A little help, please…

March 30th, 2009 at 01:25pm Will Pfeifer

Got an e-mail this morning from a reader who’s looking for a movie, but isn’t sure which one he’s looking for. I’m still trying to track this one down, but in the meantime, I thought I’d throw the question out to the vast Movie Man readership. Here’s what he says about this elusive film…

“The movie took place in either the 1940’s or 50s (and seemed to have been filmed then; it was in black and white).
It ended dramatically with one of the star actresses (blonde…..could have been Lana Turner, but I’ve been unable to find such a film with her in it) actually going to the gas chamber.  The gas chamber scene was unusually graphic, showing a plunger going into some sort of liquid, sphewing out steam as the female star was blindfolded and struggling with last breaths.
Before she went to the gas chamber the woman was in prison.  I seem to remember that she was there for allegedly killing her daughter or a little girl, who had a fascination with Lana Turner and Ava Gardner; the girl would sing their names together often.
Before her execution, the woman was treated poorly by fellow prisoners for killing a child.
I believe the woman was actually innocent of the crime.
There was another female co-star.”

Any guesses?

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