DARK CITY DAMES: THE WOMEN WHO DEFINED FILM NOIR

DARK CITY DAMES: THE WOMEN WHO DEFINED FILM NOIR

Eddie Muller takes readers into the world of six women who made a lasting impression in this cinematic terrain—from veteran “bad girls” Audrey Totter, Marie Windsor, and Jane Greer to unexpected genre fixtures Evelyn Keyes, Coleen Gray, and Ann Savage.
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The Heat's On(1943)

A would-be censor's brother produces a Broadway show with a controversial star.

My Little Chickadee(1940)

A small-town seductress' romance with a masked bandit goes on hold when she's forced to marry a con artist.

Coal Miner's Daughter(1980)

Musical autobiography of Loretta Lynn, who fought poverty and pills to become a country western star.

Sparkle(1976)

The three Williams sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s. But th ...

A Life of Her Own(1950)

An innocent small-town girl climbs to the top of the modeling business man by man.

Nora Prentiss(1947)

An ambitious singer ruins a doctor's life.