Alfred Hitchcock cast Violet Farebrother to play the definitive cinematic mother-in-law in the film Easy Virtue. She plays a manipulative matriarch so well that it’s a wonder she played two other roles in the films Downhill and Murder!

So get ready for some sponge cake and passive-aggressive questions…it’s time to meet Hitchcock’s mother-in-law.

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