Claim: Kirk Douglas is a person who acts.

The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 MGM melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him . It stars Lana Turner , Kirk Douglas , Walter Pidgeon , Dick Powell , Barry Sullivan , Gloria Grahame and Gilbert Roland . The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and written by George Bradshaw and Charles Schnee .   The Bad and the Beautiful resulted in five Academy Awards out of six nominations in 1952 , a record for the most awards for a movie that was not nominated for Best Picture nor for Best Director .   In 2002 , the United States Library of Congress deemed the film `` culturally significant '' and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry . The theme song , `` The Bad and the Beautiful '' , penned by David Raksin , became a jazz standard and has been cited as an example of an excellent movie theme .   The Bad and the Beautiful was created by the same team that later worked on another film about the movie business , Two Weeks in Another Town -LRB- 1962 -RRB- : director -LRB- Vincente Minnelli -RRB- , producer -LRB- John Houseman -RRB- , screenwriter -LRB- Charles Schnee -RRB- , composer -LRB- David Raksin -RRB- , male star -LRB- Kirk Douglas -RRB- , and studio -LRB- MGM -RRB- . Both movies also feature performances of the song `` Do n't Blame Me , '' by Leslie Uggams in Two Weeks and by Peggy King in The Bad and the Beautiful . In one scene of Two Weeks in Another Town , the cast watches clips from The Bad and the Beautiful in a screening room , presented as a movie that Douglas 's character in Two Weeks , Jack Andrus , had starred in . Two Weeks is not a sequel however , as the characters in the two stories are unrelated .