Memorial to a Bad Man

Memorial to a Bad Man

TCM
125 minutes
1952
Drama / Romantic

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

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1952
Drama / Romantic

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Creators

Vincente Minnelli

Cast

Dabbs Greer, James Conaty, Herschel Graham, Marion Gray, Robert Haines, Loretta Russell, Kirk Douglas, Mike Lally, Roger Moore, Frank J. Scannell, Paul Stewart, Lana Turner, Franklyn Farnum, John Bishop, Bess Flowers, Kathleen Freeman, Gilbert Roland, Christopher Olsen, Paul Bradley, Charles Fogel, Rudy Germane, James Gonzalez, Harold Miller, Hans Moebus, Dorothy Patrick, Ralph Brooks, George J. Lewis, James Farrar, Jeffrey Sayre, Steve Forrest, Barbara Billingsley, Ivan Triesault, William H. O'Brien, George Sherwood, A. Cameron Grant, Reginald Simpson, Pat O'Malley, Sam Harris, William Phillips, Louis Calhern, Beulah Christian, Murray Pollack, Paul Power, Norman Stevans, Elaine Stewart, Madge Blake, Phil Dunham, George Ford, Kenner G. Kemp, Paul Maxey, Dee Turnell, Wilson Wood, Leo G. Carroll, Robert Carson, William Tannen, Ned Glass, Dick Johnstone, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Vanessa Brown, Sammy White, Jay Adler, Stanley Andrews, Del Armstrong, Ben Astar, Marshall Bradford, Hadda Brooks, Robert Burton, Francis X. Bushman, Marietta Canty, Janet Comerford, Jonathan Cott, Lillian Culver, Alexis Davidoff, Bob Davis, Sandy Descher, Helen Dickson, Steve Dunhill, Frank Gerstle, Joe Gilbert, Phyllis Graffeo, William E. Green, Ted Jordan, Joseph Keane, Peggy King, Lucy Knoch, Louise Lane, Wilbur Mack, Paul Marion, May McAvoy, Patrick J. Molyneaux, Ellanora Needles, Richard Norris, Kathy Qualen, Anthony Redondo, Jeff Richards, Perry Sheehan, Mabel Smaney, Harry Tyler, Kaaren Verne, Ray Walker, Harte Wayne, Lawrence A. Williams, Eric Wilton, Douglas Yorke, Helen Young