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THE ONLY SURVIVING COPY OF SIR ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 1923 FILM "THE WHITE SHADOW" FOUND IN NEW ZEALAND...

 

The only surviving copy of what is believed to be Alfred Hitchcock's first foray into film-making has been found halfway around the world from Hollywood. The first 30 minutes of "The White Shadow," a story about two sisters -- one angelic, the other "without a soul" -- played by silent film star Betty Compson was apparently stored in the New Zealand Film Archive amongst a cache of early 20th century American film. The footage will premiere on Sept. 22 at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. So far only three reels of the six-reel feature film have been discovered.

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This weeks top poster from the past to enjoy from DeeDee, see her group.
This picture was made in 1947 but not released until 1948. Alternative title was "The Double Take" and featured a man called Eddie Mars. Mars was a known villain in "The Big Sleep"...Right you, are Malcolm, and to read more information about original movie poster just follow this link... Original Movie Posters and to read and discuss that bird just follow... this link: Dashiell Hammett and The Maltese Falcon
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The most known Film Noir icon in the world.
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I said I was not famous but DeeDee in Canada, and George in France remembered me. I was Adele Jergens.

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I was in hundreds of pictures and television series but I bet you do not know my name. Who was I ?. I was right nobody remembered me. I was Harry Lauter.

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Who am I?" I was a star on Broadway in "Oklahoma" and starred also in the musical "Good News" I am Joan McCracken. Nobody knew me here.
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Who am I? "I once shared a dressing room with Brod Crawford. We were both heavy drinkers, and would end up fighting each other"
I am Lon Chaney son of "A Man of a Thousand Faces" Lon Chaney Snr.
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My tribute this week is to Neville (Al Capone) Brand. 1920-1992

Neville with Broderick Crawford in "The Mob" 1951. DeeDee got this correct. Well done to her.
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Gerald Mohr. 1914-1968

Gloria Talbott. 1931-2000

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Last weeks Mystery,name these three stars please. Winners were Maureen, in Australia and Georges, in France. Well done to you two.
Ina Balin, Nancy Kwan and Joanne Woodward.

The real Noir star, Eliot Ness 1903-1957 responsible for "The Untouchables" that is the real ones, not the picture.

 

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The Blue Lamp is a British crime film released in early 1950 by Ealing Studios, directed by Basil Dearden and produced by Michael Balcon. It stars Jack Warner as police constable George Dixon, Jimmy Hanley and Dirk Bogarde in an early role. It was the progenitor of the long-running television series Dixon of Dock Green (even though Dixon's murder is the central plot of the original film).
The title refers to the blue lamps that traditionally hung outside British police stations (and often still do). George Dixon is named after producer Michael Balcon's former school in Birmingham.
The screenplay was written by ex-policeman T. E. B. Clarke. The film is an early example of the "social realism" films that would emerge later in the 1950s and 1960s, but it follows a simple moral structure in which the police are the honest guardians of a decent society, battling the disorganised crime of a few unruly youths.

[Editors's Note: I Plan To Take a look at the film "The Blue Lamp as part of Diane's British Film Noir Group...
The British Film Noir Group

Martha Hyer. Winner was DeeDee. Congrats to her.

Morris Ankrum 1986-1964. Nobody got this correct.

Robert J.Wilkie and under him is Marta Toren. Nobody got these correct last week.

Eve Arden (April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an American actress. Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with supporting and leading roles, but she is perhaps best remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging high school teacher in the classic Our Miss Brooks (radio and television), and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.
1 Early life
2 Career
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2.1 Film
2.2 Radio and television
3 Other credits
4 Personal life and death
5 Filmography
5.1 Features
5.2 Short subjects
6 Television credits
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
Early life
Arden was born Eunice M. Quedens in Mill Valley, California, to Lucille and Charles Peter Quedens. Her parents divorced when she was a child. Arden said she was an insecure child, declaring later in life that she needed therapy because her mother was so much more beautiful than she.
At 16, Arden left Tamalpais High School and joined a stock theater company.[1] She made her film debut, under her real name, in the backstage musical Song of Love (1929). She played a wisecracking showgirl who becomes a rival to the film's star, singer Belle Baker. The film was one of Columbia Pictures' earliest successes.

Eve Arden's Broadway debut came in 1934, when she was cast in that year's Ziegfeld Follies revue.
Career
Film
from Comrade X (1940)Her film career began in earnest in 1937 when she appeared in the films Oh Doctor and Stage Door. Her Stage Door portrayal of a fast-talking, witty supporting character, gained Arden considerable notice and was to be a template for many of Arden's future roles.
Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend, Ida, in 1945's Mildred Pierce (for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress), and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder (1959). (One of her co-stars in that film was husband Brooks West.) She also performed some acrobatics while trying to steal a wallet from Groucho Marx in the Marx Brothers film At the Circus (1939).
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Ray Heindorf (August 25, 1908 - February 2, 1980) was an American songwriter, composer, conductor, and arranger.

Born in Haverstraw, New York, Heindorf worked as a pianist in a movie house in Mechanicville in his early teens. In 1928, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a musical arranger before heading to Hollywood. He gained his first job as an orchestrator at MGM, where he worked on Hollywood Revue of 1929, and subsequently went on the road playing piano for Lupe Velez.

After completing this engagement, he joined Warner Bros., composing and/or arranging and conducting music exclusively for the studio for nearly forty years. Heindorf, along with Georgie Stoll at MGM, were jazz aficionados well known in the black entertainment community for employing minority musicians in their studio music departments.

He undertook the musical direction of Judy Garland's 1954 comeback film A Star is Born and made a cameo appearance as himself in the premiere party sequence where Jack Carson's character congratulates him on a great score.

Among Heindorf's other screen credits are 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1935, The Great Lie, Knute Rockne All American, Kings Row, Night and Day, Tea for Two, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Jazz Singer, No Time for Sergeants, The Helen Morgan Story, Marjorie Morningstar, Damn Yankees, Auntie Mame, Finian's Rainbow, and his final musical for Jack Warner, 1776.

