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My Name Is Julia Ross
film by Lewis [1945]
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discussed in biography
- In Joseph H. Lewis
…first assignment at Columbia was My Name Is Julia Ross (1945), a gripping film noir in which a young woman (played by Nina Foch) is hired to be the secretary of a wealthy matriarch (Dame May Whitty) but is then drugged, imprisoned in a mansion, and told that she is…
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Penn
- In Arthur Penn: Films of the 1980s and later work
Lewis’s 1945 film noir My Name Is Julia Ross and starring Mary Steenburgen as the woman being held prisoner in a spooky mansion, was better. Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989), a marriage of black humour and violence, became a cult favourite with fans of the subversive comedian-magicians of…
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