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Status
Released
Release
1955
Runtime
1h 57m
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"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.
30 Cast Members
Susan Hayward
Lillian Roth
Richard Conte
Tony Bardeman
Eddie Albert
Burt McGuire
Jo Van Fleet
Katie Roth
Don Taylor
Wallie
Ray Danton
David Tredman
Margo
Selma
Virginia Gregg
Ellen
Don 'Red' Barry
Jerry
David Kasday
David as a Child
Carole Ann Campbell
Lillian as a Child
Peter Leeds
Richard
Tol Avery
Fat Man
Timothy Carey
Derelict (uncredited)
Veda Ann Borg
Waitress (uncredited)
Eve McVeagh
Partygoer (uncredited)
Ruth Storey
Marge Belney (uncredited)
Bill Walker
Porter (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Henry Kulky
Man in Bar (uncredited)
