The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film) filmed as "Le Dernier Tournant" ("The Last Turning") in France in 1939 and as "Ossessione" ("Obsession") in Italy in 1943. Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a hobo who has hitched a ride with a man we later comes to learn is the local District Attorney, Kyle Sackett (Leon Ames). He drops Frank off at a rural diner/service station, Twin Oaks, for a meal. Frank ends up working there. The diner is operated by a beautiful young woman, Cora Smith (Lana Turner), and her much older husband, Nick (Cecil Kellaway). Frank and Cora start to have an affair soon after they
Cora Smith Eaton Cora Smith Eaton Cora Smith Eaton (1867 – 1939) was an American suffragist, physician and mountaineer. Cora Smith was born in 1867 and attended the National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, where she took up the cause of women's suffrage. She attended the University of North Dakota from 1884 to 1889, during which time she taught arithmetic, geography, spelling and handwriting at the university. She was also the first woman to teach physical education at UND. She graduated in 1889 with a Bachelor of Science as a member of UND's first class. She subsequently studied at the Boston