#1944 films

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One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

Gaslight / Angela Lansbury as Nancy

Coeli's comment: "Never has a demure maid's uniform looked so good, or so sinister!"

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THE UNINVITED dir. Lewis Allen, 1944

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The Three Caballeros (1944)

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THE UNINVITED (1944) dir. Lewis Allen

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Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt in Laura 1944 | dir. Otto Preminger

[weirdlookindog]

Witch's Cradle (1944)

[pureanonofficial]

Laura is the face in the misty light Footsteps that you hear down the hall The laugh that floats on a summer night That you can never quite recall

DANA ANDREWS in Laura (1944) dir. Otto Preminger

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The Mummy's Ghost (1944)

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At Land (1944) 

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Director: Maya Deren

Cinematographers: Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman

“In my case I have found it necessary, each time, to ignore any of my previous statements. After the first film was completed, when someone asked me to define the principle which it embodied, I answered that the function of film, like that of other art forms, was to create experience—in this case a semi-psychological reality. But the actual creation of the second film caused me to subsequently answer a similar question with an entirely different emphasis. This time, that reality must exploit the capacity of film to manipulate Time and Space. By the end of the third film, I had again shifted the emphasis—insisting this time on a filmically visual integrity, which would create a dramatic necessity of itself, rather than be dependent upon or derive from an underlying dramatic development. Now, on the basis of the fourth, I feel that all the other elements must be retained, but that special attention must be given to the creative possibilities of Time, and that the form as a whole should be ritualistic…”

— An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film by Maya Deren, The Alicat Book Shop Press, chapbook, 1946

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Arsenic and Old Lace, 1944

GIF by Supermodelgif (ghost blog)

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One Dress a Day Challenge

March: Pink Redux

Cover Girl / Rita Hayworth as Rusty Parker

Who says redheads can't wear pink? I particularly like the jacket on this outfit, with the princess seams and the silver chain across the front.

The contrasting black accessories are a nice touch as well. I think I've seen flat hats like that in vintage clothing stores and wondered how anyone was supposed to wear them. I guess you need this sort of hairstyle to pull it off!

Costume design for this movie was by Travis Banton.

[adventurelandia]

The Three Caballeros (1944)

[scenephile]

You know how to whistle, don't you?

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Gene Tierney and Jeanne Crain on the set of Leave Her To Heaven (1945)

[grimmicks]

"I could smell that honeysuckle again."

Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder

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Witch's Cradle (1944)