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*Collection includes classic films, look at wild promotions*
Winston-Salem Journal - Tim Clodfelter - Oct 21, 2009
The William Castle Film Collection (Unrated): Eight films from Castle, known for his ad campaigns and showmanship, are combined in this five-disc boxed set. They include such classics as 13 Ghosts, Mr. Sardonicus and The Tingler with Vincent Price, for which Castle rigged some seats in theaters to give electric jolts during the film. The set also has three films making their DVD debuts, plus an award-winning documentary that looks at Castle's wild promotional stunts ? such as offering free burials for audience goers who were scared to death by the film ? and two episodes of Castle's TV series Ghost Story.
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_U Turn_ (1997)
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*Urich, Robert*
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Troy Donahue was in: _Parrish_ (1961) directed by Delmer Daves!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Delmer Daves!*
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*Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83*
By DAVID N. GOODMAN (AP)
Friday, October 23rd 2009
*DETROIT ? Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, died Thursday. He was 83.*
Sales died at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.
At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.
"If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy," said Usher.
At the same time, Sales retained an openness to fans that turned every restaurant meal into an endless autograph-signing session, Usher said.
"He was just good to people," said Usher, a former jazz music producer who managed Sales in the 1950s and now owns Detroit-based Marine Pollution Control.
Sales began his TV career in Cincinnati and Cleveland, then moved to Detroit, where he drew a large audience on WXYZ-TV. He moved to Los Angeles in 1961.
The comic's pie-throwing schtick became his trademark, and celebrities lined up to take one on the chin alongside Sales. During the early 1960s, stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine received their just desserts side-by-side with the comedian on his television show.
"I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right," Sales said in a 1985 interview.
Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, N.C., where his was the only Jewish family in town. His parents, owners of a dry-goods store, sold sheets to the Ku Klux Klan. The family later moved to Huntington, W.Va.
His greatest success came in New York with "The Soupy Sales Show" ? an ostensible children's show that had little to do with Captain Kangaroo and other kiddie fare. Sales' manic, improvisational style also attracted an older audience that responded to his envelope-pushing antics.
Sales, who was typically clad in a black sweater and oversized bow-tie, was once suspended for a week after telling his legion of tiny listeners to empty their mothers' purse and mail him all the pieces of green paper bearing pictures of the presidents.
The cast of "Saturday Night Live" later paid homage by asking their audience to send in their joints. His influence was also obvious in the Pee-Wee Herman character created by Paul Reubens.
Sales returned from the Navy after World War II and became a $20-a-week reporter at a West Virginia radio station. He jumped to a DJ gig, changed his name to Soupy Heinz and headed for Ohio.
His first pie to the face came in 1951, when the newly christened Soupy Sales was hosting a children's show in Cleveland. In Detroit, Sales' show garnered a national reputation as he honed his act ? a barrage of sketches, gags and bad puns that played in the Motor City for seven years.
After moving to Los Angeles, he eventually became a fill-in host on "The Tonight Show."
He moved to New York in 1964 and debuted "The Soupy Sales Show," with co-star puppets White Fang (the meanest dog in the United States) and Black Tooth (the nicest dog in the United States). By the time his Big Apple run ended two years later, Sales had appeared on 5,370 live television programs ? the most in the medium's history, he boasted. He had a pair of albums that hit the Billboard Top 10 in 1965; "Do the Mouse" sold 250,000 copies in New York alone.
Sales remained a familiar television face, first as a regular from 1968-75 on the game show "What's My Line?" and later appearing on everything from "The Mike Douglas Show" to "The Love Boat." He played himself in the 1998 movie "Holy Man," which starred Eddie Murphy.
He joined WNBC-AM as a disc jockey in 1985, a stint best remembered because Sales filled the hours between shock jocks Don Imus and Howard Stern.
Sales is survived by his wife, Trudy, and two sons, Hunt and Tony, a pair of musicians who backed David Bowie in the band Tin Machine.
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*Kilmer, Val*
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_Quantrill's Raiders_ (1958)
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Nicholas Brothers (Harold Nicholas) was in: _The Pirate_ (1948) directed by: Vincente Minnelli!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Vincente Minnelli!*
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*WOW!! Well I can see this happening when Redbox is $1.00 compared with a $5.00 rental at Blockbuster!*
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_Dance, Fools, Dance_ (1931)
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*MacDougall, Ranald* - Co-wrote the screenplay for 1947's _Possessed_; wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for _Mildred Pierce_ (1945) and for _Queen Bee_ (1955). He also made his directorial debut with _Queen Bee_ (1955).
