Word: shebas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best actress: Shirley Booth, for her portrayal of a slatternly wife in Come Back, Little Sheba (TIME...
...listed among Variety's 119 pictures were such comparative late starters as Limelight, Moulin Rouge, Come Back, Little Sheba...
Come Back, Little Sheba. William Inge's Broadway hit about two mismated people, faithfully transferred to the screen; with Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth (TIME...
Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount). William Inge's Broadway hit about two mismated people, faithfully transferred to the screen; with Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth (TIME...
Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a minor but moving tragedy on a major theme: the lives of quiet desperation that men lead. Its central characters are two mismated people: Doc (Burt Lancaster), who was once a promising medical student, and "pretty Lola" (Shirley Booth), who once had lots of beaux. Then Doc got Lola into trouble and had to marry her; their baby died. Now, after 20 years which seems to have "vanished into thin air," Doc is a chiropractor and a reformed drunk, while Lola is "old, fat and sloppy," with nothing on her mind...