Slap: On Screen (Movies, A to Z)
Research in progress: Sep 1, 2025
Chinatown
Nicholson and Dunaway: she’s my sister; my daughter
Cleopatra, 1963
Elizabeth Taylor and Burton
Key Largo
Robinson slaps bogart 3 times on the face after Bogart gives Claire Trevor a drink (which he promised her is she sings cold).
Lupe Velez films
GWTW
Vivien slapping Leslie Howard
Vivien Leigh slapping Prissy
Great Lie
Bette Davis slaps Mary Astor twice, about 65 minutes into film
Imitation of Life
Susan Kohner beaten by Troy Donahue (Cinema of Cruelty)
In the Heat of the Night:
Garden scene: S. Poitier gets slapped, and immediately slaps back.
Jaws:
Mother of little boy who died slaps Brody (Scheider)
Mildred Pierce:
Both Mildred and Vida
Mommie Dearest
On Golden Pond:
Hepburn slaps Jane Fonda when the latter describes her father as S.O.B.
Hepburn: That SOB happens to be my husband.
Rebel Without a Cause
In the first scene, Natalie Wood’s father slaps her after she kisses him
Written on the Wind
