Elizabeth Montgomery, that is! Back, in 1975, her dramatic TV turn in the television movie, "The Legend Of Lizzie Borden," was the biggest thing going, not only because Elizabeth was breaking with her Samantha Stevens image, not only because this was one of the first dramatic explorations of the case, but, because of the theory proposed about how she did it, and got away with it--there was no trace evidence, because she did it, in the nude!
Of course, Elizabeth was not shown this way, but remember, darlings, back in 1975--my God, that is almost 40 years!!!!!!--just the idea was provocative enough.
Elizabeth Montgomery was an attractive woman, but she still managed to pull off the sexually repressed spinster act that marked Lizzie Borden, who looked pretty spinsterly, herself, in real life.
From the poster of Christina, it looks like she is going to play Lizzie as some sex crazed slattern!
You all know the rhyme, dears--
"Lizzie Borden took an ax,
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty one.!"
I am happy for Christina. I have not seen her since "Pan Am," so it is good to have her back in front, of the camera, again. But I prefer the other rhyme, darlings, the one used in the 1964 Joan Crawford classic, "Strait-Jacket," (which turns 50 this year,so we will have to have a celebratory screening!!!!)--"Lizzie Borden took an ax,
Took an ax!
Took an ax!"
Personally, I prefer the refrain from the "Fall River Hoedown," introduced in "New Faces Of 1954" (my birth year--how about that???)--"You Can't Chop Your Mother Up, In Massachusetts!"
I can't wait to see Christina, darlings! It should be a camp bloodbath!!!!!!!!!!
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