Ella Raines, and Jeff Corey (2nd r at table), in "Singing Guns" (1950).
"Rhiannon [Vaughn Monroe], an outlaw who regularly robs gold from the stagecoach, shoots
the new sheriff and then carries him to the doctor. The doctor cleans up
Rhiannon and presents him to the sheriff as the man who saved his life.
Rhiannon is deputized by the sheriff, and becomes torn between his new
life and the prospect of robbing the next gold shipment...," per IMDb.
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Claire Trevor and Albert Dekker (on left) in "Woman of the Town" (eventual title) (1943).
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Marilyn Monroe, Macdonald Carey and Zachary Scott in "Let's Make It Legal" (1951).
"The divorce of Hugh (Carey) and Miriam Halsworth becomes final at midnight. Hugh
wouldn't dream of calling it off, but can't abandon his rose garden.
Things change that afternoon, though, when Miriam's old suitor Victor
Macfarland (Scott) checks into the hotel where Hugh is publicity man. With
Miriam's daughter Barbara rooting for Hugh and son-in-law Jerry rooting
for Victor, things are unlikely to be resolved by midnight...," per IMDb.
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Greta Garbo (seated) in "Susan Lenox" (1931).
"Susan, an orphan, lives the life of Cinderella with rustic relatives.
She escapes one stormy night when the fiance her relatives chose tries
to force his attentions. Rodney, an architecht, is the prince who
rescues her, but he has to take a trip and the wicked relatives catch up
with her again. Her next rescuer is a tatooed lady in a circus who
can't save her from the circus manager. Rodney shows up and dismisses
her as a fallen woman. Susan moves up in the world to the penthouse of a
politician who can offer a construction contract to Rodney. Rodney says
no and flees to the jungle with Susan in pursuit.," per IMDb.
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Jan Sterling and Carleton Carpenter in "Sky Full of Moon" (1952).
"This was really a charming and sweet adventure about a naive cowboy
(actor/songwriter Carleton Carpenter)that comes into Las Vegas for the
rodeo and has a lucky streak gambling. He comes to attention of a girl
Oscar-nominated Jan Sterling (The High and the Mighty) that has been
around the block a couple of times and is convinced to participate in a
slot machine rigging.," per IMDb user review.
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Ruta Lee in "Gun Hawk" (1963).
"Gunslinger Rory Calhoun dispenses his own brand of justice in this
action-packed Western adventure costarring Rod Cameron and Ruta Lee.
It's been three years since gunfighter Blaine Madden (Calhoun) visited
his hometown. So when he warns the Sully brothers to stop harassing the
town drunk, they shoot the old man dead, not realizing he's Madden's
father. Killing them both, Madden is badly wounded by the sheriff
(Cameron) but escapes to an outlaw haven where the law fears to tread
and prepares what may be his last stand. Written by Jo Heims (Play Misty
for Me), The Gun Hawk was the final film directed by Edward Ludwig,
whose nearly 50-year career spanned over 100 shorts, TV episodes and
features, including the John Wayne hits The Fighting Seabees, Wake of
the Red Witch and Big Jim McLain.," per IMDb.
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Glynis Johns and Rossano Brazzi (wearing tie) in "Loser Takes All" (1957).
"Losers Take All is a comedy in which we follow "The Fingers," a
fictional punk-pop band stumbling and staggering their way in the
opposite direction of mainstream success, circa 1986. Fingers are faced
with the unlikely opportunity of committing the ultimate indie rock sin:
selling out. Do they stay true to their non-commercial DIY sound and
ethos? Do they get in bed with corporate rock? Or do they simply keep
getting wasted and implode into oblivion?" per IMDb.
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Barbara Stanwyck in "The Great Man's Lady" (1942).
"When the statue of the founder of Hoyt City, Ethan Hoyt [Joel McCrae]
is dedicated, the sensationalist reporters and a biographer head to the
house of the one hundred year-old Hannah Sempler, where Ethan died, to
know the relationship between them. Ms. Hannah sends them all out but
the lady. Then she tells her life since she was a teenager and felt in
love with the pioneer Ethan. In 1848, in Philadelphia, Ethan dreams on
building Hoyt City, but he needs financiers and influential people to
change the route of the railroad. Hannah decides to leave her
upper-class father and marries with Ethan. Eight years later, she meets
the gambler Steely Edwards [Brian Donlevy] and they become close
friends. When Ethan discovers silver, Steely lends money to Hannah with
the condition that she does not go to the mines with Ethan. Along the
years, Ethan becomes rich and far from Hannah that he believes had died
in a flood. Years later, they meet each other again in Hoyt City but
their love is doomed since Ethan has raised a family of his own.," per
IMDb.
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Dolores del Rio in Madame Du Barry"
(1934).
"King Louis XV (Reginald Owen) of France is dissatisfied with ruling
and bored with everyone treating him with kid gloves when Richelieu
(Osgood Perkins) sets him up with a common woman with no moral character,
Madame DuBarry (Dolores del Rio). His is enthralled and the downfall
of the French Aristocracy begins; his son's (the Dauphin, played by Maynard
Holmes) marriage to Marie Antoinette (Anita Louise) is forthcoming. It's
hard to decide who is lovelier, the racy Ms. del Rio or the outspoken Ms.
Louise.," per Classic Film Guide.
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Rosalind Russell (left) in "His Girl Friday" (1940) watching the other reporters playing poker. Great movie, arguably my favorite.
"Walter Burns [Cary Grant], editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his
ace reporter and former wife, Hildy Johnson [Russell], to insurance salesman Bruce
Baldwin, but not without a fight! The crafty editor uses every trick in
his fedora to get Hildy to write one last big story, about murderer
Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The comedy snowballs as
William's friend, Molly Malloy, the crooked Mayor, and Bruce's mother
all get tied up in Walter's web," per IMDb |
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Myrna Loy
and Robert Taylor in "Lucky Night" (1939).
Awful movie. " Lucky Night,
the 1939 Norman Taurog casino gambling romantic comedy ("Head
over heels in love!") starring Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor, Joseph
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Ray Milland and Barbara Stanwyck in "California" (1947).
""Wicked" Lily Bishop [Stanwyck] joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael
Fabian and Johnnny Trumbo [Milland], but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train.
When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon
and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners
dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward
statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.," per IMDb.
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Nina Foch in candid photo shows film's writer the roulette wheel -- "JOHNNY O'CLOCK" (1946).
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Gloria Swanson in "Prodigal Daughters"
(1923).
