Thelma Ritter is always a joy to watch as well as listen to as no one can quite deliver swifter deadpan humor like this lady-“We’ve become a race of peeping toms” from Alfred Hitchcock’s Read Window 1954
Walter Baldwin is the lovable Orvy who might move a little slow in jail but brightens up the place in Robert Siodmak’s darkly powerful Cry of the City starring Richard Conte
Barbara Nichols getting pigeonholed all her career as the lovable blonde bombshell bimbo is just deliciously sympathetic in the hostile & darkly satirical noir masterpiece The Sweet Smell of Success 1957
Michael Dunn adds another layer of insight & exemplary character acting in the intensely dramatic social commentary Ship of Fools directed by Stanley Kramer.
Betty Garde is truly an unsung character actor- here she gives a very compelling performance as Kitty Stark a woman who’s gotten used to life without men in John Cromwell’s prison noir sensation- Caged (1950)
Anita Sharp-Bolster nearly steals the show in the dark suspense thriller The Two Mrs. Carrolls starring Barbara Stanwyck and Humphrey Bogart as a deranged painter. Christina the maid adds much comic relief with her acerbic puss!
Franz Kortner’s Anzelmo also known as Dr. Oracle is a mysterious and conniving villain who tries to run circles around poor John Hodiak who has lost his memory in Joseph L. Mankiewicz Somewhere in the Night 1946.
Jay C. Flippen always seems to be the guy who got a mug only a mother could love. And in Nicholas Ray’s masterpiece They Live By Night, his T-Dub is a pretty intimidating fellow!
Arthur Kennedy lends his acting depth to this powerful drama by Upton Sinclair co-starring Jean Simmons and Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry. Report Jim Lefferts is the clear voice that cuts through the malarkey as the moral compass
This has been a little bit of love to these fabulous character actors who make the cinematic world go round!-Your Ever Lovin’ MonsterGirl
A Cry in The Night 1956 directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Edmund O’Brien, Brian Donlevy and Natalie Wood.Among The Living (1941) directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward and Frances FarmerBRUTE FORCE (1947) directed by Jules Dassin and starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn and Charles BickfordRoman Polanski’sCHINATOWN (1974) starring Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson and John Huston.COMPULSION (1959) directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles.He Walked By Night (1948) starring Richard Basehart, Scott Brady and Roy Roberts.I Bury The Living (1958) directed by Albert Band and Starring Richard Boone and Theodore BikelIN COLD BLOOD (1967) directed by Richard Brooks and starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and John Forsythe.NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) Directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray and Helen Walker.Director Joseph Sarno’s exploitation film from (1964) Sin In The Suburbs stars Judy Young, W.B.Parker and Audrey CampbellThe Prowler (1951) directed by Joseph Losey and Starring Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes and John Maxwell.THE KILLERS (1946) directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner and Edmund O’BrienThe Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart and Alexis SmithThe Uninvited (1944) directed by Lewis Allen starring Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey and Gail RussellThe Unsuspected (1947) directed by Michael Curtiz and Starring Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield and Audrey Totter.Once again Claude Rains in the suspenseful The Unsuspected (1947)Nicholas Ray’s They Live By Night (1949)starring Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell and Howard Da SilvaCharles Laughton’s masterpiece Night of The Hunter (1955) Starring Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish and Shelley Winters.
