Small time con-man Juan (Gastón Pauls) is offered a business partnership by bigger con-man
Small time con-man Juan (Gastón Pauls) is offered a business partnership by bigger con-man Marcos (Ricardo Darín) in Argentinian writer/director Fabián Bielinsky's 2000 thriller. Winner of seven Silver Condors (Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards)
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Gilda (Rita Hayworth) escapes from her new husband and gets a job performing in a nightclu
Gilda (Rita Hayworth) escapes from her new husband and gets a job performing in a nightclub. Director King Vidor's 1946 film noir gave Hayworth many opportunities to show off her sex appeal, singing and dancing.
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Sexy, sultry Gilda (Rita Hayworth) is the new "canary" in casino owner Ballin Mundson (Geo
Sexy, sultry Gilda (Rita Hayworth) is the new "canary" in casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready) life and the old one in his right hand man Johnny Farrel (Glenn Ford). Director King Vidor's 1946 film noir skyrocketed Hayworth's career into Hollywood legend. Born in New York City, Margarita Carmen Cansino, daughter of professional dancers, her father a Spanish flamenco dancer and her mother an English/Irish-American Ziegfield girl. Hayworth the began her dancing career at age 6, performing with her father's dance company. She made her Hollywood debut at the age of 16 after Fox Studios signed her to a contract. Working under the name of Rita Cansino, she had several bit parts. When this contract ended, her first husband, whom she married at the age of 19, got her into Columbia Pictures, where studio head Harry Cohn changed her name to Rita Hayworth (her mother's maiden name was Haworth) There she continued to get only minor parts and endured painful electrolysis to raise her hairline. Then in 1939 received notice for a supporting role in Howard Hawk's Only Angels Have Wings (1939), and other studios began to ask for her services. The most significant of these "loans" was for the title role in the Strawberry Blonde with James Cagney, which locked her into leading roles. Following Strawberry Blondes she was selected to star opposite Tyrone Power, in Blood and Sand and achieved top stardom with her sizzling performance as the amoral and seductive "Doña Sol des Muire". Shot in technicolor, the role was originally intended for Gene Tierney, but studio head Zanuck dropped her when she eloped with Oleg Cassini. Carole Landis turned down the role because she did not want to dye her blonde hair red. Hayworth was willing, and dyed her dark brown hair auburn, and history was made as she had become one of Hollywood's most beautiful redheads and second in popularity only to Betty Grable. Of her part in Gilda, the star said of herself, "Every man I have known has fallen in love with Gilda and wakened with me".
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Hollywood movie star Banjo (Jimmy Durante) stops in to visit his good friend critic Sheri
Hollywood movie star Banjo (Jimmy Durante) stops in to visit his good friend critic Sheri Whiteside (Monty Woollsey) and is temporarily smitten by Nurse Preen (Mary Wickes) in director William Keighley's 1942 adaptation of Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman play. Both Woolley and Wickes were in the successful broadway run and the movie studio agreed to use them for their production. Wickes, a long time staple of movies and television had a successful stage career before her performance in this movie launched her into extremely prolific Hollywood and television career. Durante, one of the most famous entertainers of his time, spanning generations of fans world wide. An all time great!
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Personal secretary Maggie Cutler (Bette Davis) warns her egocentric critic and radio perso
Personal secretary Maggie Cutler (Bette Davis) warns her egocentric critic and radio personality boss Sheri Whiteside (Monty Woolley) not to interfere with her attempts to win the heart of a young local newspaper editor. Director William Keighley's 1942 adaptation of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman delightful comedy play and Julius and Philip Epstein screenplay.
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Parisian gangster Max (Jean Gabin) has to get tough with his best friend's girlfriend, Jos
Parisian gangster Max (Jean Gabin) has to get tough with his best friend's girlfriend, Josy (Jeanne Moreau) and others to get the truth. French director Jacques Becker's stylish 1954 film noir was a rebirth for Jean Gabin, who had been a big star prior to World War II. The role of Max had originally been offered to Daniel Gélin who turned it down because he thought he was too young for the part. Jacques Becker had been an assistant to the famed director Jean Renoir. He had been a member of the French resistance and served a year as a prisoner of war. Upon his release in 1942, he dedicated himself to a career as a director. He died at the age of 53, have produced 13 films, many of which are considered "some of the most artistically and technically substantial in French cinema." Touchez Pas is one of Jeanne Moreau's first films. At the age of 26, she was already a star of stage at the Comédie Française and was doing "B" movies. Four years after Touchez, Louis Malle cast her in Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSAH_pSnDWI launching her career as an international movie star. One of the Arts greatest actresses, with over 130 film and television credits.
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