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Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

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The Bad and the Beautiful

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Continuity

When Georgia drives away after fighting with Jonathan in the foyer, it is daylight, but as she is careening in the rain, it is night.
When Jonathan is having his dramatic outburst with Georgia in the foyer of his home after she has left her premiere party to see him, in the various perspective cuts, his hair alternates between being wildly disheveled to neat and combed in place.
When the director Von Ellstein and Shields are having their big spat on how a just-concluded scene should have been directed and the overall directorial style and vision for the picture, the cuts between the perspective views of their arguing show Shields alternately with tensed outstretched arms and then casually folded hands on the top step of the short ladder he was leaning on.
In the Lorrison house, Jonathan cuts a drawing from the wallpaper and holds it unrolled, but it is half rolled-up in the next shot.
In the studio, when Rosemary talks to Jonathan about her home in Hollywood, he has his right arm folded, holding the cigarette. In the following shot, just before they leave, he has his right arm by his side.

Revealing mistakes

When Jonathan is shining the flashlight at the girl in the attic (Georgia), at one point he aims it away from her, but the light remains steadily focused on her legs.
When Jonathan is driving a car for the first time, he drives on the left-hand side of the road.
When Shields and Amiel arrive at The Crow's Nest, the scene's general illumination is supposedly solely from the car's headlights - but the shadows, etc, are completely wrong for that.

Anachronisms

The story takes place over an 18-year period, roughly 1934-1952, but the hairstyles and clothing of all the women, from beginning to end, are strictly 1952.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

The sound of the punch that is thrown at Jonathan Shields is noticeably early.

Plot holes

Jonathan coaches Georgia on how to seductively light a cigarette for her movie role, but her part is in a historical picture in which she apparently plays a peasant/princess living in an era when women didn't smoke, let alone use a cigarette as part of romantic allure.

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