[Thanks to Tony Paley for contributing.]
Faye Dunaway,as the once famous model Lou Andreas Sand, is talking to her doctor about the kind of man she wants, while thinking (and recreating) this scene from Josef von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express (1932)
Later, in her apartment, she watches another icy beauty from the past, Anna May Wong in Lloyd Corrigan’s Daughter of the Dragon (1931).
Images from Jerry Schatzberg’s Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970).
