I watched this many years after it aired (found it at the library). I'd say the acting is pretty good...I think it really is a "behind the scenes" story...literally. Most of the movie shows what happened between takes and in the dressing rooms. I'm writing this in 2020, but obviously this was before the "me too" movement. I think many actresses just knew about the casting couch and the big shot movie directors were going to hit on them. I remember Tippi Hendren talking in an interview (when she was older) about how she was sabotaged by Hitchcock.
Hitchcock seemed like an emotionally unstable creative genius with lots of obsessions and idiosyncracies. I felt very sorry for his wife...but I'm sure there were many wives in the movie industries that were tossed aside for starlets.
Review of The Girl
