Actor: Van Heflin

Possessed (1947)

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In Possessed Joan Crawford gives a strong and unsettling performance as a nurse who is obsessed with a former lover, David (Van Heflin), and can’t let go even after she marries the her employer (Raymond Massey), who had hired her to take care of his mentally unstable wife. When David begins dating her new daughter-in-law, [...]


The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

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I had never heard of The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and just happened upon it while trolling through the Internet Archive (archive.org) looking for a public domain film to download. It turned out to be a new favorite. The story revolves around three childhood friends who are around 15 years old in the opening [...]


Random Quote

“Miss Lora, you don't know what it means to be... different.”
-Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner)
from Imitation of Life