" Cody""s old, hawkish mother or Ma (Margaret Wycherly, who also played a different kind of ""mother figure"" inSergeant York (1941)) is stirring stew on the stove, and Cody""s voluptuous blonde wife Verna Jarrett (Virginia Mayo) is asleep in an adjoining back bedroom.You listen to this.I want this understood once and for all.I""m not going to the convention.I""m going to the mountains.Mrs.Hardy ends her harsh, forcible opinions about how she is under-appreciated by threatening: "Convention! You""ll go to the convention over my dead body.Besides major stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, Welles easily persuaded Joseph Cotten (as a police surgeon), Marlene Dietrich (in a supporting role cameo), Mercedes McCambridge (in male drag as a member of a Mexican motorcycle gang), and Keenan Wynn to appear in the film, with the added bonus of a small cameo by Zsa Zsa Gabor.As Spidey dodged and evaded the Electro-blasts, the massive electrical disturbances caused many other problems, including interference with air-flight radar and he threat of two jets impacting within intersecting paths.Freddy retaliated when Will charged at him with his sorcery: "Sorry kid, I don""t believe in fairy tales," grabbed him, lifted him off the ground with a choking grasp, and buried his claws deep in Will""s chest(# 5 death).