Most of what she does is in service to her sister Winifred, to whom she is clearly devoted. Mary is the sweetest Sanderson witch-if sweet witches can really be a thing. In 2020, Parker appeared in the Inside & Outwards PSA about the mental health challenges for people alone during the COVID-19 crisis. She also revisited the world of Sex and the City with the HBO Max series And Just Like That and inhabited Sarah Sanderson again in Hocus Pocus 2.īest line: 'Since this promises to be a most dire and stressful evening, I suggest we form a calming circle.' Other popular appearances post- Hocus Pocus include 1996's The First Wives Club with Midler, 2006's Failure to Launch, and 2009's Did You Hear About the Morgans?, a brief stint on Glee in 2012, and starring opposite Thomas Haden Church on the HBO series Divorce, which ran from 2016 to 2019. In keeping with her fashionista character, Parker has her own line of clothing, shoes, and accessories, as well as fragrances. While ignorant most of the time, her special talent seems to lie in the area of seduction-whether it's sitting on the lap of a 20th-century bus driver or canoodling with Winifred's former beau, Billy Butcherson.Ĭarrie Bradshaw, er, Sarah Jessica Parker graduated from witch costumes to a coveted closet of high-fashion threads on Sex and the City, the HBO television series of the late-'90s and early-2000s that also spawned two feature films. The youngest Sanderson sister, Sarah is especially interested in the teenage boys the witches encounter. In the late-2010s, Midler won a Tony for her performance in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! and appeared on Ryan Murphy's series The Politician, which earned the Divine Miss M an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. She also returned for the Hocus Pocus sequel on Disney+ in 2022.īest line: 'My lucky rat tail! Just where I left it!' She also played Bobbie in 2004's The Stepford Wives and has released multiple albums covering what she considers to be the greatest hits.

She went on to star alongside Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton in 1996's The First Wives Club and Danny DeVito in 2000's Drowning Mona. While Bette Midler didn't get her youth potion in Hocus Pocus, her career certainly didn't end there. She leads her sisters around after they were resurrected, navigating the 20th century with relative ease and even giving a guest performance of 'I Put a Spell on You' at a Halloween party.

She is insecure about her looks and stops at nothing to complete the potion that would make her young again. When the Salem townspeople caught and hanged them in the late-1600s, she was quick enough to cast a spell that would allow the sisters to come back eventually. Winifred is the ringleader of the Sanderson sisters. Best line: 'Oh look, another glorious morning.

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