Born to Be Bad (1950)

Born to Be Bad (1950) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
89

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1950 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Nicholas Ray

Written By:
George Oppenheimer
Anne Parrish

Actors:
Joan Fontaine ..... Christabel Caine Carey
Robert Ryan ..... Nick Bradley
Zachary Scott ..... Curtis Carey
Joan Leslie ..... Donna Foster
Mel Ferrer ..... Gabriel 'Gobby' Broome
Harold Vermilyea ..... John Caine
Virginia Farmer ..... Aunt Clara Caine
Kathleen Howard ..... Mrs. Bolton
Dick Ryan ..... Arthur - Curtis's Butler
Bess Flowers ..... Mrs. Worthington
Joy Hallward ..... Mrs. Porter
Hazel Boyne ..... Committee Woman
Irving Bacon ..... Jewelry Salesman
Gordon Oliver ..... Harrison - the Lawyer (scenes deleted)
Jack Chefe ..... Man (scenes deleted)
Jan Hedges ..... Lawyer's Secretary (scenes deleted)
Al Murphy ..... Man (scenes deleted)

Synopsis:

One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as "a cross between Lucrezia Borgia and Peg O' My Heart". For the benefit of her wealthy husband Zachary Scott and his family, Fontaine adopts a facade of wide-eyed sweetness. Bored with her hubby, she inaugurates a romance with novelist Robert Ryan. All her carefully crafted calculations come acropper when both men discover that she's a bitch among bitches. She might have gotten away with all her machinations, but the censors said uh-uh. Originally slated for filming in 1946, with Henry Fonda scheduled to play the Robert Ryan part, Born to Bad was cancelled, then resurfaced as Bed as Roses in 1948, this time with Barbara Bel Geddes in the Fontaine role. RKO head Howard Hughes' decision to replace Bel Geddes with the more bankable Fontaine was one of the reasons that producer Dore Schary left RKO in favor of MGM. Based on Anne Parrish's novel All Kneeling, Born to be Bad is so overheated at times that it threatens to lapse into self-parody; though this never happens, the film was the basis for one of TV star Carol Burnett's funniest and most devastating movie takeoffs, Raised to be Rotten.

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This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 August, 2017.