#1940s movies

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Rebecca (1940)

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Note: this list references the 1961 version of West Side Story and the 1954 version of A Star Is Born.

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Hedy Lamarr by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1940.

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BLACK NARCISSUS (1947)

Dir. Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell

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Modern Screen Magazine, September 1942.

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A FLASH BLACK MOMENT:

Harlem Debutante ball, 1940s………

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Samson and Delilah (1949) costume appreciation: 1/∞

costume design by Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Elois Jenssen, Gile Steele, Gwen Wakeling

Period dramas | costume appreciation: 6/∞

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Rope | 1948 | USA

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Set decorator: Howard Bristol and Emile Kuri

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nightmare alley (1947) directed by edmund goulding

"Throughout the ages man has sought to look behind the veil that hides him from tomorrow. And through the ages certain men have looked into the polished crystal and seen. Is it some quality of the crystal itself? Or does the gazer merely use it to turn his gaze inward? Who knows? But visions come. Slowly shifting their form. Visions come."

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Rebecca (1940)

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Jane Russell

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Vincent Price and Gene Tierney

Leave Her To Heaven (1945) dir. John M. Stahl

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Leonard McCombe. Farm Kitcchen. Mexico. 1949

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Modern Screen Magazine, April 1949.