[From A Foreign Affair (dir. Billy Wilder, 1948). Click for a larger view.]
Jean Arthur as Phoebe Frost is a serious member of Congress abroad in post-war Berlin. Arthur was last seen in these pages holding a pencil.
A Foreign Affair is now streaming at the Criterion Channel.
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Monday, June 20, 2022
A pocket notebook sighting
By Michael Leddy at 8:28 AM
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You can tell that she’s serious because in the ‘40s all serious women in films wore glasses...
Yep. And there’s that hairstyle.
When it comes to glasses in film, I always think of Dorothy Malone in The Big Sleep.
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