Phillip Oliver said: "Terence Rattigan's play SEPARATE TABLES brought Kerr her fifth Academy Award nomination as a repressed spinster whose life is governed by her overbearing mother (played by Gladys Cooper)."
Notice how Gladys did the same shtick in NOW, VOYAGER.
"May I say I am very confused by that last commercial. Well, it was a commercial for a laxative. And I wonder why all those people doing sports and all that sort of thing--where they would need a laxative after such vigorous movement all over the place." [Alfred Hitchcock]
"I think my mother scared me when I was 3 months old. You see, she said BOO. It gave me the hiccups. And she apparently was very satisfied." [Alfred Hitchcock]
"I had a test pilot go out off Santa Monica. And dive with a camera on the front of the plane toward the ocean. Pull out at the last moment." [Alfred Hitchcock]