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Davis picks out the tune "A Letter to Daddy" on the piano, and then hears her childlike voice singing it - it's coming, as it seems, from the doll sitting on a couch opposite. And then...she takes the bow from its head, puts it on herself, and finishes the song...

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the moment, perhaps, where you can say in the movie, in some metaphorical sense that she becomes possessd by her younger self. Davis is really magnificently terrifying in this - and simultaneously pathos-filled as she, her younger self so to speak, looks at herself in the mirror -

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