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LAURA (1944)

As the lyric goes, "'Cause I just can't seem to drink it off my mind," and it takes a great actor to convincingly fall in love with a portrait, so by the time Gene Tierney's LAURA comes back to life, Dana Andrews as Detective Mark McPherson has already been through a ringer, or two.

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