Des,

Why thank you, dear. The check is in the mail ;-) Actually, I'm
just a person who is passionate about older movies 1920s - mid 50s.

Des Green wrote:

> *Elsie you have just sold Steve that movie , I bet , if he hasn't
> already seen it it wont be long before he does -------------------me
> to ! You should take up reviewing*
> **
> *Des xx*
>
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> */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
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