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I Want to Live! (1958)![]() Susan Hayward finally won her Best Actress Oscar (on her fifth, and last, nomination) playing Barbara Graham in this "true" story. Ms. Graham was a small-time crook who "hung out" and partied with the wrong type of people. Because of these associations and her own actions, she was sentenced to death for her involvement with a couple of killers. Her letters, as she fought to escape the gas chamber, and newspaper writer Ed Montgomery's articles were used to develop the Oscar-nominated Screenplay (Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz's only Academy recognition). Director Robert Wise was also nominated, as was its B&W Cinematography - Lionel Lindon's (Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)) last nomination, Editing - William Hornbeck's (A Place in the Sun (1951)) last nomination, and Sound. Notable supporting actors include Simon Oakland as Montgomery, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel, and Gaven MacLeod. |
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