To Scotland and Love
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todayiamadaisyA conversation overheard this week:
Receptionist: I've got Heidi... Cellophane? On the phone for you.
Jenny/NewAngela: [pause] Sullivan?
Receptionist: Oh yes.
I'm glad we got that sorted out.
Tonight I watched the classic noir film Laura. It's a jolly good film, should you be looking for something to watch (Vincent Price as a Southern playboy socialite! No-one being the slightest bit upset that a loved one has been brutally murdered!). It stars Gene Tierney as Laura, but also stars, in a supporting role, Australian actress Dame Judith Anderson. She's probably best known now as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca (she must have liked appearing in films titled after girls' names). To me, though, she is remembered as the best page in the Great Australian Women sticker book I had as a wee daisy (a bud, if you will). The Great Australian Women sticker book also featured such luminaries as first woman in Federal Cabinet Dame Enid Lyons, tennis champion Evonne Goolagong and swimming performer Annette Kellerman, but Judith Anderson was the best. She was obviously on stage in heavy make-up, hands thrown out and head thrown back, wearing a black and metallic green kaftan and an enormously spiky tiara. She was like a live action Maleficent decades before Angelina Jolie. I have no idea what she was doing, but she was memorable.
(Now I think about it, I also had a series of children's biographies of famous women: Golda Meir, Grandma Moses, Dolly Parton, Mother Teresa and Winnie Mandela. My mother was obviously making a point.)
Receptionist: I've got Heidi... Cellophane? On the phone for you.
Jenny/NewAngela: [pause] Sullivan?
Receptionist: Oh yes.
I'm glad we got that sorted out.
Tonight I watched the classic noir film Laura. It's a jolly good film, should you be looking for something to watch (Vincent Price as a Southern playboy socialite! No-one being the slightest bit upset that a loved one has been brutally murdered!). It stars Gene Tierney as Laura, but also stars, in a supporting role, Australian actress Dame Judith Anderson. She's probably best known now as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca (she must have liked appearing in films titled after girls' names). To me, though, she is remembered as the best page in the Great Australian Women sticker book I had as a wee daisy (a bud, if you will). The Great Australian Women sticker book also featured such luminaries as first woman in Federal Cabinet Dame Enid Lyons, tennis champion Evonne Goolagong and swimming performer Annette Kellerman, but Judith Anderson was the best. She was obviously on stage in heavy make-up, hands thrown out and head thrown back, wearing a black and metallic green kaftan and an enormously spiky tiara. She was like a live action Maleficent decades before Angelina Jolie. I have no idea what she was doing, but she was memorable.
(Now I think about it, I also had a series of children's biographies of famous women: Golda Meir, Grandma Moses, Dolly Parton, Mother Teresa and Winnie Mandela. My mother was obviously making a point.)