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dreams

“A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes – but a movie actor waits.” Mary Astor‘s friend, John Huston and actor, Humphrey Bogart went to her house one day with a script in hand.  The script, titled The Maltese Falcon, was written by Huston…

MARY ASTOR – the stuff that dreams are made of

May 8, 2013
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bogie1947

This post was my submission to the December 2012 special, double-issue of The Dark Pages, the newsletter for film noir lovers, which was dedicated to Edmund Goulding’s 1947 classic, Nightmare Alley.  My topic was, “1947: The Year in Noir.”  And what a year it was! _____________________________________________________…

1947: The Year in Noir

March 4, 2013
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Annex - Mitchum, Robert (Out of the Past)_02

Having recently submitted my contribution to the special, year-end issue of The Dark Pages, a newsletter for film noir lovers, it’s reasonable I have noir on my mind.  In order to quell the dark thirst, I went out and started looking at theatrical posters of…

1947 Film Noir poster gallery

December 2, 2012
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catFEAT

There’s a genius to suggestive horror and it is not for the faint of heart. She’s the “new type of other woman.”  Alice Moore finishes dinner with co-worker, Oliver Reed.  The man she’s also in love with.  But he’s married.  Alice leaves the restaurant and…

Val Lewton’s, CAT PEOPLE

October 24, 2012
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DUO

“Nothing in the world is any good unless you can share it.” So says Jeff to Kathie during their first encounter in Mexico.  She is hiding from the notorious Whit – he is there to find her and bring her back to a dangerous, duplicitous…

Foolproof and beautiful “Out of the Past”

April 29, 2012
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