Post by snsurone on Mar 8, 2018 22:45:49 GMT
I'm sorry to say it, but this movie is a real groaner.
Under Daniel Mann's direction, it is melodramatic to the extreme, and Susan Hayward, as singer-actress Lillian Roth, was so over-the-top as to be ridiculous.
Hard to believe that she was nominated for an Oscar for such a hammy performance!
It's true that the real Lillian Roth was an alcoholic, but I seriously doubt that she was the rolling drunk that Hayward portrayed.
I saw her in ANIMAL CRACKERS, with the Marx Brothers; she was beautiful and had a lovely singing voice--much better than Hayward's.
Roth's last husband, Burt, was not the kind, gentle soul as portrayed by Eddie Albert.
At the time of their divorce, he had cleaned out their joint savings account, leaving her penniless.
BTW, I had read somewhere long ago that Roth had fallen off the wagon before her death in 1980.
I don't know whether or not that's true.
Under Daniel Mann's direction, it is melodramatic to the extreme, and Susan Hayward, as singer-actress Lillian Roth, was so over-the-top as to be ridiculous.
Hard to believe that she was nominated for an Oscar for such a hammy performance!
It's true that the real Lillian Roth was an alcoholic, but I seriously doubt that she was the rolling drunk that Hayward portrayed.
I saw her in ANIMAL CRACKERS, with the Marx Brothers; she was beautiful and had a lovely singing voice--much better than Hayward's.
Roth's last husband, Burt, was not the kind, gentle soul as portrayed by Eddie Albert.
At the time of their divorce, he had cleaned out their joint savings account, leaving her penniless.
BTW, I had read somewhere long ago that Roth had fallen off the wagon before her death in 1980.
I don't know whether or not that's true.
