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I think this photo is a total hoot, and I've never seen it. I've been looking at it and looking at it, and at first I think Burt is better looking, and then I think Robert is the prettier "girl," and I just keep going back and forth. It's Bob. No, it's Burt. No, no, it has to be Bob...I can't decide!
And that hysterical look of stunned shock and/or fear on Errol Flynn's face makes it even more fun. And it looks like they are wearing identical outifts, hats, parasols, and bags...
Joe, it is cracking me up! I adore this photo! One of your best/funniest/most unusual.
Thank you. I needed it!
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Suzanne Pleshette
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Thanks, Lavender. Been so busy. Miss all the trivia fun!
Can't think of the next answer, though.
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Thank you so much, Darryl!
It must be time for an international revival of *On Golden Pond* because Stephanie Powers starred in the UK production of the play this spring with Richard Johnson (Jemmy in 1965's *The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders,* and lately as Bernard Qualtrough in *MI-5).*
For more information, follow the link:
http://www.stefaniepowersonline.com/news.htm
For an informative interview about her UK appearance in Plymouth in April, follow this link:
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Humour-fore-Golden-Pond-play/story-15863296-detail/story.html
Any chance Stephanie Powers might visit the next TCMFF in 2013 to introduce *McClintock* with John Wayne or *Die, Die, My Darling* with Tallulah Bankhead?
And if you live in the L.A. area, don't forget about Salome Jens' performance in *On Golden Pond* in Glendale in July and August!
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GEORGE
Next: Kathy, Florence, Alan
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I am definitely with Lynn and Jackie on this one. Excellent!
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Well, let's not give Ellen Barkin "Das Boot," either. I felt her choices were also "out of the box."
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Ha! Not Wally. GUY. He appeared on the stage in Houston to promote the 1960 Zorro film, and he was so dashing in his Zorro togs. My mother was a swoonin'....
"Trouvais" seems just as obsessed with pictures of roses as I am!
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I felt that Lee was so enthralled with some of the films he had chosen that he didn't quite know where to begin. I just sensed that he had such great respect for Robert Osborne that he was soft-pedaling his over-the-top enthusiasm because he was unsure of where he wanted to go with his explanation or unsure of how to approach the conversation.
If he is a professor, he is obviously used to speaking in front of a crowd, but maybe he is reticent with his peers. I know I am sometimes that way out of my own elements of familiarity.
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Bronxie, he was a good lookin' Mensch!
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I was lucky enough to see Guy Williams at a promotional appearance he made in Houston. He was so nice, and was very patient and kind with us kiddos.
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Glad you're back!
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Thanks, dear Izcutter! Keep those cards and letters coming in...
Richard Anderson's introduction to *Seconds* also revealed that he felt Salome Jens was a wonderful actress. And viewing that film at the Turner Classic Film Festival 2012 peaked my interested in a woman whose career encompassed many film, television, and stage successes. Her face is familiar to many because of her myriad of guest starring roles in series like *Star Trek: Deep Space* *Nine*, appearing as the Female Shapeshifter, or *Melrose Place* as Joan Campbell.
She also appeared in *Tales From the Crypt*, *Falcon Crest*, *Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,* *Medical Center*, *Stoney Burke, The Outer Limits, The Untouchables*, and one of the more unusual episodes of *Gunsmoke*, entitled "Captain Sligo," with Richard Baseheart in the title role, staple character player Royal Dano, and director William Conrad, who was the original Matt Dillon on the CBS radio show. *McMillan and Wife*, *Seconds* ' costar Rock Hudson's popular detective series, also afforded Jens the opportunity to work with Hudson again in the episode entitled " Reunion in Terror," as a character named "Boom Boom" Parkins in the 70s.
Jens' quirky, often off-beat characters did much to advance her in certain non-traditional roles, but her portrayal of Nora Marcus as the free-wheeling, grape-stomping paramour of Rock Hudson's reformed Arthur Hamilton enjoying his new found "freedom" in the up-and-coming Malibu counterculture, is one of her signature roles. As Nora Marcus, she is mysterious, passionate, and willing to lead Arthur Hamilton into all kinds of adventures, some of which occur on screen in the actual Malibu home of *Seconds* director John Frankenheimer.
