Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

A tough 15 year old girl (Natalie Wood) lives on a beach boardwalk with her eccentric mother (Ruth Gordon in an Oscar nominated performance). But when it's discovered she can sing, she's soon whisked off to Hollywood where she's built into America's Musical Sweetheart and becomes a star. But she rebels against the constraints of the studio system as personified by its head (Christopher Plummer) much to their consternation. Based on the novel by Gavin Lambert, who also wrote the screenplay and directed by Robert Mulligan (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD). The film's biggest problem is that Wood is about 10 years too old for the character she's playing. In spite of the miscasting, she's fine in most scenes except when she's required to act all little girlish adolescent and it's just embarrassing. There is one killer sequence however when Wood has a breakdown while dubbing a song in a booth. The superb score is by Andre Previn. With Robert Redford as a bisexual movie star, Roddy McDowall, Katharine Bard (very good) and Gertrude Flynn.