#40s film

timeless-hollywood:

Tyrone Power & Joan Blondell in Nightmare Alley(1947)

In Italy, Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) was released as La Prima Moglie (The First Wife). That’s a compelling title, especially when presented alongside images of Judith Anderson’s intimidating Mrs Danvers and Joan Fontaine’s naive young woman. If you weren’t familiar with the story when you saw a cinema lobby card like the one above, you could quite easily assume that the woman in black was the first wife herself. That draws Danny and her beloved mistress even closer together in the imagination. The unhinged housekeeper isn’t just ‘standing in’ for Rebecca anymore. She is Rebecca.

Humphrey BogartandLauren Bacall inTo Have and Have Not(1944)

sirbogarde:

Have ten more unnecessary screen caps from the Philadelphia Story

Starring Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart