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| Note: This article deals with the movie "Screaming Mimi". For the World War Two rocket artillery nicknamed the "Screaming Mimi", see nebelwerfer. Screaming Mimi (1958) is a Columbia Pictures release directed by Gerd Oswald and based on the novel by pulp novelist Fredric Brown. PlotIn the opening scene set in Southern California, while Virginia Wilson (Anita Ekberg) is taking an outside beach shower, an escaped madman from the sanatarium shows up. He stabs her dog, Devil, attacks her and is then shot to death by a neighbor with a rifle. After the attack, Virginia's committed to a sanatarium. The psychiatrist falls in love with her. He fakes her death, and they go on the lam. Virginia ends up dancing at the El Madhouse night club run by Gypsy Rose Lee. Lee performs Put the Blame on Mame, the classic noir theme from Gilda. All the while Virginia's being stalked by a serial killer. Jazz vibraphonist Red Norvo plays himself. The book the film was based on was remade as L' Uccello dalle piume di cristallo (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) in 1970, although it's almost nothing like the book.Main cast
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