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Screen heavy Bruce Cabot started as a bit player, but signing a contract with RKO in the early 1930s solidified his career. His best known role came in the film King Kong (1933; with Fay Wray), and his career continued to be strong throughout the 1930s and 1940s. By the 1950s, however, Cabot found roles hard to come by, so he went to Europe and acted in numerous Italian films including Goliath and the Barbarians (1959; with Steve Reeves. In the 1960s, Cabot enjoyed a resurgeance of his career, which kept going strong until his health deteriorated in the early 1970s. After the release of Cabot's final film Diamonds Are Forever (1971; with Sean Connery), he passed away in May 1972 from cancer at the age of 68.
Corinne Calvet (1925-2001)
French-born beauty Corinne Calvet began her Hollywood career in the noir thriller Rope of Sand (1949; with Burt Lancaster and Peter Lorre. On the set of that film, she met up and coming actor John Bromfield, and the couple married soon afterward, but but the marriage fizzled in 1954. The following year, Calvet married Jeffrey Stone and slowed her career with the birth of her son. Her marriage to Stone ended in 1960, and Calvet was briefly wed two more times in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she abandoned her acting career to become a therapist, but in the 1980s she had a recurring role on the ABC-TV daytime drama General Hospital in the late 1980s and acted in her final film, the steamy thriller Side Roads (1988; with Jeff Speakman). Calvet passed away in June 2001 at the age of 76 and was survived by her son.
Rod Cameron (1910-1983)
Canadian-born Rod Cameron got his start in Hollywood as stuntman and bit player in the 1930s. He worked steadily as an actor in small roles the early 1940s when his big break came in the form of the fifteen-chapter serial Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943; with Duncan Renaldo); this serial served as a template for Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and the films that followed it. This serial made Cameron a headliner, and from then on he started in numerous low-budget westerns and action films. His film career was still in high gear when he decided to do television in the 1950s. Leaving westerns behind, he used his talents in TV crime drama series including City Detective (syndicated; 1953-1955) and State Trooper (syndicated; 1956-1959). In 1960, Cameron fueled gossip columns by divorcing his wife and marrying his ex-mother-in-law. His career began to wane afterward and wrapped up with the comedy Love and the Midnight Auto Supply (1978; with Michael Parks and Linda Cristal). Cameron passed away from cancer on December 21, 1983 at age 73 and was survived by his fourth wife and two children.
David Carradine (1936-2009)
The son of actor John Carradine, David Carradine spent time in the military and went to college before launching an acting career in the early 1960s. After several guest appearances on TV programs, Carradine made his film bow in the western Taggart (1964; with Dan Duryea). In 1966, he was cast as the lead in the ABC western series Shane, but the show was canceled mid-season. Afterward, Carradine began to focus on a film career in such B movies as The Violent Ones (1967; with Fernando Lamas, Aldo Ray, and Lisa Gaye) and The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969; with Robert Mitchum, Tina Louise, and Marie Windsor) before trying his hand at another TV series, the wildly popular ABC western Kung Fu (1972-1975). Much like his father, Carradine made a string of entertaining, low-budget films throughout his career such as Death Race 2000 (1975; with Sylvester Stallone and Mary Woronov), Cannonball! (1976; with Bill McKinney, Robert Carradine, Judy Canova, and Mary Woronov), and Safari 3000 (1982; with Stockard Channing and Christopher Lee). While he worked steadily throughout the years, alcohol problems began to take a toll on his health and career. However, Carradine cleaned up his act and renewed his popularity in Kill Bill, Vols. 1 and 2 (2003; with Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, and Michael Madsen). Sadly, while working on a film in Bangkok, Carradine was found dead in his hotel room on June 3, 2009, at the age of 72. He is survived by his fifth wife, two daughters, a son, and several step-children.
Regina Carrol (1943-1992)
Carrol was a buxom blond actress and nightclub singer who made movies exclusively for her husband, director Al Adamson's, including Blazing Stewardesses (1974; with Yvonne De Carlo), Blood of Ghastly Horror (1971, with Tommy Kirk), and my personal favorite, Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971; with Anthony Eisley and Lon Chaney Jr.). Along the way in her film career, she picked up the moniker "The Freak-Out Girl." After a decade of acting in Al Adamson's films, she ended her career with the release of Doctor Dracula (1983; with John Carradine). She passed away at age 49 of cancer in St. George, Utah on November 4, 1992.
Leo G. Carroll (1886-1972)
British-born Leo G. Carroll spent years as a stage actor before moving into films in the 1930s. Moving freely between A and B movies, Carroll enlivened such films as Tower of London (1939; with Boris Karloff) and Rebecca (1940; with Joan Fontaine). In the 1950s, he moved into television as the star of Topper while acting in films such as Tarantula (1955; with John Agar and Mara Corday). Retiring in the late 1960s, Leo G. Carroll died on October 16, 1972, just days before his 86th birthday.
