Re-Ocurring Iconography-The Cinematic Mirror

Vivien Leigh as Blanch Dubois in Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

Isobela Corona is Sara the witch-The Witches Mirror 1962

Catherine Deneuve as the demented Carol in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion 1965

Bette Davis as Christine Radcliffe in Irving Rapper’s Deception 1946

Robert Cummings is Chuck Scott in Arthur Ripley’s The Chase 1946

Citizen Kane-1941-Orson Welles

Terence Young’s Corridor of Mirrors 1948 Edana Romney as Mifanwy Conway

Paul Henreid’s Dead Ringer 1964 starring Bette Davis & Bette Davis as twin sisters Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips

Jack Bernhard’s film noir classic Decoy 1946 Herbert Rudley as Dr. Craig

Fritz Lang’s M (1931) starring Peter Lorre

Ida Lupino is blind Mary Malden in Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground 1951

Jane Wyman is Eve Gill in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Stage Fright 1950

Jean Simmons is Charlotte Bronn and Dan O’Herlihy as Arnold Bronn in Mervyn LeRoy’s psychological melodrama Home Before Dark 1958

Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus (Orphée)1950 starring Jean Marais

The Kiss Before the Mirror 1933 directed by James Whale Gloria Stuart and Paul Lukas

Robert Montgomery is Phillip Marlowe in Lady in the Lake 1947

Marilyn Monroe is the disturbed babysitter Nell Forbes in Roy Ward Baker’s Don’t Bother to Knock 1952

Janet Leigh plays the ill fated Marion Crane in Hitchcock’s classic horror Psycho 1960

Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game 1939

June Lockhart is Phyllis Allenby in Jean Yarbrough’s She-Wolf of London 1946

Joe Sarno’s Sin in the Suburbs 1946

Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Somewhere in the Night 1946 starring John Hodiak as George Taylor and Nancy Guild (rhymes with Wild) as Christy Smith

Gloria Swanson is the sensational Norma Desmond and William Holden is Joe Gillis in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. 1950

Robert Mitchum is Lt. Duke Halliday and William Bendix as Capt. Vincent Blake in Don Siegel’s The Big Steal 1949

Olivia de Havilland & Olivia de Havilland star as Terry and Ruth Collins in Robert Siodmak’s The Dark Mirror 1946

Rita Hayworth is Elsa Bannister in Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai 1947

Yvonne Mitchell is Lizaveta Ivanova in Thorold Dickinson’s The Queen of Spades 1949

Thomas Mitchell is Lt Stevenson in Robert Siodmak’s The Dark Mirror 1946

Bette Davis is the outrageous Baby Jane Hudson in Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962