STARLETS GONE MAD II.

For years Tippi Hedren has commented on how Alfred Hitchcock who made her a star when he chose her for the female lead in The Birds and Marnie had a sick fasination with her and then hindered her career. To Tippi’s credit, she railed against the director while he was alive.

Now her Marnie co-star Diane Baker has entered the fray with an out-of-the-blue relevation about her experience with Hitchcock. Probably jealous of the attention her more famous co-star was receiving, Baker lets loose with this story. Click here to read her remarks and decide for yourself if you believe her.

STARLETS GONE MAD PART I.

In the mid -Sixties Faye Dunaway was just another blonde starlet who had appeared in two forgetable movies Hurry Sundown and The Happening without making much of an impression on critics or film fans. So it was surprising that producer/actor Warren Beatty cast her as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde.

Natalie Wood was his first choice but she passed on working with her ex-lover. Jane Fonda too turned it down. Tuesday Weld was almost set to take on the role but had to drop out due to pregnancy. Blonde starlets Carol Lynley and Sue Lyon was seriously considered for the part. But lucky for Dunaway the film’s director Arthur Penn caught her in stage production and at the 11th hour brought her to Beatty’s attention. The rest as they say is film history.

Flash forward to a recent print interview for a new horror movie Dunaway is co-starring in where her inner Diva emerged. But to be fair the writer asked her a ridiculous insulting question that set her off. What was this interviewer thinking? Click here to read the full story.

COME GREET THE PLEASURE SEEKERS!

Along with Come Fly with Me, The Pleasure Seekers is one of my favorite cotton candy type movies of the Sixties. I am a sucker for those 3 starlets trying to find fun and romance in some exotic foreign port. Coincidentally,both films star Pamela Tiffin appearing in the later with Ann-Margret and Carol Lynley as they take Madrid, Spain by storm.

Below is a clip where Gene Tierney confronts her husband Brian Keith’s secretary Lynley in the ladiesroom after spying a kiss between the two in the back seat of a car. If this scene looks vaguely familiar it is because it is a precursor to the more famous ladiesroom scene between Patty Duke and Susan Hayward in Valley of the Dolls. Not surpirisng since both films were produce by David Weisbart.

Here’s hoping Fox finally releases The Pleasure Seekers on DVD or at least reruns it on the Fox Movie Channel!

THEY’RE HERE!

Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed, and Flora Robson in The Shuttered Room have finally arrived on DVD along with Roddy McDowall and Jill Haworth in It! Click here to read a review from DVD Drive-in who first announced its release. The transfer of both films to DVD is supposedly awesome.

The double bill for now is only available at Best Buy. I will be hitting my Best Buy tonight after work to purchase. Can’t wait! Doesn’t Carol look stunning?