Chick Chandler (1905-1988)
Born in New York in 1905, Chandler was a veteran character actor who worked steadily from the early 1930s through the early 1970s. He provided solid performances in such 'B' pictures as Leave It to Blondie (1945; with Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton) and Lost Continent (1951; with Hugh Beaumont). He also had supporting roles in 'A' films as well, including The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941; with Bette Davis) and There's No Business Like Show Business (1954; with Marilyn Monroe). He also worked in television, making guest appearances and having a regular role on the series Soldiers of Fortune (1955-1956) and One Happy Family (1961-1962). Chandler retired from the screen at age 65 and passed away in September 1988 at the age of 83. The above photo is from Steel Town.
Linda Christian (1923-2011)
Mexican-born knockout Linda Christian's early life was nomadic; the actress spent her early days in Europe, Africa, and South America. At the urging of sometime lover Errol Flynn, Christian went to Hollywood, where she was discovered and put under contract to MGM. Her first credited film role cames in the MGM adventure Green Dolphin Street (1947; with Lana Turner and Van Heflin) and RKO's Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948; with Johnny Weissmuller and George Zucco). Just as her career began rolling, Christian met and married screen idol Tyrone Power. Interestingly, the press surrounding her marriage and motherhood improved her career. Throughout the 1950s, she starred in such films as Battle Zone (1952; with John Hodiak), Slaves of Babylon (1953; with Richard Conte), and Thunderstorm (1956; with Carlos Thompson). Yet her career began to suffer with her divorce from Power in 1956. Her ability to speak multiple languages fluently served her well, and by the early 1960s Christian was a star in Europe. Christian was briefly married to actor Edmund Purdom (1962-1963) and continued her acting career into the late 1960s. Sadly, Linda Christian passed away after a battle with colon cancer on July 22, 2011, and was survived by her two daughters with Tyrone Power.
Ray Collins (1889-1965)
Veteran character actor Ray Collins, born in Sacramento, California, in December 1889, began his acting career as a child on the vaudeville stage. Hollywood had yet to emerge as the capital of filmmaking by the time Collins reached adulthood, so he eventually headed east to New York, where he worked on and off Broadway from the 1920s to the 1940s. Also working as a radio actor, Collins was a part of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater. Fittingly, Welles cast him in Citizen Kane, his first feature film role (although he had acted in a number of Warner Bros./Vitaphone shorts produced in New York in the late 1920s and early 1930s). Afterward, Collins left New York for Hollywood, where he found plenty of work in wartime America films, including a surprising number of comedies. But film noir is where Collins fit in best, acting in such films as Leave Her to Heaven (1945; with Cornel Wilde and Gene Tierney), A Double Life (1947; with Ronald Colman and Shelley Winters), and The Racket (1951; with Robert Mitchum and Lizabeth Scott). Collins worked steadily in films until he was cast in the role of Lieutenant Arthur Tragg in the CBS noir series Perry Mason (1957-1966; with Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, and William Hopper). Collins developed emphysema in the early 1960s and was forced to curtail his appearances on the popular television series. He passed away in July 1965 at the age of 75. The photo above is from his last film I'll Give My Life (1960).
Elisha Cook Jr. (1903-1995)
Elisha Cook began his long career while a teenager, when he did a vaudeville act and later on the Broadway stage. He didn't enter films with earnest until the mid 1930s. Although at this time Cook was more than 30 years old, his diminutive stature got him often cast as a student in 1930s films. Cook's big breakthrough role came in The Maltese Falcon (1941; with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor), a brilliant performance that allowed him to get better roles. But Cook rarely turned down a script, so he often appeared in both A and B films. Some of his more interesting performances can be seen in The House on Haunted Hill (1958; with Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart), Rosemary's Baby (1968; with Mia Farrow), and Blacula (1972; with William Marshall). Cook chalked up more than 100 films and dozens of TV appearances through the late 1980s. A stroke in 1990 forced him into retirement. He passed away in 1995 at age 92. The left-hand photo is from Electra Glide in Blue (1973; with Robert Blake).
