyles, and musical arrangements are strictly in the much different style of the mid-1950s. See more »

Quotes

Lillian Roth: What I'm doing now is 'wrong'... and I'm *doing* it!
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Connections

Featured in "MGM Parade: Episode #1.10" (1955) See more »

Soundtracks

"The Vagabond King Waltz"
Music by Rudolf Friml (uncredited)
Lyrics by Brian Hooker (uncredited)
Performed briefly in a medley montage by Susan Hayward (vocal) and Eddie Albert (piano) See more »