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March 8, 2007 by sixties

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

To Drive-in Dream Girls cover girl Sue Ane Langdon! During the Swinging Sixties, Sue Ane excelled playing brassy broads, greedy golddiggers, or lovable kooks. She lusted after Elvis in Roustabout and Frankie and Johnny never catching him in either film; mooned over Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits in Hold On!; conned rich college boy Harve Presnell in When the Boys Meet the Girls; bared her derriere in The Rounders; and, in my favorite, vamped cheating husbands Walter Matthau and Robert Morse in A Guide for the Married Man.

March 7, 2007 by sixties

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

To Drive-in Dream Girl, Donna Loren. She was a regular on TV’s Shindig and sang on the shores of Malibu in Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach, and Beach Blanket Bingo. Check out her web site and her most rockin’ musical performance from Pajama Party on YouTube. Watch for Susan Hart and Candy Johnson to shimmy by.

For a more mellow Donna Loren, check out her singing a ballad in Beach Blanket Bingo on YouTube. That’s Salli Sachse and Linda Opie at the beginning of the clip. Watch how surfer dude Mike Nader shares his hot dog with his blonde buddy Johnny Fain as Donna sings about a lost love. Makes me go Hmmmmmmmmmm.

March 6, 2007 by sixties

FLOWER DRUM SONG

Along with South Pacific, Flower Drum Song is one of my favorite Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals. Recently released on DVD, it stars the lovely Nancy Kwan. Check out this clip on YouTube of Nancy lip-synching and dancing to “I Enjoy Being a Girl.”

March 4, 2007 by sixties

BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING

One of my favorite movies of all time is Otto Preminger’s slick mystery thriller Bunny Lake Is Missing. Besides starring one of my fave actresses of all time, Carol Lynley giving perhaps her finest performance, the film features a haunting music score by Paul Glass and a brilliant title design by the genius, Saul Bass. Check out the opening on YouTube.

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I am a little behind, but I was so saddened to hear that 1960s big-eyed, blonde bombshell Joy Harmon passed away. The lovely actress graced many movies and TV shows from the late 1950s into the early 1970s usually playing the kooky ding-a-ling. Below is a link to a very thorough obit from Mike Barnes in The Hollywood REporter about her (quoting from my interview with Joy for my first book, Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema).

Joy was truly a joy to behold and was just as bubbly in person as she usually was on screen. She invited me to her home for the interview and kept feeding me her homemade baked goods including the most scrumptious chocolate covered strawberries that I ever had.

In 1960s starlet Geil Gerber's memoir, "Trippin' with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember" from McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, she wrote that there were two people that she worked with that Terry Southern wanted to meet and then hit it off with. One was Elvis Presley and the other Joy Harmon, Gail's costar in the cult, Village of the Giants (1965) with Beau Bridges, Tisha Sterling, Johnny Crawford, and Ronny Howard. Gail remarked:

"Terry had met her [Joy] previously on The Loved One ... Joy was a sweet girl, but she was so formidable and so big in so many ways. I was a bit put off by her. But Terry was just drawn to larger-than-life people and thought she was wonderful. Joy was just so full of energy." This also sums up Joy's screen presence. She was always a standout even if her role was no more than a walk-on with a line or two. Her iconic turn in Cool Hand Luke (1967) where she seductively washes her car in front of the chain gang is a testament to the energy she put into all her roles. ... See MoreSee Less

Joy Harmon, the Woman Who Washed the Car in ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 87

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She also appeared on Broadway, worked with Groucho Marx on a game show and starred in the films ‘One Way Wahine’ and ‘Village of the Giants.’

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Every time I go see a Broadway musical, I flash back to 1975 when in junior high school they took us to see Raisin, my very first Broadway show. But not because of Raisin (which was meh), but because of a commercial aired constantly on the radio:

"Come to the Music Box Theater to see Geraldine Page, Carol Lynley, and Scott McKay in Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular, the longest running comedy on Broadway!"

Being a huge Carol Lynley fan, that was the show I wanted to see. And I still recall my disappointment as our school bus passed the Music Box with my face pressed against the window seeing the marquee. I so desperately wanted to see that show and not Raisin. haha

Read more about Carol in Absurd Person singular in my BearManor Media book, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense. ... See MoreSee Less

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Happy Academy Award Weekend! Back in the day, when the studios knew potential winners would not be attending the ceremony, they would assign actors to accept on their behalf. For the 1963 Academy Awards, Freddie Young was deemed a shoo-in to win Best Color Cinematography for Lawrence of Arabia. He was absent, so Columbia Pictures chose Carol Lynley to accept on his behalf. She was doing double-time at the studio playing a coed living platonically with her boyfriend (Dean Jones) in the sex farce, Under the Yum Yum Tree with Jack Lemmon and playing the ill-fated sister of priest Tom Tryon in Otto Preminger's religious epic, The Cardinal. Love how she was on and off the stage in a flash.

As a side note, about 5 years later after making his quip, Frank Sinatra and Carol would be a couple albeit a short-lived one.

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CAROL LYNLEY Academy Awards Ceremony

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Happy birthday Barbara McNair! Later in life, she and Carol Lynley played thievin', murderin' Thelma and Louise-types who get involved with "one last score" driving the desert roadways from California to Vegas, in this undiscovered gem of a movie, Neon Signs (1996) with William Smith and MATT DOTSON. Read about the making of the movie, with recollections from costar Matt Dotson and director Marc Kolbe, in my Carol Lynley book from BearManor Media ... See MoreSee Less

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Abandoned by his mother at a rundown roadhouse motel, Otis (Matt Dotson) sets off on his own armed with a compass and a dream of the neon lights of Las Vegas...

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Happy Birthday to the late Carol Lynley! I became a fan of hers in May of 1973 when I saw her in The Poseidon Adventure at the Westbury Drive-In for my 12th birthday. I then began scouring the TV Guide to catch her in anything from her older films on The 4:30 Movie to guest spots on episodic TV to made-for-TV movies to her appearances on game and talk shows. I also began compiling a scrapbook with clippings of her from newspapers and magazines. Never in a million years would I have thought this would lead me to interviewing her years later for an article for Filmfax magazine in the 1990s to two books Dueling Harlows from McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers and a career retrospective, Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy and Suspense from BearManor Media.

I have seen practically every photo of Carol Lynley ever published or released. Here are two of my favorites from The Shuttered Room and Harlow. ... See MoreSee Less

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