Film noir's place of birth is not so much hustling New York or evocative Paris as it is steamy Los Angeles and romantic San Francisco. The camera fades in on a desolate street with a dirge of wailing ...

Audrey Totter, an actress who specialized in playing temptresses, dangerous dames and women harboring dark schemes in a series of movies from Hollywood’s film noir period of the 1940s and ’50s, died ...

Greg Olson, longtime film curator at Seattle Art Museum, remembers his first encounter with film noir. He was a grade-school-age kid, flipping channels at home on his family’s small TV, and came ...

Film noir was born at the end of the World War II, the product of a confluence of several social, political, and artistic developments. These converged to create the climate in which such films could ...

Jill Vice thinks diabolical dames get a bad rap. The San Francisco writer-performer’s new solo show at the Marsh, “A Fatal Step,” plays lovingly with the tropes of film noir, but it’s from a point of ...

From film noirs to rom-coms, femme fatales defined the Golden Age of Hollywood – what became of these legendary actresses ...

REUTERS - Husky-voiced blonde Lizabeth Scott, who played the femme fatale in numerous film noir movies of the 1940s and 1950s alongside leading men including Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The moody film noir thrillers that flourished after World War II gave ...

"Bare Excerpts of Mary Astor's 'Lavender Diary,'" screamed a headline. Another: "Astor's Sensations Scare Film Moguls." This was the sex scandal that fascinated and titillated the nation 80 years ago ...

Clothing conveys much about a movie character's intent. Chaps and ten gallons reveal that a cowboy is ready to hit the trail in a western, while tutus and tuxes hint that dancers are about to shake it ...

Audrey Totter, a steely blonde actress known for her leading roles in some film noir’s most prominent titles, including “Lady in the Lake,” “The Set-Up,” died Thursday. She was 95. Totter, who was ...

femme fatale: an irresistibly attractive woman, especially one who leads men into difficult, dangerous or disastrous situations; siren. [<French: literally, fatal woman] Barbara Stanwyck’s black and ...