 To pitch the movie to backers (and, later, to explain his aesthetic  ideas about it to various cast and crew members), director  Curtis Hanson (I) (qv) put together a group of 18 period images  illustrating different aspects of what he was hoping to convey with  the movie. These included the "Welcome to Los Angeles" postcard that  is in the first shot of the movie; photos of tract housing and  orange groves, and the glamor shot of Veronica Lake (I) (qv) that  is visible in the film framed on Lynn Brackens wall. Hanson also  chose studio photos of two lesser