1962
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The Goddess is a 1958 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Kim Stanley and Lloyd Bridges. From a screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, the film is an in-depth character study of the life of a troubled and lonely girl who becomes a movie star adored by millions, but is miserable in her private life.
The Goddess: Directed by John Cromwell. With Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland. A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
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- Drama
- John Cromwell
- 1958-06-24
Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky follows up the weak Marty retread The Bachelor Party (not to be confused with the early 1980s Tom Hanks classic!) with the fair-to-middling Marilyn Monroe allegory The Goddess.
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- Columbia Pictures
- John Cromwell
As a child, she was Emily Ann, a poor girl in the South with no friends and an ineffective mother. But as an adult, she's Rita Shawn (Kim Stanley), an actress loved the world over.
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- Kim Stanley
- John Cromwell
- Drama
Synopsis. Loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, the story of a young woman destined from childhood on to be adored by millions but unhappy in her own life. Patty Duke plays Emily Ann Faulkner as a young, friendless, fatherless rural southern girl whose mother is indifferent to her.
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- Kim Stanley
- John Cromwell
Loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, the story of a young woman destined from childhood on to be adored by millions but unhappy in her own life.
She marries a washed-up athlete (Lloyd Bridges) who becomes fiercely jealous of her sex appeal. She sleeps her way to the top, then finds that her success is hollow. Regarded in many circles as the pinnacle of dramatic art in 1958, The Goddess is more likely to invoke howls of laughter from today's in-the-know audiences.