Her 1961 starring role in Paul Wendkos's *Angel Baby* is considered Wendkos' best directorial effort, and a cult favorite with fans of Salome Jens. Wendkos, famous for the *Gidget* franchise, *The Legend of Lizzie Borden*, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, and *A Woman Called Moses*, starring Cicely Tyson, was hard-pressed not to release *Angel Baby*, and it was "shelved" for a year to help ensure the success of a similarly plotted Columbia effort entitled *Elmer Gantry*, which propelled Shirley Jones to her Oscar win as Lulu Bains.
*Angel Baby* not only marked the debut of Ms. Jens as a woman who believes she has been selected by God to alleviate the suffering of others with her healing skills, but it also allowed a young Burt Reynolds his first film credit before his stint as "Quint" on *Gunsmoke* a year or
so later. George Hamilton, as Paul Strand, is a greedy promoter who supposedly cures Jens of her affliction, and Mercedes McCambridge is his wife who also exploits the innocent.
Salome Jens will star with Andrew Prine ( *Bandolero* , *The Miracle Worker*, *Chisum* ) in Glendale Centre Theatre's *On Golden Pond*, July 12-August 11. Jens has previously appeared in many productions, and the New York Times called her one-woman show *About Anne*, incorporating the poems and words of Anne Sexton, " a magnificent moment of theater" and states that her "rich and brilliant performance gleams in the memory." (Anyone living near Glendale, California, might want to order tickets to see Jens and Prine emote in *On Golden Pond* at 818-244-8481.)
Watching *Seconds* made me so curious about Salome Jens because I had seen her in so many movies and television classics, and I had to find out a little more about this fascinating feature player. Discussing her performance with Geraldine Page in *Barefoot in Athens*, a play about the death of Socrates, which first appeared on Broadway, and aired in 1966 on NBC, Jens claimed Page was "fierce" and always worked "on the edges." She also reveals she was "moved, moved humanly" by Page's performance. *Barefoot in Athens* also starred Peter Ustinov as Socrates. After watching the print of *Seconds* at the Turner Classic Film Festival in April, I feel that Jen's performances move viewers humanly and motivated me to find out a little more about her and her performance in *Seconds*, which helped make it a classic, cult or otherwise.
Maybe Salome Jens will be asked to appear at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival 2013 to introduce another screening of *Seconds*, or even *Angel Baby*.
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JackFavell said:
"I actually had a nightmare about Fred MacMurray last night, and can't figure out what it meant. He was in white tie and tails, looking like another Fred, in TOP HAT. Mac just glared at me, then I woke up.
by the rules of screwball, this means you are well on your way to falling in love."
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Miss G., I love those photos!
Ladies, are we planning a conference on the Cote d'Azur any time soon? I must get my passport in order...
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If Turner Classic Movies is your favorite cable channel, you will love what Robert Osborne says in Jonathan Melville's interview from 2011. And if you are currently employed as a producer, please listen closely:
http://audioboo.fm/boos/567305-robert-osborne-interview-tcm-classic-film-festival-2011
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Check out the blog Scottish film buff, freelance editor, writer, and journalist Jonathan Melville writes about the Turner Classic Movie Festival. I had the privilege of meeting Jonathan at previous festivals, and he is a wonderful fellow whose interests in film keep the Scottish Highlands informed about the Turner Classic Film Festival, as well as writing film reviews for the Edinburgh Evening News.
Follow this link for some of his informative features:
http://jonathanmelville.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/tcm-classic-film-festival-2012/#comment-253
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Thank you, Capuchin!
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King, I most heartily agree. I think all the actresses in the Keith Michell incarnation were excellent.
Angela Pleasence also appeared on an episode of Dr. Who as Queen Elizabeth I, and last appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2011. I do feel she was quite believable as Catherine Howard, and lent it a certain "horror of naivete" about her precarious position.
SansFin, I wish you a safe and successful journey!
