Sixties Posts

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

To sweet-as-pie Mary Ann Mobley. Most fans know that Mobley was a former Miss America but don’t know that she was the first Girl from U.N.C.L.E.(in the episode “The Moonglow Affair” on The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and Batgirl on Batman but due to interferring network executives lost out on both roles in the TV series (to respectively, Stefanie Powers and Yvonne Craig). As a consolation prize, she did get to be wooed on screen by Elvis Presley in Girl Happy and Harum Scarum. Check out this great tribute to her on You Tube.

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DVR ALERT!

2/18: France Nuyen gets chummy with stud muffin John Kerr in South Pacific (TCM, 8:30am)
2/18: Jean Hale tags along as McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force (AMC, 8:30am)
2/19: Nancy Kwan enjoys being a girl in Flower Drum Song (TCM, 1:00pm)
2/19: Carole Wells stays in the picture despite the editing cuts of egomaniac Barbra Streisand in Funny Lady (TCM, 5:30pm)
2/21: Mother Dolores Hart plays a nun before becoming a nun in Francis of Assisi (Fox Movie Channel, 8:30am)
2/22: Malibu beach denizens Jackie Bisset, Michele Carey, and Lara Lindsay are taken on The Sweet Ride (Fox Movie, 2:00pm)
2/23: Pamela Tiffin and Ann-Margret find love at the State Fair (Fox Moive, noon)
2/23: Connie Stevens and Linda Harrison travel Way…Way Out (Fox Movie, 2:00pm)
2/23: Car washer Joy Harmon teases Paul Newman and the rest of the chain gang in Cool Hand Luke (AMC, 8:00pm)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

To Fantasy Femme Joan O’Brien. She distracted submarine commander Cary Grant in Operation Petticoat, survived The Alamo, bewitched pilot Elvis Presley in It Happened At the World’s Fair (at left), and taught Nancy Sinatra how to Watusi in Get Yourself a College Girl before retiring to raise her family in 1965.