Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: Evil Lady |
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Double indemnity 1944. Paramount Director: Billy Wilder Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Phyllis Dietrichson) Fred MacMurray, Edward G.Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers Screenplay: Billy Wilder & Raymond Chandler from a James M. Cain short story in his book " Three of a kind" Costumes: Edith Head |
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Barbara Stanwyck |
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson |
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Fred MacMurray,Barbara Stanwyck |
Fred MacMurray,Barbara Stanwyck (above & left) |
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson |
Fred MacMurray,Barbara Stanwyck |
Barbara Stanwyck , Fred MacMurray |
Porter Hall, Barbara Stanwyck |
Over the past fifteen years Stanwyck's gallery of film Characterizations had included all sort of women from murderers and sharpshooters to burlesque queens and senoritas, but more often than not she had played ordinary-but-troubled women. Yet, more than any role, she was still identified with the self-sacrificing mother in "Stella Dallas" Double indemnity changed all that. Phyllis was a tough, sexy, calculating, and ruthless broad and.... she was a cold blooded murderer. |
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