Katrine Van Ryn
What happened to Katrine Van Ryn, after mother died, she just vanished from
the movie along with Magda the housekeeper?
I'm so glad you posted this. I just saw this movie for the first time this morning and I was wondering the same thing. I figured I must have missed a lot in the sixtie seconds it took for me to go to the bathroom!
I already figured the daughter was sent off to some private school.But the whole Magda/mystical connection with the great grandmother was lost. Even though eventually Vincent Price experienced the wierd singing thing. They really muddied this whole connection
I could understand the whole disenfranchise thing with his daughter because of his extreme believe of this being his birthright and all...and sons were more important that way. But it didn't make sense, because of his own extreme attachment to his great grandmother.
In fact, the whole movie was farcifical.(I made that up). I think my own main interest was in the whole Hudson Valley castle patroon thing.(Living here and all).The putting down of those in Greenwich ,Ct(sounds so funny now because they are so uppity today compared to here!)....The fact the English were lowlier class wise back then.
Getting to watch an early Harry Morgan who didn't look much younger then he did in the sixties on TV. And trying and trying to figure out who the actress who played peggy was. Her silhouette looked so familiar!Hating FMC because they don't do the credits afterwards. )
The actress playing Peggy was future Oscar winner Jessica Tandy.
shareI have seen this movie a zillion times and I can't figure out what happened to her too. The last time anything was mentioned of her is when hubby started to hullucinate about that music and she mentioned Katrine. But we haven't seen Katrine since the mother died. It was strange also because The Gene Tirney character liked her so much. My interest was in the Hudson Valley, Catskill patroon stuff too. I have alot fo friends who all have Dutch last names who come from that area, I live on Long Island. And it is hilarious about the reference to Greenwich. How things change. And Henry(Harry)was much heavier. I remember seeing him in the Ox Bow Incident and he does look the same but a liitle heavier. What about the acotr who played the doctor. He ended up playing in a lot z rated Sci Fi movies. He was real cute and should of done better.
shareI assumed she died because she heard Azilde singing and playing the harpsichord but I now realize that it predicted her mother's death not her own. Earlier in the film Magda explains to Miranda that Azilde killed herself because her husband never loved her and only wanted their male son whom he kept from her. Azilde prayed for disaster for the Van Ryns and said she would be at Dragonwyke to sing and play when disaster was about to happen but only Van Ryns would be able to hear her. So when Katrina heard Azilde and disappeared from the rest of the movie, it leaves one to ponder whether she died as well as her mother.
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