The Harris Curse and the Saxon Charm

A tale of toxic genius and faded memories

I. The Jed Harris Curse

Jed Harris in his glory days

When casting about for something to watch, my habits are pretty haphazard. At home I am not usually someone who works her way steadily through a filmography. That’s something I do when attending film series and festivals, if possible. When I stumbled across The Saxon Charm from 1948, my thought process …