the evening wore on

keisha. i love watching movies, especially the old ones.

[auldcine]

GENE TIERNEY as Laura Hunt in LAURA (1944)

[normasshearer]

I remember, long ago I read a book that told the meaning of dreams. It said that if a girl dreams of a boat or a ship she will reach a safe harbor, but if she dreams of daffodils she is in great danger. But this is no time for me to think of danger. This is my wedding day.

SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR  1947, dir. Fritz Lang

[normajeanebaker]

Hazel Brooks in Sleep, My Love (1948) dir. Douglas Sirk

[normasshearer]

He’s promised me the world, Marty, and I’ve got to have it.

JOAN CRAWFORD as Ethel Whitehead in THE DAMNED DON’T CRY (1950) dir. Vincent Sherman

[filmgifs]

Personally, Veda’s convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.

Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz

[emmanuelleriva]

Born to Kill (1947) dir. Robert Wise

[markiafc]

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957) | FT. Chemistry™

[incredibletales]

The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks

[normajeanebaker]

Peggy Cummins and John Dall in Gun Crazy (1950) dir. Joseph H. Lewis

[chewbacca]

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET dir. Samuel Fuller

[incredibletales]

The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks

[ritahayworrth]

LINDA DARNELL in Hangover Square (1945) dir. John Brahm

[robertmitchum]

ROBERT MITCHUM in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER dir. Charles Laughton 

[normasshearer]

FARLEY GRANGER and CATHY O’DONNELL as Bowie and Keechie in THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948) dir. Nicholas Ray

[acecroft]

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[emmanuelleriva]

Can’t you get those lazy legs off that couch? Joan Bennett as Kitty March in Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang

[silverscreendames]

Janet Leigh in Touch of Evil (1958) dir. Orson Welles