Have you seen me?

As I type this, Gaslight is showing on TCM, and that's too bad. Not that it's showing, but that it's showing at a time when Lisa has to miss it, again. It's a film worth seeing if not for what might be the most distinguished performance in Ingrid Bergman's distinguished career, then for the apropos and satisfying ending.

But one thing that strikes me about it is that the investigator — the good guy &mdash is played by Joseph Cotten. Every time I see his face, I immediately think of his role as the beloved but sociopathic and murderous Uncle Charlie opposite Teresa Wright in Hitcock's 1943 thriller Shadow of a Doubt. Not the same sort of personality at all.

It might be that Joseph Cotten will always be Uncle Charlie to me, just as Judy Garland will always be Dorothy Gale from Kansas. Do you so suppose those actors ever knew that they would be singularly remembered for a certain role?

Sort of makes you wonder. What will you be remembered for? Will it be happy, intelligent, and victorious Dorothy Gale, or the vile Uncle Charlie? (Bear in mind that everyone loved dear old Uncle Charlie!) Tread carefully, lest you be remembered in a way that's not too flattering.

Anyway, I might have to buy Gaslight so Lisa doesn't miss it. Awesome movie, regardless of the role Joseph Cotten plays.