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Mamie Van Doren was in "Teacher's pet" with Doris Day.
Doris Day was in "Romance on the high seas" with Jack Carson.
Jack Carson was in "Cat on a hot tin roof" with Paul Newman.
Next: Marg Helgenberger
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George Sanders was in "The amorous adventures of Moll Flanders" with Kim Novak.
Kim Novak was in "Kiss me, stupid" with Dean Martin.
Dean Martin was in "What a way to go!" with Paul Nemwan.
Next: Michael Beach
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Toshiro Mifune was in "Grand Prix" with James Garner.
James Garner was in "Sayonara" with Patricia Owens.
Patricia Owens was in "Island in the sun" with Joan Fontaine.
Joan Fontaine was in "Until they sail" with Paul Newman.
Next: Jennie Linden
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Alec Guinness was in "Doctor Zhivago" with Omar Sharif.
Omar Sharif was in "More than a miracle" with Sophia Loren.
Sophia Loren was in "Lady L" with Paul Newman.
Next: Christopher Gable
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Kathleen Freeman was in "The naked gun 33 1/3: the final insult" with George Kennedy.
George Kennedy was in "Cool hand Luke" with Paul Newman.
Next: Rufus Sewell
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Edmund Purdom was in "The Egyptian" with Victor Mature.
Victor Mature was in "Demetrius and the gladiators" with Susan Hayward.
Susan Hayward was in "Ada" with Dean Martin.
Dean Martin was in "What a way to go!" with Paul Newman.
Next: Benny Hill
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Giulietta Masina was in "The madwoman of Chaillot" with Richard Chamberlain.
Richard Chamberlain was in "Joy in the morning" with Yvette Mimieux.
Yvette Mimieux was in "Diamond Head" with George Chakiris.
Geoge Chakiris was in "West Side Story" with Natalie Wood.
Natalie Wood was in "The silver chalice" with Paul Newman.
Next: Fred Dalton Thompson
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Nanette Newman was in"The Stepford Wives" with Katharine Ross,
who was in "Butch Cassidy" with Newman.
Next: James Best
James Best was in "Shenandoah" with James Stewart.
James Stewart was in "The Cheyenne Social Club" with Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda was in "A big hand for the little lady" with Joanne Woodward.
Joanne Woodward was in "The long hot summer" with Paul Newman.
Next: Chill Wills
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Blair Brown was in Altered States with William Hurt
William Hurt was in Eyewitness with Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver was in Working Girl with Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith was in Nobody's Fool with Paul Newman
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Capucine
Capucine was in "The pink panther" with Peter Sellers.
Peter Sellers was in "A shot in the dark" with Elke Sommer.
Elke Sommer was in "The prize" with Paul Newman.
Next: Nanette Newman
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"These three godfathers"
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"The trouble with angels in the outfield"
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"When ladies meet the parents"
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"Say anything goes"
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"A patch of blue denim"
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"Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan and his mate"
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"More than a miracle in the rain"
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"More than a miracle on 34th Street"
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"Blackboard Jungle Fighters"
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"Girl, interrupted melody"
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Kim Basinger was in The Man Who Loved Women with Julie Andrews.
Julie Andrews was in Torn Curtain with Paul Newman.
Next: Phoebe Fox
Phoebe Fox
Phoebe Fox was in "One Day" (2011) with Anne Hathaway.
Anne Hathaway was in "The Devil Wears Prada" with Emily Blunt.
Emily Blunt was in "Edge of tomorrow" with Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise was in "The color of money" with Paul Newman.
Next: Blair Brown
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Movies you can't find on DVD? These come to mind:
"Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1955) Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain
"One Is A Lonely Number" (1972)
"Of Human Bondage" (1946)
"The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1957) Bill Travers, Jennifer Jones, Virginia McKenna, and John Gielgud
"Jungle Fighters" (a.k.a. "The Long, the Short, and the Tall") Laurence Harvey
"Tender Comrade"
"The Little Hut"
"Two Guys from Milwaukee"
"Craig's Wife" (1936) Rosalind Russell and John Boles
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But aren't we actually seeing this whole story through Louise's prism? Maybe a lot of his cruelty is in her imagination?
Those are good questions. I don't think David's cruelty is in Louise's imagination.
If you think about it, it is plain to see that David was stirring the pot. Nobody invited him to Louise and Dean's wedding, but he found out about the wedding and he decided to crash the event and insert himself there and mooch on the food and anything else he wished.
It was David who was being spiteful. It was he who was playing games. When David turned his back on Louise in the first half of the movie when he rode away in his motorboat, right after she said, "I won't let you abandon me. I'll find a way to keep you with me. I'll lie if I have to, but I'll find a way! No, I didn't mean it! Please don't go!", David was free of Louise. He was far away from her. He chose to come back to town and to insinuate himself into her life and to dangle himself in front of her. He didn't want her, but it didn't stop him from hovering near her and doing so repeatedly.
David was being cruel. He didn't want Louise, but he apparently didn't want anyone else to have her either.
He didn't care about Louise, but he couldn't stand the thought of her being happy without him and with someone else.
He hurried back to town once he knew that she was marrying another man. It's obvious that this guy was playing head games.
Louise was happy and at peace for the first time in ages when she accepted Dean's marriage proposal. Dean wanted to marry her still, even after she was upfront with him, letting him know that she was not in love in him. Both of them laid their cards on the table with each other. Louise was willing to marry Dean, in order to accept the loyalty and the kindess of a considerate, honest, and rather selfless man, and to put an end to her loneliness and to have finally a man who wanted her and genuinely cared for her.
Louise's happiness and peace were shaken when David returned to town and began to hover near her. He put the screws to her.
He and Louise weren't even friends after he broke up with her, and he was not willing to be Louise's friend.
All the more reason that he ought not to have gone to his ex-lover's wedding.
There was no good reason for David to be there. None at all. None whatsoever. He was up to no good.
(To me, his behavior matches the profile of someone with narcissistic personality disorder.
I've known at least two people in real life who fit enough of the defining criteria of this psychological disorder.)
On a tangential note, I would love to have seen this film end not only with Carol and Dean learning the truth about David, but for Louise not to have given into her obsession and her desire for revenge, and for her to realize that she had come to truly love Dean.
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Mara Corday was in "Two Tickets to Broadway" (1951) with Janet Leigh.
Janet Leigh was in "Harper" (1966) with Paul Newman.
Next: Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson was in "Barb Wire" with Victoria Rowell.
Victoria Rowell was in "Eve's Bayou" with Samuel L. Jackson.
Samuel L. Jackson was in "The Long Kiss Goodnight" with Geena Davis.
Geena Davis was in "Thelma and Louise" with Susan Sarandon.
Susan Sarandon was in "Twilight" with Paul Newman.
Next: Zack Norman
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Christine Lahti was in "Miss Firecracker" with Mary Steenburgen,
who was in "Philadelphia" with Joanne Woodward,
who was in "Winning" with Newman.
Next: Lee Patrick
Lee Patrick
Lee Patrick was in "Caged" with Eleanor Parker.
Eleanor Parker was in "The Sound of Music" with Julie Andrews.
Julie Andrews was in "Torn Curtain" with Paul Newman.
Next: Jeff Richards (born 1924)
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Julie Adams was in "Tickle me" with Elvis Presley.
Elvis Presley was in "Blue Hawaii" with Angela Lansbury.
Angela Lansbury was in "The long, hot summer" with Paul Newman.
Next: Frank Ferguson