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William Bendix, born today in 1906 #botd

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📽 1947: Calcutta is an American film noir crime film starring Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, John Whitney, June Duprez, Lowell Gilmore.

• In post-World War II Asia, three American pilots, Neale Gordon (Ladd), Bill Cunningham (Whitney) and Pedro Blake (Bendix) fly a route from Chungking, China to Calcutta, India. They live at the Hotel Imperial in Calcutta. When Neale and Pedro's aircraft is forced down in a mountainous area, Bill comes to the rescue.

Bill's fiancée, Virginia Moore,(Russell) at an engagement party tells Neale and Pedro that Bill has been strangled. Nightclub singer Marina Tanev (Duprez) says Eric Lasser (Gilmore), the nightclub owner canceled the engagement party on the night Bill was killed. Tearing an expensive diamond necklace from her neck, Neale confronts Virginia making her confess she was not in love with Bill. (Paramount Pictures)

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William Bendix and Robert Mitchum in Macao, 1952.

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

February 11th 2026

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Here are 10 things you should know about William Bendix, born 120 years ago today. He appeared on the Broadway stage before attaining success in pictures, radio and television.

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Detective Story (1951, dir. William Wyler)

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1958 Alan Ladd is navy officer but also a Quaker who is against violence but somehow finds a way of reconciling his religious beliefs with military service

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Doris Dowling and William Bendix in The Blue Dahlia, dir. George Marshall (1946)