---
title: 'Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ida Lupino'
released: '1951-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 78
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hard-fast-and-beautiful-1951'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043619/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951)

1951 · 78 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Hard, Fast and Beautiful is a 1951 American drama film directed by Ida Lupino and starring Claire Trevor. It is loosely based on the 1930 novel American Girl by sports-fiction author John R. Tunis, which was an unflattering and thinly veiled fictionalization of the life of the tennis star Helen Wills Moody.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ida Lupino](https://cinepixo.com/people/ida-lupino)
- **Screenplay:** [GI Jill](https://cinepixo.com/people/gi-jill)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Roy Webb](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-webb)
- **Director of Photography:** [Archie Stout](https://cinepixo.com/people/archie-stout)

## Cast

- [Robert Clarke](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-clarke)
- [Sally Forrest](https://cinepixo.com/people/sally-forrest)
- [Claire Trevor](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-trevor)
- [Ida Lupino](https://cinepixo.com/people/ida-lupino)
- [Harold Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-miller)
- [Robert Ryan](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-ryan)
- [Jerry Hausner](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-hausner)
- [Joseph Kearns](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-kearns)

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