Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979
Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1944) “Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money and for a woman. I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman. Pretty, isn’t it?’

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1944)

“Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money and for a woman. I didn’t get the money and I didn’t get the woman. Pretty, isn’t it?’


Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray on the set of Double Indemnity (1944) “I was lucky enough to make four pictures with Barbara. In the first I turned her in, in the second I killed her, in the third I left her for another woman, and in the fourth I pushed her over a waterfall. The one thing all these pictures had in common was that I fell in love with Barbara Stanwyck - and I did, too.” -Fred MacMurray

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray on the set of Double Indemnity (1944)

“I was lucky enough to make four pictures with Barbara. In the first I turned her in, in the second I killed her, in the third I left her for another woman, and in the fourth I pushed her over a waterfall. The one thing all these pictures had in common was that I fell in love with Barbara Stanwyck - and I did, too.”

-Fred MacMurray

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1946, dir. Billy Wilder, based on the novel by James M. Cain) I knew then what I had done. I had killed a man. I had killed a man to get a woman. I had put myself in her power, so there was one person in the world that could point a finger at me, and I would have to die. I had done all that for her, and I never wanted to see her again as long as I lived. That’s all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate. - James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1946, dir. Billy Wilder, based on the novel by James M. Cain)

I knew then what I had done. I had killed a man. I had killed a man to get a woman. I had put myself in her power, so there was one person in the world that could point a finger at me, and I would have to die. I had done all that for her, and I never wanted to see her again as long as I lived.

That’s all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate.

- James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1946, dir. Billy Wilder) “How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (1946, dir. Billy Wilder)

“How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”

Prof. Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) tests out “Flubber”, the anti-gravity flying rubber he’s invented in The Absent Minded Professor (1961, dir. Robert Stevenson)

Prof. Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) tests out “Flubber”, the anti-gravity flying rubber he’s invented in The Absent Minded Professor (1961, dir. Robert Stevenson)

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray on the set of Double Indemnity (1944, dir. Billy Wilder) Wartime food shortages meant that security guards were posted to protect the real cans of food in the grocery store from sticky-fingered cast & crew members. Despite this, the aggrieved store owner reported to the LA Times that some scoundrel had managed to pinch a can of peaches & four bars of laundry soap.  (via)

Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray on the set of Double Indemnity (1944, dir. Billy Wilder)

Wartime food shortages meant that security guards were posted to protect the real cans of food in the grocery store from sticky-fingered cast & crew members. Despite this, the aggrieved store owner reported to the LA Times that some scoundrel had managed to pinch a can of peaches & four bars of laundry soap. 

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