I really enjoyed your #WomenInNoir posts, and I always enjoy ALL of your #FilmNoir posts. Thank you!

Thank you to all who joined in for my #WomensHistoryMonth featuring notable #WomenInNoir, heroines, dames, and #femmefatale in front of and behind the camera!

Want more?
Check out Eddie Muller’s revised edition of Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined #FilmNoir book. Highly recommend!

Audrey Totter, the genre icon, starred in 15+ #filmnoir playing bad girls so good. Your favorite?
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The Postman Always Rings Twice ('46)
Lady in the Lake ('47)
The Unsuspected ('47)
High Wall ('47)
Tension ('49)
The Set-Up ('49)
#WomenInNoir

Gloria Grahame, a #FilmNoir legend. Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Crossfire. What's your favorite of her roles?
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The Big Heat ('53)
Sudden Fear ('52)
Odds Against Tomorrow ('59)
Crossfire ('47
In a Lonely Place ('50)
Human Desire ('54)
#WomenInNoir

I might be in the minority but I think LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN might be my favorite #GeneTierney NOIR role.
#WomenInNoir #WomensHistoryMonth #NoirAlley

Gene Tierney. The iconic beauty. She was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for Leave Her to Heaven ('45).
What's your favorite of her roles:
Laura '44
Leave Her to Heaven '45
Night and the City '50
Where the Sidewalk Ends '50
Whirlpool '50
#WomenInNoir

Ann Sheridan, #filmnoir icon who starred in so many of the genre classics.
Do you have a favorite:
They Made Me a Criminal '39
They Drive by Night '40
City for Conquest '40
Castle on the Hudson '40
Nora Prentiss '47
The Unfaithful '47
Woman on the Run '50
#WomenInNoir

Ethel Lina White was a British crime writer whose '33 novel, The Wheel Spins, became Hitchcock’s film The Lady Vanishes, and an earlier novel, Some Must Watch, became Robert Siodmak's #filmnoir The Spiral Staircase.
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

Rita Hayworth is best known for her performance in the '46 #filmnoir Gilda, in which she played the iconic #femmefatale in her first major dramatic role. She was also in the genre classic The Lady from Shanghai '47.
#WomenInNoir

A notable film critic for Time magazine ranked Ann Savage's portrayal of Vera #6 on his list of the "Top 25 Greatest Villains" in cinema history for #filmnoir Detour (1945).

📽️ Is Vera the scariest?

#WomenInNoir
#FilmSky

Jane Greer is best known as #femmefatale Kathie Moffat in the classic #filmnoir Out of the Past ('47), but she was also in: The Big Steal ('49), The Outfit ('73), Against All Odds ('84) #WomenInNoir

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#WomenWriters 📚 of #FilmNoir 🕵️

🕵️♀️✒️ Female Film Noir Writers 🖋️♀️🕵️
- Vera Caspary, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Dorothy B. Hughes, Craig Rice, Charlotte Armstrong, Daphne du Maurier, Ida Lupino, et al

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#FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmSky #MovieSky
#WomenInNoir #WomensHistoryMonth

Mildred Pierce. Women-led #filmnoir features an incredible cast including Ann Blyth, Eve Arden, and Joan Crawford (who won Best Actress Oscar). In '96, it was deemed "culturally significant" and selected for the US Library of Congress.
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

Linda Darnell is best known for her portrayal of Stella alongside Dana Andrews in Preminger's #filmnoir classic Fallen Angel ('45), she also stars in Hanover Square '(45), and No Way Out ('50).
#WomenInNoir

I’m going with KEY LARGO as my favorite #LaurenBacall film of these 3 NOIRS. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInNoir #NoirAlley

Lauren Bacall with that sultry voice...Slim brought an iconic look and dynamic half to that iconic #FilmNoir power couple. She shines in the Bogie/Bacall trifecta, which is your favorite...
The Big Sleep ('46)
Dark Passage ('47)
Key Largo ('48)
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

At this time My favorite #VeronicaLake ‘40s #FilmNoir with Alan Ladd is #TheBlueDahlia
#WomenInNoir #WomensHistoryMonth #TCMParty #WomenInFilm

Veronica Lake was best known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle and #femmefatale roles in 3 iconic #filmnoir with Alan Ladd during the 40s. Which is your favorite?
This Gun for Hire ('42)
The Glass Key ('42)
The Blue Dahlia ('46)
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

Mary Astor the iconic Hollywood star best known for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in the #filmnoir genre icon, The Maltese Falcon ('41). I truly love her as Pat in Act of Violence ('48) where she plays a gritty role as a prostitute. #WomenInNoir

Joan Bennett appeared in 70+ films and is best remembered as an iconic #filmnoir #femmefatale in Hollow Triumph ('48)
Secret Beyond the Door ('47)
The Woman on the Beach ('47)
Scarlet Street ('45)
The Woman in the Window ('44)
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

Muriel Box, Britain's most prolific female director, has 12 feature films including #filmnoir Eyewitness ('56) and The Passionate Stranger ('57). She won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for The Seventh Veil (co-written with her husband).
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

That smoky voice and beautiful face. One of the #filmnoir queens...your favorite Lizabeth Scott?
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers ('46)
Desert Fury ('47)
I Walk Alone ('47)
Dead Reckoning ('47)
Pitfall ('48)
Too Late for Tears ('49)
#WomenInNoir

Who needs big-league blondes when you've got brilliant #filmnoir talents in supporting actresses, Thelma Ritter and Ester Howard. Mature, unsung, and unequivocally masterful in stealing every scene they're in. #WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

Edith Head was "the" Costume Designer for Classic Hollywood with over 550+ films and the most Oscars, she outfitted these #filmnoir classics:
Sunset Boulevard
Double Indemnity
Notorious
Blue Dahlia
This Gun for Hire
Ace in the Hole
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

Ava Gardner. There's no #femmefatale without Kitty Collins and Ava plays it perfectly. We're all Pete Lund in Siodmak's #filmnoir masterpiece The Killers ('46) transfixed by the sultry, devastating allure launching Gardner to stardom.
#WomenInNoir

Thanks, Vera!
#FilmNoir
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

Vera Caspary is the American writer of 20+ novels, plays, 20+ screenplays, and many short stories. Her best-known novel, Laura (1943), was made into one of the most celebrated #filmnoir classics of the genre.
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth

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❤️‍🔥 🧡 💛 💘 Ella Raines 💘 💛 🧡 ❤️‍🔥

"Kansas" in PHANTOM LADY (1944)

Is my favorite "Good Girl" in a #FilmNoir 🕵️

Here's A Link To My Letterboxd List
With Links to Freely Watch 14 Films:
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#FeministFilmNoir #FilmNoirClub 🗝️
#WomenInNoir #WomensHistoryMonth

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Anne Shirley - Murder My Sweet (1944)
Virginia Huston - Out of the Past (1947)
Jacqueline White - The Narrow Margin (1952)

#WomenInNoir 👼#WomensHistoryMonth #FilmSky

We love our #femmefatale vixens, but let's not forget the Good Girls of #FilmNoir... who's your favorite? 👼Cathy O’Donnell
Coleen Gray
Lucille Ball
Shelley Winters
#WomenInNoir
#WomensHistoryMonth