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.
Susan Hayward
as Lillian Roth
Richard Conte
as Tony Bardeman
Eddie Albert
as Burt McGuire
Jo Van Fleet
as Katie Roth
Don Taylor
as Wallie
Ray Danton
as David Tredman
Margo
as Selma
Virginia Gregg
as Ellen
Don 'Red' Barry
as Jerry
David Kasday
as David as a Child
Carole Ann Campbell
as Lillian as a Child
Peter Leeds
as Richard
