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[7/10] Crucial Movies: Strangers on a Train (1951)

The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. - John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won’t bother me."

Greta Garbo as Ninotchka (1939) indulges in her first lipstick.

James Dean playing records in his aunt and uncle’s basement in Indiana, 1955.

Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford in Across to Singapore, 1928

What are you? A prize fighter?

Marlon Brando photographed by Philippe Halsman, 1950.

Dean Martin and wife Jeanne with their daughter Gina, 1957.

Marlon Brando c. unknown

Elizabeth Taylor, photographed by Bob Willoughby, 1956.

"A woman is beautiful when she’s loved, and only then." "Nonsense! A woman is beautiful if she has eight hours sleep and goes to the beauty parlour every day - and bone structure has a lot to do with it too."