Miss havisham

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an old fashion photo of a woman in wedding dress sitting on a chair with a veil over her head

No, this isn't our first look at a secret live-action adaptation of the stop-motion animated film The Corpse Bride from director Tim Burton. However, these first couple photos featuring Helena Bonham Carter in full wardrobe for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Four Weddings and a Funeral director Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles

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an old black and white photo of two women sitting in chairs with candles on them

GREAT EXPECTATIONS 1946 MARTITA HUNT as MISS HAVISHAM & Valerie Hobson as Estella. Photo (DETAIL) by Cecil Beaton. While dressing for her wedding, a letter from her fiancee arrived stating she'd been left at the altar & defrauded. Heartbroken & humiliated, from then on, time stood still. She never removed her wedding dress, & left the cake to rot. She became a recluse & had all the clocks stopped at 20 to 9, the time she had received the letter. Vogue in the Fourties (minkshmink)

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a woman sitting in a chair with a veil on her head and wearing a wedding dress

At 46 she's considerably younger than her character, the decrepit Miss Havisham. But Helena Bonham Carter can be seen looking haggard and tortured as the heiress locked in the past in the new trailer for the latest adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations.

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tattered ladies | Source: The Costumer's Guide to Movie Costumes

Miss Havisham's look is eerie and Gothic. There are many ways to bring this character to life and my initial idea was to use this for inspiration Source: The Costumer's Guide to Movie Costumes This is the crone's dress from Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999). It's tattered and old and spooky, so it would have been perfect for Miss Havisham. The veil is also a nice touch. It obscures the face and makes the whole silhouette more ghost-like. But I decided not to use a veil since they tend to get…

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