She was our Wednesday Addams, and that’s kind of typecast Christina Ricci as a horror movie queen. She’s also shown up in a fair number of frock flicks, though the best have a dark side. If you got it, haunt it!
Kate Flax in Mermaids (1990)
Katrina Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Suzie in The Man Who Cried (2000)
All’s Faire in Love (2009)
Maggie Ryan in Pan Am (2011-2012)
Clotilde de Marelle in Bel Ami (2012)
Sarabeth Ellis in War Flowers (2012)
Lizzie Borden in Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014)
Lizzie Borden in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015)
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald in Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015-2017)
Nellie Bly in Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019)
What’s your favorite historical costume movie or TV role of Christina Ricci’s?
Pan Am for me — there was so much potential that we never got to see, and with a wonderful cast of actresses with really pretty costumes.
The Man Who Cried. When I saw who was in it, (at the time I still liked Johnny Depp), I thought I would give it a try. It has a very interesting story line going from the pogroms of Russia, to repressed England to carnie life in France and finally Hollywood. Cate Blanchett is excellent and looks wonderful in her 30’s glam costumes.
Besides Sleepy Hollow, my favourite is Below Ami.
My favorite is Sleepy Hollow. I watch it every Halloween.
The Man Who Cried is a straaange movie. I mostly watched it for Blanchett, whom I love.
Some of these, I haven’t seen. Must alter that, at once!
Sleepy Hollow
I love Sleepy Hollow!
I must warn you that All’s Faire In Love is just as dreadful as it looks. I only watched it because I was working in a shop at the Michigan Renaissance Festival when they were filming the movie there. It was a huge nuisance and the film is really bad. Some of the supporting roles are enjoyable, and I did get to see Ann Margaret riding a horse, so there’s that.
(ok, I’ve actually watched it more than once – spotting familiar faces in the crowd scenes is fun)
Not historical but I recommend Buffalo 66.