![]() Young Charley, as she is called, is bored with what she thinks is a pretty dull life. ![]() While the audience suspects Uncle Charlie may have a darker side, it isn’t immediately obvious to his niece Charlotte “Charley” Newton, played by Teresa Wright. The way the scene is shot and Cotten’s non-verbal, acting, we’re tipped off that Uncle Charlie is an unsavory sort. Our first glimpse of Charles Oakley is of him laying on a bed in a boarding house, dressed in a perfectly tailored suit, smoking a cigar. As the dapper and sophisticated uncle visiting his older sister’s family in California, Cotten establishes himself as a menacing presence from the moment he first appears on the screen. ![]() That didn’t happen, obviously, but Cotten stayed in Hollywood and we’re glad he did.Ĭotten is perhaps most famous for his films with Orson Welles, but his best screen performance, in my opinion, is as the mysterious Uncle Charlie in the Alfred Hitchcock classic, Shadow of a Doubt. After the play’s successful run, Cotten thought he had a shot at playing Dexter in the film version. Dexter Haven in the original Broadway production of The Philadelphia Story, opposite Katharine Hepburn. ![]()
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