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Madame Bovary (1949, dir. Vincente Minnelli)

Toni Hollingsworth in cocoa-brown spun rayon skirt with deep trouser pleats in front and cut-away halter bodice that attaches to the skirt in back by Huxley, photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe for Harper's Bazaar US, June 1945.

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What can I say to him? "I love you but I'm afraid of you"?

In a Lonely Place (1950) dir. Nicholas Ray

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JANE GREER AND ROBERT MITCHUM IN

OUT OF THE PAST (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur

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DAVID FARRAR and KATHLEEN BYRON in THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949) dir. MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESSBURGER

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Dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí

SPELLBOUND (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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World War II aircraft factory photographs by Alfred T. Palmer (1941-1943)

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"Jim! Jim! Tell them I didn´t know anything. Jim, listen to me, you can save me Jim! Do you hear me? Tell them I didn´t know those gunmen where coming. Say " I swear! Kitty is innocent!" "I swear Kitty is innocent! Kitty is innocent! I swear! Kitty is innocent! Kitty is innocent! I swear, Kitty is innocent! Kitty is innocent! Say it Jim! Say it! It will save me if you do."

The Killers (1946)

Director: Robert Siodmak

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#AtoZOneWordFilm Challenge:

VERTIGO (1958) Director: Alfred Hitchcock

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Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda in THE LADY EVE (1941) dir. Preston Sturges

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FAVORITE CLASSIC FILM PERFORMANCES

Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington in THE LADY EVE (1941) dir. Preston Sturges

You see, Hopsie, you don't know very much about girls. The best ones aren't as good as you probably think they are, and the bad ones aren't as bad. Not nearly as bad.