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Female Filmmaker Friday: The Bigamist, 1953 (dir. Ida Lupino)

I read about this film in a book that traced the history of Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill in the movies (mostly focusing on film noir) and this film was mentioned because Lupino filmed several scenes in that neighborhood. After I saw the synopsis and the cast (Edmond O’Brien, Joan Fontaine and Ida herself), I just had to watch it. It’s a great drama (with film noir elements; I think you could definitely make the case that it is noir) about a man who finds himself married to two women.

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Movie Quote of the Day – The Dark Mirror, 1946 (dir. Robert Siodmak)

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Ruth Collins: Terry and I have never been rivals. Never. Not in the slightest.
Dr. Scott Elliott: All women are rivals fundamentally. But, it doesn’t bother them because they automatically discount the successes of others and alibi their own failures on the grounds of circumstances. Luck, they say. But, between sisters, it’s a little more serious. The circumstances are generally about the same, so they have fewer excuses of which to comfort themselves. That’s why sisters can hate each other with such terrifying intensity. And, as for twins, especially identical twins, well, you must have some ideas yourself what agonies of jealousy are possible.

Movie Quote of the Day – Thieves’ Highway, 1949 (dir. Jules Dassin)

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Nico ‘Nick’ Garcos: Soft hands.
Rica: Sharp nails.
Nico ‘Nick’ Garcos: You like to make tough, huh?
Rica: I am tough.

Movie Quote of the Day – Witness to Murder, 1954 (dir. Roy Rowland)

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May: I bet you never had a man. I’ve had more men after me than you can count! That’s my trouble: men. They’re always after me. Something about me, I don’t know what.

Movie Quote of the Day – Crime Against Joe, 1956 (dir. Lee Sholem)

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Joe Manning: Slacks, are you a nice girl, Slacks?
Frances ‘Slacks’ Bennett: Well, either way I wouldn’t want it known.

Movie Quote of the Day – Dark City, 1950 (dir. William Dieterle)

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Fran Garland: You’re a million miles away, Danny.
Danny Haley: I don’t know where I am.

Movie Quote of the Day – The Turning Point, 1952 (dir. William Dieterle)

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Amanda Waycross: It’s getting late.
Jerry McKibbon: Does it matter?
Amanda Waycross: It’s supposed to.

Movie Quote of the Day – I Wake Up Screaming, 1941(dir. H. Bruce Humberstone)

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Ed Cornell: Nice little place you got here. The garden of hope. Do you believe in hope, Miss Lynn?
Jill Lynn: Naturally. What’s the good of living without hope?
Ed Cornell: It can be done.

Movie Quote of the Day – While The City Sleeps, 1956 (dir. Fritz Lang)

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Ed Mobely: You know, you have very nice legs.
Nancy Liggett: Aren’t you sweet.
Ed Mobely: Nice nylon stockings too. What holds your stockings up?
Nancy Liggett: There’s a lot your mother should have told you.
Ed Mobely: I didn’t ask my mother. I asked you. It’s, uh, simply a matter of scientific research.

Movie Quote of the Day – The Woman on Pier 13, 1949 (dir. Robert Stevenson)

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Bradley Collins: Bring the lady a Ward 8.
Waiter: Ward 8, sir?
Bradley Collins: Three fingers of bourbon and beer for a chaser.
Christine Norman: Use the imported beer.