The Girl Who Had Everything
- Elizabeth Taylor: Jean Latimer
- William Powell: Steve Latimer
- Fernando Lamas: Victor Y. Raimondi
- James Whitmore: Charles "Chico" Menlow, his partner
- Gig Young: Vance Court
- Robert Burton: John Ashmond
- Bill Walker: Julian
A spoiled Beast is an American feature film ( love story ) by director Richard Thorpe from the year 1953. The film is an adaptation of the 1927 published novel A Free Soul by Adela Rogers St. Johns and was produced by Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. The film is also a remake of the MGM film The courage to Happiness ( 1931).
Action
The scene is initially Lexington, Kentucky, the time the present. Jean, the daughter of the lawyer Steve Latimer, is a pretty and offbeat young woman. Although she has a boyfriend, Vance Court, which would to marry her, she falls in love with the handsome Victor Raimondi. Raimondi is the boss of a large gambling syndicate and, because it is determined against him, a client of Steve Latimer's law firm partner Ashmond. When her father accepts him as a client, receives Jean opportunity to get closer to Raimondi, who returns her interest soon. The warnings, which Steve Vance and shower them are spoken in the wind. Jean travels with Raimondi to New York City to marry him there.
In New York Raimondi learns that Steve wants to resign from his position and testify against him. When Steve nachreist him, Jean must watch as Raimondi attacks and threatened her father, and then makes up with him. Raimondi is shot.
Production and reception
The film is based on Adela Rogers St. Johns ' novel, A Free Soul (1927 ), the Willard Mack still adapted in the same year as a stage play. The stage version ran from January to April 1928 successfully on Broadway; , starring Kay Johnson, Lester Lonergan and Melvyn Douglas. Becky Gardiner adapted the stage play soon as a screenplay for a film version ( The courage to happiness, 1931), resulted in the Clarence Brown directed; in the leading roles were Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable to see. The film was commercially and critically very successful, Barrymore tabled an Oscar and gave MGM so enough stimulation for a remake.
Director Thorpe was an MGM veteran who has next to several Tarzan films also staged a film of the highly successful The Thin Man series ( The Thin Man Goes Home, 1945). With Elizabeth Taylor he had already the films fuss about Judy (1948) and Ivanhoe - set The Black Knight (1952 ) in scene. Their screen partner Fernando Lamas was used at MGM since 1951, primarily as a Latin Lover.
The filming of those produced in black and 35 mm film lasted from 16 July to 6 August 1952. The film was in the U.S. on March 27, 1953 in the cinemas.