The famous “faded, fat, greedy women” monologue that Cotten icily delivers at dinner one night - finishing with a gaze straight into the camera that’s both knowing and vaguely reptilian - is still deeply chilling all these years later, and has informed countless similar fourth-wall-busting scenes in the seven decades since it first stunned moviegoers in 1943. : Shadow of a Doubt : Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers, Wallace Ford, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack H. In the film - reportedly Hitchcock’s personal favorite of all his own movies - Charlie is a smooth, charming serial killer, “The Merry Widow Murderer,” whose adoring niece, Charlotte (Teresa Wright), gradually comes to realize that her namesake is a sociopath. But of all the roles he played, Cotten’s Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt remains his most enduring. Most actors would be thrilled to have appeared in any one of the classic films on Joseph Cotten’s resume: Citizen Kane, Gaslight-Carol Reed’s perfect high-brow noir- The Third Man and more. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten and Macdonald Carey Get This Movie

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