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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. It stars Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Margo, and Jo Van Fleet.
Several years ago, an all but forgotten entertainer by the name of Lillian Roth, wrote a brutally frank autobiography called “I'll Cry Tomorrow.” It was made into a successful Hollywood film. Miss Roth herself was swamped with offers to appear in television, nightclubs.
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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.
By the '50s Roth had rehabilitated her reputation, and I'll Cry Tomorrow (based on her autobiography) received popular and critical acclaim in its powerful telling of her story, thanks to the careful direction of Daniel Mann and Oscar-nominated performance by Susan Hayward.
Mar 9, 2004 · But 50 years ago, when the actress Lillian Roth wrote ''I'll Cry Tomorrow,'' a harrowing account of her descent into alcoholism, celebrities were not in the habit of baring their souls in...
In his autobiography, writer Arthur Laurents, who worked with Lillian Roth when she was in his 1962 play "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," said that contrary to this movie's happy and romantic ending for Burt and Lillian, the real-life Burt left Lillian for a man a few years after the movie was released.
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Dec 13, 2012 · Her 1953 appearance on “This Is Your Life” was the only telecast of the show to be rebroadcast twice by popular demand. The following year she published an account of her illness and recovery, I’ll Cry Tomorrow, which topped the New York Times bestseller list.
