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The Bad and the Beautiful
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.
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“I took you out of the gutter... I can fling you back!”
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Trailer HD | The Bad and The Beautiful | Warner Archive
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) - trailer
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- Dec 25, 1952
- 1h 58m
- English
- Vincente Minnelli
- Charles Schnee, George Bradshaw
- Released
- $1.6M
- $3.4M
