20 Things You Somehow Missed In Batman Returns
13. Elizabeth Sanders' Cameo
Bob Kane, who is now recognised as being a co-creator of Batman, along with Bill Finger, was meant to have a cameo as a comic artist for the Gotham Globe in Batman. He did, in fact, draw (and sign) the doodle of a man-sized bat in a business suit that appeared in the film, but was unfortunately ill when it came time to film the sequence in which “Bob Kane” hands the drawing to Alexander Knox.
When it came to the sequel, however, Kane’s actress wife, Elizabeth Sanders got her own cameo for a brief linking sequence in which a group of Gothamites debate the news of the emergence of Gotham’s “hideous penguin-man”. Indeed, she remarks that The Penguin in “like a frog that became a prince”, but she is soon corrected as “he’s more like a penguin”.
This marked the first of Mrs Kane’s appearances in the original Batman quadrilogy, as Joel Schumacher cast her as an outlandish journalist, Gossip Gerty, a more kid-friendly version of 1940s-style gossip columnists such as Hedda Hopper, in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.
Her husband, on the other hand, served as a consultant on the first four Batman films and finally had a fleeting cameo in Batman & Robin at the charity auction in the botanical gardens where Poison Ivy, ahem, reveals herself.