Anne Baxter 100 -- May 7, 2023

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Anne Baxter was born 100 years ago today, on 07-May-1923. I love her delivery.

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Billy Wilder wrote and directed Five Graves to Cairo, which was silly but had Erich von Stroheim as Rommell. Anne Baxter was both funny and serious as Mouche.

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Joseph Mankiewicz directed Bette Davis and Anne Baxter in All About Eve. Both were nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award. 

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Fritz Lang directed The Blue Gardenia. The tune sometimes gets stuck in my head.

The Apartment -- September 6, 2021

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Happy Labor Day, everyone. 

Billy Wilder's The Apartment is hard to watch. Jack Lemmon is an office worker who thinks he can get ahead by letting executives use his apartment for assignations. His boss, played by Fred MacMurray is a creep who uses the apartment to meet with Shirley MacLaine's character, an elevator operator whom Lemmon has a crush on. When she gets dumped by the boss, she tries to kill herself. Jack Lemmon saves her life and nurses her back to health, but gets blamed for all of her troubles. At last he realizes that his aspirations are worthless and he happily gets fired.