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June 12, 2010February 16, 2010 by sixties

Celeste Yarnall looking lovelier than ever at this weekend’s Hollywood Show in Burbank, California.

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Celebrate 51 Years of Ryan's Hope!
Relive the Emmy-winning soap with Ryan's Hope: An Oral History of Daytime's Groundbreaking Soap—the definitive behind-the-scenes book featuring interviews with the stars, writers and production crew. A must-have for every soap fan! Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 weeks ago

I have been concentrating so much on my soap opera books, that I glossed over these editorial reviews for Dueling Harlows. Better late than never, but thanks, Carolyn, James, and Louise for the kind words.

Editorial Reviews
"Full of details and on-and-off screen drama, this book will appeal to film historians and devotees of Hollywood's Golden Age."--Carolyn M. Mulac, Library Journal

"Dueling Harlows is one of the most interesting and entertaining books about film production, promotion, and distribution that this reviewer has read. Lisanti's skilled writing style, his vast knowledge, and his penchant for detail benefits this truly valuable study that includes exclusive quotes and many revealing surprises."--James L. Neibaur, author of The Mae West Films

"What a terrific book. Tom Lisanti gives a nonfiction tale the narrative arc, excitment, and tension I associate with a great novel. But its even more compelling because its not fiction. The people are real. The incidents did actually happen. And somehow he lets us see all of it. I got to know a lot of people whose names were familiar but I never met them. Now I feel that I did. That is one of the many pleasures of Tom's writing--he makes these people so available. I loved the book and enjoyed every moment of reading it."--Louise Shaffer, Emmy Award winning actress and author of The Three Miss Margarets: A Novel ... See MoreSee Less

Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress's Life to the Silver Screen

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Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress's Life to the Silver Screen

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4 weeks ago

A Saturday throwback. Sixteen years ago, this month, the late Gail Gerber and I attended the IPPY Awards ceremony here in NYC where we were presented with the Silver Medal for Best Autobiography/ Memoir. ... See MoreSee Less

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4 weeks ago

You bet your sweet bippy! I won another Ippy! My Dueling Harlows book received the 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards (the IPPY) for Best Performing Arts book. I took home the bronze and am blown away. It is my second IPPY. The late Gail Gerber and I won the silver back in 2010 for Best Memoir for her book Trippin' with Terry Southern. I have been submitting my books ever since but thought I would never win again. What a nice surprise!

Special thanks to McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers for publishing the book, Elisabeth Pearson for her copy editing, and all the interviewees including the late Carol Lynley, Lindsay Bloom, Darrell Rooney, Carol Hollenbeck, and Maureen Gaffney Wolfson. ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

Have my tickets for Sunday's showing at MoMA! Hoping it is a pristine print. As a teen fan of Carol Lynley, I did not like The Last Sunset much due to murky prints that aired in syndication but over the years it has grown on me. It has an impressive pedigree being directed by Robert Aldrich and written by Daltron Trumbo. Carol is cute as a pixie and it is great to see her play off two major stars of the era, Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas.

Read about the making of The Last Sunset with quotes from Carol and her brother Daniel who, with his cat, accompanied his sister on location in my book, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense. ... See MoreSee Less

The Last Sunset. 1961. Directed by Robert Aldrich | MoMA

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The Last Sunset. 1961. USA. Directed by Robert Aldrich. Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, based on the novel Sundown at Crazy Horse by Howard Rigsby. With Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph ...

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2 months ago

In an odd twist of fate, the two stars of the rival 1965 biopics, Harlow, Carroll Baker and Carol Lynley met for the first time in the mid-1990s and became good friends until Lynley passed away in 2019. Shortly after, Carroll met Carol Hollenbeck, who as 1960s starlet Carol Holland had a connection to both Harlow movies, and they became fast friends. Read all about them in my book, Dueling Harlows: The Race to Bring the Actress's Life to the Silver Screen from McFarland and Company.. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

Actress Carol Lynley turns up twice on The Highest Rated Movies on Television list from 1992 with the granddaddy of disaster movies, The Poseidon Adventure #6, and the vampire horror TV-film, The Night Stalker #24, both from 1972. That was a banner year for Carol, starting off with the highest rated made-for-TV movie at the time and ending the year in 1973's top box office grosser. So why did Carol not strike while the iron was hot and have an even better 1973? That is the question I needed to solve when I wrote the book, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense.

Although Carol promoted the hell out of The Poseidon Adventure from doing radio and print interviews (one of which got her a lot of notoriety when she called her costar Red Buttons the c-word) to personal appearances, to guesting on TV talk shows (4 times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson alone), she did not make a single film or TV show from the time Poseidon wrapped in June of 1972 to late fall of 1973.

Carol said she was exhausted from the Poseidon shoot which was like no other working on upside sets and having dirt smeared on you and then hosed down a few times a day. She took 6 months off to visit family in Ireland. When she came back to Hollywood in early 1973, there was a writer's strike that prevented her from working and when that ended claimed it took her awhile for her to get back into it. And what was her choice after all this time for a big comeback? A guest role on the syndicated British anthology program Orson Welles's Great Mysteries. Although she had a meaty role as the bad girl, a far cry from Poseidon's hapless Nonnie, it did not ignite the world on fire.

Although Carol then worked steadily for the next 10 years bopping from films to stage to TV, she never got a Poseidon Adventure/Night Stalker moment again. ... See MoreSee Less

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