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the incarcerated protagonist of #TheSnakePit (1948), Bette Davis' duplicitous cousin in #HushHushSweetCharlotte and, pictured, as the terrorised, wealthy widow in Walter Grauman's remarkable, brutal #LadyInACage (both 1964).

#OliviaDeHavilland #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #GoldenEraHollywood #FilmNoir

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Dr. Moreau, Quasimodo, King Herod, and the brash Yorkshire man taking refuge at James Whale's #TheOldDarkHouse (1932).

Pictured here with Robert Mitchum, with whom he made his only film as director, the initially rejected #TheNightOfTheHunter (1955), one of the strangest, scariest, most beautiful Hollywood films of all time.

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#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #PreCode #HorrorMovies #FilmNoir #SouthernGothic #GoldenEraHollywood

villains but also brought depth and pathos to his (pictured) role as scarred, doomed immigrant Janos Szabo in Robert Florey's underrated #TheFaceBehindTheMask (1941).

#PeterLorre #ClassicHorror #GoldenEraHollywood

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...employing an eclectic range of actors including Simone Simon, Kim Hunter, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Among the highlights: Robson's brilliant, influential Greenwich Village Satanic cult chiller #TheSeventhVictim (1943) - still among Hollywood's bleakest hours.

#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #ValLewton #ClassicHorror #1940sHorror #HorrorNoir #GoldenEraHollywood #HorrorMovies

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Remembering the one and only George Orson Welles (1915-85), the mercurial, Oscar / Grammy-winning film, radio and theatre actor, writer, producer and director, born in Wisconsin on this day. Pictured here, with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, in his third film as director, the stunning noir The Stranger (1946).

#OrsonWelles #Actor #Director #MercuryTheatre #GoldenEraHollywood #ClassicHollywood #FilmNoir #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #OnThisDay

Remembering the one and only George Orson Welles (1915-85), the mercurial, Oscar / Grammy-winning film, radio and theatre actor, writer, producer and director, born in Wisconsin on this day. Pictured here, with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, in his third film as director, the stunning noir The Stranger (1946).

#OrsonWelles #Actor #Director #MercuryTheatre #GoldenEraHollywood #ClassicHollywood #FilmNoir #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #OnThisDay

Remembering the one and only George Orson Welles (1915-85), the mercurial, Oscar / Grammy-winning film, radio and theatre actor, writer, producer and director, born in Wisconsin on this day. Pictured here, with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, in his third film as director, the stunning noir The Stranger (1946).

#OrsonWelles #Actor #Director #MercuryTheatre #GoldenEraHollywood #ClassicHollywood #FilmNoir #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #OnThisDay

Remembering the one and only George Orson Welles (1915-85), the mercurial, Oscar / Grammy-winning film, radio and theatre actor, writer, producer and director, born in Wisconsin on this day. Pictured here, with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, in his third film as director, the stunning noir The Stranger (1946).

#OrsonWelles #Actor #Director #MercuryTheatre #GoldenEraHollywood #ClassicHollywood #FilmNoir #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #OnThisDay

Remembering the one and only George Orson Welles (1915-85), the mercurial, Oscar / Grammy-winning film, radio and theatre actor, writer, producer and director, born in Wisconsin on this day. Pictured here, with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young, in his third film as director, the stunning noir The Stranger (1946).

#OrsonWelles #Actor #Director #MercuryTheatre #GoldenEraHollywood #ClassicHollywood #FilmNoir #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #OnThisDay

Dan Peggotty in #DavidCopperfield (1935), Mr. Potter in #ItsAWonderfulLife (1946) and James Temple in #KeyLargo (1948). A scene-stealer for Tod Browning as the Van Helsing-like Professor in #MarkOfTheVampire (1935) and - partly in drag - the vengeful ex-con in #TheDevilDoll (1936).

#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #ClassicHorror #GoldenEraHollywood

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For Robert Aldrich, unforgettably, she was Milly in #AutumnLeaves (1956) and Blanche in #WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane? (1962). To the world, she was the legendary, Oscar-winning #JoanCrawford
(1906-77), born in San Antonio #OnThisDay.

#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #GoldenEraHollywood #FilmNoir #HagHorror

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