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Raymond H I am so surprised to see so many negative reviews of this film, and particularly of Susan Strasburg’s performance! I loved it, and I loved her in it! Henry Fonda is quite good, as he is always. Christopher Plummer is good, and his first movie, I am so handsome. It’s quite obvious that he’s going to have a successful and long career ahead of him.( I have a very minor complaint – the scene where stagehands are turning on the lights in us much longer and less interesting than it should be.) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/04/25 Full Review Allan H This was embarassingly lousy with Strasberg perhaps showing why she was better on stage than in movies. Her acting is high on the cringing scale. And physically she is too short to play opposite tall Henry Fonda. Maybe Fonda's role should have been given to Alan Ladd. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/03/25 Full Review RICHARD S See other reviews for plot. Fonda, excellent as always, a bit too old for the ingenue portrayed so ineptly by Susan Strasberg. I'll focus my comments on Stasberg, because her performance here is so embarrassing, in contrast to Fonda and Plummer (premier performance?). You don't know how to take her brand of sincerity (?) or scheming motivation. She is just awful!! And the plot twist(?) at the end is hardly acceptable. Watch this ONLY if you want another clip of Fonda and/or opportunity to see a very young and talented Christopher Plummer. Too bad they didn't use someone like Joanne Woodward for the third lead! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/12/25 Full Review Steve D It has been done so much better. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/24 Full Review Audience Member Susan Strasberg is the reason to watch this film, Henry Fonda and Christopher Plummer mainly provide the love interests and are woefully underused in terms of their acting talent, Strasberg however gives us a whimsical romanticist in love with her profession - innocent, but not naive. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member An incredibly bizarre and captivatingly artificial performance by the luminously adorable Susan Strasberg holds the only interest in this cliche backstage melodrama about show girls, love triangles and The Stage. Henry Fonda and Christopher Plummer (in his very first film role!) are given the thankless task of trying to add some heft, but Strasberg has the kind of over-the-top acting style that makes you understand exactly why she ended up becoming a B-movie luminary, and her drunken recitation of "Romeo & Juliet" has to be seen to be believed, not so much for her delivery, but the fact that we're supposed to believe that it impressed a room full of jaded theatre vets. Incredible. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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