It has been some Summer, darlings! What with comfortable weather, no movie shoot-outs, or children physically and emotionally torturing each other, I have had to turn to fiction for bitches. There are just as many out there, as in reality; maybe more!
Some of you may recognize this one, darlings, and ask what took me so long to get her on here???????????
The winner of this week's Raving Queen Bitch Of The Week Award is Mrs. Henry Vale, of the 1942 film classic, "Now, Voyager." She was played memorably by Gladys Cooper, and her daughter Charlotte, by the immortal Bette Davis. Hmmmmmm.. that name.........Charlotte..........it did a lot for Bette Davis, come to think of it.
Both were Oscar nominated for their performances.
Now, from what I have read, Gladys herself was not a bitch. In fact, Davis once said it was a privilege to work with her. But Mrs. Vale is one holy terror.
She is all about obligation and appearances, even if that means bearing children she does not want, a fact she makes clear to Charlotte time and time again. She is a moralist, who tries to keep her daughter under such a psychological thumb, she reduces her to an emotional cripple and a dowdy spinster who looks like a Midwestern librarian out of a William Inge play!!!!!!!!!!! And, you have got to see the scene, where, feeling she is not getting the attention she warrants, she deliberately throws herself down the stairs!!!!!!!!!!!! Even though fall could be potentially fatal!!!!!!!!!! How is that for bitch manipulation?????????
But Charlotte gets the best of her. After she returns from Dr. Jaquith's (Claude Rains) sanitarium, in her 40's style chic, and her independent spirit, Mrs. Vale is none too pleased. One day, the old bat lashes out at Charlotte at what a disappointment she has been to her all her life. Charlotte fires back with the truth---"I didn't want to be born; you didn't want me to be born; it's been a calamity on both sides!" This brings Mother up short!!!! The look on her face of horror, as she realizes her daughter has always known the truth of a secret she thought she had kept hidden away, is priceless--and then she dies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which brings down the picture somewhat,without her to liven things up!
But, while she is on--what a bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not a single maternal bone in her body, at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bet her vagina is drier than Joan Rivers claims hers is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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