Join me next Sunday 12/7 6pPT/9pET for #FilmNoir #LiveTweet Nightfall w/ Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, James Gregory. Follow hashtag #BNoirDetour to tweet along! https://t.co/7G0K90J5oK

sure taking a long time to die #BNoirDetour

if you're still here, thanks for watching! hope you enjoyed this one #BNoirDetour

this is sad #BNoirDetour

Hughes #FilmNoir: Within the Law, Dressed to Kill, The Great Flamarion, The Lady Confesses, Caged Fury, Inner Sanctum, Highway Dragnet, Loophole, Las Vegas Shakedown

Duryea #FilmNoir: Terror St/36 Hours, World for Ransom, This is My Love, Storm Fear, Burglar, Slaughter on 10th Ave, Do You Know This Voice, Walk a Tightrope (2 of 2) #BNoirDetour #BMovies

Duryea #FilmNoir: Ministry of Fear, Main St After Dark, Great Flamarian, Lady on Train, Scarlet St, Woman in Window, Black Angel, Larceny, Criss Cross, Manhandled, Too Late for Tears, Johnny Stool Pigeon, One Way St, Underworld Story, Chicago Calling (1 of 2) #BNoirDetour

oops #BNoirDetour

von Stroheim #FilmNoir: The Crime of Dr. Crespi, The Great Flamarian, The Mask of Diijon, Sunset Boulevard #BNoirDetour

"At first it was hard, I am very even-tempered . . . I used my past life experiences to motivate me. The one I used when I had to slap a woman around was easy! I was slapping the overbearing teacher who would fail you in their "holier-than-thou" class and enjoy it" #BNoirDetour

"You can't make a picture without a villain . . . it pays well and you last." -- Dan Duryea #FilmNoir #BNoirDetour

von Stroheim's unwillingness to modify artistic principles for commercial cinema, extreme attention to detail, insistence on near-total artistic freedom, costs of his films led to fights with studios. As time went on, he received fewer directing opportunities #BNoirDetour

is he really falling for this act? #BNoirDetour

"I thought the meaner I presented myself, the tougher I was with women, slapping them around .. where evil and death seem to lurk in every nightmare alley and behind every venetian blind in every seedy apartment, I could find a market for my screen characters” #BNoirDetour

Howard began stage career in stock theater before Broadway debut in 1917. In 1930, she focused on movies until 1952, often cast as oversexed dowager, decrepit old hag, glamorous society dame. Known for her versatility and expressive face #BNoirDetour

how does she juggle all these men? #BNoirDetour

her hat reminds me of eep opp ork ah-ah girls #BNoirDetour

“I looked in the mirror and knew with my "puss" and 155-pound weakling body, I couldn't pass for a leading man, and I had to be different. And I sure had to be courageous, so I chose to be the meanest s.o.b. in the movies " -- Dan Duryea #FilmNoir #BNoirDetour #BMovies

Duryea was the antithesis of the unsavory characters he played. He was married for 35 years, gardened, boated, participated in community activities, member of PTA, and a BSA Scoutmaster. When he died, the New York Times noted the passing of a "heel with sex appeal." #BNoirDetour

Duryea moved to Hollywood in 1940 to appear in The Little Foxes. Then, he found his niche as a "sniveling, deliberately taunting" antagonist in #FilmNoir. In 1946, exhibitors voted him the eighth most promising "star of tomorrow". #BNoirDetour #BMovies