"Story of the Roaring Twenties, with two daughters of a wealthy
businessman who discover the "jazz life" in Greenwich Village in New York
City, and go to live there; one daughter marries a song writer who soon
deserts her; the other gets involved with a pilot who works for her father,
and also a professional gambler who cheats her out of a lot of money, and
then offers to make one last wager, of everything she owes against her
agreeing to marry him, and of course she loses!; but the speakeasy they
are in is raided by Prohibition agents, and the pilot helps her escape,
and she and her sister return home, sadder but wiser, and she intends to
settle down with the pilot.," per eMoviepostr.
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(foreground from left to right) JOHN LUND, ANGELA GREENE who is wearing a FUR COAT, and AL RHEIN at a ROULETTE TABLE."Affair in Reno" (1957).
"Gloria Hall, an irresponsible heiress, is in Reno for her second
divorce, and falls for Tony Lamarr, a fortune-hunting gambler and casino
owner. J. B. Del Monte,her father in New York City, sends his
public-relations man, Bill Carter, to buy off the gambler if Carter is
not successful in convincing Glaoria that Lamarr is interested only in
her money. When Bill is attacked at the Reno airport, Del Monte
arranges, sight-unseen, for a bodyguard to go to Reno to look after
Carter...and his $100,000. The bodyguard turns out to be Nora Ballard [Singleton],
an attractive girl and a Judo expert.," per IMDb.
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Diana Barrymore in "Frontier Badman" (1943).
"A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle
prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll
get for their beef. They set out to change the situation.," per IMDb.
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FANNY FANNIE WARD in Poker Game Original 1916 Lost Silent movie, "A GUTTER MAGDALENE."
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May Robson at craps table in "Grand Old Girl"
(1935).
"Grand Old Girl, the 1935 John S. Robertson school teacher romantic melodrama
(about a dedicated school teacher in a small town who tries to expose gambling,
and she is fired, but fortunately, the President of the United States was
once one of her pupils, and he helps her get her job back!) starring May
Robson (well known character actress who had a starring role in this movie!),
Mary Carlisle, Fred MacMurray (in his first credited role, and he is third
billed!), Alan Hale Sr., Ward Bond, and Onest Conley," per eMovieposter.
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Clara Bow resting on slot machine, unidentified
movie from the 1930s.
"Clara Bow was an actress from the 1920s to the early 1930s. She was the
most famous "flapper girl" of the mid to late 1920s (she became known as
"The It Girl" after the character she played based on the popular novel by
Elinor Glyn). She had a major role in Wings, and was Paramount's biggest
star at that time. But she had a notorious private life and seemingly "settled
down" when she married cowboy star Rex Bell in 1931 (she had two children
and she retired from movies), but sadly in 1949 she went into a mental institution
after a failed suicide attempt (she had had psychiatric issues for quite
some time) and she was released but never returned to her family, and lived
alone until her death in 1965. Some of her movie roles include: It, Wings,
Dancing Mothers, Call Her Savage, Hula, Hoopla, as well as 50 more almost
forgotten silents!," per eMovieposter.
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Ann Sothern and Bruce Cabot
(standing behind her) uncovering gaffed roulette wheel in "Don't
Gamble With Love" (1936). See the two lobby cards just above.
"Cabot is the honest owner of an illegal gambling house. He allows
no crooked dice or fixed wheels. Even though he is a virtuous crook, his
wife, Sothern, wants him out of the racket so their newborn child can
grow up with dignity. Cabot sells the house, only to be swindled when he
invests the cash in a supposedly legitimate venture.," per TV Guide.
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Betty Grable in "The Dolly Sisters"
(1945).
"In
1904, Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with
two little nieces, who immediately take to cafe dancing.
In 1912 they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's card
debts they decide to go into vaudeville. Singer Harry Fox,
whom they meet en route, schemes to get them an audition
with the great Hammerstein; but their resulting success takes
them far out of Harry's league. Lots of songs with a little
story.," per IMDb.
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Grace Bradley & Arline Judge gambling at roulette in "The McGuerins From Brooklyn" (1942).
Two cab drivers try to make a beat up cab into their ticket to success.
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Jeanette Loff, Robert
Armstrong, and Carole Lombard (l to r) in "The Racketeer"
(1929).
"Tough mobster Mahlon Keane (Armstrong) practically runs
crime in New York City. He meets broke ex-society girl Rhoda Philbrooke
(Lombard) at a society fundraiser and helps her cheat her way to
some winnings in poker. Rhoda needs the money to help nurse broken
alcoholic concert violinist Tony Vaughan back to health. In between
his criminal dealings, Keane takes up Rhoda's cause and helps promote
Vaughan's return to public performance. Rhoda agrees to marry Keane
but still harbors unrequited love for Tony Vaughan. On the eve of her
marriage, Vaughan confesses his love to Rhoda. Now how will she handle
her mobster fianc�e?," per IMDb.
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Frances Farmer (center) in "Toast of New York" (1937).
"
The story starts just before the Civil War, showing Fisk [Edward Arnold], Boyd [Cary Grant], and Luke
conning Southern townsfolk into buying bars of soap that, might, have a
$10 gold piece inside. Found out, they're chased out of town and escape
across the Mason-Dixon Line just as the war starts. Fisk hatches a plan
for him and Boyd to return to the South and buy cotton then smuggle it
to the North where Luke is to sell it to the Northern textile mills. By
the end of the war they have made millions, only to find out that Luke
had been re-investing their money into Confederate Bonds. This
fact-based movie shows Jim Fisk as one of the greatest con-men and
entrepreneur's in history. It concludes with his involvement in "Black
Friday", the Financial Panic of 1869, with fellow financier Jay Gould
(who's not represented in the movie) and their attempt to corner the
U.S. gold market. There's a love triangle between Fisk, Boyd and
Mansfield [Farmer], which is also based on historical accounts.," per IMDb.
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Unidentified silent-era film.
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Carole Lombard and John Loder from the film "The Racketeer".
Summary of plot, above.
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Joanne Woodward (at poker table,
center) in "A Big Hand For the Litle Lady," (1966).
"A naive couple and a child arrive to the town on the way
to San Antonio, Texas to buy a farm there. There is a poker game between
the richest men in the region. The man (Henry Fonda) cannot resist it
and though he is a very bad poker player, enters the game betting all the
money of his family. In the climax of the game he suffers a heart-attack.
His wife (Woodward) then takes his place in the table. That's the only
way of recovering their savings. But there is a little problem. Can anybody
explain her how to play poker?," per IMDb.
