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...second career as a nightclub singer." He profoundly states: "A drunk, however, is a drunk," and "if there is anything more tedious than a lush, it is apt to be a reformed lush." Millions of people felt a choking feeling in their throats when they read Lillian Roth's life story; countless alcoholics, fighting their hard struggle to return to the world of reality, have been inspired and lifted up by her struggle. And then this pseudo-intellectual slob of a reviewer comes up with his crummy appraisal and simple remarks...
...Among its advisers: Performers Raymond Massey and Lillian Gish, Poets W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore, Conductors Charles Munch and Dimitri Mitropoulos, Painter Robert Motherwell...
...Tomorrow (M-G-M). "It is better to light one candle," somebody said last year in heartfelt testimonial to Lillian Roth's bestselling autobiography of an alcoholic, "than to curse the darkness." It may be so. In any case, there is not much sense in lighting a smudge pot. This picture, based on the book, is perhaps not so murky as all that, but it certainly will not brighten the corner where...
...Lillian Roth (Susan Hay ward) as a stage child was hurried so hard by an ambitious mother (Jo Van Fleet) that she lost her real self on the road to fame. In her teens-already a name on Broadway and in pictures, where she introduced such songs as Sing, You Sinners and If I Could Be with You-Lillian tried at first to find herself in love. David died. One night she went looking for herself in a bottle. Next morning she woke up in a hotel room with a soldier. To make matters worse, they were married. They stayed...
...couple of years, Lillian was drinking because she had to. She even married another alcoholic (Richard Conte). His proposal: "Let's go on the wagon together." They didn't. He beat her when they got drunk, and one day she ran away. Left alone, she skidded fast and hit bottom hard in a San Francisco gutter. Sent back to mother in Manhattan, she tried to kill herself and couldn't. In the end she walked into a branch office of Alcoholics Anonymous. It was the beginning of a cure and a comeback that has carried Lillian Roth...