No sooner do I post an item here about actress Margaret Elliot and her Mercury do I read on the NYT website that Ford is killing the Mercury brand after 71 years. I then went looking for noir-vintage Mercurys cruising around Los Angeles--and what do I come up with but a shot of Miss Elliot herself, bourbon to lips, in her Merc, with Oscar riding the dash:
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A Star is Born, 1954. James Mason going up for Pancake with
a '53 Mercury Monterey wagon at left.
And another '53 Merc wagon, in a previously posted shot from a 1966
Perry Mason episode, with the Hall of Justice behind.
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And of course:
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