400-26, 117 minutes, 1955

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic. She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation cadet, followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser. After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire (Eddie Albert) comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world.