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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 393007" data-attributes="member: 57984">What grande dame guignol pictures were we lacking?? Which stars who never did one should&#039;ve and what would the story be??I always have in my head a ~1966 movie, smells like a Hammer film, in lurid color, with Joan Crawford playing twins -- one rich and evil in a beehive coif and living in a Victorian mansion at the top of a hill, and the other a saintly clairvoyant with long flowing locks attempting to bring the other to her knees. And a diva-eating hydra has to be involved, killing Evil Joan in the conservatory in the horrific final scene as the house burns... And we should call it &quot;Hornet&#039;s Nest&quot;.I just see it. In my head. With all the other stuff.But Crawford did actually one of these. Okay, several.What would it be like if Gloria Swanson did one (and she damned well should&#039;ve)? She did a 1964 episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK called &quot;Behind the Locked Door&quot; which would have a made a good creepy template for a film. (She also did KILLER BEES as a made-for-TV movie in 1974, posted a couple of times on Tellytalk). Miriam Hopkins did one in the &#039;70s (supposedly) but that was much too late. She&#039;s perfect material for the genre.Katharine Hepburn would never have done one (her turn in SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER was the closest she&#039;d ever come) but what ideas would you have for her had she acquiesced to the grand dame guignol trend?Others? Do you have star ideas for actresses who never did one? Story ideas? Prospective titles?? Resonant lines of diva dialogue, like:&quot;Murder starts in the heart. And its first weapon is a vicious tongue...!&quot;<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/f8/8c/58f88c0a7802d0d48314369d2d72ce8d.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 669px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 393007, member: 57984"] What grande dame guignol pictures were we lacking?? Which stars who never did one should've and what would the story be?? I always have in my head a ~1966 movie, smells like a Hammer film, in lurid color, with Joan Crawford playing twins -- one rich and evil in a beehive coif and living in a Victorian mansion at the top of a hill, and the other a saintly clairvoyant with long flowing locks attempting to bring the other to her knees. And a diva-eating hydra has to be involved, killing Evil Joan in the conservatory in the horrific final scene as the house burns... And we should call it "Hornet's Nest". I just see it. In my head. With all the other stuff. But Crawford did actually one of these. Okay, several. What would it be like if Gloria Swanson did one (and she damned well should've)? She did a 1964 episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK called "Behind the Locked Door" which would have a made a good creepy template for a film. (She also did KILLER BEES as a made-for-TV movie in 1974, posted a couple of times on Tellytalk). Miriam Hopkins did one in the '70s (supposedly) but that was much too late. She's perfect material for the genre. Katharine Hepburn would never have done one (her turn in SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER was the closest she'd ever come) but what ideas would you have for her had she acquiesced to the grand dame guignol trend? Others? Do you have star ideas for actresses who never did one? Story ideas? Prospective titles?? Resonant lines of diva dialogue, like: [I]"Murder starts in the heart. And its first weapon is a vicious tongue...!"[/I] [IMG width="669px"]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/f8/8c/58f88c0a7802d0d48314369d2d72ce8d.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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