Today's Noir Birthday

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In the 'Crime Does Not Pay' short, Jack Pot (1940)

Actor Reed Hadley had a stentorian bass voice you didn't forget. He served as the narrator on many films, including House on 92nd Street (1945), Call Northside 777 (1947), Boomerang (1947), Canon City (1948), Walk a Crooked Mile (1948), He Walked by Night (1948), The Killer That Stalked New York (1950). He appeared in Female Fugitive (1938), Sunset Murder Case (1938), Whistling in the Dark (1941), Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944), Circumstantial Evidence (1945), The Caribbean Mystery (1945), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Shock (1946), The Dark Corner (1946), The Brasher Doubloon (1947), Motor Patrol (1950), Sam Fuller's The Baron of Arizona (1950), Insurance Investigator (1951), Highway Dragnet (1954), Big House, USA (1955), Young Dillinger (1965), and The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967). Hadley starred in two television series, Racket Squad (1950–1953) and The Public Defender (1954–1955).


Questioning a student (at Canon City High School) in Big House, USA

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Body and Soul with John Garfield

Character actor Anne Revere was in The Falcon Takes Over (1942), The Thin Man Goes Home (1945), Fallen Angel (1945), Body and Soul (1947), and Secret Beyond the Door (1947).


With Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door

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Kind Hearts and Coronets

British actor Dennis Price is probably best known for Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). Some of his other films are Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale (1944), The Echo Murders (1945), Dear Murderer (1947), Snowbound(1948), Good-Time Girl (1948), Murder at 3am (1953), Noose for a Lady (1953), Time Is My Enemy (1954), Fortune is a Woman (1957), The Naked Truth (1957), Victim (1961), Murder Most Foul (1964), Ten Little Indians (1965) and Theatre of Blood (1973).

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With Eric Portman in Dear Murderer

Murder Without Crime is a good one too...

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Eleanor Parker was in Crime by Night (1944), The Woman in White (1948), Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Lizzie (1957), and Warning Shot (1967).



Here she is in Caged on Youtube:

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Eleanor Parker was in Crime by Night (1944)

Crime by Night with slimy Jerome Cowan sounds promising! thanks for the tip

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Crime by Night with slimy Jerome Cowan sounds promising! thanks for the tip

I'd like to see it, too.

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Author Eric Ambler wrote 21 books, several of which were adapted into films. These include Journey Into Fear (1943), Background to Danger (1943), Hotel Reserve (1944) (adapted from the novel "Epitaph for a Spy"), The Mask of Dimitrios (novel "A Coffin for Dimitrios") (1944), and The October Man (1947). He wrote the original screenplay for Highly Dangerous (1950), and the screenplay for Shoot First (1953). Several of his novels were adapted for television, and he also created the series Checkmate (1960–1962).

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With Dana Andrews in Daisy Kenyon

Ruth Warrick made her film debut in Citizen Kane (1941). After that it was all downhill...The Corsican Brothers (1941), Journey into Fear (1943), John Brahm's moody psychological melodrama Guest in the House (1944), Swell Guy (1946), Daisy Kenyon (1947), and the alcoholism exploitation film, One Too Many (1950). In the 1950s Warrick found steady work in television, where she acted in a series of soap operas. The last of these was All My Children, on which she appeared from 1970 until her death in 2005.

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Maestro.

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Short for time this morning. Today's noir birthdays are Susan Hayward (1917-1975) and Glenda Farrell (1904–1971).

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The Dark Mirror

Happy birthday to Olivia de Havilland, who turns 96 today.

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They Live By Night with Cathy O'Donnell

Farley Granger starred in Rope (1948), They Live By Night (1949), Side Street (1950), Edge of Doom (1950), Strangers on a Train (1951), The Naked Street (1955). He did a lot of television, including the TV movie Laura (1968), and he also made several horror/crime thrillers in Italy in the 1970s.

