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in Hitchcock's Notorious,
with Claude Rains,
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where she plays the drunken dancing girl
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at Ingrid Bergman's
bungalow party in reel one.
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Renee died in England in 1996.
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Arthur Lubin was adamant
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that Universal wanted Claude Rains to do
a full-face disfigured horror make-up.
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The way in which Claudin
receives a full faceful of acid
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suggests that they wanted
a much more elaborate disfigurement.
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Now here's the famous
Universal European street.
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All purpose, it could be Germany,
it could be Romania.
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In this case, it is Paris in the 1880s.
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The script for Phantom
originally provided a scene,
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which is likely not to have been filmed,
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where a brutish teamster
sees Claudin escaping
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and snares him with a buggy whip.
:26:47
Claudin is standing on a wall,
trying to escape over,
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and the whip wraps around
Claudin's neck like a noose.
:26:54
The teamster begins enjoying
the cruelty of this,
:26:57
and he's holding him splay-legged,
calling for help,
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when a gentle-Iooking little man
with an umbrella comes by.
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He sees the teamster's
pleasure in this torture.
:27:07
Quietly he takes his umbrella,
thrusts it between the teamster's legs,
:27:11
gives him more than a wedgie, allowing
Claudin to escape in the confusion.
:27:15
Thankfully, this was broomed.
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Let's return to the Jacoby script.
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Following his injury, Claudin takes refuge
in the opera in this 1941 adaptation,
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concealing his injury
beneath a hideous painted mask.
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And he promotes Christine's rise
with a reign of terror.
:27:32
During the annual masked ball he abducts
her and reveals their relationship.
:27:37
But a performance of his symphony
lures him back to the stage,
:27:40
where he's gunned down by the police.
:27:42
In a nihilistic
and wholly extraneous finale,
:27:45
Christine's debut in the world premiere of
Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann
:27:50
ends badly when a coal fire in Claudin's
catacomb ignites the building.
:27:54
Christine, her foster parents,
and her boyfriend Raoul
:27:57
are the only survivors
as the building burns to the ground.