SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON MARK MCSHANE PROFESSIONAL

Nonetheless, at the time of her death from urethral cancer in August of 2001, Seance on a Wet Afternoon was name-checked in the first paragraphs of obituaries from around the world and the role remains Kim Stanley's signature film performance. This was not the first time Stanley found herself batting clean-up on a shortlist on Broadway in 1959, she assumed the title role in Anita Loos' Cherie only after Signoret, Marlene Dietrich, Irene Worth and Edwige Feuillere said no. As so often is the case, what seems in retrospect like the perfect fit of character to performer nearly didn't happen the role of Myra Savage was first offered to Deborah Kerr, Shelley Winters, Anne Bancroft and French actress Simone Signoret. Though she did not win the 1965 'Best Actress' Academy Award® for her portrayal of a fragile middle aged Londoner with pretensions of second sight in Bryan Forbes' Seance on a Wet Afternoon, the late Kim Stanley remains inextricably linked with her Oscar® nominated performance.

Myra goes into her trance, but instead of delivering the story prepared beforehand, she reveals the entire truth, while Billy watches helplessly. Police Superintendent Walsh, knowing of Myra's call on the parents, comes to her and asks her to hold a seance for possible help in finding the missing girl. Instead of killing the child, who has seen Billy's face, he leaves her in the woods where she is sure to be found by nearby scouts. Myra tells Billy to send the little girl to Arthur. Billy wants to return her immediately but the mentally deranged Myra announces that she has contacted Arthur and he has said that he wants a playmate. Myra contacts the parents and Billy collects the ransom, but the child's return is delayed when she contracts a fever. Billy reluctantly abducts Amanda Clayton, the young daughter of a wealthy industrialist.

With her doting husband, Billy, she conceives a plan to gain recognition for herself Billy will kidnap a child, and, after the ransom is paid, Myra will go to the parents and offer her help in locating the child through her supernatural powers.

SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON MARK MCSHANE PROFESSIONAL

Myra Savage, a professional medium, has contact with the 'other world' through her dead son, Arthur, who was actually stillborn, a fact Myra refuses to accept.

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