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Angie Dickinson: Rio Bravo
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As a national beauty pageant contestant, Dickinson made the rounds on television and eventually started to receive small acting parts. Her breakthrough role came in Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo and was followed by such feature films as Sabrina, Point Blank and The Killers.
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An avid poker player, Dickinson during the summer of 2004 participated in the second season of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown. After announcing her name, host Dave Foley said "Sometimes, when we say Celebrity, we actually mean it."
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It is sad that, with Dickinson yet again, Hawks adhered to his weird principle of never using the same female star twice in a leading role (Lauren Bacall the solitary exception, perhaps because of her partnership with Bogart). Dickinson made a strong impression both before Rio Bravo (Samuel Fuller's China Gate) and after (Arthur Penn's The Chase, where her presence transforms what is basically a very conventional role); even reduced to the ignominy of playing a decadent femme fatale bent on seducing Troy Donahue (Rome Adventure), she is not negligible; and her presence added an extra dimension to the complex (or confused) sexual politics of De Palma's Dressed to Kill. But the magic of her "Feathers" has never quite been recaptured: if she never appeared again, she would deserve a niche in cinema history for that alone.
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