Beginning my shopping days to Christmas highlighting performers from my BearManor Media Books Today is Carol Lynley in her first fantasy role playing the lovely Rapunzel to Agnes Moorhead’s wicked witch on Shirley Temple’s Storybook. Read more in my book Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense available at Amazon.com.
Although my Carol Lynley book (it is NOT a bio, as some disappointed folks seemed to believe, but a career retrospective) focuses on her genre work, I do discuss her work in comedies, romances, melodramas, etc. One of her most praise-worthy roles was that of the ill-fated Mona Fermoyle who goes from nice Irish Catholic girl to a tango-dancing prostitute in Otto Preminger’s Golden Globe-winning, multi-million dollar epic The Cardinal (1963). It traced the rise of Steven Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) from parish priest in Boston ca. 1910s to Cardinal in the 1940s. When the runaway Mona is found she is about to give birth and her priest brother must decide to either save the mother or the baby. He chooses the later due to Catholic dogma, and the final scene of Mona being rolled to her death and letting out one final scream, “Steve!” is chilling.
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Below is Carol Lynley is some of her later horror-themed performances.
If It’s a Man, Hang Up!
The Cat and the Canary
One of her many appearances on Fantasy Island
With Christopher Cazenove in “In Possession” on Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Blackout
With my book Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense nominated for Book of the Year Nonfiction by the Rondo Hatton Horror Classic Awards (you can vote at https://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/ ) I thought I would share a nice review of my book. Thanks Shock Cinema!
