Cinema-related

Blond Bait 1956. Beverly Michaels, a great noir movie slut, plays a stripper.

Man Bait 1952, early Diana Dors.

Diane Dors=Man Bait.

The Girl on the Bridge 1951. Beverly Michaels as "bait."

Bad Girl 1931. Just a title, but the hardships of the Depression very real.

Tonight or Never 1931, pre-code sexy.

A Free Soul 1931. Norma Shearer made several strong woman movies.

the Devil is a Woman 1935. Dietrich!

Dishonored 1931.

the french Line 1953_Jane Russell, again daring the censors. qv. The Outlaw.

banned in Boston, The French Line. The Hollywood battle for free expression.

Taxi Driver 1976 has cinefile Travis Bickle giving a thumbs-down review.

Ginger Rogers, Gold diggers of 1933. "we're in the money."

Clara Bow_Antonio Moreno It 1927.

Bare Knees 1928. Flapper sensation. rolled stockings.

the bitter tea of general Yen 1933. Interracial anothe Stanwyck pre-code

chicken a la king 1928. Nancy Carroll.

42 Street

Hot stuff

Sex 1920.

the Accused 1949.

Accused of Murder 1956.

the Strip 1951. A good film noir as out-of-luck Mickey Rooney loses his girl, in the end.

the Strange Loves of Martha Ivers 1946. here Van Heflin sees his choice.........

Playgirl after dark 1960.

cry Baby 1990. Traci Lords, former under age pornstar.

Red-Headed Woman-pulp fiction book basis for Harlow movie.

Eyes Wide Shut 1999. Nicole Kidman kinda high.

Fear 1946.......just a dream.

Forbidden 1953.

Body and Soul 1947. Hazel Brooks, also in

the Bandwagon 1953. Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse dance a spoof segment of the film noir femme fatale idea.

Ace in the Hole 1951. Jan Sterling needed a little convincing on the scam Kirk has created.

the Long Wait 1954.

the Long Wait 1954. Peggy Castle, Shawn Smith, Mary-Ellen Kay, Dolores Donlan.

Flying down to Rio 1933. The first teaming of Fred and Ginger. There first wonderful dance is "The Carioca."

Night Nurse 1931. Very pre-code in that a murderer gets away with it.

Blood of the Poet 1930. Jean Cocteau.

Station West 1948. Jane Greer and Dick Powell dressed for a different time, but talked the same. A noir-western!

Wicked Woman 1953. Bad girl_Beverly Michaels nature "discovered" by Richard Egan.

99 River Street. The classic cigarette sustitute sex thing. Evelyn Keyes.

Temptation 1926_Garbo.

NO morals.

Roman Scandals 1933. Lucy.

Convention City 1934. Joan Blondell in a risque promo shot. Set in chicago, the Sherman House hotel. Said to be the most blatant of pre-code movies and the negative was destroyed by Warner Bros. !!

Dead Recokoning

Sudden Fear 1952.

Joan Crawford.

the Birds. The much abused_Tippi Hedren. Still active in 2013. On youtube.

Zabrinski Point 1970. Daria Halprin nude romp.

Eyes Wide Shut

Written on the Wind 1956. Dorthy Malone caresses a p-derrick symbol.

Highway Dragnet.

White Cargo 1940. Hedy Lamarr as "Tondalea."

White Orchid 1954. Mexico archaeological expedition photographer Peggy Castle takes a bath.

Virgina Mayo plays a showgirl in Flaxy Martin.

Angel Face 1952. Jean simmons ain't no angel as poor Bob fearns at the/his end.

Beyond a Reasonable doubt 1956. personal promo appearance of Barbara Nichols.

beyond, backstage with Barbara Nichols.

Barbara Nichols striptease act 1956. a part Barbara often played.

Beyond a reasonable doubt 1956. Like "Fury" director Fritz Lang addresses capital punishment. Photographs of Dana Andrews were meant to prove he faked evidence to get convicted. But, photos got destroyed before the trial!!!

Cop Hater 1958. Shirley just wanted her husband dead.

Dangerously Yours 1937. Phyllis Brooks promo still.

Underworld 1927. Evelyn Brent "feathers."

Criss-Cross 1949. promo still of real fear from all the crosses.

A daughter of the gods 1916. fully nude Anette Kellerman.

Rough House 1927_Clara Bow.

Hoop-la 1933.

Design for living 1933. Artist Miriam Hopkins and her two lovers.

Bright Lights 1930. Dorothy Mackaill. technicolor original print lost (?)

Ain't Misbehavin' 1955. chorus girl gets her man.

Mata Hari 1931. Greta Garbo as an exotic spy.

