I'll Cry Tomorrow - Original Trailer 1955 Video

Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry Tomorrow. In as harshly realistic a manner as possible in the still censor-dominated Hollywood of 1955, the film recounts Roth's rise to fame, her precipitous fall and her tearful comeback. The fact that Roth loves not wisely but too well is only part of the problem (only two of her eight husbands are portrayed in the film); contributing factors to her self-destruction also included her witchlike "stage mother" (Jo Van Fleet) and the pressures of fame and fortune. The principal reason for Roth's fall from the height of fame to the depths of squalor and despair is booze -- at least until she begins to pull herself together with the help of Alcoholics-Anonymous representative Burt McGuire (Eddie Albert). The story concludes with a testimonial staged in Roth's honor on the TV series This is Your Life (the original of which still exists in kinescope form). Having been personally coached by the real Lillian Roth, Susan Hayward does an excellent job of copying the singer's unique style. Though Hayward did not win an Oscar for her performance, she did cop the "Best Actress" prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Susan Hayward - Lillian Roth
Richard Conte - Tony Bardeman
Eddie Albert - Burt McGuire
Jo Van Fleet - Katie Roth
Don Taylor - Wallie
Ray Danton - David Tredman
Margo - Selma
Virginia Gregg - Ellen
David Kasday - David, as a child
Carole Ann Campbell - Lillian (younger)
Peter Leeds - Richard
Tol Avery - Fat Man
Don "Red" Barry - Jerry
Mary Bear - Couple
Veda Ann Borg - Waitress
Peter Brocco - Doctor
Budd Buster - Switchman
Timothy Carey - Derelict
John Cassavetes - Bit: Card Player
Jack Daley - Cab Driver
Vittorio De Sica - Bit: Shoemaker
Bob Dix - Henry
Donovan - Bit: Singer
Patty Duke
Joe Duval - Bartender
Ralph Edwards - Himself
Anita Ekberg - Bit: Performer
Kay English - Dress designer
Stanley Farrar - Director
Gail Ganley - Lillian at 15
Jack Gargan - Drug Clerk
Ben Gazzara - Bit: Card Player
Bob Hopkins - M C
Anthony Jochim - Paul, the Butler
Marc Krah
Henry Kulky
George Lloyd - Messenger
Herbert Lytton - Conductor
Nora Marlowe - Nurse
Eve McVeagh - Ethel
Cheerio Meredith - Elderly lady
James Ogg - Usher
Kenneth Patterson
George Pembroke
Voltaire Perkins - Mr. Byrd
Vernon Rich - Club manager
Bob Stephenson
Ruth Storey - Marge Belney
Charles Tannen - Stage Manager
David Tredman - Ray Danton
Robert Vaughn - Bit: Photographer
Harlan Warde - Stage Manager
Guy Wilkerson - Man
Robert B. Williams - Stagehand