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Peter Warren <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:22:32 -0400
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There's also ONLY THE LONELY (Dir: Chris Columbus 1994), where Ally Sheedy
plays a mortician/mortician's daughter. The situation is played fairly
straight, as far as I remember, including John Candy playing a cop who woos
the Sheedy character.
Peter Warren
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From: "Sherra Schick" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Reply: Morticians in the Media


> > Most of these examples, of course, tend to laugh in the face of death.
> > I don't know if anyone has ever tackled the notion of a
> > mortician/funeral director as a main character.
> >
>
> What about Dan Aykroyd's character in MY GIRL?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald Larsson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Reply: Morticians in the Media
>
>
> > I rather wonder what the "first" (or least earliest that we know of)
> > mortician in cinema would have been?  (I don't really recall one as a
> > "character" but the funeral in ENTR'ACTE is fairly early.)
> >
> > Some others that come to mind:
> > The doctor who doubles as mortician in Dreyer's VAMPYR
> > OLIVER! and other film versions of OLIVER TWIST and some other Dickens
> > adapations (eg., A CHRISTMAS CAROL, although I doubt that Jeremy
> > Cruncher, the grave-robbing "resurrection man" of TALE OF TWO CITIES
> > counts)
> > David Warner's Western undertaker in Peckinpaugh's THE BALLAD OF CABLE
> > HOGUE
> > The speakeasy front funeral parlor in SOME LIKE IT HOT
> > The one-armed "funeral director" who stages a fake funeral for a spy in
> > Hitchcock's SECRET AGENT
> > Of course, the satirical treatment of the death industry in THE LOVED
> > ONE
> >
> >
> > Most of these examples, of course, tend to laugh in the face of death.
> > I don't know if anyone has ever tackled the notion of a
> > mortician/funeral director as a main character.
> >
> >
> > Don Larsson
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:01:54 -0400 PLatham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Closely similar to film morticians, in spirit anyway, are the various
> > > doctors and gravediggers in THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) and the family
> members
> > > and minister who terrorize the child in 3 FACES OF EVE. I think also
> that
> > > some appeared in a Roger Corman version of one of Poe's stories (THE
> STRANGE
> > > CASE OF M. VALDEMAR?)
> > >
> > > Peter Latham
> > >
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