Veronica Cartwright

I wasn’t in Speed! It’s Pride and we’re proud to be here with Veronica Cartwright. You Might Know Her From Alien, The Witches of Eastwick, The Birds, The Children's Hour, Will & Grace, The Right Stuff, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Inserts, and The X-Files. Veronica talked to us about her proper role in the queer canon byway of the Scissor Sisters, Jerry Herman, and StraightJacket; the trans retcon via James Cameron of Lambert in Alien; and her performance in the old Hollywood lesbian film The Children’s House opposite Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. And that’s just the beginning! We also got to dig into her iconic roles on The X-Files as an abductee in one of the scariest arcs of all time, her rubber-faced scene-stealing scenes in The Witches of Eastwick,  working with Alfred Hitchock...multiple times, and her criminally underseen performance in Inserts. What a goddamn treat. And no, she wasn’t in Speed. Happy Pride, queerdos, we love you! 

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Discussed this episode:

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Mary Pickford was NOT in the relationship with William Randolph Hearst. That was Marion Davies. 

The Cat’s Meow was about Marion Davies

Peg “something” Entwisle who killed herself on the Hollywood sign

Damian wouldn’t have made it to the talkies. Anne would have been a Mary Wickes type. Or a Marjorie Main, who was in a relationship with Spring Byington

Veronica Cartwright is in too many iconic films to name but we will: The Birds, The Children's Hour, Alien, The Witches of Eastwick

Stole scenes from Cher, Michelle Pfeifer and Susan Sarandon in The Witches of Eastwick: CHERRY SCENE

Character in Alien is apparently NOT “canonically queer” 

Got the buzz cut because Sigourney wouldn’t 

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, dir: Philip Kauffman) is SO good please go watch 

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