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Cecil Kellaway was in: _Hush? Hush, Sweet Charlotte_ (1964) directed by Robert Aldrich!
*NEW DIRECTOR: Robert Aldrich!*
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*Love the lobby cards!*
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*Joseph Wiseman, Actor Who Played Dr. No, Dies at 91*
Moviefone
Gary Susman
October 21, 2009
Joseph Wiseman, who wrote the manual on how to play a Bond villain as the title character in the first 007 movie, 'Dr. No,' died at age 91 at his home in Manhattan.
His daughter, Martha Graham Wiseman, confirmed to the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times that her father had been in declining health for a few years.
A precise and intense actor, Wiseman created the template for all future James Bond nemeses with his performance in 1962's 'Dr. No,' the titular Chinese villain. Though Wiseman's Dr. No was megalomaniacal and bent on world domination, he was also cool, genteel, refined and quietly ruthless. Oh yes, and freakishly scarred -- in this case, by a nuclear accident that forced him to wear prosthetic metal claws for hands.
"I had no idea it would achieve the success it did," Wiseman told the Los Angeles Times in 1992. "As far as I was concerned, I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery." Instead, it became the launching pad of an enormously successful and much-imitated film franchise that has lasted through more than 20 movies and nearly 50 years -- much to Wiseman's chagrin.
"He was horrified in later life because that's what he was remembered for," Martha Graham Wiseman told the Los Angeles Times. "Stage acting was what he wanted to be remembered for."
Joseph Wiseman, who wrote the manual on how to play a Bond villain as the title character in the first 007 movie, 'Dr. No,' died at age 91 at his home in Manhattan.
His daughter, Martha Graham Wiseman, confirmed to the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times that her father had been in declining health for a few years.
A precise and intense actor, Wiseman created the template for all future James Bond nemeses with his performance in 1962's 'Dr. No,' the titular Chinese villain. Though Wiseman's Dr. No was megalomaniacal and bent on world domination, he was also cool, genteel, refined and quietly ruthless. Oh yes, and freakishly scarred -- in this case, by a nuclear accident that forced him to wear prosthetic metal claws for hands.
"I had no idea it would achieve the success it did," Wiseman told the Los Angeles Times in 1992. "As far as I was concerned, I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery." Instead, it became the launching pad of an enormously successful and much-imitated film franchise that has lasted through more than 20 movies and nearly 50 years -- much to Wiseman's chagrin.
"He was horrified in later life because that's what he was remembered for," Martha Graham Wiseman told the Los Angeles Times. "Stage acting was what he wanted to be remembered for."
*_The Definitive Villain_*
Dr. Julius No, pictured above was the first James Bond villain to come up against 007. Superbly played by American actor Joseph Wiseman, not only an evil genius, Dr. No was also a great host, wining and dining Bond before attempting to kill him. His showdown with Bond was set in the first large scale set used in any of the Bond films.
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*_The Old Dark House_ (1963)*
I love William Castle ...& thanks so much TCM for showing this "Rare" & OOP film!
Wacky ...silly.....strange!!
Fenella Fielding as Morgana Femm is a scream!
Robert Morley is so great to! Very under-rated!
On October 20, 2009, The Old Dark House will be released on DVD for the first time by Sony Pictures.
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*Huge fan...big fan of Joan Crawford fan here!!*
*To many films to show! It would have to be a week long festival!*
*_The Unknown_ (1927)* - Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower Alonzo the Armless and Joan Crawford as the scantily clad carnival girl he hopes to marry.
*_Sadie McKee_ (1934)* - A great example of Depression era fantasy!
*_Paid_ (1930)* - The lead role was commissioned for Norma Shearer but she had to withdraw owing to pregnancy....then it went to Crawford ...the rest as they is "HISTORY"!!!
*_Dance, Fools, Dance_ (1931)* - Clark Gable co-stars as a crime boss; this is their first of 8 films together.
*_Letty Lynton_ (1932)* - OOP ...needs to be seen at last!!
