The Manchurian Candidate, supporting actress nomination
Lansbury, as Mrs. Shaw, Raymond’s mother, was only 3 year older than Harvey.
She played a variation of the Bette Davis type of ambitious bitches.
The crucial scene: homecoming party for her sin is used by her as an occasion to further the political career of her husband (and son’s stepfather).
At one point, the scheming caustic mother tells her son: “Raymond, why do you always have to look as if your head were about to come to a point.”
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