The lady from shanghai

Jasmine, orange blossom, gardenia, narcissus, lily, tuberose… The velvety flesh of white flowers feels like a woman’s skin; their smell pull...

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947)

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Stand up or give up: still of Rita Hayworth in the funhouse at Playland-at-the-Beach from Orson Welles' The Lady From Shanghai

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“The Lady from Shanghai” was a film noir released in 1947, starring Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane, and based on the book If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King. Written and directed by Welles himself, the movie was produced as a favor to Columbia Pictures director Henry Cohn, who Welles' owed for lending him money during his 1946 stage production of Jules Vernes' Around the World in 80 Days. Welles cast his then-estranged wife at the time, Rita Hayworth, as the leading lady…

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“A director is someone who presides over accidents.” —Orson Welles “You are made from nothing but this, from these contingent manifestations, from these little discontinuities.” —Jacques Lacan See …

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