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Saturday evening, April 14, was one of the events I had been looking forward to since the announcement of the full schedule. At 9:45 in the Chinese Multiplex #3, *Seconds* was going to be introduced by veteran actor Richard Anderson and historian Kari Beauchamp. 6'3" Anderson strolled onstage looking fit and tan as if he just stepped away from the clay court after his last victory volley.
The low-key, but informative introduction allowed Anderson to reveal some of his Hollywood rise to prominence as one of the most visible supporting cast players from the decline of the studio system to his berth as solid Oscar Goldman in *The Six Million Dollar Man*, and its feminist spawn, *The Bionic Woman*. The first actor to play concurrent roles in two different series on two different networks, Anderson was recommended for the role of Henry Malvine in *Dream Wife* by none other than Cary Grant as Grant's wife at the time, Betsy Drake had noticed Anderson in one of his theatrical appearances in the 1950s when Anderson was a contract player at MGM.
Anderson once claimed that "when people ask me where I received my education, I tell them it was at MGM-U. The biggest lessons I learned is that acting is a talent. You can't teach it. And even if you have the talent, you have to get a part." So when the call came from Cary Grant, he was a little startled, but eventually secured one of his breakthrough roles in *Dream Wife* after appearing in scores of MGM films in the early 1950s, thanks to the intervention of the Grants, and Anderson even entertained passholders with an imitation of Grant during the explanation of his acquisition of the Henry Malvine role.
Anderson's role as Dr. Innes in *Seconds* came after his appearances in the final season of *Perry Mason* and before his guest-starring stints in such favorites as *The Man From Uncle*, *Twelve O'Clock High*, *The Big Valley*, and *Dan August,* continuing his popularity as the king of supporting roles in major film and television series. With *Seconds*, both he and Cari Beauchamp acknowledged that Rock Hudson's portrayal of Tony Wilson was one of his best moments on film.
Before the cameras rolled, Hudson spent time with John Randolph learning his mannerisms and preparing to imitate the man who would embody the character of Arthur Hamilton who chooses to relinquish his former life dedicated to what he believed was a hollow dream of unfulfilled hopes. By accepting the Faustian offer of old friend Charlie Evans, played by a post *Anatomy of a Murder*, pre- *Jaws* Murray Hamilton, Randolph's character agrees to visit the firm that promises to orchestrate his death, and resurrect him with a new face and a new identity.
Actors John Randolph, Will Geer, Nedrick Young, and Jeff Corey had all been on the Blacklist, and *Seconds* became the first film Randolph had completed in fifteen years. John Frankenheimer's direction of *Seconds*, part of what is considered his 'Trilogy of Paranoia' along with *The Manchurian Candidate* and *Seven Days in May*, was also an overt political statement as well as a psychological tale that so affected the likes of Beach Boys' Brian Wilson under the influence of psychedelic drugs that he didn't see another movie until *E.T., the Extraterrestial* premiered in 1982. Audience members seemed much more emotionally stable and appreciative of the collaborative screen efforts, and were visibly moved by scenes depicting the emotional depths of self-delusion and self-destruction.
The passholders attending Saturday's screening all seemed to enjoy Anderson's discussion, and gave him, and Cari Beauchamp, a big round of applause before he exited the stage.
Personally, Anderson's second marriage to Katharine Thalberg, daughter of Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg, produced three daughters, and according to his website biography, he is "a sports buff, a car enthusiast," and an " insatiable traveler." He certainly looks like he has been taking very good care of himself.
For more about the career and accomplishments of Cari Beauchamp, follow this link:
http://www.caribeauchamp.com/index.html
For more about Richard Anderson, visit his website:
http://www.bionik.com/biography.html
Anderson's career also paralleled that of *Seconds* costar Salome Jens. More about her busy professional life in the next installment.
Don't forget to have fun!
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Lovely photos, as usual, Mongo. I especially enjoy the refreshing Pier Angeli with James Dean. What a beauty she was!
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I cannot wait to hear what Steve Bingen has to say. What a wonderful guest!
MGM was Hollywood's greatest backlot.