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Film Noir Gloria Grahame Humphrey Bogart In A Lonely Place 1949-2014 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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Film Noir Gloria Grahame Humphrey Bogart In A Lonely Place 1949-2014 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Some say this dark noir captures the essence of the real life Humphrey Bogart. ... more
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Some say this dark noir captures the essence of the real life Humphrey Bogart.
French critics have a special fondness for director Nicholas Ray (1911-1979), a poster child for the self destructive artist. "Place" has his usual themes of despair and alienation. Along with "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," Bogart lays his emotions bare, caring little for the audience's affection in playing essentially unlikeable characters.
Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) is one of the definitive noir actresses. This is perhaps her finest role. She later became obsessed with her upper lip; (even stuffing it with tissue which came out a soggy mess when Robert Mitchum kissed her in "Macao"), which added even more neurosis to her persona.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu8E3LooDZo&feature=search
Bogart to Graham quoting lines from a script he has just written: "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me."
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About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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