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I'll Cry Tomorrow ()

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Susan Hayward stars as singer-actress Lillian Roth, whose rise to stardom was nearly destroyed by alcoholism.
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  • Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations.
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Lillian Roth
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Tony Bardeman
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Burt McGuire
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Katie Roth
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Wallie
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David Tredman
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Selma
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Ellen
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Jerry (as Don Barry)
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David as a Child
Carole Ann Campbell ...
Lillian as a Child
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Richard
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Fat Man
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Party Guest (uncredited)
Walter Bacon ...
Alcoholics Anonymous Patient (uncredited)
Brandon Beach ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
Mary Bear ...
Wife (uncredited)
Margaret Bert ...
Woman at Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting (uncredited)
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Alcoholics Anonymous Member (uncredited)
Lulu Mae Bohrman ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
Nesdon Booth ...
Pawnbroker (uncredited)
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Waitress (uncredited)
Paul Bradley ...
Waiter (uncredited)
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Bum on Street (uncredited)
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Doctor (uncredited)
Henry Brock ...
Stagehand (uncredited)
Tex Brodus ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
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Streetcar Switchman (uncredited)
Boyd Cabeen ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
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Derelict (uncredited)
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Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Jack Chefe ...
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Harry Cody ...
Stagehand (uncredited)
Oliver Cross ...
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Fred Curt ...
Dancer (uncredited)
Lucille Curtis ...
Stage Mother (uncredited)
Jack Daly ...
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Jack Deery ...
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Harry Denny ...
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Henry (uncredited)
Joe Duval ...
Bartender (uncredited)
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Ralph Edwards (uncredited)
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Dress Designer (uncredited)
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Movie Director (uncredited)
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Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Sam Finn ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
Jerrilyn Flannery ...
Child at Audtion (uncredited)
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Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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The Porter (uncredited)
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Mrs. March (uncredited)
Gail Ganley ...
Lillian Roth - Age 15 (uncredited)
Jack Gargan ...
Restaurant Cashier (uncredited)
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Child at Audition (uncredited)
Rudy Germane ...
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Kenneth Gibson ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
Jerry Glenn ...
Dancer (uncredited)
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Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Party Guest (uncredited)
Robert Haines ...
Alcoholics Anonymous Patient (uncredited)
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Party Guest (uncredited)
Elizabeth Holmes ...
Stage Mother (uncredited)
Bob Hopkins ...
Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
Art Howard ...
Party Guest (uncredited)
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Acrobatic Dancer (uncredited)
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Paul - Butler (uncredited)
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Alcoholics Anonymous Patient (uncredited)
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Barfly (uncredited)
Frank Kreig ...
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Henry Kulky ...
Barfly (uncredited)
Joseph La Cava ...
Waiter (uncredited)
Eddie Lee ...
Chinese Grocer (uncredited)
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Studio Messenger (uncredited)
Alyn Lockwood ...
Stage Mother (uncredited)
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Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
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Nurse (uncredited)
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Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Thomas Martin ...
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
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Party Guest (uncredited)
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Ethel (uncredited)
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Elderly Lady (uncredited)
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Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Dock Worker (uncredited)
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Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Jimmy Ogg ...
Usher (uncredited)
Charles Owens ...
Dancer (uncredited)
Kenneth Patterson ...
Audition Director (uncredited)
George Pembroke ...
Husband (uncredited)
Voltaire Perkins ...
Mr. Byrd - Movie Producer (uncredited)
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Alcoholics Anonymous Patient (uncredited)
Charles Perry ...
Alcoholics Anonymous Patient (uncredited)
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Bum on Street (uncredited)
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Party Guest (uncredited)
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Alcoholics Anonymous Patient (uncredited)
Paul Power ...
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Florence Ravenel ...
Stage Mother (uncredited)
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Club Manager (uncredited)
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Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
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Man in TV Audience (uncredited)
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Party Guest (uncredited)
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Switchman (uncredited)
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Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Alcoholics Anonymous Patient (uncredited)
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Bartender (uncredited)
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Ruth Storey ...
Marge Belney (uncredited)
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Audition Stage Manager (uncredited)
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Porter (uncredited)
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Stage Manager (uncredited)
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Barfly (uncredited)
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Stagehand (uncredited)
Bernadette Withers ...
Child at Audition (uncredited)
Jeane Wood ...
Stage Mother (uncredited)

