This episode of NBC's Real Life with Jane Pauley, documents a daughter's search for her mother, Betty, who had given her up for adoption while in a psychiatric hospital years earlier and by all accounts was currently living on the streets of New York City's upper Westside. After locating Betty's brother, her daughter discovers that Betty had been a show girl at the famed Latin Quarter, a New York City night club, in 1955. A promising entertainer, Betty soon traveled to Hollywood, California, to seek a career in movies and it was then, says her brother, that something went wrong. By the time Betty was 30 years old, she had been married three times and in and out of state psychiatric facilities all over the country. Although the family had lost touch with Betty, her daughter was able to locate Betty through Project ReachOut in New York City, a program that had contact with her on the street. Mother and daughter were reunited but Betty died of a heart attack three weeks later.
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