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And thank you, Puvwall, for bumping this! And of course thanks to the O. P. Very interesting!
Vera Miles was born in August 1929, right in between the births of Audrey Hepburn (May) and Grace Kelly (November). Other actors born the same year were Jean Simmons (January), Sidney Poitier (February) and Christopher Plummer (December). Only Vera out of this illustrious list of actors remains alive today, but don’t forget, 1929 was 95 years ago!
Haha! Yes, totally unrealistic! Brings to my mind the scene in Houdini (1953) when Houdini’s hand reaches out to untie the straitjacket!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jxDxECuqHFU&pp=ygUXaG91ZGluaSAxOTUzIGZ1bGwgbW92aWU%3D
You didn’t mention Marsha Hunt who died September of last year (2022) at the age of 104! And older than Eva by almost a year is Glynis Johns who just turned 100 on October 5!
Some of the other actors born the same year as Marsha were Jane Wyman, Ernest Borgnine, Dean Martin, Susan Hayward, Richard Boone, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Lom, June Allyson, Joan Fontaine and Audrey Totter. None of them reached 100.
Mirage (my favourite movie)
Good observation on your part. It made me go back and look. However, it’s the Bay Bridge, not the Golden Gate Bridge.
“Topkapi” is my favourite heist movie.
The earliest movie that I can think of ‘which used this thing’ is The Cabinet of Dr Caligari made all the way back in 1920. Other silent movies that come to my mind is Nosferatu 1920 and Beau Geste 1926.
You should check out Black Narcissus. I watched the entire movie without realizing the character played by Jean was Jean! She was simply sublime.
Coincidentally, I happened to watch “The Defense Rests” (1934) just before this one. She was really radiant in that film.
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