Bang Bang / A Girl & A Gun | Louise Brooks / Joan Crawford / Nancy Guild / Rita Hayworth / Audrey Hepburn / Gena Rowlands / Jane Greer / Monica Vitti

Gena Rowlands as Gloria directed by John Cassavetes, 1980                    Audrey Hepburn by Bob Willoughby

Rita Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai, 1947

Joan Crawford                                                                             Louise Brooks

"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” 

Al Capone

Nancy Guild in 'The Brasher Doubloon', a Raymond Chandler detective story directed by John Brahm, 1946

Monica Vitti, Modesty Blaise, Joseph Losey, 1966                                          Jane Greer in a publicity photo for The Big Steal, 1949