In North by Northwest (1959), Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint literally hold hands as they light up on the train. With his dying breath, he’s smoking.Ĭigarettes were manly but also feminine and were part of some of the most romantic scenes of all time.
In his last moments, he takes out a cigarette, and his best friend and fellow insurance company investigator Edward G. In the film noir classic Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray, who has been implicated in a murder, is dying from a gunshot wound. The very last thing we see is a puff of smoke.Īt the other extreme, the opening scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943) features a long close-up shot of a sinister Joseph Cotten in bed smoking a cigar. He lights a cigarette and flings the match to the ground. In the final scene of Orson Welles’ The Third Man (1949), heartthrob Anna Schmidt (played by Alida Valli) walks by lovesick Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) without so much as a glance. Some of the most iconic films of all time depict smoking in the most memorable scenes.
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