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Mae West with Paul Cavanagh
(right) gambling at roulette in "Goin' to Town" (1935).
"Goin' to Town, the 1935 Alexander Hall romantic musical comedy
("She's found a new way of doin' 'em wrong!"; "Streamlined for Speed!";
"West goes modern in a big way as the cattle queen who tires of bad men
and muscles into high society to pick herself a good one!"; a wacky story
of a dance hall queen whose fiancee dies leaving her great wealth, and
she tries to make herself into a "lady") starring Mae West, Paul 1Cavanagh,
Ivan Lebedeff, Tito Coral, Fred Kohler, Monroe Owsley, Grant Withers, Marjorie
Gateson, and Vladimar Bykoff (billed as "Wladimir Baikoff")," per eMovieposter.
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Mae West from the film "I'm No Angel" (1933).
"
The bold Tira (West) works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of
an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put
her head into a lion's muzzle! With this attraction the circus makes it
to New York and Tira can persue her dearest occupation: flirting with
rich men and accepting expensive presents. Among the guys she searches
the love of her life, from whom she only knows from a fortune-teller
that he'll be rich and have black hair. When she finally meets him, she
becomes a victim of intrigue.," per IMDb. |
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Barbara Streisand and Omar
Sharif (2nd right) in "Funny Girl" (1968).
"The life of comedienne Fanny Brice (Streisand), from her
early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height
of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and
eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein (Sharif)," per
IMDb.
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Barbra Streisand and John Richardson in "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (1970). Note the plaques and coins.
"Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and
does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her
fianc�, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once
she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives
and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with
one of them.," per IMDb.
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Virginia Vale with Roger Pryor in "South of Panama" (1941).
"Jan
Martin [Vale], sister of government chemist Paul Martin, realizes she
is being followed by enemy agents after her brother. She ignores him at
the Panama airport and embraces a stranger, Mile Lawrence [Pryor],
instead. Enemy agents Lake and Wilton are convinced that Mike is her
brother and attempt to trap the pair. They get away but Jan disappears.
Disguised with a black wig and new makeup, Jan becomes Dolores and gets a
job singing at a cafe. Spotting Jan without her disguise, Mike follows
her down an alley where they are trapped by Raynor, another espionage
agent. They get away and Jan also gets away from Mike. Later, both Mike
and Jan are captured and the agents realize that Mike is not the brother
they are after. Paul is also brought to the hideout, but Mike gets the
drop on them.," per IMDb.
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Anne Baxter with Jeff Chandler in "The Spoilers" (1955).
"During
the 1898 gold rush in Nome,Alaska, many miners are faced with claim
jumpers bent on stealing their legitimate gold claims.The new gold
commissioner, Alex McNamara, assures the miners that judge Stillman is
on his way to Nome to review all legal matters concerning the
mines.However, the miners grow impatient and want to settle matters the
old fashioned way:with a gun.Finally, a ship arrives bringing judge
Stillman and his daughter to Nome. On the same boat,local mine owner,Roy
Glennister,returns to Nome and is greeted by girlfriend Cherry Malotte
who's the owner of the local saloon and gambling house.But Roy is full
of gallantry toward fellow boat passenger, Helen Chester,which causes a
jealousy scene between Roy and girlfriend Cherry.Following their lovers'
quarrel Roy and Cherry discover that judge Stillman and his legal team
are phony,the gold commissioner, Alex McNamara, is corrupt and that Roy
and his mining partner, Dextry, are about to lose their mine to phony
claimants.," per IMDb.
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THIS IS A SCARCE MOVIE STILL
PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE LOST FILM "FOOL'S PARADISE" STARRING HOLLYWOOD WALK
OF FAME RECIPIENT AND FORMER SILENT FILM STAR DOROTHY DALTON.
THIS 1922 MOVIE DIRECTED BY CECIL B DEMILLE IS CONSIDERED A LOST FILM.
THIS IS A TERRIFIC SCENE WITH A KNIFE STICKING INTO THE LADY'S FAN
BEHIND A VINTAGE POKER SLOT MACHINE.
"In
a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for
him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him
explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll is Rosa and
marries her. When his vision is surgically restored, he leaves for Siam
to find Rosa.," per IMDb.
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Rita Hayworth in "Down to Earth" (1947).
"Upset
about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess
Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works
her charms on the show's producer and he incorporates her changes into
the show. Unfortunately, her changes also produce a major flop.," per
IMDb.
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Clara Kimball Young in "Mother and Son" (1931).
"A
woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order
to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a
gambling house--which her son is dead set against.," per IMDb.
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Barbara Lawrence in "The Street With No Name" (1948).
"In
Center City, a housewife is murdered in a night-club by a gang of
thieves. When a security guard of a bank is killed by the same gun
during a heist, the crime becomes a federal offense under FBI
jurisdiction. When the prime suspect is released and executed in the
same night, FBI Inspector George Briggs recruits the rookie agent Gene
Cordell to follow the last paths of the victim undercover in the
identity of George Manly. Gene meets the powerful gangster Alec Stiles
in a gymnasium, and later he is invited to join his gang. Working with
his also undercover liaison Cy Gordon, Gene finds evidences to
incriminate Stiles. However, he discovers also that somebody from the
precinct is feeding Stiles with classified information.," per IMDb.
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Hilary Brooke in "Lucky Losers" (1950).
"Slip
Mahoney and Sach are working as runners for a New York brokerage firm
owned by David J. Thurston. His daughter,Carol Thurston, is romantically
involved with Gabe Moreno, a crusading television producer. David
Thurston is found dead and the coroner's ruling is suicide. Slip isn't
buying that, snoops around Thurston's office, and discovers a matchbox
and pair of dice carrying the insignia, "The High Hat Club." Slip
engages a spiel artist,Wellington J. "Buffer" McGee, to teach him, Sach
and their friends, Butch, Chuck , and Whitey how to beat all games of
chance. Slip, posing as "Slippery" Mahoney, and Sach as Sacramento Sach
obtain jobs at the dice table of "The High Hat Club,", operated by Bruce
McDermott and "Countess" Margo, and they bring in their friends to
operate the card tables. Moreno, aided by information supplied by
Mahoney, launches a campaign against McDermott, and has City Councilman
John Martin aid him in his fight. Slip discovers a canceled check for
$120,000, signed by Thurston, in McDermott's desk. A young millionaire,
Andrew Stone, III, is killed in a brawl with McDermott, but the latter
is exonerated after making a mysterious call to to a higher-up in the
racket. Slip and the Boys, with the aid of assistant District Attorney
Tom Whitney, discover the higher-up is......... ?????.," per IMDb.