Directed by

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Daniel Mann

Written by

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Helen Deutsch ... (screenplay) and
Jay Richard Kennedy ... (screenplay)
 
Lillian Roth ... (book "I'll Cry Tomorrow") and
Mike Connolly ... (book "I'll Cry Tomorrow") and
Gerold Frank ... (book "I'll Cry Tomorrow")

Produced by

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Lawrence Weingarten ... producer

Music by

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Alex North

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Arthur E. Arling ... director of photography

Editing by

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Harold F. Kress

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Malcolm Brown
Cedric Gibbons

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Hugh Hunt
Edwin B. Willis

Costume Design by

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Helen Rose

Makeup Department

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Sydney Guilaroff ... hair stylist
John Truwe ... makeup artist
William Tuttle ... makeup creator

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Al Jennings ... assistant director
Hank Moonjean ... assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

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Anders Gullberg ... poster artist : Sweden (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Wesley C. Miller ... recording supervisor (as Dr. Wesley C. Miller)

Special Effects by

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Warren Newcombe ... special effects

Music Department

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Johnny Green ... music supervisor
Alex Alexander ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Jeff Alexander ... choral director (uncredited)
Alexander Courage ... music adaptor (uncredited) / music arranger (uncredited) / orchestrator (uncredited)
Maurice De Packh ... orchestrator: Alex North (uncredited)
Johnny Green ... conductor (uncredited)
Virginia Majewski ... musician: viola (uncredited)
Jack Marshall ... musician: guitar (uncredited)
Max Rabinowitz ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Uan Rasey ... musician: trumpet (uncredited)
Milton Raskin ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Robert Tucker ... vocal coach (uncredited)
Si Zentner ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, 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, Wallie, followed by a divorce and then marriage to a sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman. After a failed suicide attempt, Burt McGuire comes to her aid and helps her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a nightmare world, not counting the first twenty with her mother. Written by Les Adams

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Taglines The Whole Shocking and Inspiring Truth! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Une femme en enfer (France)
  • Mañana lloraré (Spain)
  • 伤心泪尽话当年 (China, Mandarin title)
  • Holnap sírni fogok (Hungary)
  • Itken vasta huomenna (Finland)
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  • 117 min
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Budget $2,147,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Prior to filming, Susan Hayward took the opportunity to study Lillian Roth's vocal style, tone and delivery when Miss Roth performed in Las Vegas. Moreover, the two women became friends during the production. See more »
Goofs At the AA meeting, speakers give their full names. This is inconsistent with the anonymous nature of AA. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Episode #1.10 (1955). See more »
Soundtracks Sing You Sinners See more »
Quotes [alcoholic Lillian is desperate for a drink - mother drops the glass bottle on the floor, shattering it]
Lillian Roth: OH! Look what ya did! And ya DID IT ON PURPOSE! You're still trying to make me do what you want, to be what you want! I can't be anything except what I am! Look, look what did you drop that bottle for? What are you trying to do, drive me crazy? Go on, GET THE BOTTLE! GET IT NOW!
Katie Roth: All right! All right! All right, it's my fault, huh? I made you become an actress, you didn't want to, all right. I've been a bad mother, you had to support me, all right! All right! ALL RIGHT, EVERYTHING! Just this, and for once in your life you're gonna hear it! Do you know at all why I did it, do you? No you don't! Do you know what kind of a life I had, do you know what it was like to live with your father, put up with his mistakes and afterwards to be left alone with nothing? No money, no career, not young anymore, nothing to fall back on? No you don't! You don't know at all what I tried to save you from, the kind of freedom I never had! I tried to give to you by making you LILLIAN ROTH!
Lillian Roth: So you admit it! You invented Lillian Roth! All right, now look at me. I said look at me, don't turn your face away! I'm the looking glass you created to see yourself in! All right, all right see yourself now in me! Look at this ugly picture! And then GET OUTTA HERE! But keep this picture before your face for as LONG AS YOU LIVE!
Katie Roth: It's true! Oh, God help me! I owe you this. Every single word of it is true.
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