Goofs for
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: When we see Jonathan driving a car for the first time, he drives on the left-hand side of the road.
  
  
• Continuity: In the George Lorrison's house, Jonathan cuts a drawing from the wallpaper and holds it unrolled. In the next shot he is holding it in half rolled up.
  
  
• Continuity: In the studio, when Rosemary talks to Jonathan about her home in Hollywood, he has his right arm folded, holding the cigarette. In the following shot, just before they leave, he has his right arm by his side.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When Jonathan is shining the flashlight at the girl up the roof, at one point he aims it away from her, but the light remains steadily focused on her legs.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jonathan is having his dramatic outburst with Georgia in the foyer of his home after she has left her premiere party to see him, in the various perspective cuts, his hair alternates between being wildly disheveled to neat and combed in place.
  
  
• Continuity: When the director Von Ellstein and Shields are having their big spat on how a just-concluded scene should have been directed and the overall directorial style and vision for the picture, the cuts between the perspective views of their arguing show Shields alternately with tensed outstretched arms and then casually folded hands on the top step of the short ladder or whatever that was he was leaning on.
  
  

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