When I direct a play at SCP a couple of years ago, we needed a portrait of one of the ladies in the cast to hang in front of the wall safe. Another cast member painted it, and it was so good that when it was unveiled the audience applauded.
So I was expecting more for Laura, especially since the portrait is the center of the show.
I suppose I ought to say more about the plot.
In the stage play, the curtain opens on Detective McPherson studying the portrait of Laura on the wall of her apartment. It's a week after her body was found near the front door, her face shot away. Bessie the maid found her. Her fiance Shelby identified the body. Waldo, an older gentlman who writes a newspaper column and gave Laura her start in the advertising biz, is a frequent visitor, as is Danny, the son of the building super.
McPherson has pretty much pinned the rap on the fiance, when Laura comes home, alive and well, from what she said was a trip to her country house. Turns out the woman who was shot was a friend she'd loaned the apartment to for the weekend. Someone who had a crush on Shelby. Laura now becomes the prime suspect. This happens about 20 minutes into the play. Anyway, she does everything she can think of, including trying to seduce him, to convince McPherson she isn't the killer. He doesn't fall for it, but does figure out who the real killer is Just In Time. And then he allows her to seduce him.
As I remember the movie, you don't find out until the bitter end that Laura is still alive, and by the time we find out, McPherson has fallen in love with her, through her picture and interviewing her friends and neighbors. The movie was nominated for several Oscars. I'll have to put it on my Netflix queue.
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Date: 2005-03-22 12:28 am (UTC)When I direct a play at SCP a couple of years ago, we needed a portrait of one of the ladies in the cast to hang in front of the wall safe. Another cast member painted it, and it was so good that when it was unveiled the audience applauded.
So I was expecting more for Laura, especially since the portrait is the center of the show.
I suppose I ought to say more about the plot.
In the stage play, the curtain opens on Detective McPherson studying the portrait of Laura on the wall of her apartment. It's a week after her body was found near the front door, her face shot away. Bessie the maid found her. Her fiance Shelby identified the body. Waldo, an older gentlman who writes a newspaper column and gave Laura her start in the advertising biz, is a frequent visitor, as is Danny, the son of the building super.
McPherson has pretty much pinned the rap on the fiance, when Laura comes home, alive and well, from what she said was a trip to her country house. Turns out the woman who was shot was a friend she'd loaned the apartment to for the weekend. Someone who had a crush on Shelby. Laura now becomes the prime suspect. This happens about 20 minutes into the play. Anyway, she does everything she can think of, including trying to seduce him, to convince McPherson she isn't the killer. He doesn't fall for it, but does figure out who the real killer is Just In Time. And then he allows her to seduce him.
As I remember the movie, you don't find out until the bitter end that Laura is still alive, and by the time we find out, McPherson has fallen in love with her, through her picture and interviewing her friends and neighbors. The movie was nominated for several Oscars. I'll have to put it on my Netflix queue.