I want to live! / Figaro, Inc. ; screenplay by Nelson Gidding and Don M. Mankiewicz ; produced by Walter Wanger ; directed by Robert Wise.



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Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. Based on a newspaper article by Edward Montgomery and the letters of Barbara Graham. Includes the original theatrical trailer. Academy Award for Best Actress of 1958: Susan Hayward. Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A. IMDA: PG. Photography, Lionel Lindon; music, John Mandel; editor, William Hornbeck. Susan Hayward (Barbara Graham), Simon Oakland (Ed Montgomery), Virginia Vincent (Peg), Theodore Bikel (Carl Palmberg), Wesley Lau (Henry Graham), Philip Coolidge, Lou Krugman, James Philbrook, Gage Clark, John Marley, Marion Marshall. In English, with optional English, Spanish or French subtitles. Closed captioned.

Title
I want to live! / Figaro, Inc. ; screenplay by Nelson Gidding and Don M. Mankiewicz ; produced by Walter Wanger ; directed by Robert Wise.
Artist
Wise, Robert, 1914-2005.
Subjects
Language
English, French, Spanish
Type
Video Recording
Abstract
A screen adaptation of the dramatic events in the life of a "B-Girl," Barbara Graham, a vagrant prostitute and fast-living party girl, which led to a sensational murder trial and afterwards, her execution in the gas chamber despite growing doubts about her guilt. The background music is made up in its entirety of progressive jazz.
Year
2002
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