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9 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
Yup, and THAYER DAVID plays SANDOR.
Yeah, I remember they were a duo.......
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2 hours ago, King Rat said:
According to The Dark Shadows Companion, the werewolf was played by veteran stuntman Alex Stevens, Frank Sinatra's regular stunt double, and Stevens was under 5'8". Both David Selby and Don Briscoe, the actors whose characters turned into werewolves, were over six feet tall.
Louis Edmonds eventually came out and wrote a memoir. Anthony George also came out, I believe. Joel Crothers and Christopher Bernau both died of AIDS. Jonathan Frid and Humbert Allen Astredo have been identified as gay in various online sources, and one might surmise that Michael Stroka was also gay.
And, as you mentioned, the name "Beth Chavez" was a strange character name when there was already a prominent character named Elizabeth, and Terry Crawford was a blonde. In the era of Dark Shadows, Spanish last names were a rarity in much of the country.
I didn't know Louis Edmunds had wrote a book! (I mistakenly wrote READ a book before correcting it! LOL). I figured he was and I assumed Jonathan Frid was over the years. and knew Joel Crothers was (and he got married too!) and died of AIDS.
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7 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
also also also, forget BILLY CRYSTAL in SOAP, LOUIS EDMONDS as ROGER COLLINS (and his various relatives) really was TV'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER, WASN'T HE?
As much as I admire the seriousness of the show, I kindasorta wish they'd done a "VERY SPECIAL SWEEPS WEEK EPISODE" of DARK SHADOWS where ROGER comes out to the family at THANKSGIVING, then there's a couple beats and everyone gathered in the drawing room says IN PERFECT UNISON:
"Yeah, and...?"
LMREO! I LOVED MAGDA!
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7 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
ALSO I watched the episode last night where THE WEREWOLF ATE DORCAS.
It was great.
I forgot who DORCAS was? Some servant?
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8 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:
Nancy's observation of her signature role, Carolyn Stoddard:
"She had too much money!
She had too much freedom!
She had too much hair!"
I laughed when I heard her say that.....
And so stiff! (That hair) I loved that (all too brief) BUZZ storyline who Carolyn had taken up with to get back at her mom during the marriage blackmail storyline. He looked like he walked out of some Village gay bar. NOT convincing as a biker! LOL.
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On 8/15/2021 at 10:58 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:
Believe it or not,
I have agonized somewhat over whether to start this thread...but I did not want to derail the I JUST WATCHED thread any more. I know this is not 100% on-topic, but if the moderators could humor me enough to let it linger in GENERAL DISCUSSIONS, i'd appreciate it.
[I'd rather not derail the I JUST WATCHED thread further]
also...
feel compelled to do so, as though driven by forces I myself cannot underst- G*DDAMMIT, I CAN'T GET THAT DAMN MUSIC OUT OF MY HEAD.
All right, so, as a casual fan of DARK SHADOWS, I grew up with the 1991 revival, then saw HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS then moments of the classic Daytime drama here and there.
Some days ago, I watched THE HAUNTING OF COLLINWOOD which is a 3 hour compendum of the QUENTIN COLLINS/TURN OF THE SCREW STORYLINE and I found myself so struck by the talent of the actors and the handsomeness of the production that I started watching the full episodes on TUBI starting at the point where QUENTIN (who is still a silent ghost) drives the family out of Collinwood.
I did not expect to get so hooked.
I went to get some things out of the laundry, and the next thing I know, it is 1897 and BARNABAS has gone back in time and they've sprayed down GRAYSON HALL with some SALLY HANSON AIRBRUSH LEGS and she's doing a "yew FEELTHY PEEG" routine as a HEEDEEOUS JEEPSEE FORTUNE TELLER [in rural Maine], which was a HOOT, and then we start doing JANE EYRE as well as TURN OF THE SCREW with a little bit of THE LITTLE FOXES thrown in for funsies.
