sonny.

the extension of a man.

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Anemone Me (short film, 1990) dirs. Suzan-Lori Parks, Bruce Hainley

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Clive Owen and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Bent (1997)

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FEMME FATALES OF THE 1940s & 1950s (insp)

Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder Leave Her to Heaven (1945) dir. John M. Stahl The Killers (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak Detour (1945) dir. Edward G. Ulmer The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) dir. Tay Garnett Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang Dead Reckoning (1946) dir. John Cromwell Niagara (1953) dir. Henry Hathaway Gilda (1946) dir. Charles Vidor

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TIPPI HEDREN as Melanie Daniels in THE BIRDS (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock Costume design by Edith Head and hairstyles by Virginia Darcy

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Mists gather here, and sea fog and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them. You see, day and night, year in, year out, they listen to the pound and stir of the waves. There's life and death in that restless sound... and eternity too.

THE UNINVITED 1944, dir. Lewis Allen

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FAVORITE CLASSIC FILM PERFORMANCES

Gene Tierney as Ellen Berent in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945) dir. John M. Stahl

I'll never let you go, Richard. Never, never, never.

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You and I are going to be together, as long as we live. Remember that, darling, always.

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND as Terry Collins THE DARK MIRROR (1946)  — dir. Robert Siodmak

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JOAN CRAWFORD as Joan 'Montana' Prescott MONTANA MOON (1930)— dir. Malcolm St. Clair

[fireworksgalaxy]

THE RED SHOES (1948) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

[summertimenoir]

Merle Oberon in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

[stars-bean]

Unfaithfully Yours (1948) dir. Preston Sturges

[classicfilmsource]

HUMORESQUE 1946 | Jean Negulesco

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Joan Crawford in HUMORESQUE (1946) dir. Jean Negulesco

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Don't you love me? - That's the tough part of it, but it'll pass. Those things do, in time. And there's one other thing—I loved him more.

DEAD RECKONING 1947, dir. John Cromwell

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POSSESSED (1947) — dir. Curtis Bernhardt

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JOAN CRAWFORD as Bonnie Jordan DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE (1931)— dir. Harry Beaumont

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JOAN CRAWFORD as Joan 'Montana' Prescott MONTANA MOON (1930)— dir. Malcolm St. Clair