How To Steal A Million (1966), dir. William Wyler
I want you to take a long look at the trees, the blue sky, and the river, all of which I personally loathe, which is why a juicy stretch in a French prison doesn’t bother me at all.
She would flirt with every man there. That would be cruel to Ashley, but it would make him yearn for her all the more. She wouldn’t outlook a man of marriageable age, from ginger-whiskered old Frank Kennedy, who was Suellen’s beau, on down to shy, quiet, blushing Charles Hamilton, Melanie’s brother. They would swarm around her like bees around a hive, and certainly Ashley would be drawn from Melanie to join the circle of her admirers.
Sophia Loren and Charles Boyer, La Fortuna di Essere Donna, 1956
Notorious woman of affairs… Adventurous man of the world!
Notorious [1946]
Ava Gardner, 1943, photo by Eric Carpenter © Kobal Foundation