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Deception (1946) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Irving Rapper and produced by Henry Blanke and Jack L. Warner.

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book: The Anatomy of Deception (2008) by Lawrence Goldstone

By John Grant on May 12, 2018 From Noirish

In 1889, at the same as James Norton is chasing a killer and confronting his own demons in Paris in Lisa Appignanesi’s Paris Requiem, which by unusual coincidence I read just a few days ago, young surgeon Ephraim Carroll is undergoing rather similar adventures in Philadelphia. What made The An... Read full article


Billy Wilder's Game of Deception...and the Wonderment of Jack Lemmon

By Rick29 on Jun 14, 2017 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. It can be a challenge to review a classic like Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, because so much has been written about it. So, instead of a traditional review, I want to focus on Wilder's theme of deception and also pay tribute to that marvelous actor known as Jack Lemm... Read full article


Billy Wilder's Game of Deception...and the Wonderment of Jack Lemmon

By Rick29 on Jun 14, 2017 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. It can be a challenge to review a classic like Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, because so much has been written about it. So, instead of a traditional review, I want to focus on Wilder's theme of deception and also pay tribute to that marvelous actor known as Jack Lemm... Read full article


Deception (1946)

By Beatrice on Jul 9, 2014 From Flickers in Time

Deception Directing by Irving Rapper Written by John Collier, Joseph Than and Louis Verneuil 1946/US Warner Bros. First viewing/Netflix rental For me, this Bette Davis vehicle actually belongs to Claude Rains and to Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s beautiful score. Christine Radcliffe (Davis) is a... Read full article


Deception(1946)

By Dawn on Jul 30, 2010 From Noir and Chick Flicks

Deception (1946). Directed Irving Rapper. The film is based on the play Monsieur Lamberthier by Louis Verneuil. The screenplay was written by John Collier and Joseph Than. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains who had also performed together in, Now, Voyager (1942).After a long separation... Read full article


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Alexander Hollenius: [snatches his bleeding hand away from Christine Radcliffe] Like all women: white as a sheet at the sight of a couple of scratches... but calm and smiling as a hospital nurse in the presence of a mortal wound... Good night!


Alexander Hollenius: She tells me your some sort of a genius, if such a term can be applied to a mere performer.


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Paul Henreid's cello-playing was dubbed by Eleanor Aller (Mrs Felix Slatkin) while she was pregnant with Frederic Zlotkin. Her father, Gregory Aller, coached Henreid in plausible bow movements.
Paul Henreid could not play the cello. While he was able to fake it in the long shots, to achieve the illusion in close up, he wore a special jacket with no sleeves and holes for two real cellists to insert their arms - one to bow, and one to accurately finger the music - while seated behind him, out of shot.
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