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Anonymous Letter from a Terrified Lesbian (1972)

Anybody remember this classic horror film starring Jacqueline Bisset, Mia Farrow and Shelley Winters and Helen Lawson in supporting roles.

I remember once staying up late to watch it and almost had a heart attack at the climactic twist ending when Helen Lawson's character says, 'the calls are coming from inside the menstrual hut!'

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by Anonymousreply 28December 5, 2021 4:03 PM

I love the scene in which Mia Farrow opens the letter by the lake: I PUT CILANTRO IN YOUR NUT LOAF!

by Anonymousreply 1June 24, 2020 6:38 PM

I don’t remember this film, but I’m fairly sure that Karen Black and Bette Davis were in it.

by Anonymousreply 2June 24, 2020 9:22 PM

Why did they cut Kay Medford and Kaye Ballard's heated scissoring scene? There was serious Oscar buzz for both...

by Anonymousreply 3June 24, 2020 9:28 PM

I thought this was the WE Channel Jody Foster biopic.

by Anonymousreply 4June 24, 2020 9:53 PM

[quote]There was serious Oscar buzz for both...

Are you talking about the awards, or their hairstyles?

by Anonymousreply 5June 24, 2020 9:55 PM

“Jackie Bisset tried to kiss it but Mia Farrow was too narrow!” That’s on the movie posters and it’s driving the movie audience mad!

by Anonymousreply 6June 24, 2020 10:17 PM

There is no such movie. OP just made it up.

This thread is disingenuous.

by Anonymousreply 7June 25, 2020 12:51 AM

[quote]There is no such movie. OP just made it up. This thread is disingenuous.

And pernicious. It’s disingenuous, pernicious, AND specious!

by Anonymousreply 8June 25, 2020 1:04 AM

Helen Lawson isn't a real person?

by Anonymousreply 9June 25, 2020 1:24 AM

A movie starring Helen Lawson isn’t real?

by Anonymousreply 10June 25, 2020 7:42 AM

Helen Lawson was real in Valley of the Dolls and I hated her.

by Anonymousreply 11June 25, 2020 7:53 AM

I always remember the lake scene. Everyone is eating cottage cheese when a bag lady (Mildred Dunnock) gives them a flyer for the Gem Faire. “Remember, girls... these might come in handy.”

by Anonymousreply 12June 25, 2020 4:04 PM

I'm surprised Sandy Dennis wasn't cast.

by Anonymousreply 13June 25, 2020 4:16 PM

Lucy was almost going to accept Helen’s role, but Gary Morton talked her out of it. He told her fans just wouldn’t accept her in a such a film.

by Anonymousreply 14June 26, 2020 8:51 AM

Vivían Vance was robbed of her first Golden globe with her performance as the town’s only pharmacist

by Anonymousreply 15June 26, 2020 10:26 AM

Can you imagine if Lucy had done it? With Viv in the Shelley Winters role?

LUCY: Scissoring? What's that? Some kinda hippie craft stuff?

VIV: Lew-ceeeee...

*beckons her closer and whispers in her ear*

*Lucy makes increasingly exaggerated facial expressions to the camera*

by Anonymousreply 16June 26, 2020 11:05 AM

[quote]—Clutching my gym whistle

That deserves the lesbian equivalent of a MARY!

Which is NAN!

by Anonymousreply 17June 26, 2020 11:06 AM

Just leaving this here: Nancy Milo, Sheila James, and a pair of gardening shears.

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by Anonymousreply 18June 26, 2020 11:09 AM

^ KULP (fuckin' autocorrect)

by Anonymousreply 19June 26, 2020 11:10 AM

I worry about R7, wandering around Datalounge unaccompanied.

by Anonymousreply 20June 26, 2020 11:31 AM

Good news! It's streaming on Netflix.

Might revisit it tonight with some bread pudding and Corrs.

by Anonymousreply 21June 26, 2020 8:19 PM

Bump! Because of the Geraldine Page thread. She was originally up for the part of the only pharmacist in town, but Vance won role.

by Anonymousreply 22February 1, 2021 7:29 PM

It really cleaned up at the Golden Raspberry Awards.

by Anonymousreply 23February 1, 2021 7:30 PM

[quote]Lucy was almost going to accept Helen’s role, but Gary Morton talked her out of it.

Oh! That must be why the working title was "Dirty Stone Pillows."

by Anonymousreply 24February 1, 2021 10:01 PM

Films like this make me wish I could still smoke some of the weed that makes me laugh HARD.

Just some good ole fashioned skunk, a decent bong, and a film like this is all one needs to put the pen down and for get to write about the terror of it all...

by Anonymousreply 25February 1, 2021 11:07 PM

Helen Lawson gave a tour-de-force performance as a Russian cannibal bull-dyke serial killer.

by Anonymousreply 26February 2, 2021 9:14 AM

Bump

by Anonymousreply 27December 5, 2021 4:01 PM

No shit R7.

by Anonymousreply 28December 5, 2021 4:03 PM
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