Click here to see a BBC interview with 60s starlet Britt Ekland who discusses her marriage to Peter Sellers and how she was cast as Mary Goodnight in the James Bond adventure The Man with the Golden Gun (1973) with Roger Moore. It is a promo piece for her new one-woman show about her life in show business. Britt is still stunningly beautiful but comes across a bit cold.
Movie screen that is, you dirty. Click here for information on the Widescreen Weekend Film Festival to be held in Bradford, England during the month of March. Among the epic films to be shown in 70mm on a huge curved screen are Operation Crossbow with George Peppard and Sofia Loren, Doctor Zhivago with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, The Great Race with Jack Lemmon, Dorothy Provine and in a small role Christopher Riordan, and How the West Was Won with Carroll Baker of the infamous Harlow.
One of the nicest actresses I ever interviewed was Marlyn Mason. She recently just launched her new web site where she is selling autographed photos to help raise money to fund her next short film. There are wonderful shots of Marlyn with Elvis Presley in The Trouble with Girls and with James Franciscus (a personal fave of mine) in the detective TV series Longstreet, among many others. She is also selling DVD copies of her award winning first short film, Model Rules.
In 1962, Carol Lynley and Shirley Knight played twin sisters on a first season episode of the hit western series The Virginian starring James Drury, Lee J. Cobb, Gary Clarke and Doug McClure. Lynley’s sister was flirty and unstable with a fascination for guns while Knight’s sister was mousy and over protective. Along comes Tom Tryon as a seaman and Lynley wants him to take her away to see the world…or else. Below is a clip from the show that contrasts Lynley’s hyperactive style of acting to the more understated Knight.
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Shortly after this Lynley would be cast by Otto Preminger over Knight as well as Ann-Margret and Pamela Tiffin, among others to play priest Tom Tryon’s wayward sister in the epic Golden Globe winning The Cardinal (1963). When Lynley runs off to become a tango-dancing prostitute after her strict Catholic family rejects her Jewish suitor John Saxon in turn-of-the-century Boston she winds up unwed and pregnant. Tryon finds her in labor and makes the decision to save the baby and let his sister die a natural death to the doctor and Saxon’s disbelief.