1945: The Woman in Green

HILLARY BROOKE

as "LYDIA MARLOWE"

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The deliciously elegant, Lydia Marlowe...

She charms a well-heeled suitor... He thinks this is about Love...

But she's going to hypnotize him to do murder...

Sherlock Holmes thinks he can take her on...

She casually offers him opium...

He turns that down, but Lydia is sure she can hypnotize him with her voice alone...

"You feel yourself going drowsy... Don't fight it... Give into it... Because you do want sleep, you know..."

"Empty your mind..."

"Sleep, sleep..."

He is at her command...

The previous year she conducted a séance in Ministry of Fear, and the powerful effect of her lilting vocalizations in that clearly inspired the Sherlock Holmes producers to cast her as an even more potent vocal hypnotist, elevating her to a Sirenic level, where her narration takes on a musical meter that lulls the male mind into a dreamy euphoria, and renders him utterly at her command...