MissGoddess

There you go, my kind of guy, and thank YOU, Mongo, for bringing up this most interesting man. I absolutely love that he was a sailor and used his movie money to finance that passion. That is beyond cool to me. I remember the first time I saw him, I was a kid and he came on Johnny Carson's show (I wish I could see that one again) and made such an impression on me---I had no idea then who the heck he was, only that he seemed like something out of a Robert Louis Stevenson tale. And what a voice! I love his voice, it's a great voice for a seaman. One role that I want to mention because he really managed to do alot with it, though it was small, was as the philosophical assassin in *Hard Contract* . He made James Coburn, who I like, seem so....amateur, to use a word from the script. I really liked him in The Star with that Bette broad, what a pair. P.S. I wanted to add that this thread inspired me to order Hayden's autobiography. Can't wait to read it. Message was edited by: MissGoddess

wow, Theresa that image is fantastic!! You look great and so does he---you should frame that and hang it on your wall! Here are a couple of images from *City Streets* , just to get you warmed up.

Hi Film Fatale---agreed about the concern for the bottom line, but not to the degree it happens today. At least back then the studio heads loved making movies as much as making money. Plus, I think the audiences they were trying to please had much better taste than now. Fred---I'd be in dire financial straights if the theaters started showing the classics because I be there almost daily.

I'm going to post a few in one box because this site is running so slow, I may not get back in for another chance!

Finally! I have been able to post in every other thread but this one all morning. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Angie, that's such a cute picture with your "Sugarbritches"...I trust it's in full view in your office and/or home. My plan to see *City Streets* on Tuesday nights was in some jeapardy because I am supposed to go out that night, but I begged and pleaded to change the date so now I can go out with the only real man in Manhattan.

*Joan Bennett in Scarlet Street*

*Robert Montgomery and Andrea King*

*Ava Gardner*, using her Delilah-wiles on Burt in *The Killers*

*Crime Wave with Sterling Hayden*

A noir native, Richard Conte, here with Susan Hayward in House of Strangers... ...and with Jimmy Stewart in Call Northside 777... ...and calling the shots in The Big Combo.

Things aren't always what they seem. (And I found a way to sneak Coop in here!) From *City Streets* , which I hope to see on the big screen next week.

*Bogart in Dead Reckoning*

Sinatra, plotting no good in *Suddenly* .

*John Garfield* in *He Ran All the Way* , his final film.

You never know what you'll find when you look over your shoulder in Dark City. *Nancy Carroll* .

Best friends to the end? See *Van Heflin* and *Robert Taylor* in *Johnny Eager* and find out.

You can't even trust your best friend. "Keys" (Edward G. Robinson) looks like the "little man" inside him is getting suspicious of his old pal Fred MacMurray.

*Martha O'Driscoll* lays it on *John Garfield* in *The Fallen Sparrow* .

I have never seen *I, The Jury* , but I'm betting *Peggie Castle* is messing with *Biff Elliot's* mind in this scene.

*Kirk Douglas and Lizbeth Scott in I Walk Alone*

*Joan Bennett* , looking like she's thinking it's time to get a new boyfriend, with *Paul Henreid* in *Hollow Triumph* .

A girl after my own heart, *Ida Lupino* in *High Sierra* . She's like Mitchum, she doesn't care which side of the law her guy is on, she's sticking like glue.

I know I've posted this in other threads but I love this picture so much---Alan Ladd is so absoultely gorgeous here in a troubled, bruised and smouldering sort of way. Ah, I am so primitive and the girl can't help it.

Ha ha! You guys are too funny---and I'm glad you enjoy the thread so far, I've only just gotten started. I have a few more random images to post from different movies, and then I'll focus in on more "wickid wimmin" to keep you satisfied---and on edge. Another guy who didn't mind which side of the law his ladies lay, *Robert Mitchum* and his lady fair, *Jane Greer* from *Out of the Past* and, below, with *Angel Face Jean Simmons* :

I'm so excited, The New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, as part of its focus on Technicolor, is going to screen DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, with Martin Scorcese introducing the film. This may be a hard ticket to snag but by hook or by crook *I will be there* .