Character: Leslie Crosbie in The Letter (1940)


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Played by Bette Davis
Character Information


Tags associated with this character: leading lady, murderer



Theme associated with this character: Leslie




Tags associated with this theme:

9th chord | 11th chord | 64 chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | appoggiatura | arguing | augmentation | augmented major 7th chord | augmented sixth chord | augmented triad | bold | brassy | buildup | call and response | calm | changing meter | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | circle of fifths | climax | common-chord modulation | composer reference | confessing | conversing | creeping | crying | dark | deceptive resolution | delicate | despair | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | distress | dramatic | driving | emotional | enharmonic respelling | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | gentle | glorious | half-diminished 7th chord | harmonic sequence | home | hospital | investigating | leaving | looking | lying | major 7th chord | minor-major 7th chord | mysterious | office | ominous | oscillation | ostinato | parallel fifths | parallelism | passionate | pc set | pedal tone | plagal cadence | planning | plantation | plotting | polychord | prison | quartal chord | reading | recounting | sequence | sequential modulation | serious | sinister | somber | spying | staring | stern | stinger | stretto imitation | suspenseful | suspension | tense | thinking | tone cluster | tritone | tritone oscillation | turning on | walking | watching | weeping | whole-tone | whole-tone chord


Theme associated with this character: Leslie B






Theme associated with this character: Robert and Leslie