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MONDAY’S TCM SPRINGBREAK FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP

April 13, 2012 by sixties

My stint on Turner Classic Movies co-introducing with Ben Mankiewicz 19 Sixties beach/surf/Elvis/snow movies begins Monday April 18.

Monday’s Lineup:

8:00 pm Where the Boys Are with Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimiuex, Paula Prentiss, Connie Francis

httpv://youtu.be/TEsIhloSBwg

10:00 pm Palm Springs Weekend with Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Stefanie Powers, Robert Conrad

httpv://youtu.be/GXPc5xEttC0

12:00 am Girl Happy with Elvis, Shelley Fabares, Mary Ann Mobley, Chris Noel, Gail Gerber, Nancy Czar, Lyn Edgington

httpv://youtu.be/ICC0DMewbJs

2:00 am Blue Hawaii with Elvis, Joan Blackman, Nancy Walters, Jenny Maxwell, Darlene Tompkins, Pamela Austin

httpv://youtu.be/Zsn-81yMbPQ

4:00 am Clambake with Elvis, Shelley Fabares, Suzie Kaye, Angelique Pettyjohn, Arlene Charles, Bill Bixby, Will Hutchins

httpv://youtu.be/01S6mhbg4us

SPRING BREAK BEGINS IN ONE WEEK

April 9, 2012 by sixties

Turner Classic Movies has nice write-ups on its website about all the movies to be shown during its Spring Break Film Festival, co-hosted by Ben Mankiewicz and me, beginning April 16, 2012 at 8 p.m. with Where the Boys Are. Check it out.

EVEN MORE MAD MEN & MOD WOMEN

April 3, 2012 by sixties

Stephen Bowie’s Classic Histroy TV Blog about casting what ifs if Mad Men was actually produced in the 1960s is a big hit. Here are my new choices if done by 20th Century-Fox ca. 1963-65:

Gardner McKay as Don

Carol Lynley as Betty

Stuart Whitman as Roger

Juliet Prowse as Peggy

Barbara Eden as Joan

Richard Beymer as Pete

Millie Perkins as Trudy

Roddy McDowall as Lane

Jane Wald as Jane

Dana Wynter as Mona

Wende Wagner as Megan

MORE MAD MEN & MOD WOMEN

March 30, 2012March 29, 2012 by sixties

Click here to access Stephen Bowie’s The Classic TV History Blog where he turns recasting Mad Men into a sort of Fantasy Football game. Who would you cast in the roles if Mad Men was actually aired during the mid-Sixties? Below are my choices for 4 mad men and all the mod women (from my staple of starlets):

Tom Tryon as Don

Diane McBain as Betty

Tony Franciosa as Roger

Beverly Washburn as Peggy

Sal Mineo as Pete

Francine York as Joan

Peter Lawford as Lane

Marianna Hill as Jane

Janet Margolin as Trudy

Sue Casey as Mona

Yvonne Craig as Megan

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Classic Hollywood fans, mark your calendars: Turner Classic Movies: TCM is airing Carroll Baker's Harlow (1965)—for the very first time—on Wednesday, May 20 at 8 p.m. EST.

Too bad TCM did not pair it with its rival, Harlow with Carol Lynley. A head-to-head comparison between Baker’s lush, color, big-budget production from producer Joseph E. Levine and Lynley’s stark, black-and-white, low-budget Electronovision experiment from producer William Sargent would have been quite interesting. Same story—completely different visions. Yet neither film truly reveals the full story—nor captures the real Jean Harlow behind the legend.

Discover the full, untold story about the making of the rival biopics in my book: Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress’s Life to the Silver Screen from McFarland Publishers. Go behind the scenes of one of Hollywood’s most fascinating rivalries—a publicity war fueled by ambition, ego, and a race against time to bring Jean Harlow’s life to theaters first.

As an added bonus, relive the making of Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell (1977) starring Lindsay Bloom as Jean Harlow.

