Mary Astor played Brigid O’Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon, lying continuously for the entire film, and Huston reportedly had her run in circles before takes so she would seem breathless and unreliable.
A 1936 custody trial in which her private diaries were read publicly nearly destroyed her career, and she worked through it. The Great Lie won her Best Supporting Actress, and she wrote several novels and two memoirs afterward.
Judy GarlandAn American family in 1903 St. Louis faces upheaval when the father announces a move to New York, with Christmas as the season of crisis. Meet Me in St. Louis is Vincente Minnelli's 1944 American musical depicting the upper-middle-class Smith…
Elisha Cook JrHuston's 1941 directorial debut. The film that established American film noir as a coherent style.
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