A Film Noir Fur Every Night here (7th Victim etc)

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Also it is difficult to mention film noir without metioning The Killers, with Ava Gardner. BUT I haven't seen it and I don't knoow if it has fur in it.

BUT I have been looking to see if I could find a pic. Haven't...its always Ava in the black dress.

BUT I have found this page on her with some gorgeous images of Ava in fur:

 

http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/2006/05/monday-glamour-starter-ava-gardner.html

 

 

enjoy

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Sorry I didn't get round to posting an actual film last night. But hope you enjoyed the links.

 

Here is a nice expression I found today:

Joel Greenberg and Charles Higham in their book Hollywood in the Forties:

 

A dark street in the early morning hours, splashed with a sudden downpour. Lamps form haloes in the murk. In a walk-up room, filled with the intermittent flashing of a neon sign from across the street, a man is waiting to murder or be murdered . . . shadow upon shadow upon shadow . . . every shot in glistening low-key, so that rain always glittered across windows or windscreens like quicksilver, furs shone with a faint halo, faces were barred deeply with those shadows that usually symbolized some imprisonment of body or soul

 

Nice no?

 

But in film noir, furs aren't always earnd honestly; as Jean Wallace is reminded in the Big Combo:

 

Source:

http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus/bigcombo.htm

 

Quote:

 

Diamond's obsession slowly reaches Susan. Susan, in white, tries to reclaim lost innocence by listening to a private recital, but Diamond barges in and shocks her reveries. "You think this is mink, Miss Lowell," he asks, grabbing her furs. "These are the skins of human beings, Miss Lowell. People who have been beaten, sold, robbed, doped, murdered by Mr. Brown." She doesn't want to hear the truth, and Lewis and Alton reflect this mood by alienating Wallace from Wilde in a wonderfully staged two-shot. The performers look ahead, through the camera, rarely at each other. Separate but together, she offers her first confession: "I live in a maze, Mr. Diamond. A strange blind and blackened maze and all of the little twisting paths lead back to Mr. Brown." Earlier she had told Brown, "I hate and despise you," but his power of lovemaking captivated her with noir's transgressive promise. Conte had followed her statement with kisses to her cheek, neck and then traveled down, behind her body, as the camera dollied in for a stunning erotic close-up.

 

Can't find any vidcaps so you will have to take my word for it on the fur and Jean Wallace's performance as a woman who has to decide between a gangster (Mr Brown) and a cop (Cornell Wilde). Lee Van Cleef has a great role btw.

 

Here is the famous still from The Big Combo:

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/54/54_images/noircountrybigcombosmoke.jpg

and here is the lovely Jean Walace with IRL husband Cornel Wilde:

http://www.cineyestrellas.com/Elenco/Actores/W/Wilde_Cornel_3.jpg

 

Hope to make up for the lack of fur image from the movie in the next installment.

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To make up for the lack of nice pics on last nights movie I thought I would give you a few treats today on Joan Crawford, star of many film noirs...in sme movies and also IRL. As a Noir Goddess in furs after Mildred Pierce, she desreves a good pic tribute:

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32239divorce.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/390327.htm

nice IRL smoking in furs:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/38oct5icefolliespostshow.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/39ice4.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/39icefolliesdrawing.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/40circamartin.htm

 

From A Woman's Face:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/womansface7.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/40circaface.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/42circa11.htm

 

Mildred Pierce in that wonderful sable again:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/45mildred15.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/45mildred8.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/45mildredstation.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/45mildred.htm

 

Flamingo Road:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/49flamingo10.htm

girl with a gun !!!!

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/49flamingo11.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/49circa3.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/49circa4.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/52fearumbrella.htm

 

yea a gun again: Sudden Fear:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/52fear7.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/52suddenfthis.htm

 

Torch Song:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/53torchwardrobetest.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/53torchstairs1.htm

 

More to coome later; plus a review of another movie ...got to dash now

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okay more of Joan Crawford in furs:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/38manneqpub.htm form Mannequin

 

 

Love on The Run:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/36circa4.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/36loveontone88.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/36joanfranchot.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/35circa13.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/350215trocadero.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/35oct14franchot.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/35nov2.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32bullxmas1.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32nov5mayfairopen.htm

 

Chained:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/34june6byrussellball.htm

 

Sadie:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/34sadie4.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/34sadie7.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32letty9.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32letty6.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32grandfur.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32letty31.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32letty7.htm

 

AWESOME:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/joanlynton3.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32hurrell5.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/0letty4.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32letty.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32letty28.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32letty26.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/32xmas.htm

 

amazing muff:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/33today26.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/33c9.htm

 

 

sorry no movie tonight but hope that makes up for it!

OVER 50 HIGH QUALITY FUR PICS OF A TRUE HOLLYWOOD GODDESS FROM THE THE 30S AND 40S.

