"The Bad and the Beautiful" was created by the same team that later worked on another film about the film business, "Two Weeks in Another Town" (1962): director (Vincente Minnelli), producer (John Houseman), screenwriter (Charles Schnee), composer (David Raksin), male star (Kirk Douglas), and studio (MGM). Both films also feature performances of the song "Don'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 film 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.