Editing Barbara Graham (section)

==In popular culture==
Actress [[Susan Hayward]] won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for playing Graham in the 1958 film ''[[I Want to Live!]]'', a fictionalized version of events which suggests that Graham was innocent since it was based on letters Graham wrote to a journalist. The film is from Graham's point of view and includes details differing from real life, in particular, the manner in which the police found and arrested Graham.<ref name="HARNISCH">{{cite news|last=Harnisch|first=Larry|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=28 November 2008|title=Barbara Graham case revisited, November 28, 1958|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/11/barbara-graham.html}}</ref>

Reporter Gene Blake, who covered Graham's murder trial for the ''Los Angeles Daily Mirror'', dismissed the movie as "a dramatic and eloquent piece of propaganda for the abolition of the death penalty."<ref name="HARNISCH" /> ''[[Los Angeles Herald-Express]]'' reporter Bill Walker also exposed the inaccuracies of the film in his article in the April 1959 issue of ''[[Cavalier (magazine)|Cavalier]]'', "Exposing Hollywood's 'I Want to Live' Hoax", and in a 1961 book titled ''The Case of Barbara Graham.'' However, while the movie may have been fictionalized, there is still some doubt about Graham's guilt and the manner in which it was 'proved'.{{sfn|Cairns|2013}}

[[Marcia Clark]], a former deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County and the lead prosecutor in the [[O.J. Simpson murder trial]], has authored ''Trial by Ambush'', a [[true crime]] book exploring the Barbara Graham case, set for publication on December 1, 2024.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Ambush-Murder-Injustice-Barbara/dp/1662515960 Clark, Marcia. ''Trial by Ambush''. Thomas and Mercer, 2024.</ref>

Graham was also portrayed by actress [[Lindsay Wagner]] in the 1983 TV movie ''I Want to Live!''

The jazz/pop singer [[Nellie McKay]] had a touring production titled ''I Want To Live!'' that tells the story through standards, original tunes, and dramatic interludes.