To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
I should have looked it up before I posted originally. It was the basis for Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" and the movie "A Place in the Sun" with Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters.
About a pregnant girl killed by her boyfriend in 1906. Several articles ... some with great pictures. But one here:
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/13312429.htm
To: BunnySlippers
Think you, I will watch AMC and TCM to see if they will show it.
It reminds me of this old song
The Knoxville Girl
I met a little girl in Knoxville
A town we all know well
And every Sunday evening
Out in her home I'd dwell
We went to take an evening walk
About a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground
And knocked that fair girl down;
She fell down on her bended knees
For mercy she did cry
Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me here
I'm unprepared to die
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
Within her blood did flow.
I took her by her golden curls
And I drug her 'round and 'round
Throwing her into the river
That flows through Knoxville town
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
With the dark and roving eyes
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
You can never be my bride.
37 posted on
12/07/2005 4:18:05 PM PST by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
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