Elia Kazan's Film A Face In The Crowd

Elia Kazan’s 1957 film A Face in the Crowd focuses on the rise and fall of Larry “ Lonesome” Rhodes a country boy drunkard discovered in an Arkansas jail who gains fame as an entertainment and political advisor. When the fame and money gets to Lonesomes head he abandons his love ones and people that have helped him,to go travel around talking on a radio company. When Lonesome starts thinking of the people back home. This is where he leaves New York to find Mel his true love, when he gets back to Arkansas she wants nothing to do with Lonesome and even goes as far as ruining his whole career as a speaker and doesn't want him back.