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Veda Ann Borg in "Mississippi Rhythm" (1949).
"What
a phenomenon the late Governor Jimmie Davis was. Film was just a small
part of his long and successful career. After his somewhat-
fictionalized film autobiography "Louisiana" was a hit for Monogram in
1947, the studio created this vehicle for him two years later. After a
slow start on a riverboat (reminding me of the studio-bound Riverboat in
the Universal serial Mystery of the Riverboat), the film kicks into
gear when Davis goes to Montana (!!!) and sets out to take on a crooked
town boss and land developer. Except for the musical sequences, of which
there are a few including a full show featuring blackface minstrel
routines (now you can actually see Lee Lasses White, better known as a
western sidekick, doing his minstrel routine, described in Nick Tosches'
book about Emmett Miller), the plot could be taken from any Johnny Mack
Brown or Whip Wilson monogram western of the time, except that there
isn't as much fistfighting and shootouts as you'd see in a western.
Davis has an appealing laid-back yet authoritative style, but musical
westerns (and this is a western, even if it has a Mississippi River
"feel" to it) were on the way out in 1949, and Davis had a political
career and business pursuits back home, so this was his last starring
role (he appeared in Monogram's SQUARE DANCE KATY the next year, which
starred Vera Vague, but the film was not a vehicle for him as this one
is). It's an interesting curio and a real slice of Americana in that
Davis is surely one 20th Century America's most colorful and interesting
characters with a life story much too long and complicated to recite
here. Governor Davis lived to be 101 (!!!) and dusting off this film
would be a nice way to remember him (although I'd imagine today's
networks would have to trim the minstrel show routines before airing)..
as well as listening to his late 20s/early 30s double-entendre bluesy-
country recordings issued on two Bear Family LPs in the 1980s.," per
IMDb.
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Rhonda Fleming and
Burt Lancaster (black hat) in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"
(1957).
"After the long career of lawman that made him
a legend, Wyatt Earp (Lancaster) deciedes to quit and join his
brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud
with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown
becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas),
terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.,"
per IMDb.
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Lana Turner with
Clark Gable in "Honky Tonk" (1941).
""Candy" Johnson [Gable], a great crook of the
Wild West, decides to find a town where he could become a big
boss. To achieve this, he will need to conceal his true identity
and not only pretend to be an honest man, but lead the struggle against
the corrupt sheriff. No one in town realizes that the anti-corruption
hero is just a greater crook himself. And there is only one person
who is stronger than Johnson - a girl [Turner] he is in love with.,"
per IMDb.
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Sofia Loren
adorns roulette table in "Firepower" (1979).
"A merc is hired by the FBI to track
down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying
to track him down for her own personal vendetta.," per IMDb.
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Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien (standing)
at poker table in "Torrid Zone" (1940). Note
the wood chip carousel.
"Banana
Company executive Steve Case [O'Brien] on a Caribean
plantation group tries to convince his former co-worker
Nick Butler [James Cagney] to take over the plantation
No 7. But he is on his way to Chicago, to take over a
job as a manager for another company himself. He has also troubles
with US night-club singer Lee Donley [Sheridan], whom
he wants aboard a ship back to the US, and rebel Rosario. He is
able to get Nick to the plantation, but is he able to keep him there
or will he leave it in a few days with Gloria, the wife of the former
exectutive of No 7, Mr. Anderson ?," per IMDb
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Isabelle Adjani in "The Driver"
(1978).
"In Los Angeles, a mysterious driver (Ryan O'Neal) is a sad
man of few words that drives getaway car in robberies. One day, he
participates of a heist of a casino and a player (Isabelle Adjani) is
the main witness. However, she tells to the detective (Bruce Dern) in
charge of the investigation that the suspect is not the driver of the
getaway car. The detective becomes obsessed to arrest the driver and
he seeks out a gang that has robbed a supermarket and promises to "forgive"
their heist if they help him to arrest the driver in a bank robbery. But
the player helps the driver to exchange the dirty money.," per IMDb.
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PARLEY BAER, DEBRA PAGET, KEVIN McCARTHY,
unknown and DALE ROBERTSON. in "The Gambler From Natchez" (1954).
"Returning to New Orleans, following four years of army service in
Texas in the 1840s, Captain Vance Colby [Robertson] finds his father,
a professional gambler, has been killed. The police tell him his father
was killed while caught cheating in a card game by Andre Rivage [McCarthy],
an arrogant young dilettante. Vance protests that his father was an honest
gambler and never used marked cards, but the police inspector tells him
there were witnesses. Aided by a riverboat owner, Captain Barbee, and his
daughter, Melanie, Vance sets out to clear his father's name and avenge
his death.," per IMDb.
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Anita Ekberg from the film "Back from Eternity" (1956).
"A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash
lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers
then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and
must escape before they are found.," per IMDb.
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1917 Promotional Photograph from the
movie "A Woman's Awakening." The two people without mustaches are
women dressed as men.
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Greer Garson playing baccarat in "Law and
the Lady" (1951).
"Greer Garson is the lady in question in "The Law and the Lady," a 1951
film also starring Michael Wilding, Marjorie Main and Fernando Lamas. It's
a loose remake of "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney." Here, Garson plays a former
British household maid at the end of the 19th Century who hooks up with
the brother of her ex-employer. They sort of fall into a con game and decide
to keep going with it. After being asked to leave several countries when
they're discovered cheating at gambling, they travel to America and San Francisco
high society. They set their sights on a wealthy woman (Main) and her necklace.
Complications arise.," per IMDb
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"TAKING OFF:" 8x10 still '71 Milos Forman's first American movie, great poker scene!
"Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry
and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people
whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now
free to rediscover/enjoy life.," per IMDb.
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BELLA DARVI (toward the
right) seated at a GAMBLING TABLE in a CASINO in "The Racers" (1955).
"This film is much better than the soapy, more recent
"Grand Prix," though without the high production values of that film.
The off-track drama is kept to a minimum, with Kirk Douglas playing
an Italian race driver (without an accompanying accent), with co-racers
Gilbert Roland (the devil-may-carefree driver and the retiring Cesar
Romero) acquitting their roles in fine shape. The racing, both during
real races and simulated, is quite well done. The Grand Prix cars of
the late '50s are shown in their glory, with races at Monaco, Monza, Nurburgring
and sports cars running the thousand-mile Mille Miglia. Certainly worth
your time to watch--it comes up on TCM on occasion, or is available on
Netflix," per IMDb
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Ira von F�rstenberg
in "Hello-Goodbye" (1970).
