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Come Back, Little Sheba (play)

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NameCome Back, Little Sheba
Written byWilliam Inge
Date premiered1950
Place premieredWestport Country Playhouse

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'Come Back, Little Sheba' is a 1950 play by the American dramatist William Inge. The play was Inge's first, written while he was a teacher at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Part 1 of "Come Back, Little Sheba", a play from Granada Television's "Laurence Olivier Presents" strand and screening as part of our "Best of ITV Drama" season. First broadcast on 1st January, 1978, "Come Back, Little Sheba" is a play by William Inge which premiered on Broadway in 1950 and was subsequently filmed in 1952. In this version, the cast is led by Olivier and Joanne Woodward and features Carrie Fisher, Patience Collier and Nicholas Campbell.
10.83 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Part 2 of "Come Back, Little Sheba", a drama from Granada's "Laurence Olivier Presents" strand. "Set in the cramped, cluttered Midwestern house of Lola and Doc Delaney, the plot centres on how their life is disrupted by the presence of a boarder named Marie, a college art student with a strong lustful appetite. Overweight and slovenly, the housebound middle-aged Lola (Joanne Woodward) engages in mild flirtations with the milkman and postman, like the ingratiating coquette she once was. She sees in Marie (Carrie Fisher) herself at that age, and encourages her pursuit of wealthy Bruce (Jay Benedict) and muscular Turk (Nicholas Campbell). Doc (Olivier), who ekes out a living as a chiropractor, was forced to abandon a promising career in medicine when he married a pregnant Lola. She subsequently lost the baby. As a recovering alcoholic, Doc maintains a precarious sobriety by avoiding the past. For him, Marie represents the youth and opportunity he sacrificed, and his eventual realisation that she is not as pure and perfect as he imagined sends him back to the bottle and a slow descent into unbridled rage. The title refers to Lola's missing dog, who remains lost at the play's end.
10.78 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Part 3 of the "Laurence Olivier Presents..." "Come Back, Little Sheba". After the 1952 movie version starring Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth, Martin Balsam and Betsy Blair starred in an Anglia Television version of the play in 1964 and shown under the ITV banner, "Play of the Week" the following year.
10.97 min. | 5.0 user rating		 The conclusion of the drama, "Come Back, Little Sheba", a play from Granada Television's "Laurence Olivier Presents" strand.
8.30 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Part 6 of our drama, "Come Back, Little Sheba".
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The penultimate part of our "Best of ITV Drama" presentation, "Come Back, Little Sheba" from the "Laurence Olivier Presents" strand.
9.25 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Part 7 of Granada's "Come Back, Little Sheba", a play from the highly acclaimed "Laurence Olivier Presents" series.
8.97 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Part 4 of "Come Back, Little Sheba", a drama from Granada's six-play strand, "Laurence Olivier Presents". The entire series is available on Network DVD.
10.83 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Part 5 of "Come Back, Little Sheba", a play from Granada's "Laurence Olivier Presents" series and screening as part of itv gold's "Best of ITV Drama" season.
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