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The Bad and the Beautiful
Why this pick
Like Some Came Running, it pairs lush, controlled melodrama with bruised, self-destructive people seeking affection while repeatedly sabotaging it.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1958 2h 17m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Country Girl
Why this pick
Its unsparing compassion for alcoholism and damaged love echoes the intimate hurt beneath Dave and Ginny’s volatile connection.
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A Hatful of Rain
Why this pick
Another 1950s drama in which addiction, shame, and family pressure turn ordinary domestic spaces into quietly painful emotional battlegrounds.
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All Fall Down
Why this pick
This sharp, restless family drama shares the later-period Hollywood willingness to make a charismatic male lead deeply cruel, vulnerable, and difficult to love.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1948, Dave Hirsh is a cynical Army veteran who winds up in his hometown of Parkman, Indiana after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated. Ginny Moorehead, a woman of seemingly loose morals and poor education, was invited by Dave in his drunken state to accompany him to Parkman. When Dave sobers up, he realizes it was a mistake, and gives her money to return to Chicago. However, she decides to stay because she has fallen in love with Dave and is also trying to avoid a violent boyfriend in Chicago.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Nancy Gates
Edith Barclay
Betty Lou Keim
Dawn Hirsh
Connie Gilchrist
Jane Barclay
William Schallert
Al
Ned Wever
Smitty
Steve Peck
Raymond Lanchak
Frank Sinatra
Dave Hirsh
Dean Martin
Bama Dillert