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Selina, nasty, nasty woman!


How can that damn Selina treat Teresa Wright so horribly! What a wonderfully depressing movie.



The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

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Yuck! I hate Selina, even as a kid she was rotten. She was just jealous because no one loves a shrew.

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Agree, Jayne Meadows did a great job on this....agree, Selina would be someone if hit by a semi, you would want to revive her, so the truck could hit her again....and again....

Read My Lips!!!!

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Selina = stuck up, little snob, with her head up her arse. How would she like it if someone was trying to control her life the way she does Rollo's and Lark's?!

"I promise you, before I die I'll surely come to your doorstep"

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I just finished watching this on TCM a few minutes ago and had the same emotions as the many times I've seen it before. Where Selina is concerned, all I could think of is, "Where's Tony Soprano when you really need him." That woman makes Hades look like a playground.

What a brilliant, moving and sad film. I have always loved it.

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How can that damn Selina treat Teresa Wright so horribly! What a wonderfully depressing movie.

Bad Selina! Bad! She's rotten, I tell you! Feh! Pooey!


cinefreak

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It took me awhile to even recognize that she was Alice Cramden. If I hadn't recognized her voice I may not have noticed at all. She did a good job.

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No, that isn't true. Alice Cramden was played by her sister Audrey Meadows.

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Oh! I completely forgot that Audrey Meadows had a sister. They sure looked and sounded alike.

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Selina was just horrible towards Lark.

Sadly, for Theresa Wright, her career went into a downward spiral after this film.

You stupid, clumsy labouring-boy.

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Watching it now. Ooo, Selina is a mean girl/woman/shrew!

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tmf_scipio says > How can that damn Selina treat Teresa Wright so horribly!
We know why Selena treats Lark so terribly. From the minute little Lark comes into the house, Selena feels she's taking things away from her. As she tells her, first it's her room, then it's the loyalty of her brothers, and her father's attention. Later she worries about losing her place as the mistress of the house.

Selena is young but not too young to understand the little girl just lost both her parents, is in a strange place, is with people she doesn't know, and is feeling overwhelmed and devastated. Clearly the girl lacks compassion.


Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]

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