Continuity mistake: As Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas are toasting with champagne, the cigarette she is holding disappears.
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
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Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Lana Turner
James Lee: My first novel, on which I had labored for seven years, was just out. Surprisingly for a scholarly work on early Virginia, it was doing a brisk nationwide sale - possibly because it was liberally peppered with sex. Because, after all, early Virginia was liberally peppered with sex. Could that have been why Hollywood bought it?
Trivia: Gloria Grahame won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Rosemary Bartlow, even though she was only on screen for nine minutes. This was the shortest performance to win an Oscar before being broken by Beatrice Straight in "Network" (1976).
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