Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan. Marcel Carné’s Port of Shadows [1939]. “…Jean…fugitive…stumbling into love and one last desperate adventure…for a girl he had not even known the night before…”

Nastassja Kinski. Tess [Roman Polanski, 1979]. Tagline: “She was a poor man’s daughter, an aristocrat’s mistress and a gentleman’s wife. She was Tess, a victim of her own provocative beauty.” Nominated by @bigplay_mom.

Simone Signoret in La Ronde [Max Ophüls, 1950]. “A Wonderful Merry-Go-Round of Love!”. Thanks to @RomanPBone1.

Bruce Cabot and Fay Wray and King Kong, 1933. “The strangest story ever conceived by man.” Thanks to @FrankTracy.

Romy Schneider in La Voleuse [Jean Chapot, 1966]. Thanks @filmkuratorium.

Jean Yanne and Stéphane Audran in Claude Chabrol’s Le Boucher [1970]. Nominated by @MidCenturyCinem.

John Belushi in National Lampoon’s Animal House [John Landis, 1978]. And @Sobchak2024 nominated this.

Harpo Marx In Horse Feathers [Norman McLeod, 1932]. “The Maddest Comics of the Screen!”. Thanks @RomanPBone for this.