Come Back, Little Sheba

After a shot gun marriage, Lola loses the couple’s baby and relies for comfort on her dog, Sheba, who has run away, while Doc is a recovering alcoholic who blames Lola for his dropping out of medical school. Though still depressed and bitter about their past, the couple rents out a room to a young woman named Marie and while Marie brings happiness and young love into their home, she also brings old ghosts reminding Doc and Lola of their misfortunes.

Shirley Booth's Lola Delaney the most pathetic character ever put on film. It is clearly harmful for use with many humiliations he suffered during the movie. Caught in a sort of support relationship with her husband, she feels lonely and emotionally consuming, while seeming to deny that fact in itself. And when she cuts loose and tries to have fun, dance or listen to music radio is designed to carry out their daily routine is simply the object of laughter and eye rolling.

The cinematography by the great James Wong Howe begins bright and regular culling as a sitcom of the 50s, but as layers of the dark heart of the drama were torn, the look is noirish and menacing.