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	Come Back, Little Sheba (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Come Back, Little Sheba is a play written by American playwright William Inge.
		The little Sheba of the title is a lost dog, who does not appear onstage.
		The play was later adapted into a motion picture starring Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth, who received an Academy Award for her performance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Come_Back,_Little_Sheba_(play) (118 words)

	Come Back, Little Sheba
		"Come Back, Little Sheba" is the feature film adaptation of William Inge's successful Broadway play by the same name.
		By the end of the film Sheba's symbolic significance has become more clear, as Lola is finally able to relinquish the impossible hope that the dog will return, and move on with her life as it is in the present.
		"Come Back, Little Sheba" is also an excellent example of historic Hollywood, and features some of the finest performances of some of its era's most popular actors: Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, and Burt Lancaster.
	www.ldsfilm.com /films/Sheba.html (1406 words)

	Come Back, Little Sheba - Celebrity Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Marie gradually brings back memories of Doc's past and it is soon revealed that this is a story of a marriage that was forced by a pregnancy, followed by the unexpected loss of the child.
		Come Back Little Sheba reminded me of those early 1960's British "kitchen sink" movies, where the focus is on working class and not very glamorous people who are forced to deal with very real issues.
		Come Back Little Sheba is a marvelously subtle and beautifully acted movie that centers on the personalities of those affected with alcoholism and the emotional damage that it ultimately causes.
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	Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Doc's iron control over his resulting alcoholism is slowly worn down over the course of the evening as Lola continually calls for little Sheba, a white puppy she loved and who disappeared long ago, like Lola's youth.
		Little Sheba started as a short story, then was adapted into a one act and had its first tryout as a full length production in 1949 at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut.
		Inge peels back their layers of shabby mediocrity to reveal how powerful the drama of their lives on the edge of the abyss can really be.
	www.hartnell.cc.ca.us /westernstage/press_releases/sheba.html (576 words)

	Home Theater Forum - HTF REVIEW: Come Back, Little Sheba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Come Back, Little Sheba is based on the play by William Inge and was quite a controversial film when first released.
		Come Back, Little Sheba is now over fifty years old but its subject matter and heart are all still very timely.
		Then, when the alcohol comes out we are terrified of him just as his wife is. With this scene the movie pushes what alcoholism can do to a person and the film shows us without having to resort to any kind of speeches or preaching.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=208565 (2360 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Come Back, Little Sheba
		Vivacious boarder Marie brings back all the tension of their past, a sad story of a marriage forced by a pregnancy, followed by the unexpected loss of the child.
		The Sheba of the title is a lost dog, the story's one symbol of broken hope and a past that's irretrievable.
		Paramount's DVD of Come Back, Little Sheba is in fine shape and is an excellent bare-bones disc, but we're becoming increasingly aware that the Mountain would be doing itself a favor by at least considering minimal extras.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1335sheba.html (1025 words)

	Four Plays: Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop and the Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Black Cat Book)
		The plays are underbellies of the American dream concerning modestly incomed average Americans facing conflict in a changing social environment, each with a deep dramatic sense of the human spirit riddled softly with a genuinely comedic edge.
		"Come Back, Little Sheba" is a low-key story of a recovering alcoholic which rises to thunderous and violent drama.
		Only "Dark At The Top of The Stairs" is a little less focused in it's story of a 1920s family threatened by marital discord, the play is unfortunately reliant on a shock-value incident which seems to only serve as a melodramatic device.
	www.buy24.us /books/isbn080213209X.html (1247 words)

	Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1952 film which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house.
		The movie was adapted by Ketti Frings from a play of the name by William Inge.
		It won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Shirley Booth) and was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Terry Moore) and Best Film Editing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Come_Back,_Little_Sheba_(movie) (135 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Come Back Little Sheba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Come Back, Little Sheba is a strong adaptation of William Inge's stage play, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Shirley Booth as the sweet but banal wife of a alcoholic, middle-aged doctor (Burt Lancaster).
		I just saw Come Back again for the first time in 30 years, and I think it is as strong now as it must have been in 1952.
		She plays the part of a slovenly housewife to the hilt, Burt is her stuffy, overbearing husband, ashamed of her, but all they have been through together wins out in the end.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002ERWXC (906 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Come Back, Little Sheba at Epinions.com
		Based on a play by William Inge, Come Back, Little Sheba is the powerful story of a middle-aged couple dealing with a troubled marriage.
		Doc's wife is played with heartbreaking emotion by actress Shirley Booth, in a role she made famous on Broadway.
		Later, however, she comes to the realization that there are deeper issues within the household.
	www.epinions.com /content_37064445572 (781 words)

