CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

dbdumonteil As usual ,George Cukor directs his actresses masterfully;not only Lana Turner -who was rarely as good as here ,except for Sirk's ,Garnett's and Minelli's works)but also Ann Dvorak as a jaded aging model and Margaret Philips as the disabled wife who steals every scene she is in;on the other hand ,Ray Milland does not seem to be very interested in his part (I could mention at least ten movies in which he is much better than here ).The script is average- for Cukor whose standards were often high-, borrowing from an older movie by John M.Stahl ,the prince of the thirties melodrama :"when tomorrow comes "(1939) later remade by Sirk as the mediocre "Interlude"; the trick of the sick wife was a bit hackneyed even in 1950.This is a rather talky movie,with an interminable final conversation between Turner and Barry Sullivan to make the viewer understand that now the model is in the same situation as Mary,which we already knew.

samhill5215 This is a fairly gripping drama with good performances all around. It's always fun to see the veteran Louis Calhern who's good in just about anything. Lana Turner was the real surprise here although it seemed that at 29 she was a bit too old for that part. Her performance drew me into this sordid little tale of an ambitious small town girl who becomes a top New York model and takes up with a married man. I knew it couldn't end well but I kept watching and waiting. Ann Dvorak was another standout. She made me feel the pain and anguish of the forgotten model who's descended into a life of misery and booze. Ray Milland was the sore spot. He's a fine actor and performed well here as well but I just couldn't see him as the rough and tough Montana copper mine operator, at least not with an English accent. The fact that Welsh actor Margaret Phillips played his wife perhaps was meant to imply they were transplants from England but it was never made clear. In any case it's a good way to spend an hour and forty-eight minutes. Despite occasionally yielding to the temptation of melodrama it's not dull and definitely worth watching.One more thing: the trivia section lists an alternate ending where the Lana Turner character ends up committing suicide like the Ann Dvorak character. It was changed when the test audience hated it. The current ending is not the greatest but I'm not sure it I would have liked the original ending any better. It just didn't seem likely that someone that had worked so hard and diligently to become a top model would have committed suicide for any reason. I think the current ending better reflects such a personality.

MarieGabrielle I loved Lana Turner in" The Postman Always Rings Twice", and was interested to see her portray what was considered a top model in the 1950's.She basically portrays a bored woman from Kansas who comes to NY to "become someone".She meets Ann Dvorak as Mary, who is a top model on her way down,presumably from getting too high too fast, and drug use. Some of her scenes are the most memorable as she reflects on the void and banality of her profession.It is a double-edged sword once a girl has reached the top.7urner does not see this, climbs her way to the top and has an affair with married executive Ray Milland.He does not come off as a sympathetic character, his wife is disabled.Some of the scenes with Turner as his mistress are a bit forced,and hard to believe. Chalk this up to the time period, as the reality of her situation could not be portrayed.Overall worth seeing for Lana and performance by Ann Dvorak.8/10.

Virginia I kept trying to identify the music being played throughout the movie. All I could recall were the words "Too soon, too soon". Can anyone tell me the name of the song and who recorded it? I think it was a female. At first, I thought it was "Laura", but knew that was not it. If anyone can tell me what it is, I would appreciate it. Lana Turner was still beautiful, as usual, but I did not think Ray Milland was right for that part. I don't recognize the woman who played his wife, don't recall ever seeing her in anything else. As much as I have seen movies, I am surprised this was one I hadn't seen. It was okay, but I guess Lana Turner's best movies were her earlier ones.