Inside Looking Out: Ladies Behind Bars 12

Arletty in The Devil's Envoys (1942) (aka Les visiteurs du soir)

Rub-a-dub-dub: Patricia Neal

I found these pics of the great Patricia Neal from early in her career (1949) on the Life Image Archive at Google. They are identified under the label "Bathtub City Chicago." Although several people are pictured, only Patricia Neal is shown IN a bathtub. They were photographed by Edward Clark and none of the people pictured, including Neal, are identified at all. Anyone with information as to what the term "Bathtub City Chicago" refers to is cordially invited to clue me in. In the meantime, please enjoy these examples of mid-century mysterious awesomeness!

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Smoking in Bed: Sally Parr

Sweater Girl: Mylene Demongeot

Actress Mylene Demongeot at a ski resort in

Courchevel, in the French Alps, February 1961.

Happy Birthday Peter Lorre (1904-1964)

Birthday greetings to one of my all-time favorites, the great Peter Lorre.

M (1931)

M (1931)

Secret Agent (1936)

Nancy Steele Is Missing (1937)

Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)

Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)

with Keye Luke and Harold Huber in Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

with Sidney Greenstreet and Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon (1941)

with Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca (1942)

with Richard Whorf in The Cross of Lorraine (1943)

with Raymond Massey and Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

with Humphrey Bogart and George Tobias in Passage to Marseille (1944)

with Helmut Dantine, George Tobias and Philip Dorn in Passage to Marseille (1944)

with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren

Peter and first wife Celia Lovsky, 1934

Peter and second wife Kaaren Verne at Lake Arrowhead, 1943

with third wife Annemarie Brenning and their daughter Cathy

with third wife Annemarie Brenning and their daughter Cathy, age 4

Peter and Catherine

For the Boys: Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert tutoring soldier in gin rummy during

Hollywood stage door canteen party, 1942

Bathing Beauties: Barbara Nichols

Reflections: Barbara Eden

Predictable tagline alert: "I still dream of Jeannie."

Outlandish Hats: Hedy Lamarr

Bevy of Beauties 19: Dracula's Darlings

These macabre maidens will leave you breathless... If you're lucky!

Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw in Dracula (1931)

Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw in Dracula (1931)

Florina Kendrick, Monica Bellucci and

Michaela Bercu in Dracula (1992)

Florina Kendrick, Monica Bellucci and Michaela Bercu

with Keanu Reeves (aka lunch) in Dracula (1992)

Out on the Town: Carole Landis & Busby Berkeley

Carole Landis and choreographer Busby Berkeley enjoy dinner

during the filming of Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)

The Art of the Dangle 19: June McCall

June McCall in Silk Stockings (1957)