(I'm excepting my own mail, returned to me unsent for some reason.) Speaking of twins and dopplegangers and hindi cinema acting conventions and cinematic versions of Frankenstein--I've always been interested in the decision to have Elsa Lanchester play both Mary Shelley (in the parodic intro frame) and the Bride in Whale's BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Two very different (perhaps?) versions of the feminine. How does one speak about the way this kind of double-casting has meaning in the film? For instance, the Bride screaming at the sight of the monster begins to look like Shelley screaming at her own literary creation, etc. Do we have to . . . (sorry, forget that sentence). I'd be interested in hearing about more of these double-castings. -Carol--how are these double roles "read" in Hindi cinema. Is the audience supposed to disregard that the characters are played by the same actress--is that the convention? I wonder if Whale's decision was plotted out in the same way that, say, Carol Churchill's plays are structured with this kind of double-acting strategy in mind. Can anyone think of other films where this strategy seems to be used towards a calculated end--and not? Susan Crutchfield