Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Who Wore It Best?

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Mme. Sebastian (Leopoldine Konstantin) in Notorious
or Lady Tremaine (Eleanor Audley) in Cinderella?
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That picture of Lady Tremaine has become something of a meme that I've seen around and looking at it yesterday I realized something I'd never realized before - that Cinderella's famed "Evil Stepmother" from 1950 clearly owes a debt of gratitude to Hitchcock's own delightfully diabolical mother-in-law character of 1946. Both of them are awoken in the middle of the night, both sinisterly caressing their respective vices. (Pussies and smokes, oh my.) Anyway any excuse for me to think about Mme. Sebastian lighting up in bed is one I'll snatch the second I can...

"We are protected by the enormity
of your stupidity... for a time."
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