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Woman on the Run is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Norman Foster and starring Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe. [1] The film was based on the April 1948 short story "Man on the Run" by Sylvia Tate. The film exists in the public domain and was restored and preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Williams completed her college education in the early 1950s at Southern University majoring in theater and minoring in sociology. Later, she went on to undertake the Masters program at Lone Mountain Women's College, in San Francisco. Her goal was to become a journalist, however opportunities for women in this field were very limited at the time.
Beginning in the late 1940s, a homophobic moral panic and wave of repression swept across the United States, including in San Francisco. This was known as the Lavender Scare. [16] In 1951, the San Francisco Police Department defined a new category of crime: "sex offenses." This category was designated for nonviolent sexual crimes outside of ...
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. She subsequently returns to prostitution and other criminal activities to make a living and begins working ...
The action is set in San Francisco where the film opens in a documentary style. When evidence and circumstance in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, both her boyfriend (a police detective) and a struggling songwriter who plays piano in a bar, decide to withhold evidence from the police.
On September 20, 1950, a US Navy ship just off the coast of San Francisco used a giant hose to spray a cloud of microbes into the air and into the city's famous fog.
Mona's 440 Club was the first lesbian bar to open in San Francisco, California in 1936. It continued to draw a lesbian clientele into the 1950s. Mona's and the gay bars of that era were an important part of the history of LGBT culture in San Francisco.
"I really honed in on the 1950s because of my grandparents," Fay explained to AOL Lifestyle. "They got married in 1955 and her [grandmother's] stories...just made it sound like the best time ever