Nitrate Diva

Jean Porter in Cry Danger (1951).

Regina Linnanheimo in Restless Blood (1946).

Joan Bennett in Jean Renoir’s The Woman on the Beach (1947).

Micheline Cheirel in Edward Dmytryk’s Cornered (1945).

Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place (1950).

Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder (1954).

Yvonne De Carlo in Criss Cross (1949).

Lucille Ball wiping away tears in The Dark Corner (1946).

Eve Arden and Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945).

Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage (1947).

Joan Bennett in The Woman in the Window (1944).

Leslie Howard and Bette Davis in It’s Love I’m After (1937).

Nancy Olson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard (1950).

Cary Grant gives Katharine Hepburn a New Year’s kiss in Holiday (1938).

Audrey Totter in Christmas noir The Lady in the Lake (1947).

Kim Novak and Pyewacket in Bell, Book and Candle (1958).

Ricardo Montalbán in Mystery Street (1950).