Bluebeard directed by Edward Dmytryk
It’s funny, but I always thought the Bluebeard character was based on a real-life historical figure, much as Vlad the Impaler had been the inspiration for Dracula, Gilles de Rais inspired Paul Naschy’s Alaric de Marnac, and the Countess Elizabeth Bathory was the obvious basis for Delphine Seyrig’s vampiric Countess Bathory in Daughters of Darkness. But a little research reveals that Bluebeard was rather the creation of French author Charles Perrault, and first appeared in a collection of the author’s fairy tales in 1697. The basis for no less than six cinematic treatments,
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Very interesting, Ulrich! Thanks for clueing me in!
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