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Born to be Bad
1934
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 .. Read more
| Starring | Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Henry Travers, Paul Harvey |
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| Director | Lowell Sherman |
| Genres | Drama |
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Born to be Bad
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.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Henry Travers, Paul Harvey |
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| Director | Lowell Sherman |
| Studio | DB MUSIC SALES |
| Run time | DVD: 59 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 59 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1934 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 24 Dec 2010 To Rent: DVD: 01 Aug 2005 |
| Watch now | Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant. Subscribe. |
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Tentative bad girl novelette, just about passable.
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[Radio Times review appears to be for a different film, as I don't recall ever seeing the lovely ... read more » - 457488
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Ended Oddly
This film was made around the time of the implementation of the Hayes Code determining what was and was not proper to show on screen: a story line such as this... read more »
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Even the combined talents of Cary Grant and Loretta Young could not lift this appalling film. The plot such as it was, was tawdry in the extreme such that you ... read more »
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Born to be Bad
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 ...
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