Well, I haven't read the book since I was 15 (the dark ages) so cut me some slack! (although I also still have the book so there's no excuse)

 

I love Tierney in a technicolor movie, can't recall the title (what a surprise) where every single shot is so beautifully photographed, she looks stunning. There's a scene where she's rowing a boat on a lake giving a swimming lesson to a crippled boy who I believe is the son of her lover. Well she wants the boy out of her life and as he runs out of energy and starts drowning, she just sits there with this hardened look on her face. It was so chilling and I've never forgotten it. For a beautiful woman, she could really scare the *bleep* out of the audience at times.

Or in Leave Her To Heaven, when she's in the rowboat watching the boy drown..that look in her eyes is chilling.

Edited here: Hey...that's one hell of a coincidence...you posted while I was typing the exact same thing!!

So now you know the name of the movie 🙂

Jeez, now that is chilling! Posted within seconds of eachother; we mention the same particular scene out of all her movies filled with iconic moments, which is coincidence enough and then happen to use the same adjective to describe it - we really are on the same page, aren't we?

Either that or we're both psychopaths.

looks like it. I also like Olivia de Havilland, have you seen The Dark Mirror?

Favorite actors?

I recall listening to the commentary of Leave Her To Heaven where the actor who was the boy in the film describes how cruel Gene Tierney was to him in real life. He didn't mention it but apparently this was after she gave birth to the mentally disabled child. In a cruel irony, the boy actor would grow up and have a son who died when in his 20's.

I always thought Agatha Christie taking that incident and writing a book around the revenge of a famous actress over a child, to be incredibly cruel.

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looks like it. I also like Olivia de Havilland, have you seen The Dark Mirror?

Favorite actors?

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I LOVE de Havilland - I'm currently reading a 1980's biography on her and her sister Joan Fontaine's feud - really juicy stuff. I haven't seen The Dark Mirror, is it worth watching? I loved de Havilland in Dodge City and of course Robin Hood, also in her resurgence in the late 40's with The Snake Pit and To Have and To Hold. I even liked her 'horrors" in the 60's with Lady In a Cage and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (although I think Crawford would have been better). The only film I didn't like with Olivia was The Heiress.

 

My favourite actors are Errol Flynn, James Dean and Montgomery Clift. Yours?

Agreed, I read The Mirror Cracked, and saw the movie: I was surprised Elizabeth Taylor agreed to play the part.

Oh and James Stewart is a fave 🙂