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Come Back, Little Sheba is a american film of genre Drama directed by Daniel Mann released in USA on 24 december 1952 with Burt Lancaster

Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)

Come Back, Little Sheba
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Released in USA 24 december 1952
Length 1h39
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Fantasy,    Romance
Rating74% 3.747283.747283.747283.747283.74728

Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) is a drama film produced by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house. The film stars Burt Lancaster with Terry Moore and Richard Jaeckel. Shirley Booth makes her film debut, which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. The title refers to the wife's little dog that disappeared months before the story begins and which she still openly misses.

The movie was adapted by Ketti Frings from the 1950 play of the same title by William Inge and was directed by Daniel Mann (making his directorial debut).

Synopsis

"Doc" Delaney (Burt Lancaster) is a recovering alcoholic who, in his younger days, was a promising medical student who dropped out of school to take a job to support a pregnant Lola, whose premarital intercourse with Doc caused her to be thrown out of her family's house by her father. Doc, thinking he was doing the right thing, married Lola (Shirley Booth). The child later died, and in the process rendered Lola unable to have any further children, leaving the couple childless. As a result, Doc turned to drinking excessively, causing him to have bouts of anger and murderous rage, and later drinking away a sizeable inheritance from his parents. He eventually joined Alcoholics Anonymous and was able to quit drinking, though he still keeps a bottle in the house to remind him of his past life.

Actors

Burt Lancaster

(Doc Delaney)
Shirley Booth

(Lola Delaney)
Terry Moore

(Marie Buckholder)
Richard Jaeckel

(Turk Fisher)
Philip Ober

(Ed Anderson)
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