: During filming, Barbara Stanwyck famously warned Van Heflin not to do his "coin-rolling" trick during her lines, threatening to "upstage him" by hiking up her skirt to adjust her garter.
: One interesting modern interpretation suggests that the "strange love" referenced in the title is actually self-love , reflecting an ambivalence about the "exceptional" society of post-WWII America. subtitle The.Strange.Love.of.Martha.Ivers.1946....
: Critics describe her as a "ruthless matriarch" and a "hard-boiled, lustful vixen". Reviewers note that she is a more complex and "humanized" version of a femme fatale because we see her childhood trauma first. : During filming, Barbara Stanwyck famously warned Van