Scharphedin2 wrote:By that line of reasoning, it could also have been Picture Bride, non?
I suppose, but not exactly, since it was filmed Hawaii and there isn't a suitable part for Mitchum in Picture Bride, in which, has a very minor role. Although I have a sneaking suspicion that he also had a small part in Shadow of the Wolf (which I haven't seen), but at least that was filmed in Canada.
The first entry in Warner Bros.' Robert Mitchum The Signature Collection could easily serve as the leadoff in a Film Noir boxed set. The moody, romantic murder thriller teams Mitchum with impressive newcomer Jean Simmons. And to top it off, the film is one of director Otto Preminger's best.
Newcomer? She was already in--
The Clouded Yellow (1951) .... Sophie Malraux
Cage of Gold (1950) .... Judith
Trio (1950) .... Evie Bishop (in segment Sanitorium)
So Long at the Fair (1950) .... Vicky Barton
Adam and Evelyne (1949) .... Evelyne Wallace
... aka Adam and Evalyn (USA)
The Blue Lagoon (1949) .... Emmeline Foster Hamlet (1948) .... Ophelia, daughter of Polonius
The Woman in the Hall (1947) .... Joy Blake
Uncle Silas (1947) .... Caroline Ruthyn
... aka The Inheritance (USA) Black Narcissus (1947) .... Kanchi
Hungry Hill (1947) .... Lady Broderick Great Expectations (1946) .... Young Estella
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) .... Harpist
The Way to the Stars (1945) .... A Singer
... aka Johnny in the Clouds (USA)
Meet Sexton Blake (1945) .... Eva Watkins
Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945) .... Molly Dodd
Mr. Emmanuel (1944) (as Jean Simmonds) .... Sally Cooper
Give Us the Moon (1944) .... Heidi
Maybe he meant "newcomer" to American audiences. She married Stewart Granger in 1950 and followed him to Hollywood, and "Angel Face" was an early role there. Never underestimate chauvinism when comparing Hollywood movies to all others! On a sort of related subject, I thought Eddie Mullers' commentary on "Angel Face" was not quite up to his usually excellent standards.
Well then by these strange standards she was the least freshfaced "newcomer" in the towns' history. Far from your perennial bright-eyed, early rising, apple-cheeked Hollywood fresh(wo)man, eager to make her mark, Simmons was by that time as exhausted as a bus station pay-toilet whore as a result of her greezy experiences with Howie Hughes and his devilishly endless and exclusive multi-picutre deal, which by this time she had escaped thru arbitration. Settling to make a couple post-arbitration pics for him, Simmons got slammed by the bear trap set by HH just before finding her newfound freedom from RKO, and she got bamboozled into ANGEL FACE, her most miserable experience as an actress. Mueller sez he drove her so crazy thru various Simmons-obsessions-- which found their pinpointed outlet on her hairstyles for the film-- that Jean flipped and inna psycho moment snatched a pair of scissors and did a nut ward job on her locks, snipsnip chopping it all off in an "O yeah?! well HERE! dig THIS hair ya fuckin nitwit" chop job. All scenes w Simmons are a an expost-facto budgeted series of carefully fitted wigs.
Newcomer just dudn't seem to work on this one, no matter how you slice it or trim it's hair....
