Lucy started in noir? "The Dark Corner" starring Lucille Ball as...

[TreasonousBastard]

secretary to tough private eye. 1946

[NBachers]

1. I don't thinks she started it, but I saw The Dark Corner a few nights ago, and it is stellar. 40's

dialog, a convoluted plot to follow, and all the elements you hope for in a good Noir film. I saw it on YouTube.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Sorry, I didn't mean she started noir. I was just a little surprised....

to see her in a noir mystery so early in her career. Thought she always did light comedy, even in the early days.

Truth is, I'm getting noir'd out a little. Stumbled on a mystery utube channel.

[Zorro]

5. She appeared in a Three Stooges short in the 30s

Recall she was a blonde then.

[Auggie]

6. Lucy had been around ...

was billed in RKO Productions as early as 1936

[tblue37]

7. Stage Door (a drama) with Katherine Hepburn was an early movie.

[Walleye]

3. My favorite Lucy picture, excellent movie. She's a much better actress than she's given credit for

I love those hard-boiled detective movies and this one has everything, the voiceover and the wisecracking blonde, and everybody lying

[area51]

4. I loved "Dark Corner".

[Raine]

8. Lucy was in all different types of films, another dark one is

Big Street. Henry Fonda is also in it, he has a crush on her character. Lucy is self-centered and selfish in this one, totally different from the light parts she's known for. It's a strange movie, she's really unlikable. Lucy made some really good comedy films though like Fuller Brush Girl. I remember reading that she would take any part she was offered so she could make good in Hollywood. Lucy wasn't stuck up about the parts she played while she made a name for herself.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. Lucy was proud to be "Queen of the Bs" with the gobs of B movies...

she made in the 40s.. A job was a job at least until she turned out to be the brains behind I Love Lucy.

[malthaussen]

9. Believe it or not, Lucy was considered something of a sex symbol in the '40s.

In George MacDonald Fraser's memoirs Quartered Safe Out of Here , there is a lively discussion by members of his section over various femmes fatale of the silver screen and "Madame DuBarry's tits."

-- Mal

[LudwigPastorius]

11. "Lucy, you seduced and killed an innocent man for his money?"

"You got some 'SPLAININ to do!"