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Vivacious Lady, 1938 dir. George Stevens

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Adaptations of Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in film:

• Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959) - 1950s France

• Dangerous Liaisons (1988) - 18th Century France

• Valmont (1989) - 18th Century France

• Cruel Intentions (1999) - 1990s New York

• Untold Scandal (2003) - 18th Century Korea

• Dangerous Liaisons (2012) - 1930s Shanghai

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Hollywood, February 1935

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

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Play It As It Lays (1972), dir. Frank Perry

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The Swimmer (1968) | Frank Perry

↳ “Nothing’s turned out the way - I thought it would. When I was a kid, I - I used to believe in things. People seemed happier when I was a kid. People used to love each other. What happened?”

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Miriam Hopkins in Becky Sharp (1935), the first feature to use three-strip Technicolor.

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Jane Fonda in Five Acts (Susan Lacy, 2018)

“I was asked to audition for Kazan for the female lead in ‘Splendor in the Grass’ that Natalie Wood ended up doing. It was in a theater and Kazan called me up to the foot lights and he looked up at me and he said 'Are you ambitious?’, and I said 'No.’ Talk about self-betrayal. I just wanted to be okay. I wanted to be a good girl. A good girl is not an ambitious person.”

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Well, when we’re young, we look at things very idealistically I guess.

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Splendor in the Grass (1961) | Elia Kazan

↳ “You know it would be nice if children could be born into this world with an absolute guarantee they’d have just the right kind of bringing up and all lead happy, normal lives, but… Well, I guess when we get born, we just all have to take our chances.”

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Grand Hotel yr. 1932 | dir. Edmund Goulding

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Grand Hotel (1932)

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Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel (1932) dir. Edmund Goulding

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) dir.  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor’s Edge (1946)