Between 1943 and 1969 he was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards and won three, for Yankee Doodle Dandy, This is the Army, and The Music Man.

Heindorf was a friend and admirer of jazz pianist Art Tatum. He hosted two Tatum piano performances at his Hollywood home in 1950 and 1955 for their mutual friends. Heindorf taped the private concerts, complete with background conversations of Tatum and the group, with some of the pianist's very best playing. These performances are now available on the Verve label.

Census records from 1930 show that Heindorf lived with bandleader and composer Arthur Lange, who was nearly 20 years his senior, in the Hollywood Hills. Heindorf died in Tarzana, California, aged 71, and was buried with his favorite conducting baton.Bio written by Malcolm James

I have posted information about Ray Heindorf...
According to Malcolm..."This actual photo and the shown video belonged to Ray Heindorf's daughter Tina who gave me it many years ago." That is great! Malcolm, Thanks, for sharing this information with the FNLH members, and So Do Memories.

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Pete Kelly's Blue....Starring Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmund O'Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald.

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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980)was an English filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while retaining his British citizenship.

Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognizable directorial style. Viewers are made to identify with the camera which moves in a way meant to mimic a person's gaze and which forces viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to manipulate the feelings of the audience and maximize anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing to demonstrate the point of view of the characters. His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys or "MacGuffins" meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely complex psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual undertones. Through his cameo appearances in his own films, interviews, trailers, and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he became an iconic cultural figure.

Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which said: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else." MovieMaker has hailed him as the most influential filmmaker of all time, and he is widely regarded as one of cinema's most significant artists.
1 Early life
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2 Pre-war British career
3 Hollywood
3.1 1940s films
3.2 1950s: Peak years
3.3 Late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
3.4 Last film work and death
4 Themes, plot devices and motifs
5 Technical innovations
6 Signature appearances in his films
7 Psychology of characters
8 Style of working
8.1 Writing
8.2 Storyboards and production
8.3 Approach to actors
9 Awards and honours
10 Fame
11 Television and books
12 Filmography
13 Frequently cast actors and actresses
14 Frequent collaborators
15 See also
16 References
17 Further reading
18 External links
18.1 Wiki
18.2 Hitchcock sites
18.3 Film and TV sites
18.4 Profiles and interviews
18.5 Essays
18.6 Images
Early life
Hitchcock mosaic at Leytonstone Station.Hitchcock was born on 13 August 1899 in Leytonstone, London, the second son and youngest of three children of William Hitchcock (1862–1914), a greengrocer and poulterer, and Emma Jane Hitchcock (née Whelan; 1863–1942). He was named after his father's brother, Alfred. His family was mostly Roman Catholic, with his mother and paternal grandmother being of Irish extraction.[8][9] Hitchcock was sent to the Jesuit Classic school St Ignatius' College in Stamford Hill, London.[10] He often described his childhood as being very lonely and sheltered, a situation compounded by his obesity.

Hitchcock said he was sent by his father on numerous occasions to the local police station with a note asking the officer to lock him away for ten minutes as punishment for behaving badly. This idea of being harshly treated or wrongfully accused is frequently reflected in Hitchcock's films. Hitchcock's mother would often make him address her while standing at the foot of her bed, especially if he behaved badly, forcing him to stand there for hours. These experiences would later be used for the portrayal of the character of Norman Bates in his movie Psycho.

Hitchcock's father died when he was 14. In the same year, Hitchcock left St. Ignatius to study at the London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation in Poplar, London.After graduating, he became a draftsman and advertising designer with a cable company.

During this period, Hitchcock became intrigued by photography and started working in film production in London, working as a title-card designer for the London branch of what would become Paramount Pictures. In 1920, he received a full-time position at Islington Studios with its American owner, Famous Players-Lasky and their British successor, Gainsborough Pictures,designing the titles for silent movies.[19] His rise from title designer to film director took five years.
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Born Patsy Louise Neal
January 20, 1926(1926-01-20)
Packard, Whitley County, Kentucky, U.S.
Died August 8, 2010 (aged 84)
Edgartown, Massachusetts
Occupation Actress
Years active 1946–2010
Spouse(s) Roald Dahl (m. 1953–1983) (divorced)
Patricia Neal (January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010[1]) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963), for which she won the Oscar Award for Best Actress.
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1 Early life
2 Career
Early life
Neal was born Patsy Louise Neal, in Packard, Whitley County, Kentucky, to William Burdette and Eura Petrey Neal.[2] She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended Knoxville High School, and studied drama at Northwestern University.

Career
The Fountainhead (1949)After moving to New York, she accepted her first job as understudy in the Broadway production of The Voice of the Turtle. Next she appeared in Another Part of the Forest (1946), winning a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play, in the first presentation of the Tony awards.

In 1949, Neal made her film debut in John Loves Mary. Her appearance the same year in The Fountainhead coincided with her on-going affair with her married co-star, Gary Cooper. Later she co-starred with Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).

By 1952, Neal starred in The Breaking Point, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Operation Pacific. She suffered a nervous breakdown around this time, following the end of her relationship with Cooper and left Hollywood for New York, returning to Broadway in a revival of The Children's Hour, in 1952. She also acted in A Roomful of Roses in 1955 and as the mother in The Miracle Worker in 1959. In films, she starred in A Face in the Crowd (1957) and co-starred in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).

With Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd (1957)In 1963, Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hud, co-starring with Paul Newman. When the film was initially released it was predicted she would be a nominee in the supporting actress category but she began collecting awards and they were always for Best Leading Actress from the New York Film Critics, the National Board of Review and a BAFTA award from the British Academy. Three years later, in 1965, she was reunited with John Wayne in Otto Preminger's In Harm's Way winning her second BAFTA Award.

Neal was offered the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967), but turned it down, feeling it had come too soon after her three 1965 strokes. She returned to the big screen in The Subject Was Roses (1968), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.

