Jerome Weidman


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House Of Strangers (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Vengeance Is A Rare Wine Susan Hayward, not yet identified as Irene, enters the uptown apartment where we’ve just seen Richard Conte, as newly paroled Max Monetti, arrive, after facing off with his brothers at their family-owned Lower Manhattan bank, and their first encounter, in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s House Of Strangers, 1949.
House Of Strangers (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Bank Will Open When I Get There Artful introduction of top-billed Edward G. Robinson as Gino Monetti (we’ve seen his portrait earlier, at the family-owned Manhattan bank), with Richard Conte as just-paroled son Max, visiting the vacant family home, and playing some Verdi, Joseph L. Mankiewicz directing, Luther Adler the elder son, in House Of Strangers, 1949.
House Of Strangers (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Money Is A Great Cleanser Having jumped back in time at least seven years, to when Manhattan Italian banker Gino Monetti (Edward G. Robinson) lived, we see the first meeting of Susan Hayward as Irene and Richard Conte as his son and in-house lawyer Max, Paul Valentine as the younger brother and security guard, in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s House Of Strangers, 1949.
House Of Strangers (1949) -- (Movie Clip) This Bank Stinks With Tradition From producer Sol Siegel and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, opening with legit Little Italy location shots, Richard Conte on what looks like Mulberry St., entering the Monetti Loan & Trust, where we learn he’s Max, released from prison, visiting Joseph (Luther Adler) and brothers Pietro and Tony (Paul Valentine, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), in House Of Strangers, 1949.
Damned Don't Cry, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Nice Piece Of Merchandise Fashion buyers, not impressed by Sandra (Jacqueline de Wit), are helpless before the hotness of the new girl Ethel (Joan Crawford), both then sent on a date by Wally (Eddie Marr), in Vincent Sherman's The Damned Don't Cry, 1950.
Damned Don't Cry, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Etruscan Flower Pot New-to-the-game Ethel (Joan Crawford) and slick gangster Castleman (David Brian) are discussing setting up her boyfriend as a bookie, and ensuing matters, in Vincent Sherman's The Damned Don't Cry, 1950.
Damned Don't Cry, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Rich Oil Heiress The opening scene in which first a body, then home movies of a "rich oil heiress" (Joan Crawford) who isn't, are discovered by the sheriff and deputy (Jamesson Shade, Tom Greenway), from Vincent Sherman's The Damned Don't Cry, 1950.
Damned Don't Cry, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Gonna Get It! From the funeral of their son, killed in a bike accident precipitated by their bitter quarrel, Ethel (Joan Crawford) and first-husband Roy (Richard Egan) have it out, her parents (Sara Perry, Morris Ankrum) impotent bystanders, in Vincent Sherman's The Damned Don't Cry, 1950.
I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1951) -- (Movie Clip) How Do I Look? Opening promoting the atmosphere of New York’s garment district, as we meet ambitious model Harriet (Susan Hayward), dressmaker Sam (Sam Jaffe), the office boy Four-Eyes (Marvin Kaplan) and friend Fran (Benna Bard), in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, 1951, with Dan Dailey and George Sanders.
I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1951) -- (Movie Clip) She's A Great Salesman Garment salesman Teddy (Dan Dailey) arrives at a Manhattan restaurant with girls of the sort he usually brings for buyer Savage (Harry Von Zell), angered to find his new business partner Harriet (Susan Hayward), whom he also covets, sealing the deal herself, in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, 1951.
I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Our Only Pleasure Is Business Upstart dress designer Harriet (Susan Hayward) has charmed her way into an evening with department store magnate Noble (George Sanders), who earlier addressed a professional dinner, making a point of her independence, in the garment-business drama I Can Get It For You Wholesale, 1951.
Invitation (1952) -- (Movie Clip) For Your Money, Of Course! Dan (Van Johnson) is at first worried that frail wife Ellen (Dorothy McGuire) was briefly missing, then discovers she's in no mood for joking, in director Gottfried Reinhardt's melodrama Invitation, 1952.

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