Jeanne Crain (1925-2003)
Beautiful California native Jeanne Crain studied drama from an early age and entered films at age 18. Upon signing with 20th Century Fox, the studio cast Crain in the best films of her career, including State Fair (1945; with Dana Andrews), Leave Her to Heaven (1945; with Cornel Wilde), and A Letter to Three Wives (1949; with Linda Darnell). In the 1950s, however, Fox cast her in films of lesser quality, so Crain left the studio and eventually landed at Universal-International. Most of Crain's later films were low-budget affairs, such as Daggers of Blood (1962; with John Drew Barrymore) and Hot Rods to Hell (1967; with Dana Andrews). Despite her busy career, Crain somehow managed to raise seven children. She retired from acting in the early 1970s. Sadly, Jeanne Crain passed away in December 2003 at the age of 78.
Richard Crenna (1927-2003)
A Los Angeles native, Richard Crenna starred in numerous B movies and television shows during his long career in Hollywood. His earliest roles came on radio in the 1940s. While a college student, he landed a role on Eve Arden's radio comedy Our Miss Brooks in 1948, and he stayed with the show when it moved to television in 1952. Some of his early films include Red Skies of Montana (1952; with Jeffrey Hunter) and Over-Exposed (1956; with Cleo Moore). Later, Crenna starred in The Real McCoys for six seasons, and after the show left the air, he starred in several films such as Wait Until Dark (1967) and Marooned (1969; once aired on Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Space Travelers). Crenna's career was strong through his final days. He passed away from cancer in January 2003 at the age of 76.
Criswell (1907-1982)
Born Jerome Criswell on August 18, 1907 Criswell started his professional career as a journalist and radio personality. He began making outrageous predictions as a gag while on a radio program; soon, however, he became famous for his psychic abilities, appearing on television often from the 1950s through the 1970s. Criswell frequently admitted he had no psychic powers, yet the gag continued. B movie fans will recognize Criswell from Ed Wood's films Plan Nine from Outer Space (1959; with Tor Johnson); Night of the Ghouls (1959; with Tor Johnson and Kenne Duncan); and Orgy of the Dead (1965; with Pat Barrington). Criswell departed on October 4, 1982 at the age of 75 and was survived by his wife, Halo Meadows (1905-1985).
Jim Davis (1909-1981)
Character actor Jim Davis is known for his many westerns but is best remembered in the role of Jock Ewing on the CBS TV series Dallas. Born in Missouri in August 1909, Davis entered films in the early 1940s. Following World War II, Davis found roles in such films as Gallant Bess (1947; with Marshall Thompson and Hellfire (1949; with Marie Windsor). He didn't headline a picture until the 1950 low-budget film noir release Hi-Jacked. Throughout the 1950s Davis worked steadily in films, but when his career stalled in the 1960s he found lots of work in television. Some of his later films include Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966; with John Lupton and Cal Bolder) and Dracula Vs. Frankenstein (1971; with Anthony Eisley and Lon Chaney Jr.). Following the death of his daughter in 1970, he threw himself into his career, acting in a number of films in the 1970s and landing a plum role on Dallas. Davis died of cancer in April 1981 at the age of 71.
Myrna Dell (1924-2011)
Los Angeles-born Myrna Dell began her career as a showgirl in New York before trying her luck in films. After a few film appearances, she secured a contract with RKO in 1944. Initially, the studio cast her in comedy short subjects, working her way up to femme fatale in film noir thrillers such as Step by Step (1946; with Lawrence Tierney and Anne Jeffreys) and The Falcon's Adventure (1946; with Tom Conway and Steve Brodie). After ending her contract with RKO, Dell freelanced extensively at other studios and did quite a bit of work on television into the early 1960s. After her marriage to actor Herbert Patterson and the birth of her daughter, Dell grew disinterested in her acting career. She passed away on February 11, 2011, at the age of 86. She was survived by her daughter.
Divine (1945-1988)
Born Harris Glenn Milstead, Divine starred in director John Waters' underground made-in-Baltimore flicks such as Multiple Maniacs (1970; with Mink Stole), Pink Flamingos (1972; with Edith Massey), and Polyester (1981; with Tab Hunter). In the 1980s, Divine proved himself an accomplished and versatile actor in Lust in the Dust (1985; with Tab Hunter and Lainie Kazan) and Trouble in Mind (1985; with Keith Carradine). Just as he was crossing over into mainstream film and possibly stardom, he passed away in early 1988 at the age of 42. The above photo is from Divine's hilarious 1985 comedy Lust in the Dust.
Jeff Donnell (1921-1988)
Born Jean Donnell in Maine in 1921, pretty Jeff Donnell was put under contract by Columbia Pictures in 1941, where she acted in a string of B programmers. She was a well-rounded actress, excelling in comedies, dramas, and westerns, although film noir provided her best roles. In 1954, Donnell left Columbia Pictures and took on the role of Alice on The George Gobel Show. But Donnell left the series in 1958, when she married her third husband. The marriage didn't last, and by 1961 Donnell began acting in films again, although on an infrequent basis. Her final role was a long stint on the ABC soap General Hospital beginning in 1979 and lasting until she passed away from heart attack on April 11, 1988 at the age of 66. She was survived by her son and daughter from her first marriage. Married four times, her most famous husband was actor Aldo Ray, whom she married in 1954 and divorced in 1956.
