The Lost Weekend
Drama
The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
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.
1945-11-29
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Cast
Director
Billy Wilder
Ray Milland as Don Birnam
Jane Wyman as Helen St. James
Phillip Terry as Wick Birnam
Howard Da Silva as Nat the Bartender
Doris Dowling as Gloria
Frank Faylen as 'Bim' Nolan
Mary Young as Mrs. Deveridge
Anita Sharp-Bolster as Mrs. Foley
Lilian Fontaine as Mrs. Charles St. James
Frank Orth as Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Lewis L. Russell as Charles St. James
Walter Baldwin as Man from Albany (uncredited)
Harry Barris as Pianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
Jack Rube Clifford as Guard (uncredited)
David Clyde as Dave (uncredited)
John Deauville as Cloakroom Attendant (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum as Concert Attendee (uncredited)
Byron Foulger as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Jayne Hazard as M. (uncredited)
Ted Hecht as Man with Bandaged Ear (uncredited)
Ernest Hilliard as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Earle Hyman as Smoking Man (uncredited)
Jack W. Johnston as Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky as Baby (uncredited)
Eddie Laughton as Mr. Brophy (uncredited)
Bertram Marburgh as Jewish Man (uncredited)
James Millican as Nurse (uncredited)
Frank Mills as Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)
William Newell as Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Stanley Price as Fruit Clerk (uncredited)
Craig Reynolds as George (uncredited)
Lester Sharpe as Jewish Man (uncredited)
Lee Shumway as Guard (uncredited)
Douglas Spencer as Hospital Patient Seeing Imaginary Beetles (uncredited)
Amzie Strickland as Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook as Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Washroom Attendant at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan as Doctor (uncredited)
Max Wagner as Mike (uncredited)
Crane Whitley as Waiter at Harry & Joe's Bar (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman as Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
Harry Wilson as Drunk (uncredited)
Audrey Young as Cloak Room Attendant (uncredited)