nothing lasts, really.

JOAN CRAWFORD as Anni Pavlovitch

"When [Lawrence of Arabia] was in production, screenwriter Michael Wilson was not paying much attention to Lawrence's sexuality. Wilson was more concerned with the theme of colonialism versus nationalism, and Lawrence's scholastic pursuits. This clearly displeased Lean, who wanted to paint more of a controversial character study, albeit on a large canvas, than Wilson had so far achieved. As far as one can judge from Wilson's notes, Lean had two overriding concerns - Lawrence's sexual make-up, and the scene that he would film in Petra. As far as the former is concerned, Wilson noted that Lean had, revealingly, compared the Lawrence-Ali relationship to Brief Encounter, his 1945 film about an unconsummated love affair starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson." - Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930 – 1971 by Stephen Bourne

JANE GREER AND ROBERT MITCHUM IN

What I'd give Oh, what I'd give For the time I've wasted Time I've wasted

You're old, and you're getting foolish, and you've made a mistake! It's me you should have hung! Because now I hate you in a way I didn't know a human could hate. Take a good, long look at me, T.C. You won't see me again until the day I take your world away from you!

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

She gave him her hand. Wenk, to whom the name suddenly clarified the circumstances of the escape on that night when Count Told had entered, kissed her slender fingers, surrendering himself all at once to her beauty without restraint, and toying once more with the fleeting thought: Why hunt people and not love this woman?

Dr. Mabuse der Spieler by Norbert Jacques, Chapter 6

Gene Tierney as Poppy