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Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:4
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An attractive female boarder (Terry Moore) stirs the barely-hidden seeds of contempt between a tired, disappointed housewife (Shirley Booth) and her washed-up, alcoholic doctor husband (Burt... An attractive female boarder (Terry Moore) stirs the barely-hidden seeds of contempt between a tired, disappointed housewife (Shirley Booth) and her washed-up, alcoholic doctor husband (Burt Lancaster). Great performances bring William Inge's intense 1950 stage play of broken dreams and marital resentment to life on the big screen, garnering Booth a well-deserved Academy Award for Best Actress and a nomination for Moore as Best Supporting Actress. [More]
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel, Philip Ober, Edwin Max, Lisa Golm, Walter Kelley
Director: Daniel Mann
Director: Daniel Mann
Screenwriter: Ketti Frings
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Composer: Franz Waxman
Reviews for Come Back, Little Sheba
In one of the weakest films to be based on Inge's plays, director Daniel Mann, a specialist of soupy melodramas, gets a good performance from Shirely Booth as a self-pitying housewife mourning her youth and a misguided one from Lancaster as her hubby.
Nothing comes alive at you. Nothing roots us to the Delaneys, and in turn nothing grounds them in any world except that of Inge's creaky schemata.
among the best of several booze-obsessed Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s
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