Veronica Cartwright

I wasn’t in Speed! It’s Pride and we’re proud to be here with Veronica Cartwright. You Might Know Her From Alien, The Witches of Eastwick, The Birds, The Children's Hour, Will & Grace, The Right Stuff, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Inserts, and The X-Files. Veronica talked to us about her proper role in the queer canon byway of the Scissor Sisters, Jerry Herman, and StraightJacket; the trans retcon via James Cameron of Lambert in Alien; and her performance in the old Hollywood lesbian film The Children’s House opposite Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. And that’s just the beginning! We also got to dig into her iconic roles on The X-Files as an abductee in one of the scariest arcs of all time, her rubber-faced scene-stealing scenes in The Witches of Eastwick,  working with Alfred Hitchock...multiple times, and her criminally underseen performance in Inserts. What a goddamn treat. And no, she wasn’t in Speed. Happy Pride, queerdos, we love you! 

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Discussed this episode:

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A House Is Not a Disco, Fire Island documentary

Andrea McArdle’s daughter is Alexis Kalehoff

Find our special episode with Barrie Kreinik who wrote a plays, The Queen of 14th Street about Eva Le Gallienne

Mary Pickford was NOT in the relationship with William Randolph Hearst. That was Marion Davies. 

The Cat’s Meow was about Marion Davies

Peg “something” Entwisle who killed herself on the Hollywood sign

Damian wouldn’t have made it to the talkies. Anne would have been a Mary Wickes type. Or a Marjorie Main, who was in a relationship with Spring Byington

Veronica Cartwright is in too many iconic films to name but we will: The Birds, The Children's Hour, Alien, The Witches of Eastwick

Stole scenes from Cher, Michelle Pfeifer and Susan Sarandon in The Witches of Eastwick: CHERRY SCENE

Character in Alien is apparently NOT “canonically queer” 

Got the buzz cut because Sigourney wouldn’t 

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, dir: Philip Kauffman) is SO good please go watch 

Donald Sutherland finally got a perm instead of curlers 

Is so good in Inserts opposite Richard Dreyfuss

Goin’ South with Jack Nicholson

Appeared on ER, Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck

Hitchcock Presents

The Twilight Zone

Colleen Dewhurst auditioned for The Witches of Eastwick role that eventually went to Veronica

Sang opera in Man Trouble with Ellen Barkin 

Cassandra Spencer in The X-Files

Emmy nominated for The X-Files and ER

Won Emmy at 15 for Tell me Not in Mournful Numbers

Who Has Seen the Wind about refugees 

Sings “Hello Dolly” in Scary Movie 2

The Scissor Sisters album cover 

Is NOT in Speed despite listed as Bag Lag Uncredited in Speed

Is only voiceover for a radio scene on In the Bedroom

Gotta watch Clipped with the “silly rabbit” Cleopatra Coleman and Jacki Weaver

Who will we cast as a sister opposite the play we need: Harriet Sansom Harris and Veanne Cox and is it Marcia Cross

Judith Ivey is STILL ALIVE I’m sorry

Birthday Candles with Debra Messing a life highlight