BEWARE! THIS COULD BE A CAREER KILLER

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In 1972 as a favor to her friend and Malibu neighbor Larry Hagman making his directorial debut, Carol Lynley guest starred as Blob food in the cheesy horror comedy with a hippie beat Beware! The Blob a.k.a. Son of Blob. Hagman also got such notable actors as Godfrey Cambridge, Burgess Meredith, and Shelley Berman to do bits as victims of the Blob while Robert Walker had the Steve McQueen role as the hero.

It was nice that Carol was loyal to her friend but after just turning down a role in Five Easy Pieces this was not a good career move. Hopefully, she got a boat load of money for it. Thankfully, she did The Night Stalker and The Poseidon Adventure next.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw_p8P4DvmY

DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

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I watched the Pioneers of Television: Science Fiction last night on PBS and highly recommend it. The show paid tribute to such 60s classics as Star Trek, Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space and The Time Tunnel, and delved into the history and making of these shows. What was great that they interviewed Drive-in Dream Girl Marta Kristen, Angela Cartwright, Billy Mumy, Nichelle Nichols, and Lee Meriwhether besides the obvious William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, among others. Hell they even showed a photo of our Francine York as the Noble Niolani singling her out as one of Lost in Space‘s memorable aliens!

COOL SITE…FOR NOW

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A Facebook friend turned me on to this cool site PublicDomainFlix.com where there are many available films from 1950s to 1980s available to watch online for free. I have no idea what their “definition” of public domain is as most seem in copyright to me but enjoy now before they are shut down.  Among the movies listed are In the Year 2889 with Drive-in Dream Girl Quinn O’Hara, Wild Guitar with Nancy Czar, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! with  Drive-in Dream Girl Lori Williams, Satan’s Sadists with Glamour Girl Regina Carroll, and The Proud and the Damned with Aron Kincaid,  among many others.

R.I.P. SUSANNAH YORK

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Wow, this has been a horrible start to the new year with yet another passing of a 60s performer. The very popular pretty blonde English lass Susannah York of Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, The Killing of Sister George, and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (for which she was nominated for an Academy Award) fame has died. During the decade she epitomized the swinging 60s dolly bird in flilms like Kaleidoscope, Sebastian, and Duffy. Please click here to read more about her.