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Come Back Little Sheba

Come Back Little Sheba : short review

Come Back Little Sheba

Shirley Booth won the 1953 Best Actress Oscar for her role as Lola, an ageing woman dealing with loss: the loss of 'herself' and her dreams twenty years before, and the recent loss of her dog, Sheba - her replacement for a child. Burt Lancaster plays Doc, Lola's husband an ex-alcoholic dwelling on his belief that he was forced into marriage, due to Lola's pregnancy which was subsequently lost. When a young college student named Marie rents a room in their house, Doc feels a kind of passion that he has not felt for decades. However, her arrival only emphasises the failings of Lola and Doc...

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