Category Archives: Marilyn Monroe

November 6, 2007

Clash By Night (1952)

  “People have funny things swimming around inside them.” In the film Clash By Night Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns home after a ten-year absence to a small coastal fishing town in California. Her brother, Joe, doesn’t ask too many questions–he … Continue reading →

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October 6, 2007

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

“One way or another we all work for our vice.” When criminal mastermind, the physically unprepossessing Doc (Sam Jaffe) is released from jail, he has a plan for a crime caper. Unfortunately Doc doesn’t have the necessary funds to fund … Continue reading →

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October 3, 2007

Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)

 “You’re a gal with a lot of variations.” In Don’t Bother to Knock, when an affluent society couple staying in a large New York hotel mention to bellhop, Eddie (Elisha Cook Jr.) that they need a babysitter for their daughter, … Continue reading →

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