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Jean Harlow, 1933. Photo by George Hurrell

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The Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Vertigo (1958)

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Marilyn Monroe, 1956. Photograph by Cecil Beaton

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Montgomery Clift in I Confess (1953)

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Dean Martin, c.1966

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Frank Sinatra photographed by Paul Hesse, c. 1949

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Jeanne Crain in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

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Let’s, IG : itsPeteski

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Gregory Peck, 1945

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The only reasons I’ve ever wanted to smoke.

Certainly the actors were also bringing to the screen the various uses to which they put cigarettes in their ordinary lives – to pose, to control, to share, to play for time in an awkward situation. In psychiatric terms, smoking is “overdetermined”: cigarettes, like other symbols, can mean more than one thing at the same time.

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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart at their home in Benedict Canyon, 1954

“The remarkable Lauren Bacall knew who he was, let him be who he was, and, in return, he was at last able to give something no other woman could grab from him: his total commitment.“  - Mary Astor, Bogart’s Maltese Falcon costar

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Courtney Love, 2005

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Marilyn Monroe, 1953

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Stitchwork, Britt Hutchison

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Freaks and Geeks, 1999

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Lost at Sea, Jefferson Hayman

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James Stewart and Cary Grant in The Philadelphia Story (1940) dir. George Cukor