Inside Daisy Clover (1966)
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 7
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Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4
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Movie Info
Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) goes from teenage girl to movie star practically overnight when her demented mother enters her voice in a talent-search contest. From a broken-down carnival on the Santa Monica Pier, in no time at all she is attending glamorous Hollywood parties. But Daisy soon learns that misery and pain go hand-in-hand with fame and fortune. Before Daisy completes her first film, the studio execs have her mother committed to an asylum without permission. Daisy tries to find
Jan 1, 1966 Wide
Feb 3, 2009
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Cast
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Natalie Wood
Daisy Clover -
Christopher Plummer
Raymond Swan -
Robert Redford
Wade Lewis -
Roddy McDowall
Walter Baines -
Ruth Gordon
The Dealer -
Katherine Bard
Melora Swan -
Betty Harford
Gloria Goslett -
John Hale
Harry Goslett -
Harold Gould
Cop -
Ottola Nesmith
Old Lady in Hospital -
Peter Helm
Milton Hopwood -
Paul Hartman
Dancer -
Edna Holland
Cynara -
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All Critics (11) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (7) | DVD (3)
Hollywood self-satire is also a corridor of mirrors where movie makers are apt to start cringing.
Top CriticWood's movements are spasmodic and graceless. The director Robert Mulligan can't quite find the rhythm, either. Some of the picture is whimsical, some of it as lugubrious as a horror movie.
Covering a two-year period, the outcome is at times disjointed and episodic as the title character played by Natalie Wood emerges more nebulous than definitive.
Gavin Lambert's screenplay (from his own novel) lives in the land of the ambiguous and fey, which is probably why the film now seems subtle and attractive.
Top CriticThe talented director Robert Mulligan, apparently engulfed by studio overproduction, falters at times, not always knowing whether to play things straight or for laughs.
Too much, too soon, for Daisy and for us.
Entertaining showbiz tale despite being short on execution.
Grim but sometimes well-directed tale of insidious studio types in Old Hollywood.
Director Mulligan can't find the right tone for Gavin Lambert's inside Hollywood tale about a girl rise to stardom before collapsing and so the story veers from a cautionary fable to Gothic melodrama to farce, but some of the acting is good.
Wood has one great breakdown scene, reminiscent of Judy Garland (an inspiration for the character) but she lacks the star's range and depth of emotion, and the songs don't hold a candle to Arlen and Co.
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Foreign Titles
- Inside Daisy Clover (1966) (DE)
- Inside Daisy Clover (1966) (UK)