French window lobby card.
"Harry England (Michael Crawford) is a "Pan-European" car
wheeler and dealer. On a trip through France he gives a lift to a
French girl, Dany (Genevieve Gilles) and begins an affair with her.
It turns out that she is the wife of a French Aristo (Curt Jurgens). He,
in the full knowledge of Harry England's affair with his wife, draws him
in to his family circle and befriends him. Harry is simultaneously guiltily
confused and yet excited by this immersion in the jet set life. Ultimately
he is discarded and then discovers that Dany has left her husband and
may - finally - be available.... ," per IMDb.
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Dorothy Malone (in red)
and Burgess Meredith (next to her) in "Golden Rendezvous"
(1977).
"Aboard the cargo vessel converted into a luxury cruise
ship SS Campari somewhere in the Caribbean is lying in port due to
a succession of delays. Chief Officer Johnny Carter, who has to
put up a moody captain and the unwanted charms of the beautiful young
Susan Beresford, realizes these delays are due to sabotage and that
there is something seriously wrong. When the Campari finally sails, a
member of the crew is suddenly missing. An unsuccessful stem to stem search
for the crew member, with violence suddenly erupting endangers the whole
ship. The ship is then controlled by a master criminal whose intention is
not a simple hijacking and ransoming of the wealthy hostages on board,
so what exactly does he have in mind? ," per IMDb.
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Ann Margaret in "Lookin To
Get Out" (1982).
"Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a
lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry
to the gambling capital Las Vegas to turn their luck around.," per
IMDb.
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Ann Sheridan and Barton MacLane at roulette
table in "Wine, Women and Horses" (1937).
"Gamblers Jim Turner and
Valarie part company in Chicago and agree to meet at
Saratoga with Jim stopping off at Barrowville en route. There,
Jim meets George Mayhew and Eight Ball, a barbershop bootblack,
and replenishes his bankroll gambling on pitching horseshoes.
George's mother and his sister Marjorie run a boarding house
and Jim goes there to live. George and Jim go to Bellport Park
and meet "Broadway", owner of "Lady Luck", a thoroughbred race
horse. Jim bets on the horse and wins heavily. He falls in love
with Marjorie and wins her away from Preston Barrow when he forswears
gambling and promises to get a $20-per-week job which represents
Peggy's idea of respectability...." per IMDb
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Rosalind Russell (3rd left) and Robert
Montgomery (2nd left) at roulette table in unknown
(to me) movie. They made five movies together, and
I don't know which one this is. I had narrowed it down to
these 3 movies: Live, Love and Learn (1937), don't think so;
Trouble for Two (1936), my best guess; and Forsaking All
Others (1934), possible.
But I now think it is from
the Fast and Loose (1939) movie. I have seen
another still from that movie where Russell is in the same
dress and with the same hair style. That movie involves gambling
debts, and Russell and Montgomery visit an illegal gambling club
in the movie.
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Joan
Bennett and Joseph Schildkraut in "Mississippi
Gambler" (1929).
N.Y. Times review: "This film
is really an echo of its more illustrious predecessor. The
plot, that of a river gambler who fleeces the father of the
girl he loves and regrets it, is so frayed a garment that figurative
elbows protrude from its sleeves. ... The story is of
the professional card shark who takes the parish funds from Colonel
Blackburn. Miss Lucy [Bennett], Blackburn's daughter, has fallen
in love with Morgan and it is with dismay and a dash of smelling
salts that she learns of his betrayal of her father. She begs the
gambler to return the money. Of course Morgan can hardly be a photoplay
hero and a cheat at the same time, so he arranges the cards for the
brave little woman to win the stakes."
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Helen Mack:
Robert Wilcox and Helen Mack
in "Gambling Ship" (1938). (Helen Mack
appeared in my favorite film of all time, the Cary
Grant-Rosalind
Russell screwball comedy, "His
Girl Friday" (1940). Mack
played Mollie Malloy, the girlfriend
of the condemned prisoner.)
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Helen Mack in "Gambling Ship" (1938).
See row above.
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JULIE HARRIS, RON RANDELL and LAURENCE HARVEY (l to r) at a GAMBLING TABLE in "I Am a Camera" (1955).
"In the early thirties, aspiring writer Christopher Isherwood, living in
Berlin, meets the vivacious, penniless singer Sally Bowles. They develop
a platonic relationship while Sally has a wild time spending other
peoples money.," per IMDb.
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Jane Greer and
Robert Mitchem in "Out of the Past"(1947) at roulette
table. Wow, beautiful
girl, beautiful movie, beautiful still!
Perhaps the first film noir film ever made.
eBay seller walterfilmusa says, " Robert
Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas; dir: Jacques
Tourneur; RKO. One of the top notch and most collectible
noir titles ever. Plenty of chemistry is
exhibited in this scene at the gambling tables between
femme fatale Jane Greer and tough guy Robert
Mitchum."
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Ingrid
Bergman (center) and Charles Boyer (upper
left) in "Arch of Triumph" (1948).
" In winter of 1938, Paris
is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in
the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One
such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks
his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night,
Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's
sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgement, they become
involved in a doomed affair; matters come to a crisis on the day
war is declared.," per IMDb.
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Shelley Winters and Paul Kelly in
"Frenchie" (1950).
"Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to
come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson.
But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find
out the other.," per IMDb.
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Marlene Dietrich in "Destry Rides Again" (1939).
"Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when
he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent
a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in
cahoots with Kent appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the
new sheriff assuming that he'll be easy to control. But what the mayor
doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under famous lawman, Tom
Destry, and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry Jr (James Stewart) to
be his deputy. Featuring a career reviving performance from Marlene
Dietrich as bar singer Frenchie, which could well have been the
inspiration for Madeline Kahn's "Blazing Saddles" character, Lili Von
Schtupp.," per IMDb
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Marlene Dietrich,
and (from left to rt) Stuart Randall, Arthur Kennedy
(standing), Francis McDonald and Jack Elam
(reaching for pot). in"Rancho Notorious"(1952).
"A western based on the story "Gunsight
Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher,
seeks out to avenge his fianc�'s death when she is killed
during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar
Keane's (Dietrich) ranch set up to hide criminals, and he finds more
than he bargains for.," per IMDb.
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Marlene Dietrich
playing chuck-a-luck, also the name of her ranch-casino-hideout,
in "Rancho Notorious" (1952). See the row above.
