Academy Awards, USA 1956
| Won Oscar | Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Helen Rose |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Susan Hayward |
| Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Arthur E. Arling | |
| Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons Malcolm Brown Edwin B. Willis Hugh Hunt |
MGM
Directed by Daniel Mann
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Soapy biography of child actor with overbearing stage mother who becomes an alcoholic in her adult years. Susan Hayward milks the despair for all it's worth, ending up a suicidal on New York's skid row. She is saved by the friendly and understanding folks at AA, for which this ultimately seems like an endorsement. Pales in comparison to 1945's The Lost Weekend, which basically covers the same ground.
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