you're right about julia's cloths.although everyone makes fun of "the green suit" her cloths do look expensive and chic.i love that she still wore gloves in the late 1960's, a time when the "hippie look" was tossing such ladylike conventions out.and with her short hairdo julia looked "smart".

i must appologize for this maudlin post.i worked myself into a champagne-induced state of sentimentality.i hope i didn't "bring down" the mood on d.s.'s b-day.

Nelson Collins -- interesting about "The Mummy."  I tend to look for more "literary" sources, no doubt overlooking some more popular (and less highbrow) ones.  

Funny you should mention "Spellbound".  That movie haunted me and intrigued me for years, as I had seen only the first half of it while in high school, and never knew the explanation for Gregory Peck's strange fears or the Dali-dream sequence until someone told me about it years later.  Then it was years later before I actually saw the ending -- I waited in vain for years and years for it to be shown on TV, then finally bought it on VHS a few years ago.  Recently watched it again, three times in obsession (oops -- I mean "succession").  I still love it, but the characters are really cardboard cutouts and don't impress much with repeated viewings beyond the "this is what the explanation" gimmick.  "Vertigo" I think has more depth in characterization and holds up better.  Not sure if either one is really a direct influence on DS, but there are some interesting parallels at least.

Hey, btw, Patti, shouldn't this thread be called "A Dark Shadows kind of Mourning?  

Apologies, couldn't resist.

Hey new cousins...we've discussed movie correlations & DS before...can you name a few more movies TCM could've run that correspond to DS?

As long as you don't list the cross-plot to DS, I don't think it's 'spoilage'.

Have fun and WELCOME

Thanks Patti (hugs from W. PA) 

Hmmmmm....aside from what's been already mentioned (great examples all), a few more I can think of (or at least ones that I've seen recently - LOL) include Hitchcock's "Spellbound" (with Ingrid Bergman playing the "woman" psychiatrist ), "Vertigo" (great cinematography; the storyline parallels the Barnabas-Josette obsession in many ways)...and speaking of portraits, there's "The Portrait of Jennie" 

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(I hear MB makes a mean chocolate chip.  )

Soft, moist, and dripping with chocolate. 

Barnabas returns to the Old House, looking dazed. Julia comes downstairs and asks what happened. He doesn't answer right away, and finally tells her he's all right. Nicholas is gone, he says, stunned--he just disappeared, in a blaze of flames on Widows' Hill--I followed Nicholas there, who was calling someone who must control fate--he was begging, pleading, not to be sent back to where he came from--then he burst into flames. Has he disappeared forever? wonders Julia. "Yes," says Barnabas, "Nicholas is gone!" Julia repeats "Nicholas is gone!" several times and hugs Barnabas, thrilled the danger is over. He pats her back, as relieved as she is.

She peels back an eyelid, finds her pulse slow, but she'll be all right. We can't let Vicki wake up here, says Barnabas--Julia, get your car.

"Shall I make plans for the rest of the night, too?" asks Julia pointedly. "Shall I find Willie, tell him to bring a coffin to this room?--a coffin that you may need at sunrise, because that's the risk you're taking, Barnabas. Or shall we go try and find Adam?" Barnabas soberly considers her words and says he made that decision when he fired that shot. "Help me, Julia," he begs.