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November 11, 2009 by sixties

THREE, TWO, ONE!

Who ever thought that our beloved sixties starlet Pamela Tiffin would be mentioned in an article in the conservative National Journal? But there she is (along with co-stars the great James Cagney and gorgeous Horst Buchholz) in a tribute piece to one of my favorite comedies of all time, Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (1961) a satire on the Cold War set in West Berlin just before travel between the eastern and western parts of the city was forbidden.

When our man from Coca-Cola Cagney has to chaperone the boss’ visiting scatterbrained Southern-fried daughter Tiffin who sneaks into East Berlin and marries Communist Buchholz, Cagney famously declares, “I’d rather be in hell with my back broken” as he attempts to turn Buckholtz into a capitailist approved son-in-law.

November 10, 2009 by sixties

MAKE ROOM FOR SHERRY

Sultry siren Sherry Jackson was a very busy child actress ala Natalie Wood but switched to TV where she found fame playing Danny Thomas’ eldest daughter on Make Room for Daddy. She left the series in the early ’60s and starred in a number of drive-in movies through 1980 including Wild on the Beach, Gunn, The Mini-Skirt Mob, Bare Knuckles and Stingray while racking up numerous TV guest star stints on such classic programs as Batman, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Wild Wild West, etc. and even found time to disrobe for Playboy.

Here’s Sherry then on Star Trek, and click here for Sherry now.

November 7, 2009 by sixties

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

You lucky Los Angelenos, if James Bond is not your thing run to the Aero Theater in Santa Monica tonight for a triple feature that is a wet dream come true for me: Earthquake, The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. Remember there’s got to be a morning after.

November 6, 2009 by sixties

SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED

For all you lucky Los Angelenos, the USC School of Cinematic Arts is paying tribute to James Bond movie producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli this weekend with screenings of the Bond films, panel discussions and exhibits. Read more here.

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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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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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Happy birthday Barbara McNair! Later in life, she and Carol Lynley played thievin', murderin' Thelma and Louise-types who get involved with "one last score" driving the desert roadways from California to Vegas, in this undiscovered gem of a movie, Neon Signs (1996) with William Smith and MATT DOTSON. Read about the making of the movie, with recollections from costar Matt Dotson and director Marc Kolbe, in my Carol Lynley book from BearManor Media ... See MoreSee Less

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Abandoned by his mother at a rundown roadhouse motel, Otis (Matt Dotson) sets off on his own armed with a compass and a dream of the neon lights of Las Vegas...

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