Originally, this 1944 Barbara Stanwyck film ended with Fred MacMurray's death in the gas chamber
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Going My Way: 1944 Best Picture - Fikkle Fame  Jul 28, 2014 ... ... on a Bronte novel. FILM NOIR $1000: Originally, this 1944 Barbara Stanwyck film ended with Fred MacMurray's death in the gas chamber
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Double Indemnity (film) - Wikipedia  Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond ... The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who ..... a plot, so Wilder wrote and filmed a different ending in which Neff goes to the gas chamber while Keyes watches.
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Double Indemnity Movie Review (1944) | Roger Ebert  Dec 20, 1998 ... Walter (Fred MacMurray) is Walter Neff ("two f's--like in ... The woman is Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), a lazy blond who ... By 1944, Wilder thought he could film it. ... "Double Indemnity originally ended with Neff in the gas chamber, ... The husband, on crutches with a broken leg, is choked to death...
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Double Indemnity (1944) - Trivia - IMDb  Fred MacMurray was married and the ring was not noticed until post-production. ... Barbara Stanwyck was the first choice to play Phyllis, but she was unnerved when ..... to a "second film career" with many supporting roles until his death in 1955. ... filmed an ending where Keyes watches Walter Neff go to the gas chamber.
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Double Indemnity 1944 - Cinemagraphe  Jul 20, 2015 ... Double Indemnity Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck ... Wilder modulates the film from the beginning to end, which starts with the ... alienated from the family she married into after the death of Mr. Dietrichson's first wife. ... into fear about not just ending up in the gas chamber for the crime, but whether...
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Double Indemnity (1944) - Greatest Films  Double Indemnity (1944) is director Billy Wilder's classic film noir ... Best Actress (Barbara Stanwyck with her third nomination and a career total of over 40 films), ... magazine, after having her spouse take out a $48,000 insurance policy - with a ... The duplicity evident in the film, and in the film's title and its characters, are...
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Barbara Stanwyck - Wikipedia  Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a ... For her television work, she won three Emmy Awards, for The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961), The Big Valley (1966) and The Thorn Birds (1983). The Thorn Birds also won her a Golden Globe.
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Gordon MacRae - Wikipedia  Gordon MacRae (March 12, 1921  January 24, 1986) was an American actor and singer, best known for his appearances in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel (1956), and playing Bill Sherman in On Moonlight Bay .... MacRae replaced Frank Sinatra on a radio program in 1943, but he soon...
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A Shot in the Dark (1964) - IMDb  Comedy ... 9 Film Projects That Were Rewritten to Become Sequels ... Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer in A Shot in the Dark (1964) Elke Sommer in A Shot in .... is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene.
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The Lost Weekend: 1945 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Jul 29, 2014 ... FILMS OF THE '40s $1200: This Best Picture Oscar winner of 1945 was filmed in part in the alcoholic ward of NYC's Bellevue Hospital.
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Norman Holland on Wilder's Double Indemnity, 1944.  Double indemnity was the title of a popular James M. Cain novella (an ... Barbara Stanwyck, in one of her best roles, plays Phyllis Dietrichson, a wife who has ... Keyes does get his teeth in, and Walter and Phyllis fall out over how to deal with him. ... Neff is managing Dietrichson's auto insurance, and the murder takes place...
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Free Flashcards about BOOKS INTO MOVIES - StudyStack  2 REPORTERS UNEARTH A POLITICAL SCANDAL THAT GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP IN THIS 1979 FILM BASED ON A BOOK, ALL THE .... PINTER HAD TO COME UP WITH AN ENDING FOR THE 1976 FILM, THE LAST TYCOON.
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Fred MacMurray - Biography - IMDb  Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. ... model for a superhero character who would become Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel in 1939. ... made only a few more film appearances before retiring to his ranch in 1978. ... At his insistence, all episodes of My Three Sons (1960) were filmed out of...
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Never too late for alternate endings - latimes  Oct 14, 2007 ... MOVIE endings have always been a tricky business. ... "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" added an extended ending ... that after her recent divorce from Brad Pitt, audiences wanted the actress to ... woman played by Glenn Close ended the film by committing suicide and ... Seizure Led to FloJo's Death...
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Best Film Deaths Scenes - Greatest Films  Bugsy's over-budget $6 million "Flamingo" casino in the Nevada desert had ... He screamed as he realized he was about to experience a fatal crash, but it was too late. .... When they instinctively ducked, the grenade was launched into the belly of ... Losing its balance, it toppled over into the molten steel vat where it flopped...
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) - Articles - TCM.com  Sorry, Wrong Number was the film version of the highly successful radio play of the ... In 1950, Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster reprised their roles from Sorry, ... Barbara Stanwyck received her fourth Best Actress Oscar nomination but lost ... Wrong Number was first broadcast in 1943 on the Suspense radio program...
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Esther Williams, Who Swam to Movie Fame, Dies at 91 - The New ...  Jun 6, 2013 ... 'Hacksaw Ridge,' a Gory War Movie for Both Hawks and Doves ... From Bathing Beauty in 1944 to Jupiter's Darling in 1955, Ms. Williams swam in ... The crown was made of metal, and in a swan dive into the pool from a 50-foot ... Fan mail response to the film, Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942), was...
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Elia Kazan: director, HUAC informer dead at 94 - World Socialist ...  Sep 30, 2003 ... Hollywood director Elia Kazan died September 28 at age 94. ... Kazan was bestowed an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement at the 1999 .... Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Arthur Miller's Death of a ..... directors, actorsHUAC began its questioning of unfriendly witnesses, the...
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Movie Pooper for the film - Game of Death  There were two endings to this movie one was the theatrical ending much like ... to kill him on his movie sets which "strangely" resemble the set of Fists of Fury and ... Lo gets shot in the face and is taken to a hospital, where he declares himself...
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Mildred Pierce (1945) - Overview - TCM.com  Overview of Mildred Pierce, 1945, directed by Michael Curtiz, with Joan Crawford, ... Crawford won an Oscar as housewife- turned-waitress who finds success in ... of ungrateful daughter Blyth--especially when she finds they're competing for the ... MAP | RECOMMENDED LINKS | NOW PLAYING GUIDE | TCM CANADIAN...
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Dark Victory (1939)  The Blonde at the Film  Feb 2, 2015 ... For essentially the picture is simply a protracted death scene in which the ... Although Bette Davis would eventually dominate the film in a grand ... is future president Ronald Reagan, who plays Judy's drinking buddy Alec. .... (All the health stuff is kept vague and terrible, but it's a brain tumor, we think.)...