Post by Toasted Cheese on Mar 8, 2021 23:17:13 GMT
I pondered this when I first heard this trivia because I can certainly see Dusenberry as Laurie Strode and doing a good job. I checked out an Anne Lockhart movie--an obscure one from the time because I had forgotten her--she was in Battlestar Galactica. I am thinking she could have played the scared mousey teenager well, but would have been unable to connect with the kids--the comic book scene. I could see Dusenberry better at that and obviously being effectively scared.
But JLC had a tomboy quality which I think gave the part a kind of realism and Dusenberry may have been too glamorous. Because the closet scene--JLC is really good there--I think that's the signature scene in the movie where she is trapped and uses the coat hanger.
Also, Jamie's LS had a slight underdog quality that works very well in the movie. Maybe that's kind of what you were saying when you cited Ann's higher "glamour" quotient.
I wonder how CC would have turned out had Mommie Dearest not kept her down and kicked her into the dirt and made sure she stayed there.