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The Curse of Playing the Wicked Witch of the West (narratively.com)
36 points by prismatic on Aug 25, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


only 12 minutes ? Seemed like she had a lot more screen time in that film.


Anthony Hopkins’s Hannibal Lecter was only in 16 minutes of Silence of the Lambs. The ratio of impact-per-screen-time is a great metric for measuring the value of a role (due to either the writing or the performance).


Margaret Hamilton also wrote the guidance computer software for Apollo 11.


Different women, though.


Amazingly, Hedy Lamarr the superstar actress and Hedy Lamarr the technologist were the same person.




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