Thank you @tommykrasker.bsky.social and
@ladykdesigns.bsky.social for this outstanding kickoff to the #TheNoirCollective. I so appreciate the depth of research you do, how fluidly you integrate it into the on-going discussion and how adroitly timed your interjections are.
The killer in the catwalks over the arena is like a B12 shot of noir.
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That spiral fire escape is so dizzying Hitch should have added an LA leg to Vertigo. #TheNoirCollective #TheTurningPoint
OMFG that's blonde Morticia Addams testifying! I am slain.
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They're certainly a lot harder to screencap. Unlike ties which are often front and center, cufflinks are usually shown at odd angles which makes them hard to discern. Still, that's the kind of hardship that makes the hero's journey.
Have you ever considered a Cufflinks of Noir sideline? The distinct lack of them in #TheTurningPoint only whets my appetite.
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Run, Van, run! I swear I could watch Van's crazed flight through noir LA every day, twice a day.
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Wow, too true. It's so identical to June Allyson's hair in Executive Suite that William Holden must have thought he was seeing double.
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Oh I get that times a thousand. Even when he's not actively abusing people, he's the freaking devil, like at the house party when he manipulates Van's arriviste wife to give him the report he and Briggs have been working on.
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I can't even read the name without hearing Rita Hayworth telling Glenn Ford how she much she hates him as her lips hover over his.
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I mean, appointing your father chief investigator is an ethical and professional minefield even when he isn't corrupt as hell and deeply entrenched in the mob you're investigating.
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Briggs in Patterns. It's one of the all-time great breakdowns.
Ed Begley is so consistently good. TCM should get Ed Begley Jr. to do an "Begley on Begley" tribute.
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I get the feeling from Smolderin' Holden that Alexis Smith isn't going to stay Edmond O'Brien's girl for long.
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Another noir I don't remember ever having seen before, which is crazy given the A-list cast, director and crew. #TheNoirCollective is two for two with me. 👍
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It occurs to me, watching #BorntoKill for the umpteenth time, that there's an interesting comparison to be made between Marty and Van Heflin's Jeff in #JohnnyEager. They are devoted to the point of self-harm. Coded unrequired love? Definitely with Jeff. No heartbreak in Marty, though.
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Oh hey Lawrence Tierney! See you soon in Born to Kill, you sick sexy psychopath.
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I like how Claire Trevor has her nice girl day dress in baby blue with white lace covered to her chin and her naughty vixen evening gown in red velvet with full cleavage.
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Someday I want to call someone "you overgrown coyote" in a Walter Brennan voice.
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#TheRomanSpringofMrsStone is another movie that I'll watch for the glory of 1960s Rome even though the story annoys me. Sure, Warren Beatty's cartoonish pizza guy accent grates, but get a load of that pied-à-terre overlooking the Spanish Steps.
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Nuns and all.
That was like a week before the Academy Awards! How was Webb, still firmly a Broadway actor, partying with Clark Gable, who would win that year for Mutiny on the Bounty, and freaking Douglas Fairbanks Sr.? Eight years before Laura! What a shindig that must have been.
That is the youngest picture of Clifton Webb I've ever seen. When was this taken?
Madam Satan (1930)
I am riveted by that extraordinary hat. I know it must be fabric, but the Princess Leia bun in particularly looks metallic, like lorica segmentata armor.
Excellent essay, tyvm. I agree wholeheartedly that the flattening of Lily's effervescence into waspish jealousy in the second act is the the only unbalance weight in the damselfly lightness that defines the Lubitsch touch.
I do want to build up my sales resistance, but the donkey painted like a zebra would break through all my defensive barriers.
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Donna Reed in #TheLastTimeISawParis is sort of like The Heiress if Olivia de Havilland had ended up married to some reasonably appropriate guy but was still just as bitter about Montgomery Clift.
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