Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, 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.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Susan Hayward
• Richard Conte
• Eddie Albert
• Jo Van Fleet
• Don Taylor
• Ray Danton
• Margo
• Virginia Gregg