#joseph cotten

Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins

She's the thing I love most in the world. | You're all I've got in the whole wide world.

You think you know something, don't you? You think you're the clever little girl who knows something. There's so much you don't know. So much. What do you know, really? You're just an ordinary little girl living in an ordinary little town. You wake up every morning of your life and you know perfectly well that there's nothing in the world to trouble you. You go through your ordinary little day, and at night, you sleep your untroubled, ordinary little sleep filled with peaceful, stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares. Or did I? Or was it a silly, inexpert little lie? You live in a dream. You're a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you ripped the fronts off houses, you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something!

"I got to do this Charlie, S´long, s´long as you know what you do about me."

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

rita hayworth, orson welles (orson the magnificent), joseph cotten (jo-jo the great) and agnes moorehead (calliope aggie) at the mercury wonder show, a magic show by the mercury theatre produced by welles and cotten. it was performed for the US Armed Forces in 1943.

rita hayworth and orson welles fell in love during rehearsals and got married a few months later. sadly, after the opening night, columbia boss harry cohn forbade hayworth of appearing in the show. her part was replaced by marlene dietrich.