The Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten Melee in Niagara

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Marilyn Monroe sets up her suckers, er, friends. Image: So It Goes As it turns out, Niagara Falls is a perfect place for murder. The 1953 Technicolor thriller, Niagara, shows us what a perilous place it is: craggy shorelines, thundering water, a 100-foot plunge pool beneath the falls. Yet, for…

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Funny Women of the Silents

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Anita Garvin and Marion Byron in 1928.  There is no delicate way to put this: We’ve been ripped off. We, meaning all of us movie-watching folk. Now, before we continue, we realize countless people in the world have been ripped off in much bigger ways, such as famine, war, injustice, etc.…

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