Most of you will know that a great
art-in-the-movies-moments was when the creepy Grady twins (played by Lisa and
Louise Burns) popped up in front of Danny as he raced around the corridors of
the Overlook hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. “Come play with us Danny, for ever and ever.” The two girls were based on the Diane Arbus photograph
Identical twins Roselle, N.J. Kubrick in fact studied photography under Arbus but
always denied any relationship between his twins and the Arbus pair (good luck
with that one).
Arbus
photographed the twins (Cathleen and Colleen Wade) in 1967 when they were seven years old and attending a Christmas party for
twins and triplets. They have since been tracked down and still live in New
York. More about them and other who-are-they? revelations including one Arbus's famous baby shots being of ace TV reporter Anderson Cooper here.
Images: Top left, Diane Arbus Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. and right
Cathleen Mulcahy and Colleen Yorke (the Wade twins). Bottom, the Grady twins
(Lisa and Louise Burns) before and after.
You can read another OTN Arbus post here
