Dan Duryea, born 111 years ago today, worked steadily in theatre, television and pictures and in a variety of genres, but it was playing bad guys in films noir that he made his most indelible mark.
Here are 10 things you should know about Dan Duryea…
We were sorry to learn that Dorothy Malone had died, just days short of her 93rd birthday. She enjoyed a long career in motion pictures and television, mostly playing bad girls, but to us, she’ll always be the most memorable bookstore employee in the history of the movies, and if you doubt us on this, just watch this scene with Humphrey Bogart from The Big Sleep (1946).
We were sorry to learn Welsh-born stage and film actress Peggy Cummins died at age 92 on Friday, December 29, 2017, in London. She began as a child star and worked in the United States for only a few years, but if she’d played no other role than the sharp-shooting, bank-robbing femme fatale Annie Laurie Starr in Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950), she’d have made an indelible mark.
As noir expert Eddie Muller said of Cummins in introducing the film on Turner Classic Movies in July 2017, “Peggy’s performance, her Hollywood swan song, would galvanize the Gun Crazy production and earn her lasting fame as the tiniest, but most ferocious, femme fatale in the history of film noir.”
Legendary character actor Sydney Greenstreet was born 138 years ago today. His film career was brief, but the impression he made was a lasting one.
Here are 10 things you should know about Sydney Greenstreet…
Audrey Totter was born 100 years ago today in Joliet, Illinois. Few women excelled in the genre of film noir as did Totter. As she stated in 1999, “The bad girls were so much fun to play. I wouldn’t have wanted to play…good-girl parts.”
Here are 10 things you should know about Audrey Totter…