The Lonely Lady

The Lonely Lady is a 1983 American film, which was directed by Peter Sasdy and adapted for the screen by Ellen Shepard, who worked from the novel written by Harold Robbins. The novel itself was believed to have been based on Robbins memories of Jacqueline Susann. The original music score was composed by Charlie Calello. The cast includes Pia Zadora in the title role, Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch, Jared Martin, and in an early film appearance, Ray Liotta. The movie was the last adaptation of one of Robbins best selling novels before he died in 1997, and, to date, the last such adaptation of any of his works.

Walter arrives after the assault has taken place and saves Jerilee from further attacks. A friendship, then a love affair, develops between them, and they soon marry, despite the disapproval of Jerilees mother Bibi Besch. The marriage begins to fall apart when Jerilee rewrites one of Walters scripts and is told she had improved it greatly. She had actually only added the word, Why? Despite this, the revised script works well for the actress delivering the line and she thanks Walter for it.Divorce is inevitable when Walter scorns Jerilee during an argument and accuses her of enjoying having been raped all those years ago. After the divorce, Jerilee has several love affairs while trying to get her own screenplay produced, using her sexual charms to pave the way to recognition, with revenge thrown in the end for good measure. One affair, with actor George Ballantine Jared Martin, quickly ends with her pregnant upon realizing he would not support her, she gets an abortion. While meeting club owner Vincent Dacosta Joseph Cali, who has contacts to agents who can help produce a screenplay, Jerilee ends up working for him as a waitress for a short time. Eventually she has an affair with him as well, and when visiting the agent he had promised would possibly approve of, she realizes that she has been had and that he sent her there to have sex with him and another woman. After confronting Vincent about this, he gives Jerilee her screenplay back, laughing about it while on drugs with two other women. Jerilee finally has a nervous breakdown in a sequence wherein she sees the callous people of her past appear as faces on the keys of her typewriter. ........

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