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| | Amazon.com: The Bad and the Beautiful: DVD: Lana Turner,Kirk Douglas,Walter Pidgeon,Dick Powell,Barry Sullivan,Gloria ... |
 | | In The Bad and the Beautiful, Kirk Douglas plays a tyrannical, manipulative producer fallen on hard times. |
 | | The script has a lot of backstage clichés, but Vincente Minnelli's sharp, energetic direction, the gorgeous fl-and-white cinematography, and the topnotch performances--particularly Douglas and Gloria Grahame, who won an Oscar for her sweet role as the writer's cheerful Southern wife--flesh out the clichés with cutting details and convincing bile. |
 | | Caustic, starry-eyed, and slyly funny, The Bad and the Beautiful is a strange and skillful blend of "If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere" pluck and poisonous cynicism, one of the great movies about making movies. |
| www.amazon.com /Bad-Beautiful-Lana-Turner/dp/B00005U2KI (373 words) |
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