She later starred as Olivia Walton in the television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), which was the pilot episode for The Waltons. Although she won a Golden Globe for her performance, she was not invited to reprise the role in the television series; the part went to Michael Learned. (In a 1999 interview with the Archive of American Television, Waltons creator Earl Hamner said he and producers were unsure if Neal's health would allow her to commit to the grind of a weekly television series.) Neal played a dying widowed mother trying to find a home for her three children in a moving 1975 episode of NBC's Little House on the Prairie.

In 1978, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville dedicated the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center in her honor. The center serves as part of Neal's paralysis victim advocacy. She has appeared in Center advertisements throughout 2006.

In 2007, Neal worked on Silvana Vienne's innovative critically-acclaimed art movie Beyond Baklava: The Fairy Tale Story of Sylvia's Baklava, appearing as herself in the portions of the documentary talking about alternative ways to end violence in the world. Also in 2007, Neal received one of two annually-presented Lifetime Achievement Awards at the SunDeis Film Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts. (Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider was the recipient of the other.)

She often appeared on the Tony Awards telecast, possibly because she was the last surviving winner from the first ceremony. Her original Tony was lost, so she was given a replacement by Bill Irwin when they presented the Best Actress Award to Cynthia Nixon in 2006.

In April 2009, Neal received a lifetime achievement award from WorldFest Houston on the occasion of the debut of her film, Flying By. Neal was a long-term actress with Philip Langner's Theatre at Sea/Sail With the Stars productions with the Theatre Guild.
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3 Personal life
4 Death
5 Filmography
5.1 Film
5.2 Television
6 References
6.1 Notes
6.2 Bibliography
7 External links

[Pictured: Actor John Garfield with actress Patricia Neal in the 1950 film"The Breaking Point."]
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[Pictured:] Actress Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 – October 5, 1981) was an American actress.
Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios. Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with Sudden Fear (1952), Human Desire (1953),The Big Heat (1953), and Oklahoma! (1955), but her film career began to wane soon afterwards.

She returned to work on the stage, but continued to appear in films and television productions, usually in supporting roles. Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1980, Grahame refused to accept the diagnosis and travelled to England to work in a play. Her health rapidly failed and she returned to New York City, where she died in 1981...Early life
Grahame was born Gloria Hallward in Los Angeles, California. Reginald Michael Bloxam Hallward, her father, was an architect and author and her mother, Jeanne McDougall, who used the stage name Jean Grahame, was a British stage actress and acting teacher. The couple had another daughter, Joy Hallward (1911-2003), an actress who married the brother of Robert Mitchum. McDougall taught her younger daughter acting during her childhood and adolescence.

Grahame was signed to a contract with MGM Studios under her professional name after Louis B. Mayer saw her performing on Broadway for several years.

Career
She made her film debut in Blonde Fever (1944) and scored one of her most widely praised roles as the promiscuous Violet, who is saved from disgrace by George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). MGM was not able to develop her potential as a star and her contract was sold to RKO Studios in 1947.

Grahame was often featured in film noir pictures as a tarnished beauty with an irresistible sexual allure. During this time, she made films for several Hollywood studios. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947).


in her Academy Award winning role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)Grahame starred with Humphrey Bogart in the 1950 film In a Lonely Place, a performance which garnered her considerable praise. Though today it is considered among her finest performances, it wasn't a box-office hit and Howard Hughes, owner of RKO Studios, admitted that he never saw it. When she asked to be loaned out for roles in Born Yesterday and A Place in the Sun, Hughes refused and instead made her do a supporting role in Macao. However, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in MGM's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).

Other memorable roles included the scheming Irene Nieves in Sudden Fear (1952), the femme fatale Vicki Buckley in Human Desire (1953), and mob moll Debby Marsh in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953) in which, in a horrifying scene, she is scarred by hot coffee thrown in her face offscreen by Lee Marvin's character.

Grahame's career began to wane after her performance in the musical movie Oklahoma! (1955). Grahame, whom audiences were used to seeing as a noir siren, was miscast as an ignorant country lass in a wholesome musical, and the paralysis of her upper lip from plastic surgery altered her speech and appearance. She began a slow return to the theater, and returned to films occasionally to play supporting roles, mostly in minor releases. She appeared on television too, including an episode of the ABC sitcom, Harrigan and Son, starring Pat O'Brien.

Grahame has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6522 Hollywood Boulevard. In Order To Read More About Actress Gloria Graham Just Follow The Link On The SideBar...

Member Julie GARFIELD with her dads wallet.

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Cecile Aubry 1928-2010 (The Black Rose) 1950 R.I.P.

Cécile Aubry (3 August 1928 – 19 July 2010)[1] was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.

She made her break as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard (1952), one of the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and regularly appearing in French film magazines as an example of the perfect hybrid of Franco-American femininity.[2]

Her film career was short. It was interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, the eldest son of the pasha of Marrakesh.

Roles became few and far between. She announced her retirement from film in 1959, claiming that she had only enjoyed cinema for its travel opportunities. She went on to write children's books and scenarios for children's television with considerable success.[2]

She is especially famous in France for her TV series for children, Poly (a boy and a horse) and Belle et Sébastien, adapted for television from her books. The main character in both series was played by her son Mehdi El Glaoui, only credited as Mehdi.[3]

On 19 July 2010, she died from lung cancer in Dourdan (Essonne), France, her daughter-in-law said.[1]
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Ray (Legs Diamond) Danton 1931-1992

Ray Danton (September 19, 1931 – February 11, 1992), also known as Raymond Danton, was a smooth looking radio, film, stage, and television actor, director, and producer whose most famous role was The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960). He was married to actress Julie Adams from 1954–1981.

Biography
Ray Danton, born Raymond Kaplan in New York City, entered show business as a child radio actor on NBC radio's Let's Pretend show in 1943. Danton did many stage roles whilst attending the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Technical School and in 1950 went to London to appear on stage in the Tyrone Power production Mister Roberts.