I'm adoring it.
Wasn't her name MAGDA? LOL. Lots of scenery chewing there. I loved that story arc!
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1 hour ago, NoShear said:
Interesting. So they stayed. Did they ever move away? Where is it located?
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3 hours ago, NoShear said:
Apparently there are a lot of ghosts living in Benedict Canyon: I was reminded of the Elke Sommer/Joe Hyams story.
What is their story?
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Can't wait to hear your thoughts on the Joan films!
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On 8/13/2021 at 4:36 PM, nakano said:
Hey Hibi here is one for you :Marion Davies's 'Beach House' build by Hearst, for her pleasure on Santa Monica Beach.Some of it still exist there..110 rooms AND 55 BATHS,She was surely hiding the booze in most of them...
Originally developed during the Gold Coast era of the 1920s by William Randolph Hearst for actress Marion Davies. The Davies estate featured a mansion of 100-plus rooms and an ornate marble swimming pool. As with many Hearst projects, the vision of architect Julia Morgan provided a cohesive grace to the rambling estate. The Beach House was a hot spot on Santa Monica's Gold Coast, with Hearst and Davies entertaining luminaries from the Hollywood set, such as Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable and other stars of the day.
In 1947, Joseph Drown purchased the property from Davies and converted into Oceanhouse, "America's Most Beautiful Hotel," along with the Sand & Sea Club, a limited-membership beach club. After the Oceanhouse venture ended, the main mansion was demolished in 1956
Yes, I've heard of it. Looks like a hotel!
And it seems it was for awhile. Sad to hear it's gone.
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On 8/11/2021 at 9:12 PM, nakano said:
Not conventionally beautiful, Miss Francis was a handsome woman who knew how to dress and accessorize.I watched'Give me your Heart' today (my 49th Kay Francis film!)and she looks fantastic in the white gown in the film. I have found a photo giving it justice,Brent was also very good in the film,on the original poster Brent has no mustache while he has one in the film! She was a great glamour queen and very tall you can throw a hat and it would stick anywhere with her...
She has some great costumes in that film. Mandalay is another one that has one scene after another with Kay in fantastic attire. Even her casual attire is beautiful. Orry-Kelly really was a great fit (pun intended) for her.
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On 8/15/2021 at 5:03 AM, TomJH said:
Pickfair, the legendary home of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. An 18 acre estate located in Beverly Hills, people really knew they were "in" in Hollywood society if invited here. Among those entertained here during the '20s and early '30s were George Bernard Shaw, Charlie Chaplin (Fairbanks was his best friend), F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. G. Wells, Lillian Gish, Joan Crawford, Albert Einstein and Charles Lindbergh.
Doug and Mary divorced in 1936 but Pickford would continue to live here (with husband Buddy Rogers) until her death in 1979.
From Wikipedia:
Empty for several years after Pickford's death in 1979, Pickfair was eventually sold to Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who continued to care for the home, updating and preserving much of its unique charm.[13] In 1988, it was purchased by actress Pia Zadora and her husband Meshulam Riklis.[5] They announced they were planning renovations to the famous estate, but revealed in 1990 that they had in fact demolished Pickfair and a new larger "Venetian style palazzo" was going to be constructed in its place. In 1990, the 42 room estates was razed.[14]
Faced with harsh criticism from a nostalgic public, including Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Zadora defended her family's actions, stating that the house was allegedly in a poor state of repair and was infested by termites. In the L.A. Times, Fairbanks, Jr. was quoted as saying, "I regret it very much. I wonder, if they were going to demolish it, why they bought it in the first place."
In 2012, Pia Zadora claimed on Season 4, Episode 4 of the BIO channel's Celebrity Ghost Stories that the real reason she demolished Pickfair was not due to termite infestation but because it was haunted by the laughing ghost of a woman who allegedly died there while having an affair with Douglas Fairbanks. Pia Zadora told her story in the Celebrity Ghost Stories on September 15, 2012; Season 4 Episode 12 starring Erin Moran, Pia Zadora and Michael Beach.
