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  2. Plot. In 1950 San Francisco, petty criminal and prostitute Barbara Graham faces a misdemeanor charge for soliciting sex. She returns to her native San Diego, but is soon charged with perjury after she provides two criminal friends a false alibi.

  3. Susan Hayward (perhaps the finest work of her career) portrays the real-life convicted murderess Barbara Graham with urgency, strength, and sensitivity. We follow the story of Graham as she gets in trouble with the law repeatedly.

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    • Biography, Crime, Drama
    • Robert Wise
    • 1958-12-03
  4. In "Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America," Kathleen Cairns profiles the mid-century murder suspect whose case became a rallying cry for anti-death penalty activists.

  5. Jun 3, 2011 · On this date in 1955, Barbara Graham was gassed at California’s San Quentin Prison, along with two confederates in the brutal murder of an elderly widow. Following the classic sob-story vector from orphan to juvenile delinquent to petty criminal, Graham found her calling as femme fatale.

  6. Actress Susan Hayward won the Best Actress Academy Award for playing Graham in the movie I Want to Live! (1958), a fictionalized version of events which suggests that Graham was innocent since it was based on letters Graham wrote to a journalist.

  7. Barbara Graham : I never even knew the dame. Police lieutenant : You know she's been murdered, don't you? Barbara Graham : Yeah.

  8. This film tells the riveting true story of brazen bad girl Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward, in an Academy Award-winning performance), a perpetual offender who tries to go straight but is sent to...

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    • Biography