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PopMatter's Essential Film Performances - 2013 (50 movies items)"Elsa Lanchester Most people who know Elsa Lanchester think of her as The Bride of Frankenstein, but Lanchester’s role in that film is actually rather small. For a more complete view of her skills, one need only check out Bell Book and Candle, 1958’s tale of witches in modern day New York. Lanchester plays Queenie, aka Aunty, the aunt of modern witch Kim Novak. Queenie has her own powers, which she uses primarily for tomfoolery, but they are nowhere as powerful as her niece’s. The role call"
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“In the right role, Kim Novak’s detached glamour and chilly braininess could be used to great effect. In 1958, two of the best films to utilize her strengths as an actress and screen presence allowed for her to play roles that mirror each other in unique and strange ways. Vertigo is the more lauded classic, for obvious reasons, but Bell Book and Candle is a thoroughly enjoyable romantic comedy. Both films star Novak and James Stewart as lovers circling each other in erotic obsession and longing. Vertigo positions Stewart as Hitchcock’s proxy, willfully recreating the pliable starlet into his dream woman, before driving her mad by trying to force her into a limited role. Bell Book and Candle has Novak as the main aggressor, partially out of boredom with her life as a Greenwich Villa” read more
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