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RKO Pictures Born To Be Bad 1950 Rare RKO LaserDisc Fontaine Drama

Born To Be Bad 1950 Rare RKO LaserDisc Fontaine Drama

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Born To Be Bad 1950 Rare RKO LaserDisc Fontaine Drama

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Born To Be Bad

RKO Classic Collection

( Catalog Number ID7088TU )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Born To Be Bad
1950 - 90 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Review:
One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as "a cross between Lucrezia Borgia and Peg O' My Heart". For the benefit of her wealthy husband Zachary Scott and his family, Fontaine adopts a facade of wide-eyed sweetness. Bored with her hubby, she inaugurates a romance with novelist Robert Ryan. All her carefully crafted calculations come acropper when both men discover that she's  a bitch among bitches. She might have gotten away with all her machinations, but the censors said uh-uh. Originally slated for filming in 1946, with Henry Fonda scheduled to play the Robert Ryan part, Born to Bad was cancelled, then resurfaced as Bed as Roses in 1948, this time with Barbara Bel Geddes in the Fontaine role. RKO head Howard Hughes' decision to replace Bel Geddes with the more bankable Fontaine was one of the reasons that producer Dore Schary left RKO in favor of MGM. Based on Anne Parrish's novel All Kneeling, Born to be Bad is so overheated at times that it threatens to lapse into self-parody; though this never happens, the film was the basis for one of TV star Carol Burnett's funniest and most devastating movie takeoffs, Raised to be Rotten. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Cast for Born To Be Bad

Joan Fontaine as Christabel Caine Carey
Robert Ryan as Nick Bradley
Zachary Scott as Curtis Carey
Joan Leslie as Donna Foster
Mel Ferrer as Gabriel 'Gobby' Broome
Harold Vermilyea as John Caine
Virginia Farmer as Aunt Clara Caine
Kathleen Howard as Mrs. Bolton
Bess Flowers as Mrs. Worthington

Feature Details

Title: Born To Be Bad
Feature Release Date: 1950
Genre: Drama
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 90 Minutes
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV

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LD Release Date: 13 Dec 1991
Catalog Number: ID7088TU
UPC: 014381708868
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi
Collection: RKO Classic Collection
Publisher: Image Entertainment

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ID7088TU
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Rare RKO Pictures LaserDisc

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Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan in...

Born To Be Bad

RKO Classic Collection

( Catalog Number ID7088TU )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc

Born To Be Bad
1950 - 90 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Review:
One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as "a cross between Lucrezia Borgia and Peg O' My Heart". For the benefit of her wealthy husband Zachary Scott and his family, Fontaine adopts a facade of wide-eyed sweetness. Bored with her hubby, she inaugurates a romance with novelist Robert Ryan. All her carefully crafted calculations come acropper when both men discover that she's  a bitch among bitches. She might have gotten away with all her machinations, but the censors said uh-uh. Originally slated for filming in 1946, with Henry Fonda scheduled to play the Robert Ryan part, Born to Bad was cancelled, then resurfaced as Bed as Roses in 1948, this time with Barbara Bel Geddes in the Fontaine role. RKO head Howard Hughes' decision to replace Bel Geddes with the more bankable Fontaine was one of the reasons that producer Dore Schary left RKO in favor of MGM. Based on Anne Parrish's novel All Kneeling, Born to be Bad is so overheated at times that it threatens to lapse into self-parody; though this never happens, the film was the basis for one of TV star Carol Burnett's funniest and most devastating movie takeoffs, Raised to be Rotten. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Cast for Born To Be Bad

Joan Fontaine as Christabel Caine Carey
Robert Ryan as Nick Bradley
Zachary Scott as Curtis Carey
Joan Leslie as Donna Foster
Mel Ferrer as Gabriel 'Gobby' Broome
Harold Vermilyea as John Caine
Virginia Farmer as Aunt Clara Caine
Kathleen Howard as Mrs. Bolton
Bess Flowers as Mrs. Worthington

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