Perhaps You’d Like To Get Ordinary With That Mr. Henderson
My piece on Bell, Book and Candle and The Lady Eve is up over on Bright Wall In A Dark Room:
Snow is falling on a Greenwich Village sidewalk. Pedestrians—almost all of them couples, carrying Christmas trees and shopping bags—rush past the window of a tribal art gallery. Inside is Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak, looking as though she’s just gotten home from the set of Vertigo and slipped into something more comfortable.
The joke, of course, is that Holroyd is a witch and Pye her familiar, so he can give her what she wants—if only she wanted something. Seeing Shepherd ‘Shep’ Henderson (James Stewart), her upstairs neighbor, she decides on him. “He’s different,” she says.
Reblogged from a bright wall in a dark room.