Madame Satan 1930. Cecil DeMille, master of salaciousness.

The come on 1956. Anne Baxter, from "Eve" knows how to be cunning.

The Letter 1940. Bette starts out with a band-bang. colorized film still.

No man of her own 1932. Carol Lombard in pre-code show em' scanty clad.

While the city sleeps 1956. director Fritz Lang's way of showing off Rhonda Fleming.

Female 1933. Ruth Chatterton is a major CEO and uses her male employees. real pre-code role reversal.

Safe in Hell 1931_Dorthy Mackaill.

Rendezvous 24 1945. First (?) atomic bomb threat movie. hidden nazis plot terror.

Shadow of Terror 1946. a poverty row studio, PRC, could quickly slap together, using newly released test footage, an atomic bomb scare movie.

Five 1951. the first (?) post-atomic bomb survivor movie.

Kiss me Deadly 1955. Cloris Leachman was told not to meddle.........

Salome 1953. Rita Hayworth and the dance of the 7 vails.

Witchcraft through the ages 1922. Swedish sort of documentary-horror classic on superstition.

Trader Horn 1931. First movie made in Africa. Edwina Booth, the jungle princess sued MGM for diseases caught there.

Paperboy 2012. Nicole Kidman, beside her pissing scene adds this masturbation spectable to her array of trashy blond characters.

Atomic city 1952.

Flight to Nowhere 1946. Evelyn Ankers with atomic spy.

Forbidden 1953. Joane Dru, Tony Curtis.

They won't believe me 1947. Robert Young and one of 3 loves, Susan Hayworth. also nice woody car.

Fallen Angel 1945. Alice Faye as the good girl.

Nocturne 1946. pomotional still has the legs, gun and sheet music featured in the movie.

Lana Turner, real life soap opera.

Island of Lost Souls 1932. Mad scientist theme. Also played by Burt Lancaster and Brando.

Where Danger Lives 1950. Doctor Bob and his patient. At end of movie, Faith Domergue says contemptously: "nobody pities me."

Mildred Pierce 1945. Joan, plays again, the social climber....

Viva Zapata 1952. director Elia Kazan's politics mixed in a romatic story.

Emiliano Zapata 1970=The Plan of Ayala.

TAXI DANCERS____

10 cents.whatever.

Ten Cents a Dance 1931_Reginald Marsh painting.

dance hall neon signs.

Taxi Dancers 1959. For $.10 (Ten cents/Diez centavos) a lonely guy could hold close in his arms a woman of his choice.

Dime a Dance Queen-pulp fiction paperback.

ticket to passion-pulp fiction paperback.

taxi dancers wait in "dog-eat-dog."

Orpheum theater NYC taxi dancers waiting at door.

Taxi dancers 1934, weekly illustrated.

taxi-dancers waiting.

One girls Morals-pulp fiction paperback.

taxi dancer secures her tickets.

The Taxi Dancer, 1927.

the Taxi Dancer spends most of her time pushing off men.

taxi dancers 1927 promo photo.

Dancers in the dark 1932_Miriam Hopkins as a taxi dancer.

Ten Cents a Dance 1931.

taxi dancers tired feet 1931.

Barrbara Stanwyck, Ten Cents a Dance.

Paid to dance 1937. Rita Hayworth in photo. disappearances of taxi-dancers.

Montana 1936 fort Peck dam shantytown. FSA photo by Margaret Bourke-White.

Killer's Kiss

Killer's Kiss sign: "Jackets and tie at all times."

Rita Hayworth complaing to bouncer about glove wearing customer with rash. Deadline at Dawn 19

Gloria Ghrame

Ruth Roman-taxidancer at Dreamland-Tommorrow is Another Day 1953

Donna Reed-"taxidancer" From here to Eternity.

Evelyn Keyes-taxidancer in Hell's Half-Acre."

Lucille Ball 1847, Lured. Lucy helps Scotland Yard to catch a serial killer.

Nickel Hopper 1926. Mabel Normand will dance with you for $.05. ! it is a comedy with Boris Karloff as one of the lechers.

Sweet Charity 1969. Shirley MacLaine yells: "Hey big spender, spend a little money on me."

Manin Street Girls expose movie.

Dance Hall Racket 1953_Lenny Bruce in non-comic role.

from Dancehall to White Slavery-pulp fiction paperback.

Confessions of a Taxi-Dancer 1938. I did it for the money, duh.

Majestic ballroom, NYC. Neaon signs.

dance hall rail, 1921. Always the threat of city closing down venues.

Love Me or Leave Me 1955. Doris Day plays /sings Ruth Etting.

