{"id":185167,"date":"2023-02-08T07:38:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=185167"},"modified":"2024-03-22T08:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T12:49:08","slug":"male-female-gaze-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=185167","title":{"rendered":"Mirrors #14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Siodmak&#8217;s <i>Phantom Lady<\/i> has many interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?tag=mirrors\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mirror moments<\/a>, one where Ella Raines &#8211; dressed up as a floozy, for the purposes of going undercover to get intel from a frighteningly lascivious Elisha Cook Jr. on the mysterious woman in the outrageous hat. She smears lipstick on her mouth, focusing on the task at hand, caught up in her &#8220;role&#8221;, but then makes the mistake of making eye contact with herself. She shatters. It&#8217;s a dangerous moment. She can&#8217;t reveal her true self. The mirror won&#8217;t allow her to lie. The second mirror moment involves Franchot Tone, a supposedly kindly business associate of the man in jail for murder, the one Ella Raines is trying to exonerate. Tone&#8217;s character is a sculptor, with perfect white hands, and he, too, has an intriguing moment where he catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror, and the mask suddenly &#8211; alarmingly &#8211; falls away. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phantom3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"551\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-185169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phantom3.jpeg 739w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phantom3-200x149.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phantom3-400x298.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/phantom3-100x75.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PHANTOM4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"542\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-185168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PHANTOM4.jpeg 744w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PHANTOM4-200x146.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PHANTOM4-400x291.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PHANTOM4-100x73.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Siodmak&#8217;s Phantom Lady has many interesting mirror moments, one where Ella Raines &#8211; dressed up as a floozy, for the purposes of going undercover to get intel from a frighteningly lascivious Elisha Cook Jr. on the mysterious woman in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=185167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2572,2646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190981,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185167\/revisions\/190981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}