Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- movie business
- rise and fall
- flashback
- hollywood
- black and white
- told in flashback
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Lana Turner
Georgia Lorrison
Kirk Douglas
Jonathan Shields
Walter Pidgeon
Harry Pebbel
Dick Powell
James Lee Bartlow
- Barry Sullivan — Fred Amiel
- Gloria Grahame — Rosemary Bartlow
- Leo G. Carroll — Henry Whitfield
- Gilbert Roland — Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
- Paul Stewart — Syd Murphy
- Vanessa Brown — Kay Amiel
- Elaine Stewart — Lila
- Sammy White — Gus
- Ivan Triesault — Von Ellstein
- Lucy Knoch — Blonde Dancing with Gaucho (uncredited)
- Jay Adler — Mr. Z (uncredited)
- Directed
- Vincente Minnelli
- Written
- George Bradshaw, Charles Schnee
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 303 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's Incorporated
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
