Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story had an alternate ending. Pic credit: Lifetime On Saturday, Lifetime aired Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly story. Christina Ricci played the 19th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ricci plays investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who's on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients ...

In 1887, a nearly penniless Nellie Bly took an undercover assignment to investigate reports of brutality and abuse at the asylum on Blackwell’s Island, known today as Roosevelt Island. The ...

In 1885, the Pittsburgh Dispatch ran an op-ed under the byline “The Quiet Observer” entitled “What Girls Are Good For.” In the view of Erasmus Wilson (owner of the pseudonym), the short answer was ...

“In my time, women usually had their life stories written for them. But I didn’t like the story I was given, so I wrote a new one.” That’s Nellie Bly, the nom de plume of Elizabeth Cochrane. The story ...

Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story debuts Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. The movie follows Nellie Bly, played by Christina Ricci, a pioneering journalist who has herself committed to the ...

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A young journalist looks behind the curtain of a nearby mental hospital, only to uncover the grim and gruesome acts they bestow upon their "patients". A young journalist looks behind the curtain of a ...