Danton's acting career was put on hold when he served in the United States Army infantry in the Korean War from 1951–1954.

Danton made his film debut in Chief Crazy Horse in 1955 and became contracted to Universal Pictures His second film I'll Cry Tomorrow led to his typecasting as a smooth but dangerous villain. His third film for Universal The Looters was where he met his future wife Julie Adams. He was prolific in television work as well as film where he received the Golden Globe Award in 1956 for the new male star of the year in film.

Beginning with Onionhead Danton worked with both Warner Bros. film and Warner Bros. Television This led to his most famous role The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond where he played the gangster of the title for director Budd Boetticher. Danton played his role using dynamic body language with his smooth persona fitting the character like a glove. Danton reprised the role in Vic Morrow's Portrait of a Mobster. Danton also kept up his gangster persona with the title role in The George Raft Story, a screen biography of 1930s actor/dancer George Raft. In 1959, he guest starred in the episode “The Meeting” of Bruce Gordon's NBC docudrama of the Cold War, Behind Closed Doors. Danton played American agent Ralph Drake who is sent to Austria to meet with western agents from six Iron Curtain countries after it is revealed that the Soviet Union had named a new head of the secret police.[1] Danton was a semi-regular on The Alaskans and made several television pilots playing spies such as Big Time (1957), Solitare (1961)[2], and Our Man Flint-Dead on Target (1976).

In the mid-1960s Danton alternated between American television series and European films such as Corrida Pour en Espion/Code Name Jaguar and Secret Agent Super Dragon, including a 1970 Hawaii Five-0 episode "The Last Eden" (as bellicose Hawaiian singer Jimmy Nuanu). He formed a production company in Europe producing films like The Last Mercenary and began directing with Deathmaster (1972). Danton continued directing as well as acting and started producing films such as Triangle in 1971.

Danton died of complications from a kidney ailment in Los Angeles, California.[3]

He has two sons, Steve and Mitchell.
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Jack Elmer Carson 1910-1963 "Mildred Pierce" as Wally Fay. Born in Canada...

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John Elmer "Jack" Carson (27 October 1910 – 2 January 1963) was a Canadian-born U.S.-based film actor.
Jack Carson was one of the most popular character actors during the 'golden age of Hollywood', with a film career spanning the 1930s, '40s and '50s. Primarily employed for comic relief, his work in Mildred Pierce (1945) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) proved he could also master dramatic material. During his career, he worked at RKO, MGM (cast opposite Myrna Loy and William Powell in Love Crazy), but most of his memorable work was at Warner Brothers. Carson's trademark was the wisecracking know it all who eventually and typically was undone by his own excessive self-confidence.

Film career
Carson's success on radio led to the start of a lucrative film career. An early stand-out role for Carson was as an undercover G-Man feigning drunkenness opposite Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama entitled, Enemy Agent. Carson shortly thereafter achieved contract-player status with Warner Brothers. While there, he was teamed with Dennis Morgan in a number of films, supposedly to compete with the popular Crosby and Hope road pictures. Like Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, Morgan and Carson enjoyed a genuine off-screen friendship. Their first film together was a dark drama called The Hard Way, which was nothing like their subsequent pairings.

However, despite this auspicious beginning, most of his work at Warner Brothers was limited to light comedies with Morgan and later with Doris Day (who in her autobiography would credit Carson as one of her early Hollywood mentors). Critics generally agree that Carson's best work was in Mildred Pierce (1945) where he played the perpetually scheming Wally Fay opposite Joan Crawford in the title role. Another role which won accolades for Carson was publicist Matt Libby in A Star is Born (1954).

Carson's work during this period included a number of appearances on television including The Guy Mitchell Show (1957), Alcoa Theatre (1959), Bonanza (1959) and The Twilight Zone (1961).
Death
In 1962, while rehearsing the Broadway play Critics Choice, he collapsed and was subsequently diagnosed with stomach cancer. Carson died in Encino in 1963, aged 52. The early death of the burly Carson, whose screen image was one of energy and vitality, made front page news, along with the death of fellow actor Dick Powell. He was entombed in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Personal life
Carson married four times: Elizabeth Lindy (married 1938, divorced 1939), Kay St. Germain (m. 1941, div. 1950), Lola Albright (m. 1952, div. 1958), Sandra Jolley (1961–1963), former wife of Forrest Tucker and daughter of character actor I. Stanford Jolley. Carson had a romantic relationship between his second and third marriages with Doris Day from 1950–1951,[1] but she left him for Marty Melcher, who would become her third husband.

Partial filmography
The Saint in New York (1938) with Louis Hayward as Simon Templar
The Hard Way (1943) with Ida Lupino
Mildred Pierce (1945) with Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth and Eve Arden...
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Signe Hasso 1910-2002 A Swedish Beauty that was Film Noir.

Signe Hasso (15 August 1915 – 7 June 2002) was a Swedish-born American actress.
Born Signe Eleonora Cecilia Larsson in 1915, she was one of the youngest students ever accepted at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theater at the age of 12. Career
In 1933 she married German film director/cameraman Harry Hasso. She made her first film in 1933 and, in 1940 she moved to the United States where she was signed to a contract by RKO Studios who promoted her as "the next Garbo". She and Hasso divorced in 1941.

Her first role of note was as "Mademoiselle" in Heaven Can Wait (1943). Her other roles during the 1940s included The Seventh Cross (1944), Johnny Angel (1945), The House on 92nd St. (1945), A Scandal in Paris (1946) and A Double Life (1947).

By the 1950s her Hollywood career had stalled, and in 1957 her son (and only child) was killed in a car accident. From then she divided her time between making films in Sweden and acting on stage in New York until she returned to Hollywood in the mid 1960s. In her later years, Hasso won acclaim for her work as a poet and writer, and for her work translating Swedish folk songs into English. She also continued acting, making her final appearance in 2001, in a television documentary about Greta Garbo.
Awards
In 1972 the King of Sweden named her Member 1st Class of the Royal Order of Vasa.
Death
She died in Los Angeles in 2002, aged 86, from pneumonia, which resulted from lung cancer.
Hasso has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to motion pictures, at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard.

