The Lost Weekend
The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
Drama
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
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Cast
Ray Milland
Don Birnam
Jane Wyman
Helen St. James
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Mrs. Foley
Ted Hecht
Man with Bandaged Ear (uncredited)
Lilian Fontaine
Mrs. Charles St. James
Eddie Laughton
Mr. Brophy (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Doctor (uncredited)
Jayne Hazard
M. (uncredited)
Frank Orth
Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Jack Rube Clifford
Guard (uncredited)
John Deauville
Cloakroom Attendant (uncredited)
Lester Sharpe
Jewish Man (uncredited)
Douglas Spencer
Hospital Patient Seeing Imaginary Beetles (uncredited)
Doris Dowling
Gloria
Bertram Marburgh
Jewish Man (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)
Phillip Terry
Wick Birnam
Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky
Baby (uncredited)
Willa Pearl Curtis
Mrs. Wertheim's Assistant (uncredited)
Amzie Strickland
Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Walter Baldwin
Man from Albany (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Drunk (uncredited)
Howard Da Silva
Nat the Bartender
Stanley Price
Fruit Clerk (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Washroom Attendant at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
Jack W. Johnston
Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
Craig Reynolds
George (uncredited)
Crane Whitley
Waiter at Harry & Joe's Bar (uncredited)
Harry Barris
Pianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Mike (uncredited)
Earle Hyman
Smoking Man (uncredited)
Frank Faylen
'Bim' Nolan
Mary Young
Mrs. Deveridge
William Newell
Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Guard (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman
Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
Lewis L. Russell
Charles St. James
David Clyde
Dave (uncredited)
James Millican
Nurse (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Concert Attendee (uncredited)
Ernest Hilliard
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Audrey Young
Cloak Room Attendant (uncredited)