*_Mildred Pierce_ (1945)* - Joan leaves MGM ...goes to Warner Brothers ...Wins an Oscar!
*_Daisy Kenyon_ (1947)*
*_The Damned Don't Cry_ (1950)* - Good role for Joan!! Very first rate! Joan is at the top of her game!
*_Johnny Guitar_ (1954)* - The film is beloved of French critics and filmmakers, such as Fran?ois Truffaut, who described it as the "Beauty and the Beast of Westerns, a Western dream".
*_Female on the Beach_ (1955)* - Needs to be seen to be believed...OOP!!!
*_This Woman is Dangerous_ (1952)* - Soon after the film was released, Crawford left Warner Bros. studio.
*_Sudden Fear_ (1952)* - Sudden Fear was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role: Joan Crawford!!
*_The 60's were good to Joan to_:*
*_Whatever Happened to Baby Jane_ (1962)* Bette and Joan: The "Divine" Feud!!!!
*_The Caretakers_ (1963)* - Joan Crawford and Robert Stack in a story about a mental hospital.....CRAZY!!
*_Strait-Jacket_ (1964)* William Castle and Joan Crawford ..heaven!!!
*_I Saw What You Did_ (1965)* - It may be a cameo ..but a good one!!
*_Berserk_ (1968)* Aficionados of camp and B-films will debate the fine points as to whether "Strait-Jacket" or "Berserk" is the "better" of two essentially schlocky films!
But still fun for Joan fans!!
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*Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas 1961*
*With Bill Reddie And His Orchestra*
01 - A House Is Not A Home Without Love
02 - I Think I'm Gonna Like It There
03 - Just Plain Jayne
04 - Plenty Of Love And Twenty Calories
05 - I'm Physical, You're Cultural
06 - I Had What You've Got When I Had It
07 - Let's Do It
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*_Don't forget_:*
*Strait-Jacket (1964) Tue. Oct. 20, 2009 @ 9:45 PM (Eastern)!*
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*Jayne Mansfield*
Date of Birth: April 19, 1933 (died June 29, 1967)
*_Filmography_:*
1968 - Single Room Furnished
1967 - A Guide for the Married Man
1966 - The Fat Spy
1966 - The Las Vegas Hillbillys
1964 - Dog Eat Dog
1964 - Panic Button aka Let's Go Bust (USA: reissue title)
1964 - L'amore primitivo aka Primitive Love (USA
1963 - Promises! Promises!
1963 - Heimweh nach St. Pauli aka Homesick for St. Pauli (USA)
1962 - It Happened in Athens
1961 - The George Raft Story
1961 - Monte Carlo (TV)
1960 - Gli amori di Ercole aka Hercules vs. the Hydra (USA: TV title)
1958 - The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
1957 - The Wayward Bus
1957 - Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957 - The Burglar
1957 - Kiss Them for Me
1957 - The Wayward Bus
1956 - The Female Jungle
1956 - The Girl Can't Help It
1955 - Pete Kelly's Blues
Born Vera Jane Palmer, Jayne Mansfield was the daughter of a lawyer who died when Mansfield was six, at which time her mother moved the family from Pennsylvania to Dallas. While attending Southern Methodist University, the 16-year-old Palmer married student Paul James Mansfield. Lacking the funds for day-care service, Jayne attended acting classes in Los Angeles with her infant daughter strapped on her back like a papoose.
After briefly working as a candy vendor in an L.A. theater, Mansfield caught the eye of a TV producer. It was difficult for Mansfield, whose measurements were 40-21-35, not to gain attention in her subsequent TV and film works. More famous as a cheesecake model than an actress, by 1955 Mansfield first gained critical plaudits for her classic performance as a Monroe-like movie starlet in George Axelrod's Broadway play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter. This role won her a contract at 20th Century Fox, where she fell within the sphere of comedy director Frank Tashlin, who regarded Mansfield as a "living cartoon" and directed her accordingly in the film version of Rock Hunter and in 1956's The Girl Can't Help It. Despite good dramatic performances in such films as The Wayward Bus (1957), Kiss Them for Me (1957), and The Burglar (1957), Mansfield was forever typed as a parody Marilyn Monroe.
