This month's Sunday Afternoon Classics selection celebrates Oscar month and true showbiz drama!
An old-style Hollywood studio boss (Walter Pidgeon) brings together a movie star (Lana Turner), a major director (Barry Sullivan) and a Pulitzer-prize author (Dick Powell) to see if they'll work again with Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas).
A producer now down on his luck, Shields simultaneously built their careers and nearly destroyed their lives. Each recalls their experience of Shields, and in the course of an immaculately cast and acted film they paint a warts-and-all portrait of Hollywood at its zenith, a tale of how the bad created something beautiful.
Director Vincente Minnelli creates a Tinseltown fable both condemning and celebrating the behind-the-scenes machinations of the celluloid dream factory, making this a must-see for any true cinephile out there!