Category: Orpheus (Orphée) 1950

Recurring Iconography-The Cinematic Mirror

A Streetcar Named Desire
Vivien Leigh as Blanch Dubois in Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
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Isobela Corona is Sara the witch-The Witches Mirror 1962
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Catherine Deneuve as the demented Carol in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion 1965
Bette Davis in Deception
Bette Davis as Christine Radcliffe in Irving Rapper’s Deception 1946
Robert Cummings in The Chase
Robert Cummings is Chuck Scott in Arthur Ripley’s The Chase 1946
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Citizen Kane-1941-Orson Welles
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Terence Young’s Corridor of Mirrors 1948 Edana Romney as Mifanwy Conway
Dead Ringer
Paul Henreid’s Dead Ringer 1964 starring Bette Davis & Bette Davis as twin sisters Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips
Decoy
Jack Bernhard’s film noir classic Decoy 1946 Herbert Rudley as Dr. Craig
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Fritz Lang’s M (1931) starring Peter Lorre
Ida On Dangerous Ground
Ida Lupino is blind Mary Malden in Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground 1951
Jane Wyman Stage Fright
Jane Wyman is Eve Gill in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Stage Fright 1950
Jean Simmons and Dan O'Herlihey Home After Dark
Jean Simmons is Charlotte Bronn and Dan O’Herlihy as Arnold Bronn in Mervyn LeRoy’s psychological melodrama Home Before Dark 1958
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Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus (Orphée)1950 starring Jean Marais
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The Kiss Before the Mirror 1933 directed by James Whale Gloria Stuart and Paul Lukas
Lady in the Lake
Robert Montgomery is Phillip Marlowe in Lady in the Lake 1947
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Marilyn Monroe is the disturbed babysitter Nell Forbes in Roy Ward Baker’s Don’t Bother to Knock 1952
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Janet Leigh plays the ill fated Marion Crane in Hitchcock’s classic horror Psycho 1960
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Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game 1939
She Wolf of London
June Lockhart is Phyllis Allenby in Jean Yarbrough’s She-Wolf of London 1946
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Joe Sarno’s Sin in the Suburbs 1946
Somewhere in the night Hodiak
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Somewhere in the Night 1946 starring John Hodiak as George Taylor and Nancy Guild (rhymes with Wild) as Christy Smith
Sunset Blvd
Gloria Swanson is the sensational Norma Desmond and William Holden is Joe Gillis in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. 1950
The Big Steal
Robert Mitchum is Lt. Duke Halliday and William Bendix as Capt. Vincent Blake in Don Siegel’s The Big Steal 1949
The Dark Mirror
Olivia de Havilland & Olivia de Havilland star as Terry and Ruth Collins in Robert Siodmak’s The Dark Mirror 1946
The Lady from Shanghai
Rita Hayworth is Elsa Bannister in Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai 1947
The Queen of Spades mirror

Yvonne Mitchell is Lizaveta Ivanova in Thorold Dickinson’s The Queen of Spades 1949
Thomas Mitchell in The Dark Mirror
Thomas Mitchell is Lt Stevenson in Robert Siodmak’s The Dark Mirror 1946
what ever happened to baby jane
Bette Davis is the outrageous Baby Jane Hudson in Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962

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Alexandra Schmidt in ‘Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness’ (1929)
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Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s brilliant satire- All About Eve (1950) starring the inimitable Bette Davis as Margo Channing and Ann Baxter as the cunning Eve Harrington.
All's Quet on the Western Front
Director Lewis Milestone’s All’s Quiet on the Western Front-(1930) starring Lew Ayres
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Otto Preminger’s riveting court room noir Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
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Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece about the great Russian naval mutiny.
Brute Force
Jule’s Dassin’s brutal noir masterpiece Brute Force (1947)
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Richard Brooks adaptation of Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
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Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca 1940
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Orson Welles’ film classic Touch of Evil (1958)
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William Dieterle’s adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939
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Henry Hathaway’s disturbing noir classic Kiss of Death 1947
Laura
Otto Preminger’s quintessential noir Laura (1944)
Lee Remick in Experiment in Terror 1960
Blake Edwards Experiment in Terror 1960
Earth Vs The Spider
Bert I. Gordon’s Earth Vs The Spider 1958
Dracula's Daughter
Lambert Hillyer’s understated yet powerfully erotic horror classic Dracula’s Daughter 1936
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s taut and thought provoking social noir No Way Out 1950
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Mervyn LeRoy’s gangster odyssey Little Caesar 1931
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Robert Wise’s Science Fiction masterpiece The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
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Reginald Beck and Anthony Bushell’s suspenseful The Long Dark Hall 1951
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Herbert Brenon’s beautiful Laugh, Clown, Laugh 1928
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Fritz Lang’s notorious psychological thriller M (1931)
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Otto Preminger’s noir masterpiece about addiction The Man with the Golden Arm 1955
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Nathan Juran’s iconic 50s campy sci-fi romp Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
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Anthony Mann’s noir classic Raw Deal (1948)
Mother Joan of the Angels
Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s surreal and transcendent Mother Joan of the Angels 1961
Nancy Kelly in The Bad Seed
Mervyn LeRoy’s naughty tale about a child psychopath. The Bad Seed (1956)
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Samuel Fuller’s irreverent noir gem The Naked Kiss (1964)
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Carol Reed’s intense noir thriller Odd Man Out (1947)
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Billy Wilder’s iconic film noir masterwork of grand proportions Sunset Blvd (1950)
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Jean Cocteau’s stunning Orpheus (1950) Orphée
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Jacques Tourneur’s hauntingly mesmerizing noir Out of the Past (1947)
Peggy Cummings Gun Crazy
Joseph E. Lewis Gun Crazy or Deadly is the Female (1950)
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George Steven’s sadness and joyful Penny Serenade (1941)
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James Whale’s campy take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1931
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Edgar G. Ulmer’s sadistic and transgressive journey into horror The Black Cat 1934
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Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterful vision of quiet uncanny horror Vampyr (1932)
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Joseph Losey’s titillating noir The Prowler ((1951)
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Henri-Georges Clouzot’s brilliantly chilling Les-Diaboliques-1955
Seance
Bryan Forbes’ compelling suspense thriller Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Seven Chances
Buster Keaton’s fantastic Seven Chances (1925)
SCARFACE (1932)
Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson’s SCARFACE (1932)
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William Beaudine’s haunting Sparrows (1926)
Bride of Frankestein
James Whales even campier and finest work The Bride of Frankenstein 1935
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Elia Kazan’s volatile theme of desolation and passion based on Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
SUNSET BOULEVARD
some more divine SUNSET BOULEVARD 1950
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Samuel Fuller’s edgy Shock Corridor (1963)
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Jame’s Whale’s The Old Dark House 1932
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Nicholas Ray’s incredibly beautiful film noir journey They Live By Night (1948)
Theo and Eleanor
Robert Wise’s uncompromising ghost story adapted from Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting (1963)
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Raoul Walsh’s iconic crime thriller White Heat (1949)