Drama /

Score: 63%( 24 votes )

Overview: 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.

Cast:

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)

Nora Marlowe
Nurse (uncredited)

Kenneth Patterson
Audition Director (uncredited)

Sam Harris
Party Guest (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp
Alcoholics Anonymous Patient (uncredited)

Harold Miller
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Frank Mills
Dock Worker (uncredited)

Jeffrey Sayre
Man in TV Audience (uncredited)

Brandon Beach
Party Guest (uncredited)

Rudy Germane
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Herschel Graham
Party Guest (uncredited)