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Hard, Fast and Beautiful is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ida Lupino released in USA on 23 may 1951 with Claire Trevor
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951)
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Add to a movie listHard, Fast and Beautiful is a 1951 American drama film directed by Ida Lupino and starring Claire Trevor, loosely based on the 1930 novel American Girl by sports fiction author John R. Tunis, which itself was an unflattering and thinly-veiled fictionalization of tennis star Helen Wills Moody
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Florence Farley, a girl from Santa Monica, California in her late teens, and a tennis prodigy, is torn between fulfilling the dreams of her ambitious mother Millie, who has planned her tennis career, or her own dreams of being with the man she loves.Actors
Claire Trevor
(Millie Farley)
Sally Forrest
(Florence Farley)
Carleton G. Young
(Fletcher Locke)
Robert Clarke
(Gordon McKay)
Robert C. Schnitzer
(Miss Martin)
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