Last night I watched the film noir classic Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) starring Barbara Stanwyck and my boy Burt Lancaster.
Through a series of telephone calls, a neurotic, bedridden wife
(Stanwyck) comes to suspect her beefy-looking but weasely-souled husband (Burt) has hired someone to kill her.
It's ridiculously overblown, so the powerfully nasty ending surprised me ...and made it all worthwhile.
Here're the two actors on the set of the film:
Sorting paper goods at the Thrift Store today, I unpacked a vintage address book, below, with a cover of some sort of plastic (?) lacquer over gold brocade fabric.
I imagine it's the sort Stanwyck's character might have used. There's not even anyplace to put e-mail addresses... So I bought it. I'm going to use it too, because my old address book is full.
Does anyone today use paper address books ? Would children even recognize the mail and telephone icons?
Through a series of telephone calls, a neurotic, bedridden wife
(Stanwyck) comes to suspect her beefy-looking but weasely-souled husband (Burt) has hired someone to kill her.
It's ridiculously overblown, so the powerfully nasty ending surprised me ...and made it all worthwhile.
Here're the two actors on the set of the film:
Sorting paper goods at the Thrift Store today, I unpacked a vintage address book, below, with a cover of some sort of plastic (?) lacquer over gold brocade fabric.
I imagine it's the sort Stanwyck's character might have used. There's not even anyplace to put e-mail addresses... So I bought it. I'm going to use it too, because my old address book is full.
Does anyone today use paper address books ? Would children even recognize the mail and telephone icons?
That's Alfie, the wire fox terrier ^
I'm house sitting this weekend.
