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Post by alittlebirdie on Feb 5, 2021 5:24:34 GMT
I've been a bit obsessed with watching actors and actresses bios from the Golden age of Hollywood. Of course many actresses are femme fatales. Who did it best in your opinion ?
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Post by mgmarshall on Feb 5, 2021 8:38:50 GMT
Barbara Stanwyck's turn in Double Indemnity has been aped and imitated so many times she could practically be considered the prototype.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 5, 2021 17:30:39 GMT
Barbara Stanwyck's turn in Double Indemnity has been aped and imitated so many times she could practically be considered the prototype. Hard to beat that. Ava Gardner was pretty good in The Killers as well though.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Feb 5, 2021 19:54:02 GMT
Barbara Stanwyck's turn in Double Indemnity has been aped and imitated so many times she could practically be considered the prototype. Thanks mgmarshall, Kinda hard to think of Barbara Stanwyck that way, because I'm so use to seeing her as an older actor in The Big Valley. I'll look for a youtube clip. Cheers: 
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Post by politicidal on Feb 5, 2021 20:09:47 GMT
I forgot about Jane Greer in Out of the Past.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 5, 2021 21:02:20 GMT
Joan Bennett in SCARLETT STREET.
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Post by mgmarshall on Feb 6, 2021 2:23:31 GMT
Barbara Stanwyck's turn in Double Indemnity has been aped and imitated so many times she could practically be considered the prototype. Hard to beat that. Ava Gardner was pretty good in The Killers as well though. Oooh, that's a great pick! Love that movie.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 6, 2021 23:00:51 GMT
Shout out to Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven.  Good choice.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Feb 7, 2021 3:33:39 GMT
I just ordered the Blu-ray and haven't watched it yet, but I have high hopes for Ann Savage in Detour.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 4, 2021 16:18:28 GMT
Lizabeth Scott in Too Late For Tears (1949) Scott plays an Is She Or Isn’t She a femme fatale in Dead Reckoning (1947). You have to wait until the end to find out.  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 4, 2021 17:26:14 GMT
Dianne Foster in Drive A Crooked Road was a memorable femme fatale--subverting the formula. She feels sorry for Mickey Rooney--and the ending is kind of like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The Hunchback of Noir Dame? I don't think there is any hint of romance between them--they wisely avoid that--she feels sorry for him--and tricking him--and when Kevin McCarthy tells her-she doomed him--she just freaks out in a most "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" kind of way. And the ending--he finds some comfort in being able to help her, but it's nothing all that positive since they are both in trouble with the law.
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