So how many of these stars can you name?
Category: Film Noir
Dangerous divas and moody macho men ducking in and out of the shadows. A look at twisted plots that prove that nothing is really ever black and white. Behind the scenes info on stars of film noir who were some of the best scene stealers on celluloid.
A Film Noir Saga
She waited alone on the doorstep. A tattered suitcase her only friend.
Just waited for someone to blame.
He came toward her from out of the dark and somehow she knew his name.
She knew that he was on the run.
But that he did not care who knew.
She also knew she loved another and he was running too.
But this one had a wife just as lovely as she.
Maybe this other woman had the other key …..
Or maybe the man in the dark, the man with the name …
had called in yet another dame …
She glammed herself up, put a smirk on her face…
Then simply vanished without a trace.
A tribute to Lizabeth Scott, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lanchaster and Ava Garner. Film stills from ‘Dark City’, ‘Dead Reckoning’, ‘To Have and To Have Not’ and ‘The Killers’
Story teaser by Wanda Way Awrf
© Renee Dallow
‘The Past Tense Of Youth’ on ‘Blurb’
Yes I have written a novel. What is it about? Well it is, of course, set in another era. The glamorous era of the 1930s to be exact. 
Dinner parties, glamorous gowns and glamorous locations.
The story begins in the courtyard of an ancient palace with a young bride being lured back in time by a mysterious song. then moves back to the Hydro Majestic Hotel in ‘Medlow Bath ‘Blue Mountains’ Australia where she first met the man she would marry.
A beautiful setting for two beautiful people from different cultural backgrounds to fall in love. The couple married on the grounds of the bride’s stately home in Cumbria England and are in the third week of their honeymoon in a distant land. The land where the groom was born. Istanbul Turkey.
The palace is ‘Topkapi Palace’ the seat of the Ottoman Empire and the young bride has just left a guided tour in order to explore the harem quarters which are off limits to tourists.
It is here that the story begins to twist and turn as the reader is taken back to 1908 into the days of concubines and favourites in the last days of the Ottoman Empire and then involved in a scurrilous love affair between a gypsy and handsome soldier who looks remarkably like the groom who is still on a tour of Topkapi Palace.
While he is trying to find his wife she is trying to find out why the gypsy has lured her back in time and why her husband does not recognise her. This is actually only the first half and if you would like to find out what happens you can purchase the novel from ‘Blurb Books’. Just google the title and you’ll find it.
Apart from being a romance my novel is also a mystery. I have tried to evoke a film noir style of writing. Happy Reading.
© Renee Dallow ( Author. )
Asta: Detective Dog
Asta appeared in the ‘Thin Man ‘ films with Robert Powell and Myrna Loy who played Mr and Mrs Charles. He was the child they never had and went everywhere with his human parents. 
They took him on trains, in taxis, on planes, cruise ships… even to restaurants. 
In return Asta entertained and carried out important intelligence missions sussing out the bad guys. Often when Mr Charles was caught in a jam asta would know exactly what to do to get him out of it. 
Always on hand to chase a gangster up a tree, disarm a femme fatale with his winning smile or to distract an ex- con from carrying out yet another petty attempt at revenge.
Really though Asta was just your average adorable pooch and lived for his rewards.
Bourgeoise Bloomers 
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