On his second try with a better memory thought, Harry succeeded, and hen described how he had seen his parents"" faces talking to him." He mentions that the third character that they had previously toasted before Gilda""s appearance - Mundson""s cane-dagger - has now been displaced by her.The actress Bette Davis (in her mid-career at the age of 40) was miscast in the film as the young, beautiful and dissatisfied sexpot, playing one of the baddest, no-good, trashiest, and most warped of allfemme fatalesas she schemed and murdered to escape her oppressive small-town roots and get out of her stultifying marriage...a week ago." McCallum pressured Dave to remember Evelyn""s exact words when she called him, especially the line from a poem that she had quoted.