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Dana Schneider talks about a new necklace for “Superman: Legacy,” the “Hunger Games” Mockingjay pin and how her goal is “to help actors get into character.”

By Alix Strauss

Most viewers shied away from the scary parts in “Dark Shadows,” a gothic TV soap opera in the late 1960s, but Dana Schneider, then 7, was transfixed by the black onyx ring that the vampire character Barnabas Collins wore.

“It caught my eye because it was so dramatic and prominent. You saw it every time he put his hand on his cane,” said Ms. Schneider, now 66. “It was a family crest ring, which I’d never seen before.”