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Yet more of Joan Crawford. You have to ask if maybe she desrves the title queen of furs not Joan Collins lol!

 

TCM ad for Mildred Pierce:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/admildredtcm.htm

 

The 1969 Blackglama ad:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/69blackglama.htm

 

Teitelbaum furs (scroll down):

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/ads2.htm#teitel

 

Chesterfield cigarettes ad:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/adchesterfield49big.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/adkelloggs.htm

 

Mag covers:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/magnewc.htm

 

 

20s and 1930;

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/528603.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/30paidkentdouglass.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/30circa7.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/30circa17.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/29circa01.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/30furrr.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/ourdd07view.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/28ourdd33view.htm

 

50s and Later years:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/1959arnold2.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/joanbeach.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/50scouch1.htm

 

 

From the movie "Queen Bee" (anyone seen this?):

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/55queenbeemink.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/qb33.htm

 

smoking in fur:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/550213mikesilvermanromanoffs.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/550213silverman.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/55circafamily.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/54april6premiere.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/54acadawards.htm

 

From Torch Song:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/torchcolor1.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/53torch14.htm

 

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/61circa.htm

 

YUMMY BLUE FOX:

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/62bj36.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/63babyj123.htm

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/62novbygaby.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/66april16.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/67june30c.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/67june30b.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/67june30d.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/71mwolsigning_jpg_view.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/72tallubktamarageva_jpg_view.htm

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/72novtallubkryan_jpg_view.htm

 

That makes 90 pics in all of Joan in furs from this site alone.

About time we acknowleged her no?

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nice Art no?

 

http://home.insightbb.com/~pipathsouk/bounsaysartsite/images/JoanCrawford.jpg

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If you have just got her you have just missed 90 images of Joan Crawford in the most amazing furs. They are on the bottom of page 2 of this thread.

So it is apt tonight to "screen" one of her other film noirs.

Also we looked at Gloria Grahame in a couple of movies, so nice to have them both in one. But then no tribute to film noir would be complete without mention of one of the greates screen villains, wh sadly passed away just last year: Jack Palance.

 

Because tonight's movie is:

 

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews22/a%20sudden%20fear%20joan%20crawford%20film%20noir/Sudden_Fear_Kino_Title.jpg

 

Look at Jack Palance here. He is sinister enough without Noir lighting:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews22/a%20sudden%20fear%20joan%20crawford%20film%20noir/Sudden_Fear_Kino_01418.jpg

 

 

Gloria Grahame:

 

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews22/a%20sudden%20fear%20joan%20crawford%20film%20noir/Sudden_Fear_Kino_03213.jpg

 

Two nice quotes about the movie/prformance of Crawford:

 

Monica Sullivan, Movie Magazine International (1996):

 

"Sudden Fear" is great film noir, superbly acted by Crawford and co-star Jack Palance, who both received Academy Award nominations, and by Grahame, who won the Oscar that year for another movie. Of course, as with any Crawford flick, you have to accept certain conventions: that a rich and famous playwright wouldn't meet the love of her life until age 48, that she could actually WALK all the way from Scott/Green to Greenwich/Hyde in high heels & a mink coat after falling down a flight of stairs and THEN run up & down the hills of San Francisco with only a glamorously glowing forehead as visible evidence of her ordeal.

 

 

Otis L. Guernsey, Jr., in the New York Herald Tribune (1952):

 

The scenario...is designed to allow Miss Crawford a wide range of quivering reactions to vicious events, as she passes through the stage of starry-eyed love, terrible disillusionment, fear, hatred, and finally hysteria. With her wide eyes and forceful bearing, she is the woman for the job.

 

 

I don't want to tell you too much about the plot, as its one of those best not to know.

 

But you will enjoy it. Its a great movie, and nice fur:

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/52fear2xx.htm

 

Yes its one of the ones with the gun:

 

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/52fear7.htm

 

Anyway, to finish off yet MORE images of Joan Crawford in furs. Some more nice ones of her in the sable from "Mildred Pierce"

 

http://thenightporter.tripod.com/joan/MildredPierce/target0.html

http://thenightporter.tripod.com/joan/MildredPierce/target1.html

http://thenightporter.tripod.com/joan/MildredPierce/target2.html

http://thenightporter.tripod.com/joan/MildredPierce/target20.html

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Two amazing film noir actresss. Gene Tierney (whom the Gene/Madra doll is based on) and Lana Turner :

 

Gene Tierney:

http://www.meredy.com/colorfulclassics/tierney_gene07.jpg

 

ooooohh......

http://www.meredy.com/colorfulclassics/tierney_gene12.jpg

 

 

Lana Turner (drool):

http://www.meredy.com/colorfulclassics/turner_lana03.jpg

http://www.meredy.com/colorfulclassics/turner_lana01.jpg

http://www.meredy.com/colorfulclassics/turner_lana02.jpg