I received a few inquiries regarding my previous post about Tina Louise and her parasol. Starting way back in the sixties, the beautiful actress was aware of the sun’s harmful effects on the skin and would always been seen with a parasol when filming exterior shots. Below is a short clip that her daughter thinks was taken during a photo shoot ca. 1966.

Back again as my Blog had to be migrated to a new site. Thought I’d test it out with a Tina Louise clip. All those years under a parasol really paid off for her as she still looks gorgeous. Too bad Carol Lynley didn’t do the same.

Warner Bros. video has just released 5 made-for-TV movies(Flood, Fire, Hanging By a Thread, The Night the Bridge Fell Down, Cave-In) from the Master of Disaster Irwin Allen. As a lover of this genre, I can’t wait to purchase the box set. Click here for more info.

Of course my favorite is Flood with a soggy Carol Lynley as a pregnant woman who gets trapped in her house when the town’s dam bursts. If she was able to survive the capsizing of the SS Poseidon, a flooded home should be no problem for her but yet again she needs rescuing this time from Martin Milner and Barbara Hershey. Plus Francine York in a change of pace role playing sweet rather than bitchy who helps the injured and Teresa Wright in the Shelley Winters role but “under the water she is NOT a very skinny lady” and is washed away. What more can you ask from a disaster movie? Below is clip from the film’s beginning.

Someone commented on a previous Blog asking me who were the 3 beach girls dancing with Buster Keaton during the end credits of Beach Blanket Bingo. The tall blonde is the late Mary Hughes, Bobbi Shaw is the one in the fur bikini, and the short-haired sandy-blonde is Patti Chandler.

In the opening below, Patti is dancing with Jody McCrea and Mary shoves the ice cream cone into the face of Mike Nader.