this film have all the earmark of too many cook spoil the stew . base on shielah graham autobiography and it seem like the power that be couldn not leave well enough alone . they couldn not decide if this be to be graham story or fitzgerald story and and also how much they should soft pedal whoever story it turn out to be . so a film that could have be a story about two fascinating ( fitzgerald ) and notorious ( ms. graham ) personalities become a dreary disjointed soap opera about that tell u little about either . add to this there be absolutely no period feel other than for 1959. clumsy scene follow clumsy scene and we have no idea where we be in the story or how much time be pass . however and this save the film for me kerr have never look lovely and and peck be a always a very handsome man . they truly make a beautiful and mature couple and and i only wish they have well material to work with . there be one scene that do work scott go after shielah while in a drunken state and and to see these two normally refined star knock each other around be very disturbing and give some fleeting idea of what go on in a relationship such a theirs . other than that and the movie be a wasted opportunity and achieves nowhere near the classic stature of other wald produce soap of the 1950 ( peyton place and the best of everything ) .