Mary Merideth + Lady Hollaway - Lesbians?

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Dorothy Macardle's novel, before Dodie (101 Dalmations) Smith toned it down and added a lot of comic relief was full of implied sexual perversity.
Miss Holloway and Mary were lesbians, Miss Holoway had a ladies only policy at her rest home and used mesmerism to control her patients for her own purposes, hence Miss Birds astonishment at the presence of a gentleman, Comander Beech had an incestuous relationship with his own daughter, The Fitzgeralds had a more than close fraternal relationship, which is why Mary's spirit was willing to accept them all of which is to say nothing of the Merediths kinky relationship with their model/surogate.
Stella is actually the only relatively normal one out of the lot of them.

I'd love to see a modern remake of this classic

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

I think you got the oblique lesbian theme exactly right. That's the way it was handled in those days --- obliquely.

Two bits from the movie come to mind. One is the overall way in which the Nurse Holloway/Mary Meredith relationship is portrayed.

The other is the dialogue from the doctor, where Mary is said to have a morbid fear of giving birth.

In 1944-speak, that's practically accusing them of being card-carrying lesbians.

It's very reminiscent of the First Mrs. DeWinter and Mrs. Danvers relationship in REBECCA. I'm not the first person who's noticed the similarities between the two stories.

The wikipedia article on this film calls Mrs Holloway a lesbian caricature. Yep, alot of similarities between her and Mrs. Danvers in REBECCA.

I wonder what happens to Holloway next. Does she get "committed" or charged with manslaughter? She doesn't go up in flames like Mrs. Danvers.

Here is the excerpt from Wikipedia

"Miss Holloway, as portrayed by Cornelia Otis Skinner, is often cited as a Lesbian caricature. For a detailed study, see Patricia White’s book Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (Indiana University Press, 1999; ISBN 0253213452)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uninvited_(1944_film)

Definitely has undertones of Mrs. Danvers' obsession with REBECCA.

"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified."

I didn't notice it at all.

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One of the reasons I desperately want to read the book is to see how the Holloway/Mary relationship was told.

Apparently, it's an out of print collector's item-expensive!

I think the confirmation of their love affair is in Holloway's monologue with Mary's portrait, especially "They'll never find out our secret".

One might speculate that the cause of Mary's sociopathy was being "trapped in the closet"


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