The Goddess

film by Cromwell [1958]

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  • A black-and-white photo of John Cromwell in a suit, smoking a pipe, seated on a film set with a large vintage camera and equipment, circa 1939.
    In John Cromwell: Later work

    …and that year he directed The Goddess, writer Paddy Chayefsky’s dissection of the Marilyn Monroe phenomenon, with Kim Stanley as a troubled actress. The Scavengers (1959) was his last Hollywood film, and in 1961 he ended his film-directing career with A Matter of Morals, a low-budget drama made in Sweden.…

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