#classic films
Mr. George C. Scott and Mr. Paul Newman in an unpublished still from the 1961 Stuart Rosenberg film,“The Hustler”. Credits go to http://theeditroomfloor.blogspot.co.uk.
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These are her slippers. ‘Throw me my slips, Danny,’ she used to say. She had little feet for her height. Put your hands inside the slippers. They are quite small and narrow, aren’t they?
She forced the slippers over my hands, smiling all the while, watching my eyes. ‘You never would have thought she was so tall, would you?’ she said, ‘These slippers would fit a tiny foot. She was so slim too. You would forget her height, until she stood beside you. She was every bit as tall as me. But lying there in bed she looked quite a slip of a thing, with her mass of dark hair, standing out from her face like a halo.’
-Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier
I like the echoes in the text: from ‘slippers’ to 'slips’ and 'slip of a thing’. They reinforce the idea that obsessive Mrs Danvers has a one-track mind.
The movie still - rather wonderfully unnerving, with Judith Anderson’s housekeeper ‘watching [the second wife’s] eyes’ - suggests that this moment from the novel was filmed even though it doesn’t appear in the final version of Hitchcock’s Rebecca(1940).
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