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Marlene Dietrich playing chuck-a-luck,
also the name of her ranch-casino-hideout, in "Rancho Notorious"
(1952). See the rows above.
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| Marlene Dietrich playing craps in "Rancho Notorious"
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Marlene Dietrich
watching Victor McLaglen (in WW I military
uniform) gambling at roulette in Josef
von Sternberg's "Dishonored" (1931).
Dietrich plays a Viennese
prostitute, working as a spy by seducing
enemy officers, but when she falls in love
with a Russian spy, she lets him go, and is sentenced
to be shot by a firing squad.
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MARLENE DIETRICH, PLAYING
DICE AT THE BAR, "SEVEN SINNERS", is a 1940 American adventure
film starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne in the first of three
films they made together. The film spotlights the controversial life
of torch singer Bijou Blanche (Dietrich), who has been kicked off one
South Seas island after another. She is accompanied by naval deserter
Edward Patrick 'Little Ned' Finnegan (Broderick Crawford) and magician/pickpocket
Sasha Mencken (Mischa Auer). Eventually, she meets a handsome, young
naval officer, Lt. Dan Brent (Wayne), and the two fall in love. When
Brent vows to marry Bijou, his commander and others plead with him to
leave her,
per eBay seller.
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Ginny Simms and Charles
Coburn in "Shady Lady" (1945).
"Coburn plays a card shark, recently released from jail,
with a devoted niece in nightclub singer Simms. The two move to Chicago
to have a clean go of it. Simms gets a job at a club run by mobster
Curtis, while Coburn decides to go behind his niece's back and make
a killing at the tables. Investigating attorney Paige is soon involved
in a romance with Simms, though his main job is to put her boss behind
bars because of illegal gambling activities," per TV Guide.
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Pearl Bailey in
" All The Fine Young Cannibals" (1960).
"The minister of the town has died and his son
Chad has no tears for him. Sarah, who now calls herself Salome,
is pregnant with Chad's baby, but Chad has no future, no job and
no money. Therefore, she leaves town on the train heading East.
On the train she meets Tony who is heading back to Yale. Tony and
his sister Catherine have one thing in common; they are both young, rich
and bored with their lives. Salome goes to Yale with Tony and they
are soon married, but she does not tell him about Chad or the pregnancy.
Ruby takes Chad to New York where he plays trumpet and makes a name
for himself. Catherine leaves school and moves in with Tony and Salome,
creating tension between the young couple., per IMDb.
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Shirley Temple
and Adolphe Menjou (right) in "Little Miss Marker" (1934).
"Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker
(Temple) is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad
as part of a bet on a horserace. Sorrowful (Menjou) and his group
of fellow bookies take to her, reluctantly at first, but their cynical
ways start to rub off on her. Will a party set at Camelot bring back
her faith in humanity? ," per IMDb.
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Virginia Owen in "Thunder Mountain" (1947).
" "Thunder Mountain" is the first of Tim Holt's 29 postwar westerns spread
over the five year period from June, 1947 to June, 1952. ... Marvin Hayden
[Holt] returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the
Hayden Jorth feud still going strong. Carson wants the Hayden ranch and
tries to kill Hayden. When he fails he kills Chick Jorth with a rock. As
Hayden does not carry a gun and the two had argued earlier, Hayden is arrested
for the murder. With Hayden in jail, his friends Chito, Ginger [Owen], and
his Lawyer Gardner now go to work to find the murderer," per IMDb.
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Bibi Andersson
gambling in "Quintet" (1979).
"In the distant future the world is in the
grip of another ice age. A city originally built to house five
million people is now in its death throes as the relentlessly advancing
glacier is slowly crushing the metropolis's steel infrastructure.
The relatively few survivors �.. drift aimlessly in their grim, drab
world, awaiting their inevitable fate as they try to survive from
day to day with scavenged firewood and a minimal diet. Their only solaces
are booza, an alcoholic drink distilled from moss, and Quintet,
a seemingly innocuous board game for six players�.Newly arrived
from the south is Essex with his pregnant wife Vivia, �. seek shelter
in the apartment of Essex's brother, a renowned Quintet player. The
new arrivals quickly learn that the game has a more sinister side."
per IMDb.
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Marg Helgenberger
and Bruce Weitz in "The Gambler," a 1987 episode
of the TV series "Matlock."
Weitz plays an Atlanta cop who is shocked
to find out that his girlfriend (Helgenberger) is leading a
double life in Las Vegas.
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"Female Animal"
(1970) roulete scene.
"A sultry Latin peasant woman, who
has overstayed her welcome in her relatives' home, is run
off the road while bicycling by a wealthy aristocrat. Immediately
attracted to her, he hires her as his "maid", and introduces
her to the good life. She soon finds herself in a bitter power struggle
between the man and his spoiled playboy son. After being subjected
to an LSD cocktail and a shipboard orgy, and having slept with the
man's son, mistress and the stable boy, she grows disgusted with upper
class decadence and descends into prostitution, her cat being her
only solace. ," per IMDb.
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Helen
Gilbert and Nat Pendleton (center) at low roulette
table in "Death Valley" (1946).
"A dance hall girl is murdered
and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally.
The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the rightful
owner of the gold and her sweetheart.," per IMDb.
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Irene
Hervey, Minor Watson (left), and Milburn Stone
(better know for playing Doc Adams in TVs classic Gunsmoke)
with chuck-a-luck cage in "Frisco Lil" (1942).
"Lil [Hervey] becomes a dealer
in a gambling casino in order to get the information
she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also
falls in love with lawyer Brewster," per IMDb.
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Dorothy Dalton
at roulette table in silent movie "The Flame of the Yukon" (1917).
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Irene Rich and Charles Bickford in "Queen of the Yukon" (1940).
"Sadie [Rich] owns a riverboat that gold-miners are using to travel to their
claims, while gambling and drinking on the way. The Yukon Mining Company
sends Thorne to take over Sadie's boat and then cheat the miners out of
their claims. Meanwhile, Sadie has kept her life a secret from her
daughter Helen, whom she has sent away to school to live a more refined
life, but one day Helen arrives unexpectedly. Her naive boyfriend Bob
goes to work for the dishonest Thorne, while Helen enjoys the wild Yukon
more than her mother wants her to. Sadie turns to her trusted friend
Ace [Bickord] to sort out all the complications.," per IMDb.
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Greer Garson in "Julia Misbehaves" (1948).