	The Actors Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I played this character several years ago, and I was asked to play that character again.
		Come Back Little Sheba is Steve Terrance’s second play at The Actors Workshop.
		THYDE: The theme of Come Back Little Sheba is the importance of family and togetherness.
	www.houstontheatre.com /actorswork.html (2899 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Come Back, Little Sheba
		Burt Lancaster was too young to play alcoholic, disillusioned Doc Delaney in the 1952 film version of William Inge's Come Back Little Sheba.
		It was one of six plays coproduced for TV by Laurence Olivier as part of his "Great Plays of the 20th Century" series.
		Sheba was first seen by American viewers on December 31, 1977.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/84827/plot.jhtml (245 words)

	On Stage! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Their 10 year old boy, Sonny, is the observer in this play, and it is through his eyes that the audience particularly experiences the result of this conflict.
		Author of Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Picnic (1952 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Circle Award, and the Theatre Club Award), and Bus Stop (1955) and many lesser known works, DARK was the winner of the 1958 Tony Award for Best Play.
		In 1956, with the Broadway successes of Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop and the film Splendor in the Grass behind him, he pulled Farther Off from Heaven out and began work on what would be The Dark At the Top of The Stairs.
	www.runet.edu /~theatre/03_04_season/Dark.html (893 words)

	Come Back, Little Sheba Summary & Essays - William Inge
		The play is now considered a groundbreaking achievement in the genre of domestic drama.
		While its subject matter has become common fodder fueling the mundane storylines of countless soap operas, Come Back, Little Sheba was among the first dramas to skillfully address the confluence of such topics as alcoholism, failed marriage, and broken dreams.
		While the play is sometimes referred to as dated and melodramatic, it is nevertheless valued as a prototype for realistic contemporary social theater.
	www.enotes.com /pass?notes=come-back&typeID=59 (381 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Come Back, Little Sheba
		Come Back, Little Sheba is among the best of several booze-obsessed Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s (The Lost Weekend, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Country Girl covered the same territory).
		Adapted from the William Inge play, the film stars Burt Lancaster as Doc Delaney, an alcoholic trapped in an unhappy marriage.
		Come Back, Little Sheba is painfully real and not so fun to watch -- the 1950s equivalent of spending an evening with loser friends or family members whose lives haven’t turned out as well as planned.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/e7678af35cfbfd0488256ebf006cec18?OpenDocument (386 words)

	Come Back Little Sheba
		At one point in the second act she is left alone on stage with no one to play against and nothing to do but disintegrate into tears....She does it with a painful understatement that is superb.
		By that measure, "Come Back, Little Sheba," William Inge's 1950 melodrama about a recovering alcoholic and his childish wife, would be -- off the charts.
		Washington theater-goers are in for a treat if Come Back, Little Sheba, co-produced by the Keegan and Fountainhead Theaters, is any indication of the season that lies ahead.
	www.fountainheadtheatre.com /Sheba/Critics.htm (561 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - William Inge (1913)
		Inge was so inspired by Williams' play that he decided to try his hand as a playwright.
		Inge's next literary effort, Come Back, Little Sheba (1950) earned him the title of "most promising playwright of the 1950 Broadway season", but his career was only beginning to gain momentum.
		He would later describe it as his "first cautious attempt to look at the past, with an effort to find order and meaning in experiences that were once too close to be seen clearly." By this time, critics were hailing Inge as another Tennessee Williams.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=26 (697 words)

	Cinema: New Year's Cheers (December 26, 1996 - January 1, 1997)
		Finally, and saddest of all, is the 1952 Come Back, Little Sheba, based on the play by William Inge.
		Burt Lancaster plays Doc, a 12-stepped alcoholic who has been dry for a year but goes on a binge when a fetching new boarder reminds him of all the youth and passion he's lost forever.
		Together, they form a nifty little definition of "codependence." Sheba is their dear, lost puppy who has left them--like their youth--and it doesn't look like she's ever coming back.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/12-26-96/cin.htm (796 words)

	Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
		The one house belongs to Flo Owens, who lives there with her two maturing daughters, Madge and Millie, and a boarder who is a spinster school teacher.
		Into this female atmosphere comes a young man named Hal Carter, whose animal vitality seriously upsets the entire group.
		Hal is a most interesting character, a child of parents who ignored him, self-conscious of his failings and his position behind the eight ball.
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	Piedmont College News & Information
		The play, directed by Dr. Betsey Blakeslee, chair of the Mass Communications Department, runs from Wednesday night April 21 through Saturday night, April 24 at 7:30 p.m.
		William Inge, one of America’s foremost playwrights is the author of "Picnic," "Bus Stop," and "Splendor in the Grass." "Come Back, Little Sheba" won both Tonys and an Academy Award for Best Actress for Shirley Booth.
		The play takes place in a small run-down midwestern town in the late '40s during the early spring.
	www.piedmont.edu /news/april_04/sheba.html (318 words)

