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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 54546" data-attributes="member: 57984">If you watch I SAW WHAT YOU DID (1965) Joan is wearing her mid-&#039;60s beehive hairdo and giant choker necklace and is photographed by the same man who filmed CHARLOTTE, so you get a sense of how she would have looked and seemed had she not pulled out of CHARLOTTE.She looks like a hornet.Except that I SAW WHAT YOU DID is a silly William Castle picture -- although it&#039;s still more polished than hapless STRAIT-JACKET.<img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iNMt0yqYV3Q/VuDVfM_FxRI/AAAAAAAATgI/lXFldUusFuE/s1600/Joan-Crawford-I-Saw-What-You-Did-1965%2B%25284%2529.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Barbara Stanwyck (a close friend of Crawford) was actually offered the Mary Astor role (and foolishly went off to do THE NIGHT WALKER instead, also a hapless William Castle movie) while Kate Hepburn, as one would expect, never responded to the offer at all (she once said, &quot;I don&#039;t have to do the things Bette does,&quot; and I guess the closest Hepburn would come to grande dame guignol is SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER). And, yes, there&#039;s the famous quote from Vivien Leigh that she thought she could look at Crawford&#039;s face first thing in the morning but not Davis&#039;.Miriam Hopkins (as yet another Scorpio Rising diva tailor made for this kind of material) sadly never made one of these early-&#039;60s shockers, and by the time she did SAVAGE INTRUDER -- which I&#039;ve seen only parts of -- she seemed at death&#039;s door and the era had already changed, so the movie didn&#039;t have the same potential. (Hopkins is perfect, however, as Robert Redford&#039;s histrionic mother in THE CHASE from 1966; Redford himself was still unable to act his way out of a wet paper sack).Why didn&#039;t Gloria Swanson get a shot at this genre, one wonders? Especially when you see her in that ALFRED HITCHCOCK episode &quot;Behind the Locked Door.&quot; But I guess SUNSET BLVD was her contribution to the form.<img src="https://monstergirl.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/capturfiles_1-copy-12.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 54546, member: 57984"] If you watch I SAW WHAT YOU DID (1965) Joan is wearing her mid-'60s beehive hairdo and giant choker necklace and is photographed by the same man who filmed CHARLOTTE, so you get a sense of how she would have looked and seemed had she not pulled out of CHARLOTTE. She looks like a hornet. Except that I SAW WHAT YOU DID is a silly William Castle picture -- although it's still more polished than hapless STRAIT-JACKET. [IMG]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iNMt0yqYV3Q/VuDVfM_FxRI/AAAAAAAATgI/lXFldUusFuE/s1600/Joan-Crawford-I-Saw-What-You-Did-1965%2B%25284%2529.JPG[/IMG] Barbara Stanwyck (a close friend of Crawford) was actually offered the Mary Astor role (and foolishly went off to do THE NIGHT WALKER instead, [B]also[/B] a hapless William Castle movie) while Kate Hepburn, as one would expect, never responded to the offer at all (she once said, "I don't have to do the things Bette does," and I guess the closest Hepburn would come to [I]grande dame guignol[/I] is SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER). And, yes, there's the famous quote from Vivien Leigh that she thought she could look at Crawford's face first thing in the morning but not Davis'. Miriam Hopkins (as yet another [I]Scorpio Rising[/I] diva tailor made for this kind of material) sadly never made one of these early-'60s shockers, and by the time she did SAVAGE INTRUDER -- which I've seen only parts of -- she seemed at death's door and the era had already changed, so the movie didn't have the same potential. (Hopkins is perfect, however, as Robert Redford's histrionic mother in THE CHASE from 1966; Redford himself was still unable to act his way out of a wet paper sack). Why didn't Gloria Swanson get a shot at this genre, one wonders? Especially when you see her in that ALFRED HITCHCOCK episode "Behind the Locked Door." But I guess SUNSET BLVD was her contribution to the form. [IMG]https://monstergirl.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/capturfiles_1-copy-12.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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