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I was watching an old New World Pictures gangster drama from 1979, THE LADY IN RED, a fictionalized account of the infamous woman who supposedly was John Dillinger's paramour and signaled the Feds who wound up killing him outside the Biograph theatre in the 30s. There's a scene 2/3 into the movie where, after Dillinger is killed and the press is writing stories about her, she decides to put a gang together to pull a bank robbery, and discusses the holdup with an accomplice outside a dress shop.

In that scene, upon looking closely, there is a live model in the shop window impersonating a mannequin; note this is not supposed to be a scripted live mannequin performer, they're really trying to pass as a shop dummy. I gather that considering the low budgets Corman allotted filmmakers, the director (Lewis Teague, who also made ALLIGATOR and CUJO) determined that it was cheaper to make up and dress a real actress than to try finding an actual '30-style mannequin, which would have been made of plaster and very heavy and likely hard to come by and easy to damage.

Ironically enough, The woman who played the mannequin never got any film credits unless she was in the "stunt people" section. lol

greneker03 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 8:01 am Ironically enough, The woman who played the mannequin never got any film credits unless she was in the "stunt people" section. lol

I just listened to the BluRay commentary track with director Lewis Teague, and he mentions this moment!
He says it was one of the make-up artists on the shoot, so while she's not credited for this on-screen appearance, going from the makeup credits, it's either Bari Roulette or Gigi Williams.

Does anyone have screenshots to post?