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Actors: Angela Lansbury, Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Kind Lady |
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Kind Lady stars Ethel Barrymore as Mary Merries, a rich, elderly woman who enjoys her lavish posessions. Maurice Evans portrays the seemingly starving artist Henry Springer Elcott. Henry meets Mary when he admires her elaborate door knocker and inquires about its origin. Mary sees Henry again painting in the park and she invites him to visit her. When Henry does, he brings some paintings and steals her expensive cigarette case but then has seconds thoughts and returns it to her. Mary soon feels bad for Henry as he hasn't done well with his paintings and he, his wife, and their baby live in a rundown apartment. Mary pays Henry some money for his paintings. When Henry drops by to deliver some more he goes to show Mary his wife who is across the street in the park. At just that precise moment she faints. Out of concern for the woman and her baby, Mary lets them stay. But it soon becomes her downfall as Henry ties Mary up and starts to sell her prized posessions posing as her concerned nephew.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Kind Lady |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- thief/con-artist
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
Age:
- 60's-90's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, curly (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Body type
- average build (man)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 1
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Check here if B&W
Yes
Is this movie based on a
- play
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