{"id":1836,"date":"2022-02-03T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T11:41:59","slug":"film-fatale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"Film Fatale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gray, foggy days are ripe for watching film noir classics like \u201cThe Conspirators\u201d and \u201cThree Strangers.\u201d I\u2019ve learned that the best way to find many long-forgotten or buried-in-the-archives movies is to search by an actor\u2019s name. Want some pre-code Hollywood before censorship took hold? When, dare I say it on Instagram, oh my God (!) is that the flash of a nipple on a nubile female breast? Yeegads!!! But I digress \u2014 if you\u2019re looking for pre-code, I suggest you start with Norma Shearer, a Canadian actress in several films from that era. For my film noir hunt, inspired by a love for Casablanca, I searched for works that included Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre which led me to several possibilities. The list of old movies and early Hollywood, pre-talkie, pre-code is more vast than you might imagine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pq-2021-2022-020203-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pq-2021-2022-020203-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pq-2021-2022-020203-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pq-2021-2022-020203-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pq-2021-2022-020203-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pq-2021-2022-020203-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pq-2021-2022-020203-1639x2048.jpg 1639w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pq-2021-2022-020203-1200x1500.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray, foggy days are ripe for watching film noir classics like \u201cThe Conspirators\u201d and \u201cThree Strangers.\u201d I\u2019ve learned that the best way to find many long-forgotten or buried-in-the-archives movies is to search by an actor\u2019s name. Want some pre-code Hollywood before censorship took hold? When, dare I say it on Instagram, oh my God (!) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film Fatale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}