Brrrrr
April in New York City has been colder than January. To keep the straight boys warm at night, they’ll need the ski honeys from Winter a-Go-Go. Check out the trailer on YouTube and watch Jill Donohue, Nancy Czar, Julie Parrish, Beverly Adams, Linda Rogers, and Arlene Charles shake and shimmy to an icy cool beat. You can read more about the latter three in my upcoming book Pinups in Sixties Hollywood.
FRANCINE YORK
One of the most talented and hard working Glamazons of the Sixties was the gorgeous Francine York. She was at her best playing the bad girl such as the noble Niolani (pictured at left) who imprisons the Robinson men on Lost in Space.
In 1973, York, in a change of pace role, played the ass-kicking heroine and leader of The Doll Squad whose members included another man-basher Tura Satana. It is Grade-Z grindhouse cheese but you wouldn’t expect anything less in a film with Francine in the lead from the director of The Astro-Zombies. Check out the trailer on YouTube.
PAMELA TIFFIN
One of my favorite Sixties starlets of all time is Pamela Tiffin. To me she is one of the most stunningly beautiful actresses of the decade with real comedic talent. The detective film Harper (1966) starring Paul Newman features one of her best performances. Check out her infamous scene as she does a bikini dance on top of a diving board in this YouTube clip.
DV-R ALERT!
“His Love Makes You Beautiful”
Catch the stunning Inga Neilsen, Thordis Brandt, and Alena Johnston as the Winter and Springtime Brides in Funny Girl (4/1 @ 11:15am on TCM)
Western Roundup
Temperance leaguer Pamela Tiffin hitches a ride on The Hallelujah Trail (4/3 @ 3pm on TCM); Senora Anjanette Comer steals a horse and causes a war between her bandito husband John Saxon and Gringo rancher Marlon Brando in The Appaloosa (4/7 @ 8:15am on AMC); and Raquel Welch falls for her husband’s killer in Bandolero! (4/7 @ 12:30pm on AMC).
Comedy Tonight
Bountiful nurse Joan O’Brien causes a commotion with the sailors who try to pass her on the tight confines of a submarine in Operation Petticoat (4/3 @ 10:30pm on AMC) and Joanne Pflug is a Dish indeed as Lt. Dish in M*A*S*H (4/5 @ 8pm on Fox Movie Channel)