Love Has Many Faces (1965): Alexander Singer’s Melodrama of Sex-Starved American Women, Starring Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson

“Love Has Many Faces” is another trashy Lana Turner melodrama, designed to maintain her stature as a viable star.

Autumn Leaves (1956): Robert Aldrich’s Melodrama, Starring, Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson

In the intense noir melodrama “Autumn Leaves,” Joan Crawford (in the last good decade of her career) plays Milly, a rich, older, career-oriented spinster. Upon meeting the younger and charming Burt (Cliff Robertson), she falls in love with him, not realizing his problems as a schizoid paranoid.