簪 [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
Aug
10
1941
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A formal paper with the date stamp for August 10, Showa 16 (1941). DP: Suketarō Inokai.
簪 [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
Aug
10
1941
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A formal paper with the date stamp for August 10, Showa 16 (1941). DP: Suketarō Inokai.
“You need more than luck in Shanghai.”The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)
Aug
9

Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr..
– Elsa Bannister
“I'd become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it.”Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948)
Aug
3

Mentalist John Triton (Edward G. Robinson, middle) and two of his conspirators. DP: John F. Seitz.
A continuity error later on in the movie makes it August 4.
– John Triton
“Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell.”The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
Jul
20
1940
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The July 21 headline. DP: Elwood Bredell.
– Lt. Sam Lubinsky
“You knew who I was when I came here today. But you were surprised to see me alive, weren't you? But I'm not alive, Mrs. Philips. Sure, I can stand here and talk to you. I can breathe and I can move. But I'm not alive. Because I did take that poison, and nothing can save me.”D.O.A. [Dead on Arrival] (Rudolph Maté, 1949)
Jul
18

A man's hand signs a car rental contract dated July 18. DP: Ernest Laszlo.
– Frank Bigelow
The Life Magazine displayed at the San Francisco newspaper stand where Frank Bigelow stops is the issue of September 12, 1949, with Yugoslavia's leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito on the cover.
La diosa arrodillada [The Kneeling Goddess] (Roberto Gavaldón, 1947)
Jun
13
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A woman's manicured hand holds up a glass of champagne next to what appears to be an opulent wedding cake. DP: Alex Phillips.
Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)
Jun
13

DP: Elwood Bredell.
El gran calavera [The Great Madcap] (Luis Buñuel, 1949)
May
31

Lobbycard. DP: Ezequiel Carrasco.
– You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion? – You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross!My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)
May
5

Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey.
“Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.”Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Apr
24

Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman). DP: Ted Tetzlaff.
And January 9.
– Devlin