	Amazon.com: Four Plays: Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop and the Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Black Cat ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		His plays all occur in Kansas and the midwest and yet they are about all of us.
		Loneliness, yearning and introspection are the prevelant themes of the plays of William Inge: one of the great playwrights of the fifties.
		His plays evoke the repressed desires hidden beneath the conformity of the fifties and prophetically suggest the impending social and sexual revolution of the sixties.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/080213209X?v=glance (1860 words)

	Come Back, Little Sheba (Full Frame) And Piranha (Full Frame)
		Based on William Inge's classic play, Come Back, Little Sheba is the stirring tale of a life-weary couple who rescue hope from the ruins of the past.
		The title is something of a giveaway: it's a safe bet that somebody's body will be picked clean by those omnivorous Amazon piranhas.
		Filmed on location "Piranha, Piranha" received plenty of TV play after "Jaws" opened the floodgates of "death form the deep" flicks.
	www.racehorsememorabilia.com /back.html (216 words)

	Come Back, Little Sheba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.
		He plays a waiter at a restaurant that you really don't want to eat at in Waiting.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/come_back_little_sheba (439 words)

	Come Back Little Sheba - The Memorable TV DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Based on William Inge's classic play Come Back Little Sheba is a classic slice of kitchen sink realism from a time when Hollywood was trying to push the boundaries a little.
		Shirley Booth recreates the role of Lola Delaney which she had created in the stage version, and so successful was she that she garnered herself an Oscar for her first ever movie appearance.
		Yes at times the stage origins of the movie are evident, especially in some lengthy dialogue scenes but this doesn't detract at all from the overall feel of Sheba's power.
	www.memorabletv.com /dvdreviews05/comebacklittlesheba.htm (274 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS An Up-and-Down Sheba at Spotlighters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The play's heroine, Lola, is a frumpy, overweight, middle-aged housewife whose observations are as commonplace as her house's furnishings.
		Perhaps one reason why Inge's reputation has not weathered as well as theirs is that his symbolism tends to have a groan-inducing obviousness, and the poetic lines are less beautifully crafted than in Williams' work.
		Following its run at the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre, Come Back, Little Sheba will be staged with the same cast March 24-26 at the Howard County Center for the Arts in Ellicott City.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/story.asp?id=4446 (669 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Sheba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The first and last time audiences saw this musical adaptation of William Inge's 1949 play "Come Back, Little Sheba" was in July 1974 in Chicago, with Kaye Ballard as Lola.
		Emphasizing the fact that "Sheba" is a play with songs rather than a musical is the set, a realistically shabby, heavily furnished kitchen and living room that would be fine for the play but is far too confining for a musical.
		It's sung by an identically dressed quartet of Lola's dream lovers and is the first warning that Inge's sad tale of a married couple trapped in a love-hate-guilt relationship is not going to be helped by the score and lyrics.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117798811?categoryid=33&cs=1 (457 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Such is the message of William Inge's Come Back Little Sheba, now in production by the Shadow Theatre Company.
		The play's blunt themes of loneliness, alcoholism, and desire, while not shocking by today's standards, ring just as true as when they unsettled audiences at the first production in 1950.
		Lola Delaney, is a woman of "quiet desperation" (captured by Ruthay's subtle facial expressions and voice modulation), who has let her life slip away and seeks escape through anyone nearby—her neighbors, boarders, milkman, and mailman.
	coloradodrama.com /sheba.html (256 words)

	A little game of... - GFXartist.com - Served over 20,000,000 artworks
		A little artistic freedom is allowed of course, but it should be a combination of existing movietitles.
		to come up with what I did helped me thru a project I was working on where I had begun spinning my wheels.
		After that little, constructive "mental break" I took yesterday, I came up with a great solution to a design problem.
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	Come Back Little Sheba DVD review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Little Sheba is a dog that's gone AWOL, and its owner, Shirley Booth, has also lost her looks and her love.
		Dated now, it's still a classic slice of '50s Americana, based on a play by William Inge and treading gracefully between tragedy and comedy.
		Daniel Mann refuses to get off his tripod, and the camera seems transfixed by Booth's screen debut (she had played the part on Broadway), which won her an Oscar and the Cannes prize.
	www.timeout.com /film/dvd/94832.html (172 words)

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