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Release Date: 1958

Cast: Frank Overton, Frank Maxwell, Jackie Coogan, Onslow Stevens, Maureen Stapleton, John Gallaudet, Montgomery Clift, Dolores Hart, Myrna Loy, Robert Ryan, Mike Kellin

Categories: Movies, Melodrama, Film noir, Black-and-white, Film adaptation

Lonelyhearts (also known as Miss Lonelyheart ) is a 1958 film noir drama film directed by Vincent J. Donehue. It is based on the play by Howard Teichmann and the 1933 novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West. The film stars Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Jackie Coogan, Dolores Hart, and Maureen Stapleton in her first film role. Stapleton was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as for a Golden Globe. Nathanael West's novel on which this film was based was adapted for the screen in 1933 as Advice to the Lovelorn starring Lee Tracy. It was made by... MORE

Lonelyhearts (also known as Miss Lonelyheart ) is a 1958 film noir drama film directed by Vincent J. Donehue. It is based on the play by Howard Teichmann and the 1933 novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West. The film stars Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Jackie Coogan, Dolores Hart, and Maureen Stapleton in her first film role. Stapleton was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as for a Golden Globe. Nathanael West's novel on which this film was based was adapted for the screen in 1933 as Advice to the Lovelorn starring Lee Tracy. It was made by 20th Century Pictures and distributed by United Artists, directed by Alfred L. Werker from a screenplay by Leonard Praskins. The film was more of a comedy-drama than this version. In 1957, the novel was adapted into a stage play entitled Miss Lonelyhearts by Howard Teichmann. It opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre on October 3, 1957 in a production directed by Alan Schneider and designed by Jo Mielziner. It ran for only twelve performances. The story opens on a small-town street. A man throws a bundle of papers onto the sidewalk from the back of a truck labeled "Chronicle". Clift is sitting LESS