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I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) is a biopic that tells the story of Lillian Roth, a Broadway star who rebels against the pressure of her domineering mother and struggles with alcoholism after the death of her fiancé. It stars Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Margo, and Jo Van Fleet.
According to a March 1955 Hollywood Reporter news item, Charles Walters, who was initially slated to direct I'll Cry Tomorrow, left the project because he wanted June Allyson rather than Susan Hayward to play the lead. I'll Cry Tomorrow marked Hayward's first singing role. According to materials contained in the M-G-M music files at the USC ...
- Daniel Mann, Al Jennings
- Susan Hayward
June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Allyson began her career in 1937 as a dancer in short subject films and on Broadway in 1938. She signed with MGM in 1943, and rose to fame the following year in Two Girls and a Sailor.
Hollywood actresses in contention to play Lillian Roth included June Allyson (who nearly won the role), Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Jane Wyman, Jean Simmons, Jane Russell and Piper Laurie.
Jul 11, 2006 · In 12 years as a star at the lion of studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and for decades afterward, June Allyson purred sweet reason to the prime men of her era: Jimmy Stewart (in three movies ...
I'll Cry Tomorrow: Directed by Daniel Mann. With Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet. Susan Hayward stars as singer-actress Lillian Roth, whose rise to stardom was nearly destroyed by alcoholism.
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I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) In director Daniel Mann's and MGM's dramatic and poignant musical biopic about a showbiz singer/actress and Broadway star named Lillian Roth - the film followed Billy Wilder's account of a doomed male alcoholic Don Birnam (Ray Milland) in The Lost Weekend (1945) , and prefaced director Blake Edwards' Days of Wine and ...
