Fallen Angel (1945) | |
| Director(s) | Otto Preminger |
| Producer(s) | Otto Preminger |
| Top Genres | Crime, Film Noir, Mystery, Romance |
| Top Topics | |
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Fallen Angel (1945) was a Film Noir - Crime Film directed by Otto Preminger and produced by Otto Preminger.
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Love Alone Can Make the Fallen Angel Rise: The Linda Darnell Centennial Blogathon
By shadowsandsatin on Oct 14, 2023 From Shadows and SatinI have mixed feelings about Fallen Angel, a 20th Century Fox noir released in 1945 and directed by Otto Preminger. The story centers on Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews) a down-on-his-luck slickster who winds up in a small California town where he falls for Stella (Linda Darnell), an alluring waitress at ... Read full article
Discussion of "Fallen Angel"
By Stephen Reginald on Mar 8, 2022 From Classic Movie ManDiscussion of "Fallen Angel" Fallen Angel (1945) is an American film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, and Linda Darnell.Andrews stars as a grifter hoping to swindle two rich sisters (Faye and Anne Revere) while romancing Stella (Darnell) a diner waitress.Th... Read full article
Day 24 of Noirvember: Stella in Fallen Angel (1945)
By shadowsandsatin on Nov 24, 2021 From Shadows and SatinToday?s Noirvember post shines the spotlight on Stella in Fallen Angel (1945). WHAT?S FALLEN ANGEL ABOUT? Cynical, down-on-his-luck press agent Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews) finds himself in a small town in California (because he didn?t have the bus fare to make it to San Francisco), and he promptly b... Read full article
“Fallen Angel” to screen at PianoForte February 3
By Stephen Reginald on Jan 23, 2020 From Classic Movie Man“Fallen Angel” to screen at PianoForte February 3 Fallen Angel (1945) starring Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, and Linda Darnell will screen on February 3 at PianoForte, 1335 S. Michigan Ave. 2nd Floor. Admission is $5. Andrews stars as a grifter hoping to swindle two rich sisters (Faye ... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
By Jennifer Garlen on Feb 19, 2018 From Virtual ViragoOtto Preminger directs this top-notch noir tale of misplaced love and murder, which stars Dana Andrews as a small-time grifter who falls for luscious Linda Darnell but woos wealthy Alice Faye. It's a love triangle with a couple of kinks thrown into it, and the title, Fallen Angel, might equally appl... Read full article
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[Eric looks over to June, she motions him to get into the car, he does]
June Mills: Where to?
Eric Stanton: [Eric nestles up to his wife] Home.
[They drive off into the night]
Mark Judd: [Walking over to Stella] I knew you'd come back Stella.
Stella: [looks at him from her chair in disdain, rubbing her sore feet] Okay.
Joe Ellis: Get in.
Eric Stanton: I'm not going.
Professor Madley: Not going? What's wrong?
Eric Stanton: Nothing. You go ahead. I'll meet you.
Professor Madley: But Eric - we need you for the advance publicity. San Francisco's a tough town on spooks.
Joe Ellis: Come on! hit 'em like the earthquake!
Eric Stanton: When I feel like it. I made it clear to you when I took this job. You can't tie me down. Cramps my style. I always work best when a certain feeling comes over me, and right now I haven't got it.
Joe Ellis: [under his breath] Genius!
Professor Madley: Eric my boy, you're an artist. You have my sympathy. And a bus ticket on the firm.
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According to Wade Williams in Alice Faye: The Star Next Door, when Alice Faye saw a rough cut of the film and realized that Otto Preminger's editing had diminished the impact of her performance in favor of newcomer Linda Darnell, she got up from the screening, drove off the 20th Century Fox lot, threw her dressing room key to the security guard, and vowed never to work for the studio again.
Alice Faye, married to Phil Harris and raising two young daughters, then tiring after nearly a dozen years of hectic moving-making, and disappointed with the outcome of this release, chose to leave Twentieth Century-Fox before her contract expired. Eventually, she would return to work at the studio once, playing the mother role in a bland filming of Rodgers and Hammerstein's State Fair. Originally, Miss Faye had turned down the band-singer part in the more satisfying 1945 version.
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