Cat People 1942  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Horror / Thriller
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt, Alan Napier, Elizabeth Russell, Alec Craig, Bud Geary, Eddie Dew, Murdock MacQuarrie, Donald Kerr, Theresa Harris
Following their wedding, Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) learns that his wife Irena (Simone Simon) believes that she is a Cat Woman as a member of an ancient Serbian tribe and has a genetic tendency to turn into a panther when emotionally aroused. Oliver tries to help Irena by getting her psychiatric help from Dr. Louis Judd (Tom Conway), but Oliver runs into major problems. The marriage is failing, and Oliver becomes romantically interested in coworker Alice Moore (Jane Randolph). Now, a jealous Irena's stalking of Alice turns into a night of terror in a swimming pool.
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The Curse of the Cat People 1944   N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Fantasy
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Elizabeth Russell, Eve March, Julia Dean, Erford Gage, Sir Lancelot, Charles Bates, Edmund Glover, Sarah Selby
In this sequel to "Cat People," a little girl (Ann Carter) develops her private world of make-believe when her father (Kent Smith) ignores her emotional needs, and she conjures up her father's deceased wife (Simone Simon).
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The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror
aka: Daniel and the Devil
All That Money Can Buy
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, James Craig, Gene Lockhart, John Qualen, George Cleveland, Jeff Corey, Anne Shirley, H.B. Warner, Frank Conlan, Lindy Wade, Alec Craig, Eddie Dew
Set in the1840s, Mr. Scratch (Walter Huston) is the Devil with whom Jabez Stone (James Craig) traded his soul for riches. Now, Stone refuses to live up to his part of the bargain and insists on a legal trial. Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold) represents Stone in this classic Stephen Vincent Benet tale. Walter Huston received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor.
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Girls' Dormitory 1936  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon, Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg, Dixie Dunbar, John Qualen, Shirley Deane, Tyrone Power, Frank Reicher, George Hassell, Lynne Berkeley, June Storey, Christian Rub, Rita Gould
Marie (Simone Simon) is a student at a Swiss finishing school who falls in love with headmaster Dr. Stephen Dominik (Herbert Marshall). Marie writes a love letter, and Professor Anna Mathe (Ruth Chatterton) finds it in the trash and shows it to Stephen. When confronted with the letter, Marie tells Anna that it was written to an imaginary lover. Anna has been secretly in love with Stephen for years, and many problems lie ahead before Stephen marries. By story's end, will he marry Anna or Marie?
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Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1944 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
aka: And So They Were Married
Director: Joe May
Cast: Simone Simon, James Ellison, William Terry, Minna Gombell, Robert Mitchum, Chick Chandler, Alan Dinehart, Gladys Blake, Grady Sutton, Milton Kibbee, Dorothy Granger, Chester Clute, Jerry Maren, Janet Shaw, Charles Williams
When Johnny's (William Terry) girlfriend Kathie Aumont (Simone Simon) needs a Washington, D.C. apartment, he hands over the keys to his lodgings. The only problem is that he has also given keys to a number of his friends who manage to arrive day and night.
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 La Bete Humaine 1938 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Human Beast
Judas Was a Woman
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Julien Carette, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy, Gerard Landry, Jean Renoir, Jenny Helia, Colette Regis, Claire Gerard, Charlotte Clasis, Jacques Berlioz
Emile Zola's novel is adapted into this excellent film about an unfaithful wife (Simone Simon) who plots her husband's (Fernand Ledoux) demise. Fritz Lang remade this story as "Human Desire."
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La Ronde 1950 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Max Ophuls
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gelin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey, Odette Joyeux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Isa Miranda, Gerard Philipe, Robert Vattier
Set in Vienna during the early 1900s, this story is narrated by Anton Walbrook who introduces a series of affairs in which a new character is involved with a character from the last scene. Beginning with young soldier Franz (Serge Reggiani) falling into the arms of prostitute Leocadie (Simone Signoret) who then has a short liaison with Alfred (Daniel Gelin), but he leaves her when he seduces housewife Emma Breitkopf (Danielle Darrieux). And on it goes until the seductions go full circle, and Franz is back with Leocadie.
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Seventh Heaven 1937 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Henry King
Cast: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, John Qualen, Victor Kilian, Sig Ruman, Thomas Beck, Georges Renavent, Mady Christians, Rafaela Ottiano, Rollo Lloyd, Edward Keane
Diane (Simone Simon) is exploited as a prostitute by her sister Nana (Gale Sondergaard) and then thrown out of the house. A Parisian sewer worker, Chico (James Stewart), rescues Diane, and she moves into his slum apartment. World War I breaks out just as Chico realizes that he is in love with Diane, but he is drafted and leaves for the front. Four years later, Chico, blinded during the war, returns to a loving Diane who is waiting for him.
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| 1. Cat People (1942)
2. The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
3. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
aka: Daniel and the Devil
aka: All That Money Can Buy
4. Girls' Dormitory (1936)
5. Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1944)
aka: And So They Were Married
6. La Bete Humaine (1938)
aka: The Human Beast
aka: Judas Was a Woman
7. La Ronde (1950)
8. Seventh Heaven (1937)
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