In Hollywood, director Fred Amiel (Sullivan), movie star Georgia Lorrison (Turner), and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Powell) each refuse to speak by phone to Jonathan Shields … 展开

The film was shot as Tribute to a Bad Man but the studio worried it would be mistaken for a western. The title was changed to The Bad and the Beautiful at the suggestion of MGM's … 展开

David Raksin wrote the theme song "The Bad and the Beautiful" (originally called "Love is For the Very Young") for the film. Upon first hearing the song, Minnelli and Houseman nearly rejected … 展开

• Lana Turner as Georgia Lorrison
• Kirk Douglas as Jonathan Shields
• Walter Pidgeon as Harry Pebbel
• Dick Powell as James Lee Bartlow 展开

The film was based on a 1949 magazine story "Of Good and Evil" by George Bradshaw, which was expanded into a longer version called Memorial to a Bad Man. It concerned the will … 展开

According to MGM records, the film earned $2,367,000 in the US and Canada and $1,006,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $484,000. On 展开

The Bad and the Beautiful was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on February 5, 2002, as a Region 1 fullscreen DVD. It was released on Blu-ray from Warner Archive on November 19, … 展开