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With Barbara Nichols and Shirley Knight in House of Women

Constance Ford started in television in the 1950s. She starred in the soap Woman with a Past, and was on such shows as The Web, Danger, Inner Sanctum, The Man Behind the Badge, Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 87th Precinct, and Naked City. She was in the films House of Women (1962) and The Cabinet of Caligari (1962).

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The Big Clock

Charles Laughton was in Payment Deferred (1932), Island of Lost Souls (1932), The Suspect (1944), The Big Clock (1948), The Bribe (1949); he was Inspector Maigret in The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949), The Strange Door (1951), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957). Laughton directed a single film, the dark and and haunting masterpiece, The Night of the Hunter (1955).


With Ava Gardner in The Bribe

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This haunting sequence from Laughton's Night of the hunter was one of the formative film moments of my life. It defined film art for me: deeply personal and idiosyncratic, yet as universal as a fairy tale.

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With Paul Henreid and Cecil Clovel in So Young So Bad

Catherine McLeod had an uncredited bit in The Thin Man Goes Home (1945), and starred in Frank Borzage's deliriously romantic melodrama I've Always Loved You (1946), So Young So Bad (1950), and A Blueprint for Murder (1953). According to Wikipedia, on television McLeod "memorably portrayed the one woman whom James Garner's character Bret Maverick wanted to marry on the 1957 television series Maverick, in the episode "Rage for Vengeance," and appeared in literally dozens of other series including The Millionaire, Meet McGraw, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, 77 Sunset Strip, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Bronco, Perry Mason, Colt .45, Lawman, Bonanza, Hawaiian Eye, Have Gun - Will Travel, The Outer Limits, The Virginian, and the "Ten Thousand Horses Singing" episode of Studio One opposite James Dean and John Forsythe."

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With Lon Chaney Jr in Son of Dracula

Louise Allbritton only flirted with noir, but married Dracula and made him a cuckhold in Son of Dracula (Robert Siodmak, 1943). She was in Walk a Crooked Mile (1948), a number of comedies, then moved into television. She was married to reporter Charles Collingwood.

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In the 1930s and 40s actress Wynne Gibson was in City Streets (1931), and such B crime fare as Racketeers in Exile (1937), Trapped by G-Men (1937) Gangs of New York (1938), Forgotten Girls (1940), Double Cross (1941), The Falcon Strikes Back (1943), and Mystery Broadcast (1943).


With George Bancroft in Lady and Gent (1932)

I recently saw her in The Captain Hates the Sea (1934), where she played a former floozy. I'm guessing she specialized in such roles.

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The Falcon's Brother (1942)

George Sanders played both the Saint and the Falcon, and was in Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939), Hitchcocks Rebecca (1940) and Foreign Correspondent (1940), Rage in Heaven (1941), Fritz Lang's Man Hunt (1941), Quiet Please: Murder (1942), John Brahm's The Lodger (1944) and Hangover Square (1945), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Robert Siodmak's The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945), Edgar G. Ulmer's The Strange Woman (1946), A Scandal in Paris (1946), The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Lured (1947), All About Eve (1950), Witness to Murder (1954), While the City Sleeps (1956), Death of a Scoundrel (1956), The Whole Truth (1958), Village of the Damned (1960) Dark Purpose (1964), The Quiller Memorandum (1966) and The Kremlin Letter (1970). On television he hosted The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957), and was in the TV movies Warning Shot (1967) and Laura (1968), in which he played Waldo Lydecker.

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With Tom Tryon in The Scarlet Hour

Happy birthday to Carol Ohmart, born July 3, 1927. In 1947, she became a model for the character Copper Calhoun in Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon comic strip. She played a femme fatale in her first film, The Scarlet Hour (1956), and was in The Wild Party (1956), House on Haunted Hill (1959), The Scavengers (1959) Wild Youth (1961) and Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968), and she did a lot of television, including M Squad , Johnny Midnight, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Lock Up, Michael Shayne, and 77 Sunset Strip.


With Anthony Quinn in The Wild Party