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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1950 thriller Stage Fright, starring Jane Wyman, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd and Marlene Dietrich.

William Wyler’s 1949 tearjerker The Heiress, starring Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, and Olivia de Havilland.

1955’s The Night Of The Hunter, starring Shelley Winters, Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish, and Peter Graves.

1940’s The Philadelphia Story starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Ruth Hussey.

1946’s The Spiral Staircase starring Dorothy McGuire.

Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda in 1941’s The Lady Eve.

John Wayne in 1954’s The High And The Mighty.

Bette Davis in 1941’s The Little Foxes!

Lana Turner in 1957’s Peyton Place!

Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in 1942’s Mrs. Miniver.

Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller and Eve Arden in 1937’s Stage Door. The calla lilies are in bloom again.

Hitchcock’s Strangers On A Train from 1951!

Judy Holliday and William Holden in 1950’s Born Yesterday. Kristen Chenoweth has always reminded me of Judy Holliday.

1955’s East Of Eden starring James Dean.

1951’s The Thing!

1939’s The Private Lives Of Elizabeth and Essex, starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn.

1955’s Picnic starring William Holden, Kim Novak, and Rosalind Russell. (Plus a nice shout-out to JMG!)

1944’s Laura starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson.

Paul Newman, Orson Welles, Angela Lansbury, and Joanne Woodward in 1958’s The Long Hot Summer.

Angela Lansbury, Cyd Charisse, Ray Bolger, Virginia O’Brien, Marjorie Maine and Judy Garland in 1945’s The Harvey Girls.