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Picture on Desk

posted 14 years ago by kayejaye-1
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I'm watching this movie now (and loving it). There's a picture of someone in uniform on Ida Lupina's character's desk... and it looks just like Joseph Cotten. Is this possible? Anyone else notice?

[–] AsHimself 13 years ago

I've wondered the same thing but it's not Cotten - my guess is William Talman.

[–] pamina716 13 years ago

I'm sure it was Tallman. I wonder if it was some kind of inside joke. Maybe because Tallman usually played psychopaths, and Helen Gordon was the widow of a heroic soldier (the photo was of Helen's heroic husband).

[–] telegonus 9 years ago

More likely Talman was a contract player at RKO, his Hamilton Burger days several years down the road, so he had to do as he was told, thus if someone says, "Bill, get in costume and pose for a picture for a movie", he does it. I doubt there's anything more to it than that. The first time I saw the movie I noticed that it was Talman right away. He had a very distinctive face.

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[–] petrilloi 8 years ago

That's him all right. And he had done the main villain in another Lupino company film, The Hitchhiker.

[–] greenbudgie (2355) 3 years ago

He does look like Joseph Cotten. But I agree with others on here who say it's William Talman. I would think that it is a photo of him as Colonel John Parker in 'One Minute To Zero' in his army uniform. 'One Minute To Zero' was filmed about the same time as 'Beware My Lovely.'