Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.
Bill Walker
- Julian
- (as William Walker)
Leon Alton
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Frank Baker
- Congressional Hearing Spectator
- (uncredited)
Harry Bartell
- Joe
- (uncredited)
Brandon Beach
- Congressional Hearing Spectator
- (uncredited)
George Brand
- Senator
- (uncredited)
Morgan Brown
- Joe
- (uncredited)
Roy Butler
- Freddie
- (uncredited)
Douglas Carter
- Bellboy
- (uncredited)
James Conaty
- Horse Auction Spectator
- (uncredited)
Jonathan Cott
- Newspaper Man
- (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
- Congressional Hearing Spectator
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Art Cohn
- Adela Rogers St. Johns
- Willard Mack(uncredited)
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- TriviaIn the swimming pool sequence, Fernando Lamas, in his clinging white wet trunks, showed too much "enthusiasm" for Dame Elizabeth Taylor and retakes were required after the rushes were shown.
- GoofsWhen Victor calls Jean by her name just before they leave the Town Club, his mouth movement does not match when he says "Jean".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Elizabeth Taylor - An Intimate Portrait (1975)
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Tripe in fancy dress clothes
This is tripe dressed up in fancy clothes. A loose remake of "A Free Soul" this silly melodrama is a painless time waster and not much else. What was once a racy provocative drama has become an empty potboiler.
True it does have Elizabeth Taylor at the peak of her beauty and that's always worth seeing. Additionally she is a much more relaxed and natural actress than Norma Shearer ever was. But she is handed a part that has been diluted from the original which is true of the entire picture.
William Powell, a welcome presence as always, isn't given the flashy part that Lionel Barrymore won an Oscar for in the original just a disapproving father without any real bite. No wonder he left MGM after this if this is the best they had to offer.
The real problem is the casting of Fernando Lamas in the old Clark Gable role, with Gable and his animal magnetism you could understand Norma's desire and willingness to stray with him. With Lamas, attractive though he may be, there is none of that and he comes across as a cheap hood made good and an oily one at that and Liz's headstrong determination to be with him makes her seem a foolish, spoiled nitwit.
For fans of the stars, and of course this being an MGM film they are beautiful dressed and the surrounding sumptuous, it's worth one watch but that will be more than enough.
True it does have Elizabeth Taylor at the peak of her beauty and that's always worth seeing. Additionally she is a much more relaxed and natural actress than Norma Shearer ever was. But she is handed a part that has been diluted from the original which is true of the entire picture.
William Powell, a welcome presence as always, isn't given the flashy part that Lionel Barrymore won an Oscar for in the original just a disapproving father without any real bite. No wonder he left MGM after this if this is the best they had to offer.
The real problem is the casting of Fernando Lamas in the old Clark Gable role, with Gable and his animal magnetism you could understand Norma's desire and willingness to stray with him. With Lamas, attractive though he may be, there is none of that and he comes across as a cheap hood made good and an oily one at that and Liz's headstrong determination to be with him makes her seem a foolish, spoiled nitwit.
For fans of the stars, and of course this being an MGM film they are beautiful dressed and the surrounding sumptuous, it's worth one watch but that will be more than enough.
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- A Life of Her Own
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- $665,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Girl Who Had Everything (1953) officially released in Canada in English?
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