Fished from the bitstream 12

Ava Gardner from Old Hollywood

Brigitte Bardot from Suicide Blonde

Claudia Cardinale from A Celebration of Feminine Pulchritude

Charlotte Gainsbourg from This Isn't Happiness

Chloe Sevigny from Terry Richardson's Diary

Genevieve Tobin from She Blogged By Night

Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson and Sydney Greenstreet

in Casablanca (1942) from Cinema is Dope

Monica Bellucci from That Obscure Object

Problem Girls (1953) poster from Wrong Side of the Art

Yvonne DeCarlo from RETrOZONe

Modern Femmes Fatale: Part 34

Cindy Crawford

Natasha Henstridge

Linda Evangelista

Sigourney Weaver

Christina Ricci

Carola Clavarino

Jessica Biel

Lily Allen

Lindsay Lohan

Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill (1980)

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!

For these and many more pics from this series click here.

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