![]() According to Hathaway, Ball subsequently apologized for her behavior. After she flubbed her lines one time too many, Hathaway embarrassed her before her peers by ordering her to leave the set and actually read the script." It turned out to be one of her best dramatic performances. A Henry Hathaway biographer observes: "Early into the shoot, it was obvious to Hathaway that Ball was not concentrating on her job. At the time, Ball was trying to break from MGM and had an "unsettled" personal life. Zanuck borrowed Lucille Ball from MGM to play Kathleen. Ida Lupino was initially cast as Kathleen, but had to withdraw because of scheduling conflicts, and Fred MacMurray was originally slated for the role of Galt. ![]() "The El is a presence throughout the movie, its cross ties, stanchions and stairways acting as a shadowy geometric spider web, and its perpetual racket contributing to the paranoia of Stevens's private detective, whose office window is feet from the tracks." The arcade sequence was filmed in Santa Monica, California. The film's locations and settings including office buildings in Manhattan, the Bowery and the Third Avenue El. Rosten published the story under the pen name Leonard Q. William Bendix as Stauffer aka Fred Fossįox paid $40,000 for the rights to Leo Rosten's story prior to its publication in Good Housekeeping.With the help of his sharp-witted secretary Kathleen ( Lucille Ball), Galt is able to overcome all these obstacles and clear himself. But it turns out that Jardine is just part of a wider-ranging conspiracy involving a wealthy art gallery owner, Hardy Cathcart. Galt suspects Jardine is trying to frame him for a murder. After a little rough "persuasion", the thug admits he has been hired by Jardine. Complicating matters, he is being hounded by New York Police Lieutenant Frank Reeves and finds that he is being followed by a thug in a white suit. He blames his former partner Tony Jardine for his problems. Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved from San Francisco to New York to escape a troubled past. The film was not a commercial success but has since been described as a "Grade A example of film noir." Plot The Dark Corner is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix and Mark Stevens.
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