One of the nicest actresses I ever interviewed was Marlyn Mason. She recently just launched her new web site where she is selling autographed photos to help raise money to fund her next short film. There are wonderful shots of Marlyn with Elvis Presley in The Trouble with Girls and with James Franciscus (a personal fave of mine) in the detective TV series Longstreet, among many others. She is also selling DVD copies of her award winning first short film, Model Rules.
In 1962, Carol Lynley and Shirley Knight played twin sisters on a first season episode of the hit western series The Virginian starring James Drury, Lee J. Cobb, Gary Clarke and Doug McClure. Lynley’s sister was flirty and unstable with a fascination for guns while Knight’s sister was mousy and over protective. Along comes Tom Tryon as a seaman and Lynley wants him to take her away to see the world…or else. Below is a clip from the show that contrasts Lynley’s hyperactive style of acting to the more understated Knight.
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Shortly after this Lynley would be cast by Otto Preminger over Knight as well as Ann-Margret and Pamela Tiffin, among others to play priest Tom Tryon’s wayward sister in the epic Golden Globe winning The Cardinal (1963). When Lynley runs off to become a tango-dancing prostitute after her strict Catholic family rejects her Jewish suitor John Saxon in turn-of-the-century Boston she winds up unwed and pregnant. Tryon finds her in labor and makes the decision to save the baby and let his sister die a natural death to the doctor and Saxon’s disbelief.
Click here for some photos from the most recent Hollywood Show held in Burbank, CA. One of my childhood faves Marta Kristen from Lost in Space attended and she still is as lovely as ever as is Nancy Kwan another attendee.
Recently I posted about Bobby Sherman and his TV show Here Come the Brides. But as a kid I also liked the show due to his co-star pretty dark-haired Bridget Hanley. She was a contract player at Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems and made guest appearances on numerous popular sitcoms including Gidget, The Farmer’s Daughter, Bewitched, Occasional Wife, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, etc. Bridget always stood out due to her comedic timing and her mod ’60s hairdos. She was always well-coiffured as the clip below from Love on a Rooftop will prove where she plays Audrey a friend of Judy Carne:
Unbelievably, Bridget never appeared in a film during the Sixties. but once she was paired with teen idol Bobby Sherman on Brides in 1968, Bridget became the most envious girl in the U.S. She was splahsed across sucn magazines as Seventeen, Teen Screen, Tiger Beat, etc. telling Sherman’s female fans what it was like to kiss the actor, what he was like off-screen, etc.
When Here Come the Brides was cancelled in 1970, Bridget continued being very popular on the small screen with guest appearances on The Odd Couple, Nanny and the Professor, Love, American Style (4 appearances), Welcome Back, Kotter, The Rookies, etc. The eighties brought Bridget another hit series playing Barbara Eden’s nemisis on Harper Valley. Though Bridget’s last TV appearance was in 1991 on the reboot of Adam-12, she has been working in local Theatre in LA to this day.