Miss Havisham

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Martita Hunt (Miss Havisham) and Anthony Wager (Pip) in the 1946 film version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.

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Martita Hunt (Miss Havisham) and Anthony Wager (Pip) in the 1946 film version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.

Martita Hunt (Miss Havisham) and Anthony Wager (Pip) in the 1946 film version of...

© 1946 Universal International Pictures; photograph from a private collection