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Flying back and forth to Arizona this week and thought, "Boy, have flight attendants changed from the days of Come Fly with Me (1963)," a time where all airline hostesses were single, shapely females all under 30. Here Dolores Hart, Pamela Tiffin, and Lois Nettleton don their Pan-Am uniforms and set out to trap themselves a man while flying the New York to Paris and Vienna routes in this beautifully filmed, entertaining travelogue.

Determined Dolores Hart is a gold digger, and proud of it, who thinks she has snared a wealthy baron, Karl Boehm. Ditzy novice stewardess Pamela Tiffin falls for playboy copilot Hugh O'Brian who has a married woman on the side. And pragmatic Lois Nettleton is attracted to goodhearted widower Karl Malden, unaware that he is a millionaire. And yes, in between their romantic misadventures, they do manage, with style, to serve and take care of their passengers.

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I am a little behind, but I was so saddened to hear that 1960s big-eyed, blonde bombshell Joy Harmon passed away. The lovely actress graced many movies and TV shows from the late 1950s into the early 1970s usually playing the kooky ding-a-ling. Below is a link to a very thorough obit from Mike Barnes in The Hollywood REporter about her (quoting from my interview with Joy for my first book, Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema).

Joy was truly a joy to behold and was just as bubbly in person as she usually was on screen. She invited me to her home for the interview and kept feeding me her homemade baked goods including the most scrumptious chocolate covered strawberries that I ever had.

In 1960s starlet Geil Gerber's memoir, "Trippin' with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember" from McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, she wrote that there were two people that she worked with that Terry Southern wanted to meet and then hit it off with. One was Elvis Presley and the other Joy Harmon, Gail's costar in the cult, Village of the Giants (1965) with Beau Bridges, Tisha Sterling, Johnny Crawford, and Ronny Howard. Gail remarked:

"Terry had met her [Joy] previously on The Loved One ... Joy was a sweet girl, but she was so formidable and so big in so many ways. I was a bit put off by her. But Terry was just drawn to larger-than-life people and thought she was wonderful. Joy was just so full of energy." This also sums up Joy's screen presence. She was always a standout even if her role was no more than a walk-on with a line or two. Her iconic turn in Cool Hand Luke (1967) where she seductively washes her car in front of the chain gang is a testament to the energy she put into all her roles. ... See MoreSee Less

Joy Harmon, the Woman Who Washed the Car in ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 87

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She also appeared on Broadway, worked with Groucho Marx on a game show and starred in the films ‘One Way Wahine’ and ‘Village of the Giants.’

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Every time I go see a Broadway musical, I flash back to 1975 when in junior high school they took us to see Raisin, my very first Broadway show. But not because of Raisin (which was meh), but because of a commercial aired constantly on the radio:

"Come to the Music Box Theater to see Geraldine Page, Carol Lynley, and Scott McKay in Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular, the longest running comedy on Broadway!"

Being a huge Carol Lynley fan, that was the show I wanted to see. And I still recall my disappointment as our school bus passed the Music Box with my face pressed against the window seeing the marquee. I so desperately wanted to see that show and not Raisin. haha

Read more about Carol in Absurd Person singular in my BearManor Media book, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

Happy Academy Award Weekend! Back in the day, when the studios knew potential winners would not be attending the ceremony, they would assign actors to accept on their behalf. For the 1963 Academy Awards, Freddie Young was deemed a shoo-in to win Best Color Cinematography for Lawrence of Arabia. He was absent, so Columbia Pictures chose Carol Lynley to accept on his behalf. She was doing double-time at the studio playing a coed living platonically with her boyfriend (Dean Jones) in the sex farce, Under the Yum Yum Tree with Jack Lemmon and playing the ill-fated sister of priest Tom Tryon in Otto Preminger's religious epic, The Cardinal. Love how she was on and off the stage in a flash.

As a side note, about 5 years later after making his quip, Frank Sinatra and Carol would be a couple albeit a short-lived one.

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CAROL LYNLEY Academy Awards Ceremony

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