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The Bad and the Beautiful

"I took you out of the gutter... I can fling you back!"

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Release Date 1952-12-25
Rating 7.381 / 10 (214 votes)
Runtime 118 minutes
Budget $1,558,000
Revenue $3,373,000

Genres: Drama, Romance

Directors: Vincente Minnelli

Writers: Charles Schnee, George Bradshaw

IMDB: tt0044391


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