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A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.
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- 1 nomination
Dorothy Abbott
- Model
- (uncredited)
John Albright
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Richard Anderson
- Hosiery Man
- (uncredited)
Harry Barris
- Party Piano Player
- (uncredited)
Tom Bernard
- Adam
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe ending in the original script had washed-up model Lily James, played by Lana Turner, at forty-five years of age working as a hotel maid. The original ending as filmed had Lily James committing suicide, following in the footsteps of Mary Ashton, the older model Lily meets earlier in the film who jumps to her death from a window. After filming finished in late March 1950 the film was shown to test audiences who gave such a negative reaction to this ending that retakes were done in mid-April 1950, to provide the film with the happier ending that's used in the finished film, much to the dismay of director George Cukor.
- GoofsLily James appears as "Top Model" on the cover of a Life magazine being read by Jim Leversoe. The scene immediately dissolves to the cover of the same Life magazine in a plane with Steve Harleigh, but the cover shot of the Life magazine on the plane is an entirely different pose (but the same outfit and hairdo).
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Mary Ashlon: Nobody can help anybody.
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a life of her own
Never a good idea when making a movie to kill off your best character twenty some odd minutes in. Referring, of course, to the unhappy, aging, neurotic, dipso model played to self destructive, sardonic perfection by Ann Dvorak. When she throws herself out of a top story apartment window a lot of the quality and all the energy of this film goes with her. Did you notice, for example, how Isobel Lennart's dialogue, so sharp and insightful when Dvorak is around, turns mushy and labored? And how George Cukor's directorial pacing seems to be off a tic or two once Ray Milland (rhymes with bland) and his dull love interest character enters the picture? Gone is the breezy tone of the first fifteen minutes when Lana Turner's character gets a crash course from Tom Ewell in Modeling 101 and the tension inherent in the nightclub scene with sleazy Barry Sullivan, Dvorak, Turner and nice but not too nice Louis Calhern.
Bottom line: It's not the worst Cukor film ever made (that dubious distinction goes to "Chapman Report") but we're a long way from "Adam's Rib" or even "The Actress", for that matter. Give it a C.
PS...Milland as a copper baron from Montana is about as convincing as John Wayne playing a librarian.
Bottom line: It's not the worst Cukor film ever made (that dubious distinction goes to "Chapman Report") but we're a long way from "Adam's Rib" or even "The Actress", for that matter. Give it a C.
PS...Milland as a copper baron from Montana is about as convincing as John Wayne playing a librarian.
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- $1,818,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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