"English
dancehall actress Julia Packett hasn't seen her daughter
since Susan was a few months old, having given her
up to be raised by her respectable and wealthy father William
(whom Julia never divorced.) When she gets an invitation
to her daughter's wedding, she "borrows" some money from a
male friend and heads off to the south of France for the nuptuals.
While there she manages to establish a mother-daughter
relationship, get another man to provide her with a lot of money,
provoke her mother-in-law's ire, string along a potential
husband and his mother, and rekindle the spark in William,
all within a day or two. ," per IMDb.
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Elke Sommer and Robert Stack
in "The Corrupt Ones' (1967).
"Here's a fun obscurity,
a foreign intrigue thriller with great Hong Kong
locations, featuring Robert Stack as a poor man's James
Bond, in an affable and thrilling adventure set amidst
spies, double and triple crosses and crime gangs. Both Nancy
Kwan and Elke Sommer are lovely in near-nude scenes. The climax
features an attack by the Red Chinese! There's also the great
theme song by Dusty Springfield (also a hit single for Dusty!),
and some squirmy torture scenes, including "death by acid".
Fun.," per IMDb.
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Lindsay Crouse and Ricky Jay
in "House of Games" (1987).
All about
gambling and con racket. "A famous psychologist, Margaret
Ford [Crouse], decides to try to help one of her patients
get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike,
to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces
her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for "tells",
or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much
more complex," per IMDb.
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Janet Gaynor (center) in "The
Young at Heart" (1938).
"The Young In Heart, the 1938 Richard Wallace romantic gambling
family-of-con-men comedy ("Meet this fascinating family charming
to meet - but expensive to know!"; produced by David O. Selznick; about
a family of con men and con women who cheat at cards and other gambling
games, and they are thrown out of Monte Carlo, and accidentally save
the life of a rich old lady, and she has them live with her, and they
hope to inherit her money) starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.,
Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke, and Richard Carlson (in
his film debut!)," per eMoviePoster.com.
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Gail Davis (of "Annie Oakley" TV fame)
with Russell Hayden (left) and Harry
Lauter (right most) in "Valley of Fire" (1951), a Gene
Autry oater.
"Mayor
Autrey sends for a wagon train of women to settle
in his town, but baddies Guilford and Rawlings plot to hijack
the train and sell the ladies to love-hungry miners instead.
," per IMDb.
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Gladys Valerie, Clay
Clement
and Barbara Castleton (l
to r) in "The Heart of a Girl"
(1918). The story has to do with a congressman's
political opponents spreading the (false)
"news" that the youthful congressman was
caught in a raid at a gambling house.
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Margaret Lockwood
in "Hungry Hill" (1947) at roulette table.
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Cyd Charisse hugged
by Dan Dailey at roulette table in the musical film
"Meet Me In Las Vegas" (1956). Co-star Paul
Henreid has red hanky in his jacket pocket. (Note: there is
a still of Dailey alone, from the same movie, in the "Other Males
Actors" still page.)
Rancher Chuck Redwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that
he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie.
Every time he holds her hand the numbers come up for Chuck--not only at
the casino but on his ranch, where the chickens lay a record-breaking number
of eggs and an oil well gushes.
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Cyd Charisse and Dan
Dailey again, here at the blackjack table. See
entry above.
The center of activity is the Sands casino, but they saunter through
many other glamorous spots in America's foremost gaming gulch. Between spins
of the wheel, lots of great tunes and dance numbers are presented. Among
the guest stars who pop up in clever scenes are Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds,
Vic Damone, and Pier Angeli, and the film also offers a wonderful 10-second
shot of Peter Lorre sitting at a blackjack table and snapping to dealer
Oscar Karlweis, "Hit me, you creep."
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Bunny Yeager shooting
dice in the movie
"Bunny Yeager's Nude Las Vegas" (1964).
Plot: A magazine hires photographer
Bunny Yeager to do a pictorial on the
showgirls of Las Vegas.
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Yvonne DeCarlo in the 1952 Universal
movie, probably "Scarlet Angel."
"In 1865 New Orleans, sea captain Truscott goes to the notorious
Scarlet Angel saloon, where he meets rapacious Roxy McClanahan [DeCarlo],
as rough and tough as he is. Despite his best efforts, Roxy manages
to make off with Truscott's bankroll, and flees with war widow Linda
Caldwell. Luck favors Roxy with a chance to slip into Linda's identity,
and luckier still, Linda proves to have had wealthy in-laws in San Francisco,
who are happy to give their new relation a chance to become a "lady."
But inevitably, Truscott re-appears...," per IMDb.
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Jacqueline Bisset at craps table
in "The Grasshopper" (1970).
" Christine Adams [Bisset], at 19, leaves her small town in British
Columbia to follow her boy-friend to L.A., where he works for a bank,
to live with him and have babies. He's not keen on a baby right away,
so she gets bored and heads for Las Vegas where she talks her way into
a job as a show girl. Friendships sustain her in this day-by-day life,
and one of those friendships, with NFL great Tommy Marcott who's now the
glorified greeter at a casino, blossoms into a marriage. Tommy loses his
job after beating a man who assaults Chris, so they head for L.A. There
tragedy strikes, and there's no place left for her but Vegas and prostitution.
Are redemption and fulfillment possible on the Strip?," per IMDb.
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Marie Windsor interrupts a poker
game in "Belle Starr" (1954).
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Jean Arthur interrupts a poker
game in "Arizona" (1940).
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Dorothy Dalton and Conrad
Nage in Cecil B. DeMille's "Fool's Paradise"
(1921) beside poker slot machine. IMDb summary: "In a
Mexican border town Athur (Nagel) befriends cantina girl
Poll (Dalton). She falls for him but he still loves the dancer
Rosa (Mildred Harris). When
the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds
him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll is
Rosa and marries her. When his vision is surgically
restored, he leaves for Siam to find Rosa." Wow,
they don't make them like that anymore!
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This is an original 1927 print of a
scene from Erich von Stroheim's
"Foolish Wives" (1922) with Rudolph
Christians as Andrew J. Hughes, Miss DuPont as
Helen Hughes, his wife, Maude George as Her Highness
Olga Petchnikoff, Mae Busch as Princess Vera
Petchnikoff, and Erich von Stroheim as their cousin,
Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin. Hard
to see, but chips and other monies (plaques, cash)
are on the table.
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More on the above lobby card.
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"A Russian emigre leases a
villa near Monte Carlo after WWI, and poses as
a count in order to take advantage of
women, with the aid of two of his mistresses
pretending to be his cousins, attempts to swindle
unsuspecting women and citizens in Monte Carlo.
