TALES AND CHILDREN
TALES AND CHILDREN
Favorite Mothers in Films
They are not the best mothers -not all of them at least- but they are great film characters.
Who can forget how Faye Dunaway, as Joan Crawford, yells: “No wire hangers ever!!!” in Mommie Dearest? Whose heart wasn’t broken when Bonnie Blue Butler fell from her pony and died in Gone with the Wind? Who didn’t admire struggling single mothers Dede Tate (Jodie Foster) in Little Man Tate, Mrs. Miller (Viola Davis) in Doubt and Lynn Sear (Toni Collette) in The Sixth Sense? Who didn’t love when Big Momma Pollitt (Judith Anderson) asked her daughter-in-law what Big Daddy says when he’s disgusted and then says: “Bull!”? Who doesn’t feel for Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters) whom husband loves her teenage daughter, Lolita? Who doesn’t love Lauren Bacall who’s great in anything and wonderful in The Mirror has two faces?