Kirk Douglas' most memorable roles: Spartacus, The Bad and the Beautiful, and more
The Bad and the Beautiful“Usually it’s difficult to make a movie about making movies, and to make it believable,” Douglas once said of this scathing melodrama about an unscrupulous producer trying to woo three collaborators he wronged in the past. The characters are so solipsistic that when one dies, extras are hired to attend his funeral. “I think the film is a very realistic story about Hollywood,” Douglas joked.
“The role affected me deeply,” Douglas wrote in his 1997 book. “I was haunted by this talented genius who took his own life, thinking he was a failure.”Of the half-dozen films in which Douglas co-starred with Burt Lancaster, this John Sturges western was the biggest box office hit. As Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, Douglas and Lancaster displayed an edgy chemistry that perhaps mirrored their offscreen dynamic.
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