The older woman in Legend is pretty much a toxic envious possessive bitch, alas, though the younger one comes over (she is only discussed in retrospect) as much less of a hapless victim than Alwynne.

Oddly enough such glimpes of Dane as one gets in memoirs of the day are of a jolly old duck in the Margaret Rutherford mould, but that was probably in later life, perhaps mellowed by success.