In the interview she stated, "Years ago my husband and I tore down one of the most iconic Hollywood mansions because of termites … but that wasn't the real reason. When we moved into the house it was beautiful, everything was perfect, it was a dream … but weird things started to happen … so my husband and I, after trying to figure out what to do, decided we were going to have the house razed."
Defending her actions, she explained, "If I had a choice, I never would have torn down this old home. I loved this home, it had a history, it had a very important sense about it and you can deal with termites, and you can deal with plumbing issues, but you can't deal with the supernatural."
The only remaining artifacts from the original Pickfair are the gates to the estate, the kidney-shaped pool and pool house, remnants of the living room, as well as the two-bedroom guest wing that played host to visiting royalty and notable film celebrities for over half a century. The guest wing was once used as a honeymoon suite for Lord Louis and Lady Mountbatten
That's really sad. I'd heard her hubby bought it, but not what happened later. What happens when you sell a house to PIA ZADORA!!!
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Thanks for all the pics! Glad you were all able to get together. Did you see any other Joan films? Let us know about the podcast. I'm sure you are talking about the Jennings Lang shooting (by her husband).
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On 8/14/2021 at 11:06 AM, Cigarjoe cellph said:
Cause it was a bit boring.
I forgot what were talking about. Twilight?
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On 8/14/2021 at 12:48 PM, skipd55 said:
I didn't know there was more than one actress who played Louise on Bewitched. Thanks Hibi.
On 8/14/2021 at 12:48 PM, skipd55 said:I didn't know there was more than one actress who played Louise on Bewitched. Thanks Hibi.
Yes, the original, I forget her name. Left after a couple seasons. I preferred her better. The 2nd one they made play more ditzy. There was some sort of shake up between the creators and several key players left in front and behind the scenes. Asher (Montgomery's hubby) took over.
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Just now, filmnoirguy said:
Recently took a virtual tour of Doris Day's house in Carmel that's been on the market for over a year at $7.4 mil. Betty Thomas has her Hollywood Hills pad for sale at about $8 mil. Oprah's Washington state house would make a nice cabin at a lake. 🤑
Anyone watch Million Dollar Listings Los Angeles? Season 13 premieres Sept 2, 2021 at 8 pm EST on Bravo. If you didn't catch Season 12, try to watch at least the first two episodes at Bravo On-Demand or Peacock. And tour the terrific contemporary cliffside mansion that Josh Flagg & Josh Altman have listed.
I saw Doris' place and its beautiful. Very comfortable kind of country place.
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2 hours ago, SansFin said:
There are eight bedrooms. Only a savage shares a bathroom with a person with whom they are not intimate.
A kitchen properly needs a half-bath attached so that the cook does not need to traipse through the house while covered with flour, blood or etc..
A house needs a half-bath on each floor so that guests do not need to barge through bedrooms.
It may be that that house should have more. It has been many years since I have read the figures but it sticks in my mind that houses should be designed so that facilities are never more than twenty steps away.
You must live in a different world than I do! I guess I'm a savage then. LOL
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1 hour ago, TomJH said:
I thought Washington's in-your-face villainy was very effective, a total scoundrel. He must have enjoyed playing a bad guy, for a change. Is this his only villain role? Oh, wait there was also American Gangster.
I've seen most of Denzel's big films but one I particularly enjoy was relatively early in his career, Devil in a Blue Dress, a neo noir told from a 1948 African American perspective. Don Cheadle's psycho gunman stole every scene he was in but Denzel is winning as Easy Rawlins. I wish there could have been a series of Easy Rawlins films with Washington.
It's quite a contrast in characterizations by this terrific actor, Easy as opposed to the corrupt scumbag cop in Training Day.
I saw this on TCM and enjoyed it. Not great, but worth seeing.