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[Pictured actor Jack Palance, who starred in the 1952 film "Sudden Fear"...alone with actress Joan Crawford, Gloria Grahame and Bruce Bennett.]
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Born Volodymyr Palahniuk
February 18, 1919(1919-02-18)
Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Died November 10, 2006 (aged 87)
Montecito, California,
United States
Other name(s) Jack Brazzo
Walter Palance
Walter J. Palance
Walter Jack Palance

Occupation: actor
Years active 1947–2004
Spouse(s) Virginia Baker (1949 – 1968) (divorced) 3 children
Elaine Rogers (1987 – 2006) (his death)
Volodymyr Palahniuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк, born February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006), known professionally as Jack Palance, was a Ukrainian American film actor. During half a century of film and television appearances he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers.

Early life
Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr Palahniuk in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna (née Gramiak) and Ivan Palahniuk, who was an anthracite coal miner.[1] Palance's parents were Ukrainian immigrants,[2][3] his father a native of Ivane Zolote in Southwestern Ukraine and his mother from the Lviv region.[4] He worked in coal mines during his youth before becoming a boxer.

In the late 1930s, Palance started a professional boxing career. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance reportedly compiled a record of 15 consecutive victories with 12 knockouts before fighting the future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi in a "Pier-6" brawl. Palance lost a close decision,[5][6] and recounted: "Then, I thought, you must be nuts to get your head beat in for $200".[7]

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began as a member of the United States Army Air Forces. Palance's rugged face, which took many beatings in the boxing ring, was disfigured when he bailed out of a burning B-24 Liberator bomber while on a training flight over southern Arizona, where he was a student pilot. Plastic surgeons repaired the damage as best they could, but he was left with a distinctive, somewhat gaunt, look. After much reconstructive surgery, he was discharged in 1944.

Palance graduated from Stanford University in 1947 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama. During his university years, to make ends meet he also worked as a short order cook, waiter, soda jerk, lifeguard at Jones Beach State Park, and photographer's model.

Career
Palance's acting break came as Marlon Brando's understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he eventually replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski.

In 1947, Palance made his Broadway debut, and this was followed three years later by his screen debut in the movie Panic in the Streets (1950). The very same year, he was featured in Halls of Montezuma about the U.S. Marines in World War II, where he was credited as "Walter (Jack) Palance". Palance was quickly recognized for his skill as a character actor, receiving an Oscar nomination for only his third film role, as Lester Blaine in Sudden Fear.


Palance earned his second Oscar nomination playing cold-blooded gunfighter Jack Wilson in 1953's cinema classic ShaneThe following year, Palance was again nominated for an Oscar, this time for his role as the hired gunfighter Jack Wilson in Shane. Several other Western roles followed, but he also played such varied roles as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula and Attila the Hun.

In 1957, Palance won an Emmy for best actor for his portrayal of Mountain McClintock in the Playhouse 90 production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Academy Award
Four decades after his film debut, Palance won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on March 30, 1992, for his performance as cowboy Curly Washburn in the 1991 comedy City Slickers. Stepping onstage to accept the award, the intimidatingly fit 6' 4" (1.93 m) actor looked down at 5' 7" (1.70 m) Oscar host Billy Crystal (who was also his co-star in the movie), and joked — mimicking one of his lines from the film — "Billy Crystal... I crap bigger than him." He then dropped to the floor and demonstrated his ability, at age 73, to perform one-handed push-ups.

Personal life
Palance was married to his first wife, Virginia Baker, from 1949 to 1968. They had three children: Holly (born in 1950), an actress, Brooke (born in 1952) and Cody (1955–1998).

Daughter Brooke married Michael Wilding, son of Michael Wilding Sr. (1912–1979) and Elizabeth Taylor; they have three children as well.

An actor himself, Cody Palance appeared alongside his father in the film Young Guns, and was just 42 when he died from malignant melanoma on July 16, 1998. Jack Palance had hosted The Cody Palance Memorial Golf Classic to raise awareness and funds for a cancer center in Los Angeles. Besides being an actor, Cody Palance was a musician who performed live with his band.[10]

Palance became divorced and married Elaine Rogers in May 1987. On New Year's Day 2003, his first wife Virginia Baker (July 7, 1922 - January 1, 2003) was struck by a car and killed in Los Angeles.

Palance painted and sold landscape art, with a poem included on the back of each picture. He is also the author of The Forest of Love, a book of poems, published in 1996 by Summerhouse Press.

True to his roots, Palance acknowledged a life-long attachment to his Pennsylvania heritage and visited there when able. Shortly before his death, he had placed his Butler Township, Pennsylvania, Holly-Brooke farm up for sale and his personal art collection up for auction.

Death and legacy
On November 10, 2006, Palance died at the age of 87, of natural causes, at his daughter's home in Montecito in Santa Barbara County.[12] His remains were cremated, his ashes retained by family and friends.[13] Jack Palance lived for a number of years around Tehachapi, near Bakersfield, in the high desert of southern California.

Palance has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1992, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Filmography
Actor Jack Palance's Film noir credentials...
Year Film Role Notes...
1950 Panic in the Streets... Blackie
1952 Sudden Fear Lester Blaine Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting 1953 Man in the Attic...A remake of Hitchcock's Silent version of "The Lodger," and actor Laird Cregar's 1944 film "The Lodger." (Which was a remake of Hitchcock's Silent version...I plan to take a look at the 1944 version of the film "The Lodger" this month.)
Second Chance... Cappy Gordon
1955 The Big Knife... Charles Castle
I Died a Thousand Times...
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Goodbye Shirley Mills (The Grapes of Wrath) 1926-2010

Shirley Olivia Mills (April 8, 1926 – March 31, 2010) was a former American actress.
Mills' most notable role was in the 1938 film Child Bride, made when she was only twelve years old. As the title character, she is shown nude in a "skinny dipping" scene, which became the basis for Child Bride being exhibited for many years as an exploitation film.
Biography
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Mills started her career as a dancer, and later starred in such films as The Grapes of Wrath, Child Bride, and the Shirley Temple film Young People. She stopped making films in her early twenties, and went on to be a singer and a data processing salesperson. She was married to Mel Hanson from 1977 until his death in 1995; they had no children.

