I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)

Director:

Daniel Mann

Writers:

Lillian Roth (book) and
Mike Connolly (book) ...

Release Date:

25 diciembre 1955 (USA)

Genre:

Biografía | Drama | Music

Frase comercial:

Filmed on location; inside a woman's soul.

Plot:

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward)...

Plot Keywords:

Dread | Based On Autobiography | Entertainer | Fame | Grief

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

You'll Be Optimistic Tomorrow After Seeing this Film

Cast

Susan Hayward	...	Lillian Roth
Richard Conte	...	Tony Bardeman
Eddie Albert	...	Burt McGuire
Jo Van Fleet	...	Katie Roth
Don Taylor	...	Wallie
Ray Danton	...	David Tredman
Margo	...	Selma
Virginia Gregg	...	Ellen
Don 'Red' Barry	...	Jerry (as Don Barry)
David Kasday	...	David as a child
Carole Ann Campbell	...	Lillian as a child
Peter Leeds	...	Richard Elstead
Tol Avery	...	Joe - drunk party guest
Anthony Jochim	...	Paul (butler)
Jack Daley	...	Cab driver

También conocida como:

Mañana lloraré (Spain) [es]

Duración:

117 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

Canada:PA (Ontario) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

Lillian Roth was disappointed that MGM did not ask her to sing for Susan Hayward on the soundtrack. Concurrently with the movie's release, Epic Records issued an album of Lillian reprising tunes associated with her eminent career in vaudeville, on Broadway and in Hollywood. The LP used the same title -- "I'll Cry Tomorrow" -- as Miss Roth's 1954 autobiography (co-written with Mike Connolly and Gerold Frank, plus the 1955 biopic. Lillian did not sing the film's promotional theme song (music by Alex North, lyrics by Johnny Mercer), a mournful ballad sung by Susan Hayward, backed by Johnny Green and His Quartette, initially issued on a 45 by MGM Records.

Goofs:

Continuity: Lillian sits at a desk and begins to write a suicide note on a pad of paper. When she rises from the desk to walk to the window the pad of paper, as well as the pen, are nowhere in sight.

Quotes:

[alcoholic Lillian is desperate for a drink - mother drops the glass bottle on the floor, shattering it]
Lillian Roth: OH! Look what ya did! And ya DID IT ON PURPOSE! You're still trying to make me do what you want, to be what you want! I can't be anything except what I am! Look, look what did you drop that bottle for? What are you trying to do, drive me crazy? Go on, GET THE BOTTLE! GET IT NOW!
Katie Roth: All right! All right! All right, it's my fault, huh? I made you become an actress, you didn't want to, all right. I've been a bad mother, you had to support me, all right! All right! ALL RIGHT, EVERYTHING! Just this, and for once in your life you're gonna hear it...
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in An Early Frost (1985) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Sing You Sinners

You'll Be Optimistic Tomorrow After Seeing this Film

One of the best pictures ever made showcasing the talent of the brilliant Susan Hayward.

Miss Hayward was never better as Lillian Roth. Her drunk scenes are unbelievably realistic. Just ask any alcoholic.

Susan Hayward was equally matched by the terrific supporting performance of Jo Van Fleet as her mother. Van Fleet would win the coveted Oscar that same year (1955) for "East of Eden." I'll never understand why. She was far better as Katie Roth.

Hayward, who did her own singing, did very well. It is even said that Lillian Roth tried to emulate Hayward, when trying to make a comeback.

The film co-stars Ray Danton as Hayward's ill-fated finance, whose death from an apparent rapidly growing brain tumor, sets Roth on a downward spiral. Don Taylor, who would later become a director, is effective as Wallie, the guy who Roth marries when she is dead drunk. Richard Conte steals the show as the brutal Tony, who takes Roth for a ride, before she dumps him in California.

Eddie Albert, in one of his greatest roles, is terrific as Burt McGuire from AA. A recovering alcoholic, still hesitant about life, he acted beautifully in some memorable scenes.

Hayward's singing and dancing, especially in the number, Sing You Sinners from the Vagabond King, is marvelously staged.

Susan Hayward began her long trek in playing troubled women in the 1947 hit Smash-Up: The Story of A Woman. Both she and Eddie Albert got great experience for their parts, 8 years later, in this fabulous movie.