Saw this on TCM last night. Thought it was interesting that Edith Barrett (Vincent Price's first wife), who played "Mrs. Rand" in this film would play "Mrs. Fairfax" the following year in "Jane Eyre"; both films similar in that a young woman, an outsider (nurse/governess), falls in love with a man whose wife is possessed.
shareI never made the connection until I watched it today and came to see how many others did as well. It took me a while to figure out where I knew her from.
shareShe had such a strong screen presence and her acting was so natural. It's always great to see her in anything, even if played minor roles. Certainly, there was something "mysterious" about her.
Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop
There are so many commentary references saying that this movie was based on "Jane Eyre" that I thought that it was supposed to explain in some way what happened to the first Mrs. Rochester, the madwoman in the attic. Wasn't she also from the Caribbean?
Yodi
The film "Wide Sargasso Sea" has her coming from Jamaica: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108565/
"No, I don't like to cook, but I have a chicken in the icebox, and you're eating it."
I found it very strange that they would cast a youngish actress and age her (the makeup was not credible at all) instead of casting an age appropiate actress. The makeup made her seem creepy and "half dead" like her daughter-in-law.
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