Shirley Hanson died in Arcadia, California on March 31, 2010, a week or so before her 84th birthday, from complications of pneumonia. She was a devout Christian.
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Goodbye Dorothy Debora (The Little Rascals) 1925-2010
One of the last surviving Little Rascals Dorothy DeBora dies at 85 Dorothy DeBora, March 28, 1925 – June 2 2010, hair-bowed child actress of the 1930s, has died. She was 85.

Her career as a child actress spanned only three years, but during that time Dorothy DeBorba starred in over fifteen feature films and gained mainstream success while she was on the screen.

DeBora was only five year old when she joined “Our Gang,” also known as “The Little Rascals,” the iconic group of children who acted in a series of comedic short films. With her elaborate hair bows and curly hair she quickly became a fan favorite.

She appeared in some of the best of the “Our Gang” feature comedies such as “Pups Is Pups” in her first year, “Dogs Is Dogs,” “Little Daddy,” and “Love Business” in her second and, in her third and final year, she appeared in “Free Wheeling” and “Birthday Blues.” [NOTE: Dorothy DeBora... Last name was actually spelled...DeBorba.
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Goodbye Carole Ann Campbell (Shadow of a Doubt) 1945-2010
Uncredited.Carole Ann Campbell passed away on March 6, 2010 in Laguna Woods CA (just shy of her 66th birthday), from a return bout with cancer. She was born March 27, 1944 in Sherman Oaks CA, the sole offspring of Glenn and Edna Campbell, who both had had show business-related careers, behind the cameras.

She’s best known (and will probably be mostly remembered) for being personally chosen by the legendary Walt Disney to portray the wannabe girlfriend (Iola Morton) of Joe Hardy, the Tommy Kirk character in the Mickey Mouse Club mini-series, “The Hardy Boys,” during the mid-1950s. By her own choice, her acting career ended in 1958, and the year she graduated from Van Nuys High School (1962), she cut three single recordings (45s) for Kangaroo Records, before permanently leaving the performing arts.

She married Gerald W. Murphy (August 1965), eventually settling in Northridge CA, where she gave birth to two sons, and we offer our most sincere condolences to those who knew her best.
CAMPBELL, Carol Ann
Born: 3/27/1944, Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.A.
Died: 3/6/2010, Laguna Woods, California, U.S.A.
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Jayne Meadows 1920- Present
She was born in China and is sister of Audrey Meadows.Jayne Meadows (born September 27, 1920) is an American stage, film and television actress.
Early life
Jayne Meadows was born as Jane Cotter in Wu-ch'ang (now Wuchang), in Heilongjiang, China, to Episcopal missionary parents, the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife, the former Ida Miller Taylor.[1] Meadows is the older sister of Audrey Meadows. Besides Audrey, she has two other siblings. The family later returned to their home in Sharon, Connecticut.
Career
Meadows' most famous movies include: Song of the Thin Man (with William Powell and Myrna Loy), David and Bathsheba (with Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Raymond Massey), Lady in the Lake (with Robert Montgomery and Audrey Totter), Enchantment (with David Niven and Teresa Wright). and City Slickers (as the voice of Billy Crystal's oversolicitous mother).
Audrey's Films Noir Credentials...
Undercurrent (1946)
Lady in the Lake (1947)
Dark Delusion (1947)
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Meadows was a regular panelist on the original version of I've Got a Secret and an occasional panelist on What's My Line?, the latter alongside husband Steve Allen. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. During the early days of the burgeoning live entertainment scene in Las Vegas, the Allens occasionally worked together as an act.
Marriage
She was married to Steve Allen from 1954 until his death in 2000. They had one son, Bill. Allen's three children from his first marriage (Stephen Jr., Brian and David) are her stepchildren.


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Joi Lansing. 1929-1972 "F B I Girl" 1951...Gone But, Not forgotton here at Film Noir Lives Here Joi Lansing (April 6, 1929 - August 7, 1972) was a model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer.
Lansing was born Joyce Rae Brown in Salt Lake City, Utah to Jack Glenn Brown, a shoe salesman, and Virginia Grace Shupe Brown, a housewife. She would later be known as Joyce Wassmansdorff, which was the surname of her stepfather. She began modeling in her teens,[1] and, aged 14, was signed to a contract at MGM. She completed high school on the studio lot.

Career
A model and actress, Lansing was often cast in roles similar to those played by her contemporaries, Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. She was frequently clad in skimpy costumes and bikinis that accentuated her attractive figure, but never posed nude. Lansing practiced yoga for relaxation. A Mormon, she did not drink or smoke.

Hot Cars, 1956 Lansing's film career began in 1948, and, in 1952, she played an uncredited role in MGM's Singin' in the Rain. She received top billing in Hot Cars (1956). In the opening sequence of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), she appeared as Zita, the dancer who dies at the end of the famous first tracking shot, during which her character exclaims to a border guard, "I keep hearing this ticking noise inside my head!" Lansing had a brief role as an astronaut's girlfriend in the 1958 sci-fi classic Queen of Outer Space. During the 1950s, she starred in short musical films for the Scopitone video-jukebox system. Her songs included "The Web of Love" and "The Silencers".

In the 1964, producer Stanley Todd discussed a film project with Lansing tentatively titled Project 22 with location shooting planned in Yugoslavia and George Hamilton and Geraldine Chaplin named to the cast. The movie was never made. Lansing played "Lola" in Marriage on the Rocks (1965) with a cast that included Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin. One of her last films was Bigfoot (1970).