Ruth Etting, Chicago-mobsters, etc... "Ten Cents a Dance" sung 1930 by Ruth on youtube.

The Third Man 1949=the best movie ending by Alida Valli.

Chicago Theater 1921 honoring "thumbs Up or Down" reviews of Siskel&Ebert.

Little Egypt 1953. 1893 Chicago "World Columbian Exposition" where exotic people and new technologies vied for audience.

Rhonda Fleming as Little Egypt 1953.

Little Egypt_ for real.

Little Egypt and her "Hoochie-Choochie" dance.

Charlie Chaplin in Chicago. See: Chicago, Hollywood by the Lake. Essany Studio building still exists.

Roxie Hart 1942_Ginger Rogers. The Chicago murder story of publicity seeker Roxie Hart.

Chicago 1927_Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart. Chicago 2002 is the same story.

Girl from Chicago_Oscar Micheaux 1932.

Carrie 1952. Jennifer Jones waves goodbye to rural tranquility as heads to Chicago.

Carrie, on train salesman, Eddie Albert offers his services, then all downhill for "Sister Carrie" as in the novel by Theodore Dreiser.

Chicag=railroad hub of the Nation. Luxury Pullman car.

Sally Rand, 1933 Chicago's "Century of Progress" Exposition does her "fan dance."

comic postcard. 1933, indicates what was the major draw/spectacle at a "century of Progress."

Sally Rand signs autographs. She did so much to bring "art" and respectability for nude performers.

Chicago confidential paperback 1950. A Senator Kefauver type attack on corruption. Many crime expose movies are a sub-noir genre. Authors' book "New York Confidential" is one example.

Chicago Confidential, Mortimer and Lait rip on unions, well mob infiltration of. B-girls too.

Chicago Confidential 1957. The good guy, Brian Kieth and great B-actress Beverly Garland.

The Chicago Underworld-pulp fiction paperback.

Saint Valentine Murders 1967. Jason Robars plays Capone, in Flordia at 1929 time of masacure. Garage on north Clark street site now a vacant lot.

Chicago Syndicate 1955. Paul Stewart as the mob boss here in Chicago's tunnel system. Overhead electric power line gets his buddy.

Union Station 1950. Looks like our still same Union Station. Some location shots and the tunnel scenes look actual too?

Union Station, great bad guy Lyle Bettger in climatic shoot-out.

Chicago Tunnel System, 40 feet underground ran 60 miles!

Chicago (no, LA) smelly stockyards, Back of the Yards neighborhood. Bad guy in movie Union Station killed.

The Jungle 1904. Upton Sinclair on Chicago meat-packing industry. Expose, then called "muckraking" now called "investigative journalism."

the Jungle 1914. Upton himself gave introduction. Considered a "lost" movie.

Chicago meat-packing scrape dump with child gleaners.

The Killing Floor 1984. Docudrama about Afro-American migrants forming the once powerful Packing House Union.

Dillinger 1945. Great Noir actor, Lawrence Tierney among several movies about this bandit folk hero.

Biograph Theater, Chicago 1934. Crowds gathered at site of Dillinger's murder. Arrow in photo directs you to the alley where he got it. Biograph still has the same marquee up.

Chicago Woman-pulp fiction paperback. Bookcover shows walk into a hotel, so probably means prostitution. The "Woman in Red" who set-up Dillinger was a prostitute.

Undertow 1949. Chicago mob related.

City that never sleeps 1953.

Mala Powers, stripper "Angel face."

Mala Powers and her boyfriend Gig Young. Much stress in their relationship. Promo still.

Silver Frolics nightclub where "City that never sleeps" was filmed at.

Chez Paree, later Silver Frolics nightclub.

Silver Frolics maintains "Paris" in Chicago!

Silver Frolics at 400 N. Wabash being torn down.

City that never sleep has end chase on elevated train tracks. The "third rail" is the deadly one, and is still here for those who want to sleep permanently.

The Man with the Golden Arm 1955.

The Man with the Golden Arm 1949. Nelson Algren won first National Book Award in 1950.

Frank Sinatra, as "Frankie Machine" with a monkey on his back.

Kim Novak on set of "Man with a Golden Arm." Algren did not like the movie, which gave it a happy ending!

Studs Lonigan 1960. Haxwell Wexler cinemaphotography.

Studs Lonigan newspaper advertisement.

Studs Lonigan, second in triolgy by James T. farrell.

Call Northside 777. 1948 semi-documentary with many diverse Chicago locations.

Native Son 1940 novel by Richard Wright.

Native Son 1951. Richard Wright starred himself with Jean Wallace. Some location shooting in Chicago, like Cook County jai, but rest needed Argentina.