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I Want to Live! is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Wise released in USA on 18 november 1958 with Susan Hayward
I Want to Live! (1958)
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Add to a movie listI Want to Live! is a 1958 film noir written by Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz, produced by Walter Wanger, and directed by Robert Wise, which tells the story of a woman, Barbara Graham, an habitual criminal convicted of murder and facing execution. It stars Susan Hayward as Graham, and also features Simon Oakland, Stafford Repp, and Theodore Bikel. The movie was adapted from letters written by Graham and newspaper articles written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Montgomery. The film presents a somewhat fictionalized version of the case showing a possibility of innocence concerning Graham. Today, the charge would be known as felony murder.
The film earned Hayward a Best Actress Oscar at the 31st Academy Awards.
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The film tells the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Hayward) a prostitute and convicted perjurer. Graham is the product of a broken home, and works luring men into fixed card games.Actors
Susan Hayward
(Barbara Graham)
Simon Oakland
(Edward S. 'Ed' Montgomery)
Theodore Bikel
(Carl G.G. Palmberg)
Virginia Vincent
(Peg)
Wesley Lau
(Henry L. Graham)
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