An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
Stephen Boyd
Elke Sommer
Milton Berle
Eleanor Parker
Joseph Cotten
Tony Bennett
Jill St. John
Ernest Borgnine
Edie Adams
Broderick Crawford
Walter Brennan
Ed Begley
Jack Soo
Peter Lawford
Jean Hale
James Dunn
Merle Oberon
Edith Head
Hedda Hopper
Peter Leeds
Nancy Sinatra
Bob Hope
Thordis Brandt
Joan Crawford
Frank Sinatra
Dennis Cross