Angel and the Bad End

Gail Russell and Moonrise

In 2013, I wrote the booklet essay for Criterion’s edition of The Uninvited (1944), which was Gail Russell’s first starring role. She was 19 when she made it. As I spent some time with this exquisite ghost story, I became so fond of Russell that when a signed postcard with decent provenance crossed my path, I snapped it up. It remains the only such phot…