same preformance different movie....didnt she win a oscar for one of
those movies...maybe it was i want to live or was she just
mnominated...if i recall in ill cry tomorrow she winds up in aa...a
very underated alcohlic recovery story...for its time...gets lost in
the shuffle between lost weekend and the the jack lemon, lee remick
epic..


--- In We_Have_Recovered@yahoogroups.com, Elsie <cobolpoet@...> wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> Is my face red or what?? I gave you the plot summary of "I Want To
> Live", not "I'll Cry Tomorrow". I apologize. My brain just
slipped a
> cog or two. Maybe because Susan Hayward stars in both. The IMDB
gives
> the following plot synopsis:
>
> Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo
Van
> Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) becomes a star of Broadway and
> Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her
> childhood sweetheart, David Tredman (Ray Danton), he dies and
Lillian
> takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an
alcoholic.
> She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation
cadet,
> Wallie (Don Taylor), followed by a divorce and then marriage to a
> sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman (Richard Conte). After a
failed
> suicide attempt, Burt McGuire (Eddie Albert)comes to her aid and
helps
> her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a
nightmare
> world, not counting the first twenty with her mother.
>
> So it does seem to be a recovery story. I haven't seen it, but
Susan
> Hayward is never short of spectacular. Sorry for the brain fade.
>
> Elsie
>
>
>
> Elsie wrote:
>
> >Its a *fabulous* movie!! Perhaps Susan Hayward's best. It's the
true
> >(as true as Hollywood gets) story of Barbara Graham, who was two-
bit
> >hooker who got mixed up with some gangsters, was present at a
murder,
> >ended up getting charged with it and was executed in the gas
chamber at
> >San Quentin. Many, then and now, thought Barbara Graham was
innocent;
> >law enforcement has little comment. Ms. Graham, of course, drank,
as
> >does Ms. Hayward throughout the movie, but there's never any talk
of
> >quitting or rehab or anything. The movie is worth the price of
> >admission simply on the basis of the powerful performances.
> >
> >Elsie
> >
> >
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> >Gallery Photography wrote:
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> >>Have any of you seen the movie, I'll Cry Tomorrow?
> >>I've heard it mentioned a number of times and was considering
trying to get
> >>a copy. Is it worth the trouble? Any AA references (or analogies)
in it?
> >>
> >>Rotax Steve
> >>Nangi namaj perez
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