Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.

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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

Peter Leeds

Richard

Tol Avery

Fat Man

Timothy Carey

Derelict (uncredited)