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Double Indemnity (1944)

Phyllis: I'm a native Californian. Born right here in Los Angeles.

Walter Neff: They say all native Californians come from Iowa. 

Today marks 107 years of the grandest dame of them all, Barbara Stanwyck! She's the best. Film Forum is showing this movie the first week of August here in New York as part of their terrific-looking "Femmes Noirs" program. I'm all up in that business.

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