The frank, revealing story of Lillian Roth's life! Best-seller now a film sensation.
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
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Cast
- Susan HaywardLillian Roth
- Richard ConteTony Bardeman
- Eddie AlbertBurt McGuire
- Jo Van FleetKatie Roth
- Don TaylorWallie
- Ray DantonDavid Tredman
- MargoSelma
- Virginia GreggEllen
- Don 'Red' BarryJerry
- David KasdayDavid as a Child
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- Daniel MannDirector
- Helen DeutschScreenplay
- Jay Richard KennedyScreenplay
- Arthur E. ArlingDirector of Photography
- Alex NorthOriginal Music Composer
- Harold F. KressEditor
- Lawrence WeingartenProducer
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