They hatch a scheme to ingratiate themselves
with the American ambassador and his gullible wife.
Mrs. Hughes wants some excitement, and he seduces
her. While the Count relates his sob story about
needing 90,000 francs to Mrs. Hughes, the maid in jealousy
sets the house on fire. Both escape the flames, but
the Count does not escape his just desserts" -- per IMDb.
Initially budgeted at $250,000, the film's production
soared above $1 million, thanks
to Stroheim's [the director's] excesses.
[It was advertised as the first million dollar
movie.] ... ... When asked by a studio
executive why he couldn't substitute ginger ale
and blackberry jam as props for the champagne
and caviar, Stroheim replied, "Because my
actors will know the difference, I will know the
difference, and the camera will know the difference."
.. .. .. After six months in the editing room,
Stroheim turned over his cut of the film to Universal
Pictures in December, 1921. The film was 32 reels and
8 hours long, but Stroheim insisted it was now "a perfect
story." When asked how it would be possible to present
thirty-two reels for an evening's entertainment, Stroheim
replied, "That's a detail I hadn't time to bother
about." (The magazine, "Photoplay," suggested that the movie
should be re-titled, "Foolish Directors," and released
as a serial.) Universal took over the movie, and edited it
down to 14 reels, with a 3 1/2 hour running time. Stroheim hated
the shorter version, complaining that all that was left of
his masterpiece was "the bones." -- per IMDb.
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Merle Oberon (supposedly)
in "Over the Moon"
(1939). Neither looks
like Oberon to me. Maybe
the woman in the background, though
it is pretty odd to make a still with
the star of the movie in such an inconsequential
place.
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Mary Astor and Wendell Corey
at slot machines in "Any Number Can Play" (1949). Note,
they signed this still.
Gambling-house owner (Clark Gable) finds himself estranged
from his wife and son. Must-see
movie for gambling content, including much
gambling paraphernalia. More than almost any other
movie, this one concentrates on gambling philosophy
and culture.
"This postwar movie was one of Clark Gable's last
for the studio that made him a star--MGM. Gable is older,
perhaps wiser, but here fully capable
of playing this role with all of the insight into
life that his 49 years have earned him. ... Gable
was perfect for the world-weary professional gambler
that he plays here--the part fits him like a glove.
And he's surrounded by great character actors such
as Frank Morgan, Lewis Stone, and Mary Astor, to name
a few." per IMDb
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Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak,
Mary Astor and Wendell Corey (left to
right beginning with Scott in center) at craps table in "Desert
Fury" (1947).
"Fritzi Haller is a powerful
casino owner in Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her daughter Paula
(having quit school) returns at the same time as racketeer
Eddie Bendix, who left under suspicion of murdering his wife.
Paula and Eddie become involved; each for their own reasons,
Fritzi, Paula's old beau Tom, and Eddie's pal Johnny try to
break up the relationship. Then Eddie's past catches up with
him in an unexpected way.," per IMDb.
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Lizabeth Scott ready to roll the dice. See above, "Desert Fury" (1947).
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Raquel Welch shooting dice in "Lady
In Cement" (1968), a Frank
Sinatra detective movie.
"Having come across a blonde with her feet encased
in cement while on a diving trip, Miami Private Eye
Tony Rome (Sinatra) is helping out
his police buddy on the case when he is hired
by a very large guy to find a girl who just might
be the same one. Rome is soon wanted by both hoods and
cops, but help may (or may not) be at hand from the striking
Kit (Welch).", per IMDb.
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Raquel Welch in "The Lady in Cement" (1968).
"Having come across a blonde with her feet encased in cement while on a
diving trip, Miami Private Eye Tony Rome is helping out his police buddy
on the case when he is hired by a very large guy to find a girl who
just might be the same one. Rome is soon wanted by both hoods and cops,
but help may (or may not) be at hand from the striking Kit.," per IMDb.
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Bernadene Hayes and Kane
Richmond playing poker in "Don't Gamble With Strangers"
(1946).
"Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister,
clean out a small-town banker,
then take over a crooked gambling joint,"
per IMDb.
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Bernadene
Hayes (5th fr left) and Kane Richmond (4th
fr left) playing craps in "Don't Gamble With Strangers" (1946).
See above.
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Unknown movie, about 1920's, showing
masked girl, dressed as a boy,
gambling with a bunch of boys. From
an 8 x 10 still.
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Dyan Canon (center) and Janice
Rule (w/ cigarette) in "Doctors' Wives"
(1971), playing poker.
"The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected
due to their husbands' focus on their
careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs
and booze," per IMDb.
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Julie Christie at baccarat table
in "Darling" (1965).
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Carole Lombard (left) playing cards
in "No More Orchids" (1932).
"At the urging of her curmudgeon old grandfather Jerome
Cedric (C. Aubrey Smith), spoiled rich
kid Annie Holt (Carole Lombard) is forced to marry
into royalty in order to save her banker father,
Bill Holt (Walter Connolly), from financial ruin. The
man she really desires is Tony Gage (Lyle Talbot). It
takes a well-written insurance policy and a sacrificial
act on the part of a close relative to re-unite Annie
and Tony. ," per IMDb.
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Peggie Castle and Randolph
Scott (2nd right) in "Tall Man Riding" (1955).
"Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway
for publicly whipping him years earlier
and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's
daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway
from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared
invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna [Dorothy Malone],
believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent
misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also
has designs upon the Ordway holdings. ," per IMDb.
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This is an 8 x 10 still for the low-budget
exploitation movie about world-wide prostitution,
"Women of Pleasure" (1954). Casino scene
here.
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Paulette Goddard and Stanley
Clements (sitting next to her) at roulette table
in "Hazard" (1948).
"As part of a bet, a compulsive gambler agrees to marry
the winner, a professional gambler. Before he can
"collect," she skips town. The gambler hires a private
detective to track her down so he can collect his "winnings."
," per IMDb.
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Lizabeth Scott in "Desert Fury" (1947).
"Fritzi Haller is a powerful casino owner in Chuckawalla, Nevada. Her
daughter Paula (having quit school) returns at the same time as
racketeer Eddie Bendix, who left under suspicion of murdering his wife.
Paula and Eddie become involved; each for their own reasons, Fritzi,
Paula's old beau Tom, and Eddie's pal Johnny try to break up the
relationship. Then Eddie's past catches up with him in an unexpected
way.," per IMDb.
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