Born to Be Bad

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Born to Be Bad is a 1950 film noir–style drama starring Joan Fontaine as a manipulative social climber entangled in romance and deceit.

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Born to Be Bad canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf film
film noir–style drama
authorOfSourceWork Anne Parrish NERFINISHED
basedOn All Kneeling NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Nicholas Musuraca NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Nicholas Ray NERFINISHED
distributor RKO NERFINISHED
RKO Radio Pictures
editedBy Roland Gross NERFINISHED
filmingProcess 35 mm
format black-and-white film
genre drama film
film noir
hasTheme greed
manipulation
morality
romantic deceit
social climbing
leadActor Joan Fontaine NERFINISHED
Robert Ryan NERFINISHED
Zachary Scott NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Christabel Caine Carey NERFINISHED
motionPictureRating Approved
musicBy Frederick Hollander NERFINISHED
narrativeForm feature film
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A manipulative social climber schemes her way into wealth and status through romantic entanglements and deceit.
portrayedBy Joan Fontaine NERFINISHED
producer Jerry Wald NERFINISHED
productionCompany RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1950-07-07
releaseYear 1950
runtimeMinutes 94
screenwriter Charles Schnee NERFINISHED
Edith R. Sommer NERFINISHED
setting San Francisco NERFINISHED
starring Bessie Lyle NERFINISHED
Harold Vermilyea NERFINISHED
Joan Fontaine NERFINISHED
Joan Leslie NERFINISHED
Kathleen Howard NERFINISHED
Mel Ferrer NERFINISHED
Robert Ryan NERFINISHED
Virginia Farmer NERFINISHED
Zachary Scott NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Born to Be Bad
Description of subject: Born to Be Bad is a 1950 film noir–style drama starring Joan Fontaine as a manipulative social climber entangled in romance and deceit.

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Joan Fontaine notableWork Born to Be Bad
Nicholas Ray directed Born to Be Bad