Television
Lansing appeared in The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, I Love Lucy, State Trooper, This Man Dawson, Maverick, and had a recurring role in The Beverly Hillbillies. She is best known perhaps as Shirley Swanson in The Bob Cummings Show or Love That Bob (1956-1959). She appeared in several episodes as a busty model who was the foil for photographer Cummings. The series ran for 173 episodes. She also appeared as the title character in "Superman's Wife," a 1958 episode of The Adventures of Superman.

Perhaps Lansing's least seen role was as the leading lady in The Fountain of Youth, a Peabody Award-winning unsold television pilot directed by Orson Welles for Desilu in 1956 and broadcast once for the Colgate Theatre two years later. The half-hour film remains available for public viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles.

In the 1960–1961 season of the NBC Western Klondike, Lansing appeared as Goldie with Ralph Taeger, James Coburn, and Mari Blanchard. In May 1963, Lansing appeared in Falcon Frolics '63. The broadcast honored the men stationed at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. By 1956, she had appeared in more than 200 television shows.

She named Ozzie Nelson as possessing the greatest sex appeal of any actor with whom she worked. The two played a love scene in a Fireside Theater drama. The show was hosted by Jane Wyman. Lansing was sometimes referred to as television's Marilyn Monroe. [citation needed]

Nightclubs
Lansing broke into night club entertaining in 1965. She had taken up singing during an actors strike in the early 1960s. In May 1965, Lansing cut her first record album. It was composed of a collection of songs written especially for her by composer Jimmie Haskel and actress Stella Stevens. [2] Lansing performed in the Fiesta Room in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 1966. Featured on the bill were Red Buttons and Jayne Mansfield.

Death
In 1972 Joi Lansing died from breast cancer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California where she had initially been treated surgically for the disease earlier the same year.

The Counterfeiters (1948)
Pier 23 (1951)
FBI Girl (1951)
Finger Man (1955)
Touch of Evil (1958)
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Marilyn Maxwell 1921-1972 Star of "New York Confidential" 1955 close friend of Rock Hudson. She helped him cover up his alleged homosexuality.

Marilyn Maxwell
Born Marvel Marilyn Maxwell
August 3, 1921(1921-08-03)
Clarinda, Iowa, U.S.
Died March 20, 1972 (aged 50)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Years active 1942–1971
Spouse(s) John Conte (1944–1946)
Anders (Andy) McIntyre (1949–1950)
Jerry Davis (1954–1960)
Marilyn Maxwell (August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972), born Marvel Marilyn Maxwell, was an American actress and entertainer.

Noted for her blonde hair and sexy persona she appeared in several films and radio programs, and entertained the troops during World War II and the Korean War on USO tours with Bob Hope.
She started her professional entertaining career as a radio singer while still a teenager before signing with MGM in 1942 as a contract player. Among the programs in which she appeared was The Abbott and Costello Show. The head of MGM, Louis B. Mayer, insisted she change the "Marvel" part of her real name. She dropped her first name and kept the middle. Some of her film roles included Lost in a Harem (1944), Champion (1949), The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), and Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958).

In the 1961-1962 television season, Maxwell played Grace Sherwood, owner of the diner on ABC's 26-episode Bus Stop, a drama about travelers passing through the fictitious town of Sunrise, Colorado.
Death:
In 1972, Maxwell's 15-year-old son arrived home from school and found her dead at the age of fifty of an apparent heart attack, after she had been treated for hypertension and pulmonary disease. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Jack Benny were honorary pallbearers at her funeral.[1]

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My friend Julie Garfield daughter of the great John Garfield an admirer of Film Noir and this particular site. Thank you Julie for allowing this photograph of you.
Date of Birth:
10 January 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name:
Julie Roberta Garfield
Biography
One of three children of the actor John Garfield and Roberta Seidman Garfield, Julie began acting in off-Broadway plays and has worked regularly in movies and television since 1969. She was 6 when her father died of heart problems.

Mini Biography By: Rogers Cadenhead
Biography:
Julie Garfield, proud to be the daughter of John Garfield, won the Theater World and the Variety Drama Critics' Awards for her performance as Sonya in the Roundabout Theater Production of UNCLE VANYA. She appeared on Broadway with Zero Mostel in THE MERCHANT directed by John Dexter, Neil Simon's THE GOOD DOCTOR directed by Michael Bennett and A.J. Antoon, with Harvey Keitel in DEATH OF A SALESMAn directed by and starring George C. Scott, and POOR MURDERER by Pavel Kohout, directed by Herbert Berghof. She was highly praised by Richard Eder for her performance as Vassilissa in Livieu Ciulei's production of THE LOWER DEPTHS at Arena Stage, also by Frank Rich for her work In Edwardo Machado's BROKEN EGGS. She has appeared in all of Mr. Machado's plays at The Ensemble Studio Theater. She played Ranevskaya in the Actors' Studio production of THE CHERRY ORCHARD directed by Frank Cosaro and Bryna Wortman, and numerous Off Broadway productions: THE CHEKHOV SKETCHBOOK directed by Tony Giordano, ME AND MOLLY directed by Ed Cohn, SECOND AVENUE directed by Steven Sachs among others. Some of Miss Garfield's film work: GOODFELLAS, STANLEY AND IRIS, MEN OF RESPECT,THE HOSPITAL, THE FRONT, THE LITTLE DEATH. She worked on television in L.A. LAW, THE PROFILER, THE PRETENDER, BROOKLYN BRIDGE, MICHAEL HAYES, U.S. ATTORNEY, THE LITTLE DEATH. She also spent a year in Mexico, playing a starring role in a television soap series, FOREVER. She currently teaches acting at T.Schreiber Studio and coaches privately. Julie is a portrait painter and is studying at The new York Studio School.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Julie Garfield
Won a 1971 Theatre World Award for "Uncle Vanya"
Where She Is Now...As of 2005...Miss Garfield is... On The teaching staff of New York City's Prestigious T. Schreiber Studio in The Chelsea Section of Manhattan's West Side.
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Actor John Garfield...starred in "He Ran all the Way" with actress Shelley Winters...
...which was screened over there at Arthur Lyons' Film Noir Festival...Garfield's daughter Julie Garfield, was on hand to discuss her father's film career last month...Our Administrator Malcolm James, has communicated with actress Julie Garfield...and believe that's... great news!
John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. Garfield is acknowledged as the predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift.John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. Garfield is acknowledged as the predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift. In order to read more about actor John Garfield life just follow the link...Actor John Garfield.

