Look at this gorgeous dissolve from Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful, a blistering film about Hollywood, power, greed, and – most importantly – the compromises people are willing to make for fame. They’ll trade anything. It’s SO good. And so gorgeously fluidly filmed, with so many great dissolves. This is the first dissolve in the film, coming at about five minutes in.
One Lana Turner. Two telephones.
I love this movie. Lana’s best performance, for my money, among many other assets.