B movie film noir actress I have seen in East Side West Side, Pickup, and Wicked Woman. Blonde and tall, she always seemed to have a bad attitude but was perversely likeable. Any fans?

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January 17, 2019 4:20 PM

I loved how she came into town with one suitcase and two outfits, wrecked a bar/restaurant owning couple's marriage and lured the man to "A-ca-pul-co" with the weirdest intonation ever.

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December 28, 2018 9:06 AM

I just saw Pickup which starred and was directed by Hugo Haas. Beverly reminded me of Lange in The Postman Always Rings Twice.

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December 28, 2018 9:58 AM

She gives Ava Gardner and Barbara Stanwyck a run for their money in EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (50), and is freakishly tall and fabulously nasty.

Her son, Christopher Rouse, is an Oscar-winning editor.

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December 28, 2018 1:42 PM

Wikipedia says she was 5'9", R4. Hardly freakishly tall.

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December 28, 2018 1:54 PM

She's taller than anyone else in the frame, and has to wear flats.

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December 28, 2018 1:55 PM

Either way, sounds like a cool movie.

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December 28, 2018 1:59 PM

Oh, she was so notable in East Side, West Side in that bar scene.

5'9" seems tall on the screen. Just ask Bea Arthur.

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December 28, 2018 2:04 PM

Loved the lantern-jawed lugess. She always showed the audience a good time, as did her pint-sized pal Cleo Moore. IIRC, Wiki says she had a long marriage in some place like Montana.

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December 28, 2018 2:15 PM

she had a very modern look and stance in Wicked Woman. it was like.watching a 90s grunge model in a early 60s movie.

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December 28, 2018 2:17 PM

She and Van Heflin have a slug-fight in a car in East Side West Side.

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December 28, 2018 3:19 PM

She was no Beverly Garland......

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December 28, 2018 3:25 PM

You'll hate every vicious bone in her body.....

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December 28, 2018 3:58 PM

That's the one where she gets slobbered over by Percy Helton.

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December 28, 2018 4:55 PM

Anyone else ever want to make an hours-long meal of Egan?

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December 28, 2018 11:40 PM

She was no Beverly Aaaaadland.

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December 29, 2018 12:00 AM

"Beverly, you're too big for the gamine look."

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December 29, 2018 1:30 AM

"Pickup"

That would require some heavy lifting.

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December 29, 2018 3:25 AM

Wicked Woman is a classic. Horrible theme song sung in an offkey voice, ridiculous plot, and Micheals is an amoral bitch. Great rainy day viewing.

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December 29, 2018 3:29 AM

Beverly and Van Heflin in East Side, West Side. He's pretending to be drunk to get her interested.

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December 29, 2018 6:31 AM

He slugs her but she has killed Ava Gardner so she deserves it.

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December 29, 2018 6:37 AM

In the movie Gardner has an affair with Stanwyck's husband. A case of life imitating art. So the confrontation scene has a particular resonance.

Whatever else, that movie has four gorgeous voices: Stanwyck, Mason, Gardner, Heflin.

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December 29, 2018 11:03 AM

Or art imitating life.^^^

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December 29, 2018 11:09 AM

Hugo Haas had a major career directing in central Europe before 1939, and fled to the US just in time. All he did in the US was cheese, including DL Fave Eleanor Parker's MPD flop LIZZIE (57). His brother, composer Pavel Haas, was murdered by the Nazis in 1944.

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December 29, 2018 2:26 PM

Yesterday was her birthday.

Was she part Asian?

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December 29, 2018 2:30 PM

Thanks to those who posted links; I’ll be popping the popcorn tonight.

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December 29, 2018 3:02 PM

They usually have Gatorade, r356.

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January 17, 2019 4:20 PM