Happy Mother’s Day
While sending my sincere wishes to all you fine and upstanding mothers a very happy day today, it’s time to continue an FtY holiday tradition of honoring cinematic parents whose severe dysfunction shows a certain amount of style.
Today we have a brief and highly corrupted and commercialized salute to one of my favorite evil movie mom’s, Anna Sabastian from Notorious — the first of several twisted movie mothers emanating from the camera eye of Alfred Hitchcock. In fact, so vidid was the role that, as implied by her IMDb mini-bio, the brilliant Madame Leopoldine Konstantin decided not to pursue further movie work: “My very first part and they made me in this monster!”(sic)
Like all great movie monsters, however, Mme. Sabastian is entirely human. What parent wouldn’t relate to her reaction to the news that her naive, overly sensitive, high-ranking Nazi son may have married an American spy?
First, shock, concern, but then the pleasure of being proven right.
But don’t worry, liebling, everything’s going to be alright.
Mama will do her best to make it better, with the help of well known beverage purveyor.
