I know Lettie's a real nutcase and inappropriately attached to her brother, but I was rather fascinated by her! Something about that introduction of her lounging around in a humid room with plants was arresting and memorable. Geraldine Fitzgerald really stole the show.
shareAbsolutely. I got a creepy vibe from her from the beginning, and her possessiveness was pathological. Incest was definitely taboo in 1945 (or now, for that matter) but Fitzgerald managed to clearly imply that without doing anything that would freak out the audience or the censors. Her plants added to her perversity- I half expected her to have insectivorous plants like Violet Venable in "Suddenly Last Summer".
shareI found her attachment to be incestuous... I wonder if this was what was really being inferred? In a couple scenes I was half expecting her to try and kiss (her brother). I know all sorts of things were "left to the imagination" to get past the censors....
shareWhile I can understand the comments in this thread and others about Lettie's attachment to her brother as incestuous, I'm not sure I saw that in the film. I do think that it could have been just dependency, not necessarily sexual (which I believe is part of of incestuous) She has lived an easy, comfortable life. She wasn't a fool, if Harry got married at some point his wife would convince him she was just a leech and not a loving sister.
Nothing I saw in the film would say she did *not* have sexual feelings for him, but I'm also not sure I saw anything that confirmed those feelings either. She could just have well have been smart enough to see the end of the gravy train should he get married.
Her interactions with George Sanders really gave off Lannister vibes.
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