Cathy Come Home (played by Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks), and their descent into poverty and homelessness. At the start of the film, Cathy leaves her parents' overcrowded rural home and hitchhikes to the city, where she finds work and meets Reg, a well-paid lorry driver. They fall in love, marry, and rent a modern flat in a building that does not allow children. Cathy soon becomes pregnant and must stop working, and Reg is injured on the job and becomes unemployed. The loss of income and birth of the baby force them to leave their flat, and they are unable to
Cathy Carroll the mid-1960s with sides cut for the Philips, Cheer, Musicor, and Dot labels. Amongst her songs was an answer version to Brian Hyland's "Ginny Come Lately" and a version of "The Young Ones" which topped the charts in the UK for Cliff Richard. Cathy was portrayed as the "typical American girl" and went on a sponsored tour of 100 radio stations. Cathy Carroll married Bob Halley in 1967. He wrote the songs for her Dot and Rotate Records releases, as well as inking the orchestrations. He also produced those records. She retired from music in the 1970s to raise her