When not acting, the publicity-hungry Mansfield aggressively sought out any press agent or photo op that was handy, as did her second husband, muscleman Mickey Hargitay, to whom she was married from 1958 through 1963 (their daughter, Mariska Hargitay, became a busy actress in her own right). Mansfield's third husband, Matt Cimber, became her agent, and guided her through a series of increasingly tawdry projects like Promises, Promises (1963), wherein Mansfield became the first major actress to appear nude onscreen. Her later career dwindled into cheap European films, slapped-together American quickies like Single Room Furnished (1965), and plenty of nightclub and summer-theater work. While driving to a club engagement in New Orleans, 34-year-old Jayne Mansfield was killed (but not decapitated, contrary to popular belief) in an automobile accident.
By Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
*_Albums_*
Jayne Mansfield Busts up Las Vegas (20th Century Fox, 1962)
Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me (MGM, 1964)
I Wanna Be Loved By You (Golden Options, 2000)
Dyed Blondes (Recall Records, 2002)
Too Hot to Handle (Blue Moon, France, 2003)
*_Theater performances_*
Death of a Salesman (1953)
Bus Stop (1965)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1966)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955?1956)
Rabbit Habit (1965)
*Mansfield has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard.*
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*Roman Polanksi ?refused bail for fear of fleeing Switzerland?*
By Rachael Wheeler
Mirror.co.uk 20/10/2009
Jailed film director Roman Polanksi has reportedly been refused bail by a Swiss court, in the latest setback in his fight against extradition.
According to Associated Press, the court feared he would flee Switzerland if bail was granted.
The federal court reportedly said: "The court considered the risk that Roman Polanski might flee if released from custody as high.
"The bail offered by the appellant does not meet in its form the requirements set out by the law."
Polanski, who directed The Pianist and Chinatown, was arrested on a US warrant accused of **** a 13-year-old girl in 1977. He fled the States in 1978 and moved to France, which does not extradite citizens.
However, the 76-year-old was arrested when he arrived in Switzerland for the Zurich Film Festival last month.
The court reportedly stated that Polanksi will still be able to appeal to Switzerland's highest tribunal for release or attempt to persuade the Swiss Justice Ministry to release him.
The father-of-two has apparently offered to surrender his passport and have daily police checks, plus give up his luxury French chalet as collateral.
However, legal experts are said to believe that Polanski stands little chance of a fast release
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*WOW!!*
*Watch This Rare One-Hour Interview with Alfred Hitchcock*
by Elisabeth Rappe
Oct 16th 2009
Cinematical
*Any time is the perfect time to visit the films of Alfred Hitchcock, but October seems a particularly good time to indulge in some of his creepier offerings. The only thing better might be spending an hour with the man himself -- and thanks to YouTube, you can come close. In 1973, Tom Snyder and his Tomorrow program conducted an hour long interview with the legendary director, who talked candidly about his career. The interview was believed to have been lost, but was discovered on a VHS tape and has now been put up on YouTube.*
It's rare to actually hear Hitchcock speak for himself. He's now become one of those directors who is heard about more than he was ever heard from. While he was definitely in his twilight years here, his wit was still very much intact, and he talks about everything from his films, to his Jesuit training, his public image as "a monster," and the longevity of his career. In a delicious sign of the times, there's a glass of wine at his elbow the entire time. They certainly don't do interviews like this anymore! It's fascinating stuff, and a must see for any fan of Hitchcock, or anyone aspiring to create films in his image.
*Pop below the jump for the embedded videos (and if they don't work fast enough, they can be found on this YouTube page), and thanks to Slashfilm for pointing it out. Enjoy!*
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/16/votd-a-rare-hour-long-interview-with-alfred-%20hitchcock/
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*Gable, Clark*
Hope she is ok! Clark Gable's granddaughter taken to hospital!?
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*I know it's old ...but I hope she is ok!*
02 October 2009
*Hollywood legend CLARK GABLE's granddaughter was submitted to hospital on Wednesday (30Sep09) after she was reportedly found unconscious.*
The Gone With The Wind star's granddaughter Kayley Gable was allegedly discovered on the floor of her Hollywood home and immediately rushed to a California hospital in an ambulance.
Gable was said to have left the medical centre an hour later, with website TMZ.com reporting she had suffered a panic attack.