Is Gloria Swanson's hands and how effectively she uses. Like when she's staring at Holden from her chair, and her hand is on her knee looking like a talon. Or when she embraces Holden after her suicide attempt and her hands look like a spider web. It's fascinating.
shareYes!! I notice her hands and how much she incorporates them into her performance. For me the most noticeable scene with her hands is when he is saying to her "how do you know I don't have a girl I'm crazy about" and the hand holding her cigarette totally curls up when she says "WHAT girl?" Wow. Awesome.
"Your petty vengeance fetish will have to do withOUT Mr. Groin!"
Or when she describes Salome kissing the severed head of John The Baptist.
Annoying the world since 1960!
Also when she and Joe are watching her silent movie ("Queen Kelly", a real-life Swanson-Von Stroheim collaboration) and she stands up shouting about being on the screen again.
Annoying the world since 1960!