Autumn Leaves (film)

Autumn Leaves is a 1956 Columbia Pictures drama film starring Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson in an older womanyounger man tale of mental illness. The screenplay was written by Jean Rouverol and Hugo Butler, though it was credited to Jack Jevne, Rouverol and Butler being blacklisted at the time of the films release.

Spinsterish Millicent Millie Wetherby Joan Crawford works at home as a selfemployed typist. One evening in a diner, she meets a lonely Army veteran named Burt Hanson Cliff Robertson. They share a romantic date at the beach, kissing amidst the crashing waves, but Millie tells Burt to date someone his own age. A month later, Burt is waiting for the stilllonely Millie at her home and the two celebrate his new job at a department store. He proposes to her in a movie theater, and while she initially rejects the proposal, she reconsiders when she sees him walking away.The next day, the couple gets married in Mexico. However, on the marriage license, he lists his place of birth as Chicago, though he had earlier told her he was born in Racine, Wisconsin. Once home, Burts exwife, Virginia Vera Miles, appears, which shocks Millie because Burt told her that he had never been married. Virginia gives her a property settlement that she wants Burt to sign and tells her that Burt is a habitual liar about his life and his past. Millie also learns that Burts father Lorne Greene is in Los Angeles to find him. ........

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