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Awesomely bad! Myrna Loy — from Montana though she was — in one of her early exotic roles as “some kind of half-breed, Hindu, Japanese, I don’t know.” Snubbed by an exclusive group of prep school girls at the age of 12 who wouldn’t let her into their society because she wasn’t white, she begins exacting revenge in adulthood. She sends out horoscopes predicting her classmates’ deaths, resulting in a lot of juvenile discussions about determinism and free will. And — because she’s a “half-breed” and all — she can hypnotize them into killing themselves just by looking at them cross-eyed. Irene Dunne’s our doe-eyed heroine trying to cling to reason, but I’m giving all the props to Loy in this one. Weirdest thing I’ve seen from old Hollywood yet.
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…I have sort of a strange preoccupation with Madame X. 
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