Dramatically strange - but visually splendid - inside look at Hollywood film making.
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08/08/08
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
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Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Vincente Minnelli directed this scathing study of the movie industry and Hollywood "glamour." An egotistical producer, Jonathan Shields (Douglas), determined to prove himself the finest filmmaker... [More]
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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In Minnnelli's hands, the noirish melodram is less critical of Hollywood and more ambiguous in depicting the tawdry absurdities and operatic splendors of a bizzare industry, in which the players are more of frustrated dreamers than cold manipulators.
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09/09/03
Classic take on classic Hollywood.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is director Vincente Minnelli's (and producer John Houseman's) quintessential movie about Hollywood and moviemaking.
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