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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.
I'll Cry Tomorrow is a 1954 autobiography by Lillian Roth, co-written by Roth, Gerold Frank and journalist Mike Connolly.It is a "brutally frank" depiction of Roth's alcoholism, one of the earlier books by a celebrity on addiction, and influential in drawing attention to alcoholism as a disease.
Roth wrote her autobiography I'll Cry Tomorrow with author-collaborator Gerold Frank in 1954, and a softened version of the story became the basis of a hit film of the same title the following year, starring Susan Hayward, who was nominated for an Academy Award. The book became a bestseller worldwide and sold more than seven million copies in ...
However, in I'll Cry Tomorrow—whose vocals were once widely attributed to professional ghost singer Marni Nixon [30] —Hayward sang the vocals undubbed and appears on the soundtrack. [31] Hayward performed in the musical biography of singer Jane Froman in the 1952 film, With a Song in My Heart , a role which won her the Golden Globe for Best ...
Frank was a renowned ghostwriter and had previously worked on I'll Cry Tomorrow, a popular book about another alcoholic celebrity, Lillian Roth. [5] The book, released as Too Soon Too Much, was published through Henry Holt & Co. in 1957, and re-published in 1958 through Signet publishing. [6] Warner Bros. picked up the film a year later in 1958.
Conte was teamed with Victor Mature in Cry of the City (1948). MGM borrowed him for Big Jack (1949), then he did House of Strangers (1949) with Edward G. Robinson , playing Max Monetti, a lawyer who defends his father (Robinson) against government charges of banking irregularities and goes to prison for jury tampering.
Lawrence Weingarten (December 30, 1897 – February 5, 1975) was an American film producer. He was best known for working for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and producing some of the studio's most prestigious films such as Adam's Rib (1949), I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1954), the autobiography of Lillian Roth, who co-wrote with Frank and columnist Mike Connolly, was an international bestseller, more than seven million copies in more than twenty languages.