Remembering Carolyn Sue Jones (1930-83), the iconic American film & TV actress, born in Texas #OnThisDay. A valuable supporting presence in 1953's #HouseOfWax (turned into a Joan of Arc waxwork), #TheBigHeat and #TheWarOfTheWorlds, she portrayed the ill-fated Teddy and a gangster's moll for Don Siegel's #InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers (1956) and #BabyFaceNelson (1957)...

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Remembering #FritzLang (1899-1976), the legendary, influential German film director, producer and screenwriter, born Friedrich Christian Anton Lang in Vienna #OnThisDay. His German films, notably #Metropolis (1927) and #M (1931), anticipated decades of #ScienceFiction movies and #FilmNoir, and in Hollywood he oversaw a remarkable sequence of tough, cynical thrillers including #ManHunt (1941), #ScarletSteeet (1945), #TheBigHeat (1953) and #WhiletheCitySleeps (1956)

#GermanExpressionism #BOTD

Today's noir is The Big Heat (1953), in which Glenn Ford plays a homicide detective investigating the death of a rouge cop and Gloria Grahame plays the girlfriend of a mobster. #TheBigHeat #FilmNoir #Noirvember