Word: murderess
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...Saturday Evening Post. No superlatives were too strong for his variegated heroes and heroines. Walt Disney's Dumbo he termed "the best achievement yet reached in the Seven Arts since the first white man landed on this continent." The story of Lizzie Borden, the ax-murderess, was "on the plane with Shakespeare and Sophocles" (later, Woollcott horrified the Borden Milk Co. by urging them to give the name Lizzie to an offspring of their prizewinning cow at the World's Fair). Woollcott believed that Harpo Marx had the makings of a great poet, and the silent Harpo obliged...
...surpassed for not only is it excellently constructed through plot and dialogue, but it is also finely executed in characterization and in use of comic relief upon a tragic theme. Anyone who saw the Flora Robson production of this play will remember it as the outstanding portrait of a murderess, her motives, and her downfall...
...dedicated "to all the beautiful women in the world who have shot their men full of holes out of pique." A rewrite by Producer Nunnally Johnson of Maurine Watkins' 1926 Broadway hit Chicago, it is a bawdy farce of the bad old '205, when a pretty murderess was as likely to get ten weeks in vaudeville as the electric chair...
...Lupino, proving again that she ranks among the screen's top-flight actresses, gives a restrained and intelligent performance as the murderess who kills her benefactress in order to provide a home for her two helpless sisters. Louis Hayward is excellent as her conniving nephew. And each of the supporting roles is masterfully handled, with an attention to detail that fills every scene with an unmatched intensity and impact...
Some of them had seen "the Duchess" when she entered San Quentin, a fox-faced, shabby murderess, bound for death in a gas chamber. Through the cell blocks the grapevine carried her story: that she (Juanita Spinelli), her common-law husband, Mike Simeone, and Thug Gordon Hawkins had drugged and drowned a gangster. Later another bulletin: a 30-day reprieve for the three by Governor Culbert Olson. Later still: "She's going to sniff it [lethal gas] just the same...