A Life of Her Own [SEP] director
A Life of Her Own
A Life of Her Own is a 1950 American melodrama film directed by George Cukor and starring Lana Turner and Ray Milland. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart focuses on an aspiring model who leaves her small town in the Midwest to seek fame and fortune in New York City. The film was produced by Voldemar Vetluguin and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Plot.
Lily Brannel James (Lana Turner) leaves her small home town in Kansas for New York City, and she is hired
Sheila Stewart (author)
Sheila Stewart (6 Jan 1928 - 3 Sep 2014) was a British writer who chronicled the lives of rural working people using their own words. Her technique was based on extensive interviews, which allowed her to capture the words, phrases and expressions of her subjects and the localities and the periods in which they lived. Her works can be classified as social histories.
Early life.
She was born Sheila McCairn in Appledore, Devon to an unmarried mother and was left in the care