Doris Dowling - Turner Classic Movies

About

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Died

June 18, 2004

Cause of Death

Died Of Natural Causes

Filmography

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Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974)

Birds Do It (1966)

Congresswoman Clanger

The Party Crashers (1958)

Wink of an Eye (1958)

Running Target (1956)

Photos & Videos

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Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Vicious Circles

Blue Dahlia, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You're Not Worth It

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974)

Birds Do It (1966)

Congresswoman Clanger

The Party Crashers (1958)

Wink of an Eye (1958)

Running Target (1956)

The Emperor Waltz (1948)

The Crimson Key (1947)

Mrs. Margaret Loring

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

Bring on the Girls (1945)

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Scruples (1980)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Bitter Rice - Movie Poster

Here is an original Italian movie poster for Bitter Rice (aka Riso Amaro, 1949), directed by Giuseppe De Santis.

The Blue Dahlia - Lobby Card Set

Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Paramount Pictures' The Blue Dahlia (1946), starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Vicious Circles New York alcoholic Don (Ray Milland), scheming to keep up appearances, visits with barkeep Nat (Howard Da Silva) and hooker Gloria (Doris Dowling), in a bar modeled on the real P-J Clarke's, in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, 1945.

Blue Dahlia, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You're Not Worth It Just-returned soldier Johnny (Alan Ladd) is gutted when his boozy and unfaithful wife Helen (Doris Dowling) tells him how their son really died, in The Blue Dahlia, 1946, from Raymond Chandler's original script.

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Embrace Me Still in the opening sequence, Walter (Vittorio Gassman) almost caught by fellow thugs at the train station, getting help first from girlfriend Francesca (Doris Dowling), then stranger Silvana (Silvana Mangano), in Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Call Me Argentina Veteran Silvana (Mangano) and rookie Francesca (Doris Dowling) arrive with fellow rice workers (Anna Maestri, Dody Ristori, Maria Grazia Francia, et al) bumping soldiers from the barracks, and meeting sergeant Marco (Raf Vallone), in Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Only Women Can Do It Location shots by Otello Martelli in the Po river valley, Lamberto Maggiorani, star of The Bicycle Thief as a radio announcer, serious Neo-Realist credentials, opening critic-turned-director Giuseppe de Santis' Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) That's How They Betray Us Musical labor clash in the Po valley rice fields, the contract girls led by Silvana (Mangano), resenting the speedy "illegals," led by her friend Francesca (Doris Dowling), in Giuseppe de Santis' Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Opposites Attract Friends again, in lingerie in their barracks, Francesca (Doris Dowling) telling Silvana (Mangano) about her fugitive boyfriend, Gabriella (Maria Grazia Francia) suffering from work in the rice paddies, in Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.

Blue Dahlia, The - (Original Trailer) Raymond Chandler's only movie written for the screen, The Blue Dahlia (1946), has Alan Ladd trying to clear his name of murder.

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