DREAMS ARE WHAT LE CINEMA IS FOR...
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Cinephile musings for classic movie lovers, cult film fans, and devotees of cinema de strange.  Dreams are what le cinema is for.
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The Shrike (1955)

I loved seeing perennial girl-next-door June Allyson drop the Peter Pan collars and put her dimpled smile in escrow to play the sort of woman once described as "a hard article." All Night Long (1981)

Too bad the film's flat script lets her down, because Barbra Streisand's rare excursion into character work (playing a bullied housewife and wannabe entertainer who can't sing) is an absolute delight.Norma Desmond, The Hollywood Chimera

Age isn't the only reason Hollywood banished Norma Desmond to the scrap heap. The subtleties of Gloria Swanson's extravagantly operatic characterization (and Oscar-worthy performance...she was robbed!) suggest that Norma knows only one channel. Her gestures, manner of speech, & facial expressions are representative of an acting style that had long gone out of fashion.