![]() ![]() The room number now adorns the common bathroom. When she questions hotel owner and manager Madame Hervé ( Cathleen Nesbitt), the latter claims she arrived alone. The next morning, Vicky finds a blank wall where Johnny's room used to be. When English painter George Hathaway (Bogarde) drops off his girlfriend, Rhoda O'Donovan ( Honor Blackman), and her mother ( Betty Warren) at the hotel, he asks Johnny for change for a 100 franc note to pay a carriage driver Johnny lends him 50 francs and gives him his name and room number. She finally retires for the night, while Johnny has a late-night drink. This is Vicky's first time in Paris, and after checking into a hotel, she drags her tired brother to dinner and the famous Moulin Rouge. In 1889, young Englishwoman Vicky Barton (Simmons) and her brother Johnny ( David Tomlinson) arrive in Paris to see the Exposition Universelle. The film's title derives from the nursery rhyme " Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be?". Later followed "Maybe You Will Remember", a variation told in Alvin Schwartz's book Scary Stories 3 (1991). On television, both the episode "Into Thin Air" (1955) of the anthology-series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the episode "The Disappearance" (1967) of the TV-series The Big Valley were based on the same tale. It was then filmed as the theatrical release Dangerous Crossing (1953) and as the television movie Treacherous Crossing (1992). ![]() It aired three times in the series Suspense (twice in 1943 and once in 1949), and gave rise its own short-lived mystery radio series, Cabin B-13, after which it was adapted for television as "Cabin B-13" in the series Climax! (1958). The radio play "Cabin B-13" by John Dickson Carr tells a similar story. The German film Covered Tracks (1938) was based on the story, with a script by Thea von Harbou, and portions of the idea also featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film The Lady Vanishes. Fraser, and Ernest Hemingway's 1926 The Torrents of Spring. Belloc Lowndes' 1913 novel The End of Her Honeymoon also contains the tale, as does Lawrence Rising's 1920 She Who Was Helena Cass, Sir Basil Thomson's 1925 The Vanishing of Mrs. The German author Anselma Heine's novel Die Erscheinung (1912) covers the same idea, and it was filmed as a segment called 'The Apparition" in Unheimliche Geschichten (Uncanny stories) (1919, remake 1932). It next appeared in the Detroit Free Press in 1898 as "Porch Tales: The Disappearance of Mrs. The first published version of the story was written by Nancy Vincent McClelland as "A Mystery of the Paris Exposition" in The Philadelphia Inquirer dated 14 November 1897. The general plot derives from what appears to be a 19th-century urban legend, known variously as "The Vanishing Hotel Room" or "The Vanishing Lady", which has inspired several fictional works. ![]()
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