Pilot

When Mildred prepares for her interview with Dr. Hanover, she is shown arranging her appearance in the style of Picturegoer Film Weekly magazine cover. The issue in question is from June 14, 1941, and features a portrait of Barbara Stanwyck. It is a bit odd that the very stylish Mildred Ratched would base her appearance on a six-year-old magazine cover, considering that the fashions therein would be somewhat out of date. The magazine is also in pristine condition, which it probably wouldn't be if it was six years old and was being carried around in the luggage of somebody with Mildred's itinerant lifestyle.

In the opening scene, the Roman Catholic service is being said in English; at the time, Catholic services were always in Latin. In addition, the priest is vested only in a cassock and a green stole; proper vestments before Vatican II would have included an alb and fiddle-back chasuble.

References Double Indemnity (1944)