Born to Be Bad

References

Born to Be Bad

film by Ray [1950]

Written by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Learn about this topic in these articles:

Nicholas Ray
Films of the early 1950s
…crusade), Ray directed the unremarkable Born to Be Bad (1950), the first of a number of films he made with Robert Ryan. In Flying Leathernecks (1951) Ryan played a bleeding-heart Marine officer who tries to persuade a hard-as-nails major (John Wayne) to lighten up on the recruits, and then in…
Read More
…crusade), Ray directed the unremarkable Born to Be Bad (1950), the first of a number of films he made with Robert Ryan. In Flying Leathernecks (1951) Ryan played a bleeding-heart Marine officer who tries to persuade a hard-as-nails major (John Wayne) to lighten up on the recruits, and then in…
Read More

Joan Fontaine
…a well-known musician; and in Born to Be Bad (1950) she vamped as a social climber masquerading as an ingenue. In Ivanhoe (1952) her character and Elizabeth Taylor’s compete for the affections of the titular Saxon knight. Fontaine appeared as the elder sister of a mental patient in the 1962…
Read More
…a well-known musician; and in Born to Be Bad (1950) she vamped as a social climber masquerading as an ingenue. In Ivanhoe (1952) her character and Elizabeth Taylor’s compete for the affections of the titular Saxon knight. Fontaine appeared as the elder sister of a mental patient in the 1962…
Read More