The first time I saw Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, it was with a bunch of gay friends who watched it regularly and turned it into their own Rocky Horror. I had nightmares for a week from the movie and their comments.
She wrote one of the greatest ever Holloywood autobiographies in 1980, "Shelley: Also Known As Shirley." Her list of sexual conquests alone is pretty amazing: William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Vittorio Gassman (who she married), Anthony Franciosa (who she also married), a young Sean Connery, and the roster just goes on and on. Her shrewd left-wing take on theater and Hollywood and politics is smart and interesting. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
Being a Shelley fan I watched that video and was NOT disappointed. She was hilarious, cracking wise throughout the session with the greatest off-color innuendos and asides. After a while, it seems obvious that Debbie regretted asking Shelley to be a part of the workout, which makes this video even funnier. Highly recommend!
The mention of Winters in The Poseidon Adventure reminded me of the 1981 just too late for the disaster film era made for TV weirdo called Goliath Awaits. A crew of researchers, including Mark Harmon, find the wreck of the RMS Goliath, sunk by a German sub in 1939. Diving on the wreck they detect music, and Harmon's character sees the face of a beautiful young woman(Emma Samms) through a porthole. When they get in the wreck they find more than 300 people living in an air bubble, ruled by one of the original officers of the Goliath, played by Christopher Lee, which should be a clue that things will not go well. Eddie Albert, John Carradine, and Frank Gorsham also appear.
I recognized Emma Samms' name and knew I had seen her in something but I'm not a big fan of disaster flicks or soap operas, so I couldn't quite put a face to her.
Turns out, she was in an episode of "Get a Life," the one where she, as a gorgeous English M.D., hits Chris with her car and, in a panic, runs over him repeatedly. Chris then becomes romantically obsessed with her: "You may be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life, with a possible exception of Charles Durning." He in turn is stalked by a store clerk played by Amy Yasbeck and laughs ensue.
Incidentally, I assert (without a shred of evidence to back it up) that a "Goliath" sequel, planned as a mash-up with a remake of a classic rom-com, was nixed when it became clear that Audrey Hepburn refused to sign for the role of Holly Goliath.
Night of the Hunter should be a Wonkette Movie Nite pick!
Darn, I thought this was about cats.
I love Shelly and Bloody Momma is maybe my favorite 70's explo film. Not a grande dame but the white trash cousin
Wonkette has really improved my vocabulary. Lately "tranche" and now "grande dame guignol ."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBRUs5PIhSg
She's got Betty Davis' eyes, and she keeps them in a jar on her night stand. :)
BALLET CAT
The first time I saw Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, it was with a bunch of gay friends who watched it regularly and turned it into their own Rocky Horror. I had nightmares for a week from the movie and their comments.
They sound like *just* the sort of people I would want to watch that with.
You should have seen what they did with "Mommie Dearest."
I can only imagine.
Shelley was yet another victim in A Double Life (1947) with Ronald Coleman playing a theater actor famous for his role as Othello. Good flick.
She wrote one of the greatest ever Holloywood autobiographies in 1980, "Shelley: Also Known As Shirley." Her list of sexual conquests alone is pretty amazing: William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Vittorio Gassman (who she married), Anthony Franciosa (who she also married), a young Sean Connery, and the roster just goes on and on. Her shrewd left-wing take on theater and Hollywood and politics is smart and interesting. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
So, they ever get that cat un-stuck from the ceiling?
Oh--and I could not love everything about that Bette Davis (with eyepatch) clip more!
The color, the nails, the style of the top, the jewels, the smirk, the make up--LOVE IT ALL.
Seriously--pull up the gangplank because I am ON BOARD!
The plan remains-El Al to Amsterdam early Monday morning, then KLM direct to Austin. If all goes well, I’ll be back in Austin Monday afternoon.
Yay! Hugs Werewolf!!!
She was in Debby Reynolds' work out video from the '80s and wore a sweatshirt that had "I'm only doing this for Debbie" on it.
Being a Shelley fan I watched that video and was NOT disappointed. She was hilarious, cracking wise throughout the session with the greatest off-color innuendos and asides. After a while, it seems obvious that Debbie regretted asking Shelley to be a part of the workout, which makes this video even funnier. Highly recommend!
The mention of Winters in The Poseidon Adventure reminded me of the 1981 just too late for the disaster film era made for TV weirdo called Goliath Awaits. A crew of researchers, including Mark Harmon, find the wreck of the RMS Goliath, sunk by a German sub in 1939. Diving on the wreck they detect music, and Harmon's character sees the face of a beautiful young woman(Emma Samms) through a porthole. When they get in the wreck they find more than 300 people living in an air bubble, ruled by one of the original officers of the Goliath, played by Christopher Lee, which should be a clue that things will not go well. Eddie Albert, John Carradine, and Frank Gorsham also appear.
I recognized Emma Samms' name and knew I had seen her in something but I'm not a big fan of disaster flicks or soap operas, so I couldn't quite put a face to her.
Turns out, she was in an episode of "Get a Life," the one where she, as a gorgeous English M.D., hits Chris with her car and, in a panic, runs over him repeatedly. Chris then becomes romantically obsessed with her: "You may be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life, with a possible exception of Charles Durning." He in turn is stalked by a store clerk played by Amy Yasbeck and laughs ensue.
Incidentally, I assert (without a shred of evidence to back it up) that a "Goliath" sequel, planned as a mash-up with a remake of a classic rom-com, was nixed when it became clear that Audrey Hepburn refused to sign for the role of Holly Goliath.
Has anyone gotten more mileage out of being an easy-going, handsome dude than Mark Harmon?
He’s spent a good part of his career trying to inoculate himself from playing Ted Bundy, which ironically is probably his most notable dramatic role.
Didn't he die of AIDS on St. Elsewhere? When no one off tv would say the words?
You got me. That’s one show I could never get into.
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Who dat?
No one I know, just a pic of the private screened boxes at the Grand Guignol theatre.
It simply has to be said.
This ain't a scene, it's a Grande Dame arms race!