The Screaming Mimi (film)

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Screaming Mimi

Anita Ekberg in Screaming Mimi
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Written by based on the novel by Fredric Brown
Starring Anita Ekberg
Philip Carey
Gypsy Rose Lee
Harry Townes
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Country USA
Language English

Screaming Mimi (1958) is a Columbia Pictures release directed by Gerd Oswald and based on the novel by pulp novelist Fredric Brown. It has yet to secure an official video release in the United States.

In the opening scene set in Southern California, while Virginia Wilson (Anita Ekberg) is taking an outside beach shower, an escaped madman from the sanitarium shows up. He stabs her dog, Devil, attacks her and is then shot to death by a neighbor with a rifle. After the attack, Virginia is committed to a sanitarium. The psychiatrist falls in love with her. He fakes her death, and they go on the lam. Virginia ends up dancing at the El Madhouse night club run by Gypsy Rose Lee. Lee performs Put the Blame on Mame, the classic noir theme from Gilda. All the while Virginia is being stalked by a serial killer. Jazz vibraphonist Red Norvo plays himself. The book the film was based on was remade as L' Uccello dalle piume di cristallo (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) in 1970, although it's almost nothing like the book.


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