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One of these—Kidder, Peabody & Co.—helped bankroll the next great innovation that changed investing: the telephone.

Bell’s American Telephone & Telegraph had a “continuing and mounting need for capital, amounts far greater than could be obtained from its traditional sources,” Vincent Carosso writes in “More Than a Century of Investment Banking: The Kidder, Peabody & Co. Story.”

In 1906, faced with a $150 million placement, Kidder Peabody called in help, arranging a syndicate of J.P.

Kidder died in 2018, her own struggles with mental illness well documented and heartbreaking.

But “Sisters,” a proper freakout starring Margot Kidder, playing conjoined twins, is the first of what we now think of as a De Palma movie: a psychosexual nightmare with madman instincts.