Actor John Garfield's Filmography
Features Films
Four Daughters (1938)
Four Wives (1939, sequel)
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Proto Noir
Blackwell's Island (1939)
Juarez (1939)
Daughters Courageous (1939)
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Four Wives (1939)
Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Saturday's Children (1940)
Flowing Gold (1940)
East of the River (1940)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
Out of the Fog (1941) Film Noir
Dangerously They Live (1941)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
Air Force (1943)
The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Between Two Worlds (1944)
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Pride of the Marines (1945)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Film Noir (a classic)
Nobody Lives Forever (1946) Film Noir (a classic)
Humoresque (1946) Film Noir (a classic)
Actor John Garfield's Final Film with Warner Bros...This Information is courtesy of Diana,
Thank-you, Diane...

Body and Soul (1947) Film Noir (a classic)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Daisy Kenyon (1947) (cameo)
Difficult Years (1948) (narrator in English version)
Force of Evil (1948) Film Noir (a classic)
We Were Strangers (1949)
Jigsaw (1949) (cameo)
Under My Skin (1950)
The Breaking Point (1950) Film Noir
He Ran All the Way (1951) Film Noir (a classic)

Short Subjects
Swingtime in the Movies (1938)
Meet the Stars #1: Chinese Garden Festival (1940)
Show Business at War (1943)
Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party (1946)
Screen Snapshots: Out of This World Series (1947)
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Helena Carter 1920-2000 "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" 1950

Not to be confused with English actress, Helena Bonham Carter.
Helena Carter
To View Helena Carter in the trailer for Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) ...Just Visit The Videos Site Here at Films Noir Lives Here...
Born Helen Rickerts
August 24, 1923(1923-08-24)
New York, New York, U.S.
Died January 11, 2000 (aged 76)
Culver City, Los Angeles, California
Spouse(s) Michael Meshekoff (?-?)
Helena Carter (24 August 1923–11 January 2000) was an American film actress in the 1940s and 1950s.

Carter was born Helen Rickerts in New York City, and her family was of Scottish descent. She first studied at Columbia University, studying for a teaching degree. During this period she worked as a fashion model, which led to her becoming a cover girl. She was offered a film acting contract by producer Leonard Goldstein, which led to a brief acting career. Her first film role was Time Out of Mind in 1947, which starred Ella Raines, Eddie Albert, and Phyllis Calvert. From 1947 to 1953 she would appear in thirteen films, during which time she also worked as a model. In 1948 she appeared on the cover of Life Magazine.[1]

One of her most recognizable film roles was opposite Randolph Scott in the 1951 western Fort Worth. Her last film role was in 1953 when she starred in the sci-fi thriller Invaders from Mars. She married twice, the first of which ended in divorce. Her second marriage was to Michael Meshekoff, with whom she would remain until his death. She was living in Culver City, California at the time of her death on January 11th, 2000.
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Doris Dowling 1923-2004 "The Lost Weekend"

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Doris Dowling
Born May 15, 1923(1923-05-15)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died June 18, 2004 (aged 81)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Doris Dowling (15 May 1923, Detroit, Michigan – 18 June 2004, Los Angeles, California) was an American actress of film, stage and television.

After her time as a chorus-girl on Broadway, Detroit-born Doris Dowling followed her elder sister Constance to Hollywood. Her first credited film role was that of Gloria, barfly and drinking companion to fellow alcoholic Ray Milland in the 1945 film The Lost Weekend. She followed up the Best Picture-winning film with the Oscar winning The Blue Dahlia, which starred Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. However post-war work became more scarce and she emigrated to Italy to revive her career, as her sister had done. [citation needed]

In Italy, Dowling starred in several acclaimed films including Bitter Rice. She appeared in Orson Welles's European production of Othello in 1952, playing Bianca. Upon returning to the US, much of her work was in theatre and on television. She appeared in such television shows as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bonanza, Perry Mason, The Andy Griffith Show, and, late in her career, The Incredible Hulk, Kojak and finally, The Dukes of Hazzard in 1984.

In 1973, Dowling shared an Outer Critics Circle award for her performance in a revival of The Women on Broadway. [citation needed]


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Allene Roberts starred in the Film "The Red House" Which some fans of this film consider a film noir, but on the other hand, some fan of this film don't consider this a film noir...If you watched this film...What Do You Think?
To Response Just Visit The Group...Noir Music "Miklos Roza..."

Actress Barbara Payton... starred in "Trapped" with actor Lloyd Bridges and "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" with actor James Cagney.

Born Barbara Lee Redfield in Cloquet, Minnesota, she was the daughter of restaurateurs and raised in Odessa, Texas. In 1945 at the age of 17, she headed for Hollywood in search of a career in movies and was eventually placed under contract by Universal Studios where she appeared in several small parts.

She first gained notice in the 1949 film noir Trapped, co-starring Lloyd Bridges. After being screen-tested by James Cagney and his producer brother William, Payton starred with Cagney in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in 1950. She soon signed a contract with Cagney’s production company. Her brief stardom continued with significant roles in the western films Dallas (1950), co-starring Gary Cooper, and Only the Valiant (1951), with Gregory Peck.

Her career decline began with the 1951 horror film Bride of the Gorilla, co-starring Raymond Burr. Miss Payton's son John O' Dowd is also a member here at Film Noir Lives Here along with actors Lawrence Tierney nephew and Eddie Tierney's Son Micheal Tierney.

All Information is courtesy of Wikipedia...and some Blogsites.