Film noir June Lockhart T-Men 1947 Winter Carnival parade St. Paul Minnesota 1967-2008 #1
by David Lee Guss
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Film noir June Lockhart T-Men 1947 Winter Carnival parade St. Paul Minnesota 1967-2008 #1
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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June Lockhart is the daughter of celebrated film character Gene Lockhart (1891-1957). 1947's "T-Men" is her only film noir. A year later Lockhart won a Tony for her first Broadway appearance.
"T- Men" is directed by Anthony Mann (1906-1967) and features his frequent collaborator as director of photography, John Alton (1901-1996).
A flashing hotel sign underscores Charles McGraw's interrogation of Dennis O'Keefe (1908-1968) in T-Men.
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Alton masterfully controls light and shadows as in this famous steam bath sequence with gravel throated killer Charles McGraw (1914-1980) and his victim Wallace Ford (1898-1966).
Ironically in real life McGraw died when he slipped in a shower and fell through a glass door.
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McGraw was a RKO Radio contract player in the late 1940's and early 1950's appearing in several classic film noirs including the claustrophobic "The Narrow Margin" (1952), which took place mostly on a train.
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{NOTE: A Lux Radio Theater production of "T-Men," with Dennis O'Keefe & Gail Patrick, was broadcast on 2/23/1948.}
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