Anna Lucasta (1959 film)

Anna Lucasta is a 1958 film directed by Arnold Laven and written by Philip Yordan. It stars Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis Jr., and Henry Scott. It is a remake of the 1949 version directed by Irving Rapper and starring Paulette Goddard, which itself was an adaptation of Yordans 1936 stage play.

The cafe is Annas regular haunt, as she leads a daytoday existence seducing sailors for meals, drinks and board. As the cafe is closing, she has no place to spend the night. Just then, Danny Johnson arrives looking to renew his acquaintance with Anna. His naval enlistment ending, he asks her to move in with him, though hes uninterested in marriage. As Anna parties with Danny, Joe arrives and asks her to come home. Anna consents, but after her arrival, Joe angrily rebuffs her efforts to rebuild their relationship.Soon thereafter, Rudolph arrives in town. Having expected Rudolph to be a rube, Frank is disappointed to discover that hes a college graduate, unlikely to be fooled by Annas guise of respectability. Furthermore, Rudolphs only interest is getting a job, the search for a wife having been more his fathers concern than his own. When Rudolph meets Anna, however, hes smitten and they begin a romance. Anna tells him of her ejection from the household Joe had become angrily jealous when boys took interest in her, so he falsely accused her of promiscuity and threw her out and confesses the truth of her life in San Diego. Rudolph says that he still loves her, and Anna agrees to marry him. ........

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