adultery
animal
1920s
christmas
blackmail
marriage
movie with surprise ending
character name in title
dancing
father son relationship
man with glasses
picnic
new york city
mansion
lifting person in air
fire
editor
journalism
business
snow
flashback
dancer
drink
suicide attempt
musical number
millionaire
election
governor
infidelity
1930s
great depression
beautiful woman
tragedy
divorce
trophy
money
scene during end credits
famous line
memoir
alienation
tragic hero
enigma
imagery
obsession
melancholy
frustration
fireplace
atlantic city new jersey
shadow
long take
visual metaphor
control freak
1890s
ambition
attempted suicide
deathbed
price of fame
furnace
pipe smoking
wealth
business tycoon
rich snob
zoo
isolation
multiple perspectives
loneliness
journalist
puzzle
politics
actor director writer
macguffin
mislaid trust
dying words
alternative history
chicago illinois
film in film
1870s
scandal
adulterer
opera house
hidden truth
fence
materialism
narcissism
singing lesson
good deed
longing
extravagance
directed by star
shadow play
apathy
secret past
mistress
politician
irony
breakfast
career
deathbed talk
deep focus
egoist
exotica
fictional biography
giraffe
gondola
influence
kublai khan
landmark
last words
leitmotif
media mogul
mist
newspaper editor
newspaper headline montage
newspaper publisher
newsreel
newsreel in plot
newsreel spoof
poignant
reference to coleridge
rise to power
roman a clef
rosebud
second marriage
second wife
abused child
guardian
estate
rags to riches
hall of mirrors
jigsaw puzzle
nursing home
boarding house
sled
snowglobe
spanish american war
spinning newspaper
theater critic
toothache
trustee
unknown
waiting for love
watching newsreel
xanadu
stock market crash
death
hospital
nightclub
fog
butler
suicide
dark hero
dark past
octopus
mother son relationship
power
megalomaniac
voice over narration
husband wife relationship
nurse
reporter
drinking
singer
florida
newspaper
extramarital affair
unfaithfulness
drunkenness
limousine
library
opera
publisher
colorado
no opening credits
unhappiness