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30 minutes ago, Swithin said:
I haven't seen House on Haunted Hill (1959) for a long time and will probably watch it. Has Svengoolie showed it? A quick search on this nearly six-year old thread indicates that it has never been mentioned here before the posts related to tomorrow's screening. Evidently it's in the public domain.
It's been on quite a few times.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
True, but this is how it is along the Malibu colony and where the rich can just walk out their back doors and onto the sands of the beach, ya know.
(...and is pretty much also this way along any beach city in L.A. County)
I know, but even if I had the dough, I wouldnt pay for it.
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16 hours ago, King Rat said:
Thanks to those who mentioned the neo-noir Twilight (1998)--not the one with vampires and werewolves, the one with actors who can act! What a starry lineup: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, James Garner, Stockard Channing. The supporting cast includes Giancarlo Esposito, M. Emmet Walsh, John Spencer, and Margo Martindale, who has a lot of fun playing the gal who calls herself "Mucho." Reese Witherspoon is the weakest link (though not bad), less capable than she will become in a few years, but that's probably not why she has to go topless in one scene. Her boyfriend is played by Liev Schreiber, who seems more attractive than in most of his later films.
The story follows a familiar but not unwelcome path. Newman is an ex-alcoholic ex-cop hired by movie star couple Sarandon and Hackman to bring their underage daughter and her boyfriend back from Mexico. Things do not go as planned, and a couple of years later Hackman has another task for Newman, which also does not go as planned. Is there a connection to a disappearance twenty years ago? Familiar territory, but with these actors I enjoyed seeing how it would all work out this time.
The greatest weakness is the cinematographer's fondness for darkened rooms; writer-director Robert Benton needed to keep him in check. In this film I'd rather see the actors' faces where so much is going on. There are some nice shots of LA houses. One of the pleasures of the film is how well Paul Newman and James Garner have aged and how much both actors can accomplish with just a wry smile.
That was me!
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I saw it on tv and I can't think of any other station I could have watched it on. (I don't get the premium channels). I wasn't expecting it to be great as I knew it didn't get great reviews. I'll watch it again as I've forgotten a lot of it. I think this was Jane's last movie.. She then married Turner and stopped working for over a decade.
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19 minutes ago, LsDoorMat said:
Stanley and Iris, what a weird film. Jane Fonda as the worst mother in the history of the world who basically tells her daughter she was an accident and tries to make it a bonding moment. An illiterate guy who is an engineer savant and just needs to read a few O'Reilly books (probably only my fellow techies will get this reference) to convert his innate ability at tinkering into a career. It's worth a watch just to say "What the...?"
Swoosie Kurtz complained her part was left on the cutting room floor. She does disappear midway during the movie. I saw the film once and I'm pretty sure it was on TCM. Well meaning film but considering from Martin Ritt a disappointment.
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On 7/29/2021 at 10:41 PM, cmovieviewer said:
Here are the TCM premieres for August, as determined by MovieCollectorOH’s TCM schedules database.
Notes:
- The dates shown are based on a programming day starting at 6 am ET and running past midnight.
Aug 4 - Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong (1989) (doc.) (2 showings)
Aug 13 - Stanley and Iris (1990)
Aug 14 - The Omen (1976)
Aug 18 - The Last Castle (2001)
Aug 19 - Here's to the Young Lady (1949)
Aug 19 - Repast (1951)
Aug 22 - The Black Rose (1950)
Aug 26 - Fluffy (1965)
Aug 28 - Gorky Park (1983)
Aug 29 - Arch of Triumph (1948)
Thanks as always to MCOH!I'm pretty sure Stanley And Iris has been shown. Ditto Arch of Triumpth.
I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS
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I think the most boring storyline was the Dream Curse one. Went on forever and everyone had the same boring dream! Wasn't that with Angelique and her warlock in the present time? I didnt care for the Leviathon people either.