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Lillian Roth (December 13, 1910 – May 12, 1980) was an American singer and actress. Her life story was told in the 1955 film I'll Cry Tomorrow , in which she was portrayed by Susan Hayward , who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
Animal Crackers is a 1930 American pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film directed by Victor Heerman.The film stars the Marx Brothers, (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo), with Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont, based on the Marxes’ Broadway musical of the same name.
The screenplay was adapted by Helen Deutsch and Jay Richard Kennedy from the 1954 autobiography by Lillian Roth, Mike Connolly and Gerold Frank. It was directed by Daniel Mann . The film won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Helen Rose , and had three other Academy Award nominations, including Best Actress for Susan Hayward. [ 2 ]
Actor. Lillian Roth: December 13, 1910 May 2, 1980 American Toured with her sister, Ann as Lillian Roth & Co. or The Roth Kids from the age of 6. Roth starred in the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics and Earl Carroll's Vanities, in the late 20s and 30s.
Lillian Roth (born Lillian Rutstein, 1910–1980), singer and actress, performer on Broadway [502] ... Eli Roth (born 1972), film actor, director, producer and writer ...
The cast included Mildred Natwick, Lillian Roth, Hans Conried, and Lillian Hayman. Natwick was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Veteran Broadway actor David Burns was also a member of the cast, until he collapsed onstage from a heart attack during a preview performance at Philadelphia's Forrest Theatre and died soon ...
MGM hired Hayward to play the alcoholic showgirl/actress Lillian Roth in I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), [27] based on Roth's best-selling autobiography of the same title, for which she received a Cannes award. It was a major financial success. [28]
Tom Signorelli, who played Detective Brennan, an officer investigating the crimes, was a New York stage actor. [37] Lillian Roth, a former film actress-turned-Broadway performer, was cast in a minor role as the pathologist, marking her first film role in decades. [38]