12 thoughts on “WCW: All the Bitches, Pt. 2

  1. Love them all. I agree with you about McCrory casting as Barbara Villiers. She was amazing in it.
    One of my favourite snarks from Lady Violet is ‘What’s a weekend?’

  2. What about Susan Hampshire’s Becky Sharp? Hers was the closest to Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, which the author himself subtitled “A Novel Without a Hero.”

  3. Ah, Lady Violet, patron saint of snark. It’s worth rewatching Downton for her snippy remarks alone.
    I have to admit I haven’t seen the other films/series yet. Must add to my list!

  4. Let’s not forget Shirley MacLaine’s Martha Levinson on Downton Abbey. She was a great match up for Maggie Smith’s Violet Crowley.

  5. I know these are very French suggestions, but may I nominate Miss Jeanna Moreau in “Le journal d’une femme de chambre”, and Isabelle Huppert for “La dame aux camélias” and “Madame Bovary” amongst others.
    Just not Deneuve… Enough with Deneuve!!

    1. Mlle Moreau is amazing and talented actor. If I remember correctly she was in the Train a film set in WWII about French Art Treasures being sent to Goring and Hitler. She played the art historian from the Louvre. Same character as Cate did in Monument Men, Dr Rose Villand Legion d’Honneur.

  6. Ah, don’t bother to write another one. Siân Phillips as Livia is the ultimate evil bitch. You MUST watch I, Claudius. Everyone else is a pale imitation of Livia.

    1. OMFG, Sarah, please say you’ve watched “Claudius” by now. Phillips is the best, and best-spoken, evil empress in the world.

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