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Jane Greer (Out of the Past, The Big Steal, Station West)—Out of the Past is one of my all time favorites because of the beautiful black and white cinematography but it helps so much that Robert and Jane are insanely hot. Honestly recommend just watching the whole movie two appreciate the visuals and her presence in the film. It's a noir and she's the femme fatale, it's very faithful to the genre but I do feel like Kathie's chemistry with Jeff is uniquely entertaining and so appealing. I'm also just kind of a sucker for actors who clearly became the basis for a lot of illustrators in the years to come, you can see echoes of her in a lot of comics and advertisement illustration. [editor's note: I haven't seen out of the past yet so this isn't an "official" rec from this blog. Going to have to see it now though!]
Milú, or Maria de Lourdes de Almeida Lemos (The Lion of the Star)—Look at her. She had that 40s actress star quality. She even had a movie star nickname. She was one of the most famous actresses of Portuguese cinema at her peak, she's in some of the biggest movies of that era (Aldeia da Roupa Branca, O Grande Elias, O Costa do Castelo) and after the revolution that overthrew the dictatorship there was a surge of leftwing movies and she was in one of the most iconic ones of those too (The Killers (1980), check it out it's really fun). And she also sang
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Jane Greer:
Jane is my favorite femme fatale of all time. She is SO cold!
Milú:
OUT OF THE PAST aka BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH (Dir: Jacques Tourneur, 1947).
Adapted from his novel by Geoffrey Homes, this classic thriller from the golden era of film noir stars Robert Mitchum as a former PI with a shady past and Jane Greer as the femme fatale he is hired to find by louche businessman Kirk Douglas in a star-making performance.
Mitchum has a new life and new girl in very un-noirlike rural Bridgeport California. But his past soon drags him back to his sordid big city life and back into the arms of his client’s cheating, murderous gal.
This terrific movie is like a film noir checklist with cutting dialogue, shadowy cityscapes and moody atmosphere to spare.
Out of the Past is a classic of it’s genre.
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