Leo Rosten


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Where Danger Lives (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Tell Yourself A Bedtime Story From the credits, looks like San Francisco, Dr. Cameron (Robert Mitchum) displaying compassion and good surgical mask hygiene for the kids in the ward, in Where Danger Lives, 1950, co-starring Faith Domergue in her debut for Howard Hughes' RKO.
Where Danger Lives -- (Movie Clip) Appealing, Isn't She? Inebriated Dr. Cameron (Robert Mitchum) was just leaving after discovering Margo (Faith Domergue) forgot to tell him she was married to Lannington (Claude Rains) in John Farrow's Where Danger Lives, 1950.
Where Danger Lives (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Before I Pass Out Presuming one could tell the difference, en route to the Mexican border, Dr. Cameron (Robert Mitchum) explains to fellow fugitive lover Margo (Faith Domergue) that he'll soon be unconscious, in Where Danger Lives, 1950.
Where Danger Lives (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Whiskers Week Absurdity from sometime-Hitchcock screenwriter Charles Bennett, as fugitive murder suspects Jeff (Robert Mitchum) and Margo (Faith Domergue), headed for the Mexican border, get busted in Arizona for insufficient facial hair, in Where Danger Lives, 1950.
Lured (1947) -- (Movie Clip) In Flew A Dead Duck Exhausted but witty London taxi dancers Sandy (Lucille Ball) and Lucy (Tanis Chandler) deal with a customer (Eddie Parks) an agent (Gerald Hamer) and a fateful personal ad, in an early scene from Douglas Sirk's Lured, 1947,
Lured (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Why Do You Accept So Quickly? American Sandy (Lucille Ball), now working with the police investigating the murder of her taxi-dancer friend, meets the suspicious and suspected Van Druten (Boris Karloff) on a foggy London night in Douglas Sirk's Lured, 1947.
Velvet Touch, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) What Love Does To You Intense and expository opening, Broadway star Valerie (Rosalind Russell) with producer-partner Dunning (Leon Ames), in The Velvet Touch, 1948, produced by Russell's husband Frederick Brisson.
Velvet Touch, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) You've Got The Wrong Man In flashback, Broadway comedienne Valerie (Rosalind Russell) schmoozing the wrong guy (Harry Hayden), then meeting architect Morrell (Leo Genn), and bringing in partner Dunning (Leon Ames, whom she killed in the opening) and rival Marian (Claire Trevor), in The Velvet Touch, 1948.
Velvet Touch, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) You Don't Need A Passport In the long flashback after she semi-accidentally killed him, Broadway actress Val (Rosalind Russell) receives her domineering producer and former lover Gordon (Leon Ames), then his other-ex, rival fellow actress Marian (Claire Trevor), seeking her help in cutting ties, in The Velvet Touch, 1948.
Lured (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Murder In SoHo Nifty opening credits from director Douglas Sirk, followed by Lucy (Tanis Chandler) setting the story in motion, enticed by a personal ad to a spooky London meeting, in Lured, 1947, starring Lucille Ball, George Sanders and Boris Karloff.
Lured (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I'm To Be The Bait American showgirl Sandy (Lucille Ball), inquiring with the London police about her disappeared friend, learns from Gordon (Alan Napier) and his boss Temple (Charles Coburn) about the serial killer, and is recruited as a detective, Douglas Sirk directing, in Lured, 1947.
Lured (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You Noticed His Fangs American showgirl Sandy (Lucille Ball) at a London theater, working undercover with the police to entice a serial killer, attracts the attention of impresario Fleming (George Sanders), posing as his own secretary, who earlier tried to hire her, then meets detective Barret (George Zucco), in Lured,1947.

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