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Sonia Dresdel news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Sonia Dresdel performances. According to Wikipedia: Sonia Dresdel was an actress between the 1940s and 1970s.
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Audrey Totter news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Audrey Totter performances. According to Wikipedia: Audrey Totter is an American actress.
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Sydney Greenstreet news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Sydney Greenstreet performances. According to Wikipedia: Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was an English actor.
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Elisha Cook Jr. news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Elisha Cook Jr. performances. According to Wikipedia: Character actor Elisha Cook, Jr. made a career playing cowardly villains and neurotics, earning the nickname "Hollywood's lightest heavy." Cook started out in vaudeville and then became a Broadway actor. In 1936 he settled in Hollywood and, after playing a series of college-aged parts, began a long stint playing weaklings or sadistic loser-hoods. In Universal's Phantom Lady, he portrays a slimy, intoxicated nightclub-orchestra drummer. Other notable roles include Wilmer the gunsel in The Maltese Falcon, "pug ugly" Marty Waterman in Born to Kill, Harry Jones in The Big Sleep, Torrey in Shane, and George Peatty, the hen-pecked husband to Marie Windsor, in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing.
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Joseph Cotten news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Joseph Cotten performances. According to Wikipedia: Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included Citizen Kane, The Third Man, and Journey Into Fear, which Cotten wrote. He received his start on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair, and became a recognizable Hollywood star in his own right with films such as Shadow of a Doubt and Portrait of Jennie.
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For fans of The big Sleep. The Big Sleep is a 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler, with two film versions, one filmed in 1946, and another filmed in 1978. It is the first novel to feature the detective Philip Marlowe, and is considered one of Chandler's greatest works, and one of the seminal works of hardboiled fiction. The story is infamously complex and hard to follow, with many characters all double-crossing and triple-crossing each other.
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For fans for Val Lewton movies. Share your personal film reviews or opinions about his works.
According to Wikipedia: Val Lewton was born as "Vladimir Ivan Leventon" in what is now Yalta, Ukraine. He was a nephew of the actress Alla Nazimova. In 1909, he immigrated to the USA with his sister and mother (where his name was changed to Val Lewton). He was raised in suburban Port Chester, New York.
Prior to beginning his film career in the early 1930s (as an MGM publicist and assistant to David O. Selznick), he studied journalism at Columbia University and authored eighteen works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
Lewton once lost his job as a reporter for the Darien-Stamford Review after it was discovered that a story he wrote about a truckload of kosher chickens dying in a New York heat wave was a total fabrication.
In 1932 he wrote a best-selling pulp novel No Bed of Her Own. The book was later made into the film No Man of Her Own, with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. His first screen credit was "revolutionary sequences arranged by" in David O. Selznick’s 1935 version of A Tale of Two Cities. Lewton also worked as an uncredited writer for Selznick’s Gone with the Wind, including writing the scene where the camera pulls back to reveal hundreds of wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
In 1942, Lewton was named head of the horror unit at RKO studios. He was paid $250 a week. And as head of the B-horror unit he would have to follow three rules: each film had to come in under a $150,000 budget; each film was to run under 75 minutes; and Lewton's supervisors would supply the title for each film.
Lewton's first production was Cat People, with Simone Simon. Made for $134,000, the film went on to earn nearly $4 million, and was the top moneymaker for RKO that year.
Lewton died of a heart attack on March 14, 1951, at the age of 46.
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