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Before the Borden sisters
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:28 pm
by Harry
there was the Ellingwood sisters. This article makes the Borden "girls" lives at Maplecroft look like heaven. They are even compared to Lizzie & Emma in the article.
http://www2.townonline.com/beverly/opin ... eid=215218
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:24 pm
by Wordweaver
Fascinating! I wonder if their brother ever bothered to give them a thought.
Maybe this story is the genesis of Myrtle Reed's
Lavender and Old Lace -- a novel remembered now mostly for its bastard offspring,
Arsenic and Old Lace. In the novel, a beautiful, frail old woman has waited all her life for her fiance to return. I won't spoil the ending, but the frail old woman is . . . 55.
Lavender and Old Lace is available online!
Lynn
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:27 pm
by Nona
I rather liked Arsenic and old lace.........:)
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:53 am
by snokkums
Good job Harry! Love the article. It was very interesting. Guess there was another dsyfunctional family just like the bordens. HAHAHA
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:44 pm
by Kat
Thanks Har!
That was pretty interesting.
Certainly the basis for a good Charles Dickens story and making into a film!
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:51 pm
by Allen
Nona @ Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:27 pm wrote:I rather liked Arsenic and old lace.........:)
A agree, it's one of my favorite old movies. It's also where my signature comes from
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:01 pm
by Wordweaver
Nona @ Thu Mar 31, 2005 8:27 pm wrote:I rather liked Arsenic and old lace.........:)
I did too. The "bastard" refers not to nastiness (there isn't any), but to its subversion of the original story. Instead of Miss Ainslie, a sweet old New England lady who does nothing more controversial than raise flowers and wait for a long-lost fiance, the movie features sweet old ladies who commit wholesale murder. Miss Ainslie would be shocked.
Sorry for the confusion!
Lynn
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:52 pm
by doug65oh
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:29 pm
by Nona
YOu know I actually just love the whole movie so much I was trying to pin point one part or a line but ALL of it just strikes my funny bone like crazy! I can remember almost every line in that movie....
have to say that's actually one of my favorites of all time:)
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 8:16 pm
by Liz Crouthers
Never heard of 'em
Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 9:06 pm
by augusta
Rats - the article you posted about, Harry, is now archived and inaccessable.
I should google them. (That sounds dirty... Or a word a mother would make her kids substitute for something naughty.)
Ah'm gonna google yew, Harry! It just sounds so funny. I think Kat started it when she posted "I googled myself."
