Film Noir Lives Here And So Do Memories...

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Birthday Wishes...and To All The Members Of FNLH and Readers Too [From Malcolm, admin and deedee, Co-admin...Thanks,

...a Happy Birthday List FABULOUS BIRTHDAY BLOG... and Wish To all in the month Of May... too!

[Pictured Left to Right: One Of my favorite actor Ty`rone Power, and as we celebrate his birth... we are asking The USPS to place his handsome visage on a postage stamp... too!

please follow the link for more information:Ty`rone Power Stamp 2014 and here--->Facebook...Ty'rone Power Stamp 2014

No# 2. Happy Birthday to The Wunderkind... Mr. Welles as in Orson]

No# 3. actor John Payne, film noir "The Crooked Way,"will be screened at "The Roxie..."

[In Honour Of The Upcoming

I Wake Up Dreaming 2013:Return To The Roxie...Friday, May 10 - Thursday, May 23...programmed by Elliot Lavine...

and my favorite writer Dash as in Dashiell Hammett...]

This Month [Birthday Honoree] Film noir Star Ty`rone Power,as he appeared in the 1947 film noir

"Nightmare Alley..." [1947]

Scoop-it...News about Film Noir Festivals, books and about Current DVD releases... too!

Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson)

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I knew there was something wrong with them.

and

We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!

[pictured actress Deanna Durbin in Director Robert Siodmak's "Christmas Holiday..."[1944]

Robert Manette: [to Mrs. Manette] What are you doing? You're not to go through my pockets!

Abigail Martin: Robert, where did you get all that money?

AND...Abigail Martin: [singing] I'll be loving you always, / With a love that's true always, / When the things you've planned need a helping hand / I will understand always, always. / Days may not be fair always, / That's when I'll be there, always, / Not for just an hour, not for just a day, / Not for just a year, but always.

[last lines]

Lt. Charles Mason: [to Abigail] You heard what he said. You can let go now, Abigail.

THE HONORARY STARS IN THE SPOT-LIGHT...

[Sybil Jason, In Memory of Malcolm's dear friend and Honorary Member Sybil Jason. 1927-2011]

Sybil Jacobson, (23 November 1927 - 23 August 2011) was a motion-picture child actress who, in the late 1930s, was presented as a rival to Shirley Temple.^[2]

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, she began playing the piano at age two and, a year later, began making public appearances doing impersonations of Maurice Chevalier. She was introduced to the theatre-going public of London by way of her uncle, Harry Jacobson, a then-popular London orchestra leader and also pianist to Gracie Fields. The apex of her career came with a concert performance with Frances Day at London's Palace Theatre. Jason's theatre work led to appearances on radio and phonograph records, and a supporting role in the film Barnacle Bill (1935).

Member Julie GARFIELDwith her dad's wallet.

HONORARY MEMBERS: Julie Garfield...John's Daughter...is a member here at FNLH too!

Member Julie GARFIELD with her dad's [actor John Garfield]wallet.

According To Malcolm "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.

[Pictured 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. In order to read more about actor John Garfield life just follow the link...Actor John Garfield.

Honorary members...actress Barbara Payton's son John O'Dowd son is a member here at FNLH

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  biographer John O' Dowd is also a member here at Film Noir Lives Here

A Message from Barbara's son, John Lee Payton is included on his website too:Hollywood Starlet:Actress Barbara Payton...

...along with actors Lawrence Tierney nephew and Eddie Tierney's Son Micheal Tierney.

[Pictured: Actor Lawrence Tierney]

...Actors Lawrence Tierney and Scott Brady's nephew and Eddie Tierney's Son Micheal Tierney is also a honorary member here at FNLH...too!

Lawrence Tierney (March 15, 1919 – February 26, 2002) was an American actor, known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and hardened criminals, which mirrored his own frequent brushes with the law.^[1]

Commenting on the DVD release of a Tierney film in 2005, a New York Times critic observed, "The hulking Tierney was not so much an actor as a frightening force of nature."^[2]

Where HOODS, CROOKED COPS, DEADLY DAMES, DRUNKEN LOSERS, THOSE WHO ARE PROTAGONIST AND ANTAGONIST all come back to haunt you...

classiccinemaonline..."The Crooked Way..."

[Pictured is a scene from Robert Siodmak's "The Killers" in order to discuss the film "The Killers" just follow the link to Diane create group]
Robert Siodmak

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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...

[THIS MONTH FILM NOIR FEMME IS ACTRESS ELLA RAINES...]

actress Ella Raines' website...

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.

IN ORDER TO READ MORE AND DISCUSS THIS MAGNIFICENT FIND JUST FOLLOW THIS LINK...

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 Falco

I Love Trouble (1948) is a film noir written by Roy Huggins from his first novel The Double Take, directed by S. Sylvan Simon, and starring Franchot Tone as Stuart Bailey.^[1][2][3] The character of Stuart Baily was later portrayed by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in the television series 77 Sunset Strip.^[4]

TO READ MORE JUST FOLLOW THE LINK...TO:

I Love Trouble (1948 film)

HOLDING AN AUCTION...TAKING A LOOK AT POSTER[S] AND THE PRICE THEY SOLD FOR...

[Editor's note: To view posters and lobby cards weekly, just follow the link...above to my FYI [SISTER PAGE...FNLH 2]  Ning which is open to the public...However, membership isn't being accepted...Thanks,]

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.

[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

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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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[Pictured: Is actor Humphrey Bogart From the 1941 Classic "The Maltese Falcon" in order to discuss Huston's film just follow the link...]
Dashiell Hammett and "The Maltese Falcon"