Steve-O, There's a bit of Raymond Burr above that you left behind when you moved the rest of him to a separate post. And we must keep all our Burrs in one basket, mustn't we?
Steve-O, There's a bit of Raymond Burr above that you left behind when you moved the rest of him to a separate post. And we must keep all our Burrs in one basket, mustn't we?
Herbert Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966)
Herbert Marshall was in several memorable comedies, including Trouble in Paradise (1932) and The Good Fairy (1935), as well as oddities like Josef von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932). But to the noirs and related genre films: Murder! (1930), Foreign Correspondent (1940), The Letter (1940), the ghost story The Unseen (1945), Crack-Up (1946), High Wall (1947), Ivy (1947), Underworld Story (1950), Angel Face (1952), Wicked As They Come (1956), Stage Struck (1958), Midnight Lace (1960), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) and The Third Day (1965).
Lilli Palmer (24 May 1914 – 27 January 1986)
With John Garfield in Body and Soul
Lovely Lilli Palmer worked in England in the thirties, where she appeared in Crime Unlimited (1935), Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936), and the supernatural thriller The Door with Seven Locks (1940). After the War Palmer came to Hollywood and made Cloak and Dagger (1946), Body and Soul (1947), then back to Europe for Wicked City (aka Hans le marin) (1949), The Long Dark Hall (1951), and Der Teufel in Seide (1955).
Got it! ThanksOriginally Posted by Surly
I think Angel Face and Crack Up are good examples of his noir contributions. Did you know he only had one leg? Lost during WW1. He hid it very well.
Herbert Marshall was in several memorable comedies, including Trouble in Paradise (1932) and The Good Fairy (1935), as well as oddities like Josef von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932). But to the noirs and related genre films: Murder! (1930), Foreign Correspondent (1940), The Letter (1940), the ghost story The Unseen (1945), Crack-Up (1946), High Wall (1947), Ivy (1947), Underworld Story (1950), Angel Face (1952), Wicked As They Come (1956), Stage Struck (1958), Midnight Lace (1960), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) and The Third Day (1965).
Yes I did, and yes, he did. I wonder why Lubtsch had him repeatedly run up a staircase in Trouble in Paradise. Was it a shared joke or a cruel one?
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Jeanne Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003)
With Jean Peters in Vicki
Jeanne Crain was in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Dangerous Crossing (1953), and Vicki (1953).
Dangerous Crossing
Claude Akins (May 25, 1926 – January 27, 1994)
From the IMDB: Broad-shouldered and beefy Claude Akins had wavy black hair, a deep booming voice and was equally adept at playing sneering cowardly villains as he was at portraying hard-nosed cops. Akins was in Witness to Murder (1954), Shield for Murder (1954), Down Three Dark Streets (1954), The Human Jungle (1954), Hot Summer Night (1957), The Killers (1964), and the memorable westerns Rio Bravo (1959) and Comanche Station (1960). And Akins was all over television.
In the Twilight Zone episode The Monsters are Due On Maple Street.
He was excellent as a police detective in Porgy and Bess (1959), his dad had been a police officer.
John Dall (May 26, 1918 – January 15, 1971)
John Dall was in Rope (1948), Gun Crazy (1949) and The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950).
Vincent Price (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993)
The Bribe
Before he became locked in as a horror star, Vincent Price had a nice flamboyant run in noir and crime dramas. Price was in Laura (1944), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), and Shock (1946);, he had a taste of his future costume horrors in the historic melodramatics of Dragonwyck (1946), and was in The Web, The Long Night (1947), the period mystery thriller Moss Rose (1947), The Bribe (1949), His Kind of Woman (1951), The Las Vegas Story (1952), Dangerous Mission (1954), and While the City Sleeps (1956). Price played The Saint on radio, and also worked on television. Where didn't he work?
John Payne (May 23, 1912 – December 6, 1989)
99 River Street
John Payne was in Larceny (1947), The Crooked Way (1949), Mystery Street (1950), Kansas City Confidential (1952), 99 River Street (1953), Slightly Scarlet (1956), Hold Back the Night, The Boss, and Hidden Fear (1957).
Correction: Payne was born on May 28, not 23.
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Sally Forrest, born May 28, 1928
With Claire Trevor and Robert Clarke in Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Happy birthday to Sally Forrest, born May 28, 1928. Forrest acted in Mystery Street (1950), The Strip (1951) Bannerline (1951), Code Two (1953), While the City Sleeps (1956), as well as three dramas directed by Ida Lupino: her first, Not Wanted (aka The Wrong Rut) (1949), Never Fear (1949) and Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951).
With Ralph Meeker in Code Two
Martha Vickers (May 28, 1925--Died: November 2, 1971 )
Coming on to Marlowe in The Big Sleep
Martha Vickers is famous for playing nymphet Carmen Sternwood in The Big Sleep (1944). She was also in The Falcon in Mexico (1944), The Man I Love (1947), Ruthless (1948), Alimony (1949), The Big Bluff (1955), and The Burglar (1957).
Martha Vickers and Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep.
Iris Adrian (May 29, 1912 — September 17, 1994)
Actress Iris Adrian was in the noirs The Woman in the Window (1944), Fall Guy (1947) and Crime Wave (1954). Adrian had a long career, from 1930 to 1980. Her films include Roxie Hart (1942), Fingers at the Window (1942), Lady of Burlesque (1943), Shake Hands with Murder (1944), Bluebeard (1944), Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945), Road to Alcatraz (1945), the Anthony Mann musical romance The Bamboo Blonde (1946), Philo Vance Returns (1947), I Married a Communist (1949), Tough Assignment (1949), Bodyhold (1949), Sideshow (1950), Once a Thief (1950), Hi-Jacked (1950), Hunt the Man Down (1950), Stop That Cab (1951), The Scarf (1951), Highway Dragnet (1954) and The Fast and the Furious (1955).
Gregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 – September 28, 1948)
Cinematographer Gregg Toland helped develop what became known as the "deep focus" technique in the films The Long Voyage Home (1940) and Citizen Kane (1941). From Wikipedia: "...many of the shots in Kane look similar in composition and dynamics to a number of shots in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home.
For instance, both movies contain shots that create an artificial lighting situation such that a character is lit in the background and walks or runs through dark areas to the foreground, where his arrival triggers, off-screen, a light not on before. The result is so visually dramatic because a character moves, only barely visible, through vast pools of shadow, only to exit the shadow very close to the camera, where his whole face is suddenly completely lit. This use of much more shadow than light, soon one of the main techniques of low-key lighting, heavily influenced film noir."
Some of Toland's other notable films are Bulldog Drummond (1929), Mad Love (1935), Dead End (1937), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Westerner (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Song of the South (1946).
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Howard Hawks (May 30, 1896–December 26, 1977)
Director Howard Hawks is famous for mastering many genres, and one of his most original talents was enriching and enlivening drama with comedy. Certainly The Big Sleep (1946) is one of the funniest noirs ever made. Hawks also directed The Criminal Code (1931), Scarface (1932), and a few other little films you may have heard of.
Hawks directing on the set of To Have and Have Not
Don Ameche (May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993)
With Claudette Colbert in Sleep, My Love
Don Ameche is known for musicals and romantic comedies rather than film noir. But Ameche uses his likability to great advantage as an oily villain in Douglas Sirk's enjoyable 'Gaslight' noir, Sleep, My Love (1948). He's also in something called Phantom Caravan (1954), the plot of which the IMDb describes as: International private detective gets mixed up with Indian sect murders in Switzerland.
Raymond Burr also turns up and throws his weight around.
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