About Mrs. Leslie

If people did not accept back street arrangements like Shirley Booth did in About Mrs. Leslie a whole lot of romance novels and soap operas would never be written.

Love is the winner in this move, not satisfaction, not financial security, although financial security is Ryan's legacy to Booth. Just look at the expressions on the actor's faces when a/ Ryan finds Booth at last after she has discovered that he is Married With Children and b/ when she sees up close and personal via a newsreel that he has a backstage * to Booth * wife and family and you see the price that love extracts.

I'd seen this years ago on AMC and remembered little about it, but a revisiting on TCM reveals it to be a surprisingly solid, moving, adult romance. Sure, it's soap opera, and disconcertingly close to "Back Street" (or Capra's "Back Street" ripoff, "Forbidden"), and it's not helped by unexciting cinematography or a soupy, repetitive Victor Young score, like he's trying to be Max Steiner.

Was horribly miscast as the off and on romantic lead to one of America's great scientists, Robert Ryan (Hendershall), who was already married with 2 children. Throughout the first half of the move, before we learn of Mrs.

Lovely little drama about a hopeless love affair told in remembrance. Shirley Booth is incredibly moving in a beautifully simple performance and Robert Ryan a fine match in a understated part very different from his usual gruff often cruel characters.

I came across this little film and thought if Shirley Booth was in it, it must be interesting. This is a great little film - a true gem!

Shirley Booth proved what a good actress she was in this film. While she was memorable and received an Oscar for her performance in "Come Back, Little Sheba", here in "About Mrs.

The story is very believable and likely raised a lot of eyebrows back when it was released. I love older movies because they do not show all the gratuitous sex scenes but rather, hint at the possibility.

Shirley Booth runs a rooming house in Beverly Hills before WWII. She's an unmarried frump.