Days of Wine and Roses?

Elsie

sam wrote:

>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..
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>--- In We_Have_Recovered@yahoogroups.com, Elsie <cobolpoet@...> wrote:
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>>Steve,
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>>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
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>>cog or two. Maybe because Susan Hayward stars in both. The IMDB
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>>the following plot synopsis:
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>>Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo
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>>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
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>Lillian
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>>takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an
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>alcoholic.
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>>She enters into a short-lived marriage to an immature aviation
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>cadet,
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>>Wallie (Don Taylor), followed by a divorce and then marriage to a
>>sadistic brute and abuser Tony Bardeman (Richard Conte). After a
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>failed
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>>suicide attempt, Burt McGuire (Eddie Albert)comes to her aid and
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>>her find the road back to happiness after sixteen years in a
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>nightmare
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>>world, not counting the first twenty with her mother.
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>>So it does seem to be a recovery story. I haven't seen it, but
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>Susan
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>>Hayward is never short of spectacular. Sorry for the brain fade.
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>>Elsie
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>>Elsie wrote:
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>>>Its a *fabulous* movie!! Perhaps Susan Hayward's best. It's the
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>>>(as true as Hollywood gets) story of Barbara Graham, who was two-
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>>>hooker who got mixed up with some gangsters, was present at a
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>murder,
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>>>ended up getting charged with it and was executed in the gas
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>>>San Quentin. Many, then and now, thought Barbara Graham was
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>>>law enforcement has little comment. Ms. Graham, of course, drank,
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>>>does Ms. Hayward throughout the movie, but there's never any talk
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>>>quitting or rehab or anything. The movie is worth the price of
>>>admission simply on the basis of the powerful performances.
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>>>Elsie
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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
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>>>>a copy. Is it worth the trouble? Any AA references (or analogies)
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>in it?
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>>>>Rotax Steve
>>>>Nangi namaj perez
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