I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman (Ray Danton), he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, Wallie (Don Taylor), followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman (Richard Conte). After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire (Eddie Albert)comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world, not counting the first twenty with her mother.
Direction Daniel Mann
Cast Susan Hayward · Richard Conte · Eddie Albert · Jo Van Fleet · Don Taylor · Jack Daly · Ray Danton · Margo · Virginia Gregg
Soundtrack Alex North
Screenplay Helen Deutsch · Jay Richard Kennedy
Cinematography Arthur E. Arling
Original title I'll Cry Tomorrow
6.9
266 votes (FilmAffinity)
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