Peter Duel (1940-1971)
Peter Duel made a few films in the 1960s but is better known for his prolific work in television. Duel starred in the series Gidget (1965-1966) and Love on a Rooftop (1966-1967). His career seemed assured with his third series, Alias Smith and Jones (1971-73), along with co-star Ben Murphy. Inexplicably, Duel took his own life on New Year's Eve 1971 at the age of 31.
Dan Duryea (1907-1968)
Stage actor Dan Duryea made the transition to films in the 1940s. He excelled at portraying heavies and thugs in film noir and westerns, but occasionally picked up good-guy roles, especially toward the end of his career. His best films include Scarlet Street (1945; with Joan Bennett) and Larceny (1947; with John Payne. Duryea kept working through the late 1960s until his health began to fail, and he passed away on June 7, 1968 at the age of 61. His last film, the sci-fi effort The Bamboo Saucer (1968; with John Ericson) was released a few months after his death.
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Anna Maria Pierangeli was born June 19, 1932, in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Anna and her twin sister, Marisa Pavan, both had their eyes on becoming film stars, since that was one of the big Italian pastimes. Anna adopted her surname and split it in half, and it was as Pier Angeli that she would find fame. Her first role was an uncredited part in 1948's The Million Dollar Nickel (1952), an Italian production. Pier was 16 at the time and it was to be the first of many roles for this beautiful woman. The film was largely forgettable but it was a start. The following year she played in another Italian production, Morgen ist es zu spät (1950). Again it was a very small role, and she was not seen on the screen again until 1951. Between 1949 and 1951 she appeared in stage productions and found work in menial jobs. When she did return it was in the film Begegnung in Tunis (1951) as Anna Vasarri. Later that year she won the title role in Teresa - Die Geschichte einer Braut (1951). However, she again hit a drought with only one film in 1952 and two in 1953. The next year things began to pick up, however, with Hollywood beckoning. After the Italian Frl. Nitouche (1954) she caught the eyes of Hollywood moguls, who cast her in Flammende Sinne (1954) and Basilus - Held von Rom (1954). Now she divided her time between Italy and the US making movies. She married Vic Damone in 1954, a union that lasted only four years and produced one son.
No film offers came in 1955, but in 1956 Pier landed the role of Norma Graziano (wife of fighter Rocky Graziano) in Die Hölle ist in mir (1956) opposite Paul Newman. The film was well received at the box office and she had hopes that things were going to pick up again. She played Ynez in Port Afrika (1956) later that year and then another drought ensued. After Unter glühender Sonne (1957), König der Spaßmacher (1958) and Dicke Luft und heiße Liebe (1959), she made three more films in 1960. Then once again 1961 saw no appearances. In 1962 Pier played Ildith in Sodom und Gomorrha (1962) and later that year played in a French production entitled Meuterei auf der Albatros (1961). After the Italian production of OSS 117 - Heisse Hölle Bangkok (1964) she returned in the hit European-American co-production Die letzte Schlacht (1965).
After a handful of films between 1966 and 1970, Pier realized her dreams of super-stardom were not to be. She had divorced her second husband (Armando Trovajoli) in 1969 and made her final appearance on the screen in 1971 in the low-budget sci-fi opus Octaman - Die Bestie aus der Tiefe (1971). On September 10th of that year Pier was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in her Beverly Hills home. She was only 39 years old.
William Bendix was not a son of Brooklyn, New York, although because of his stereotypical "Brooklyn accent" it has been widely supposed that he was. Bendix was actually born in the Borough of Manhattan (New York City proper), in a midtown flat hard by the tracks of the long-since defunct Third-Avenue Elevated Railway. (Manhattan sections of the "El," as New Yorkers called it, were demolished circa 1956.)
Jut-jawed, broken-nosed and burly, Bendix began his acting career after the ravages of the Great Depression had killed his erstwhile grocery business. Having performed in nightclubs even while grocer, and having portrayed taxicab drivers in a series of Broadway flops, he enjoyed his first notable performance on the Broadway stage in 1939, portraying the cop Krupp in William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life." His Hollywood feature debut came about in one of his few starring roles, in Hal Roach's Brooklyn Orchid (1942). But more often than not, in his movies Bendix received less than top billing, inasmuch as so many of his film assignments involved supporting roles. Despite (or perhaps on account of) his looks he was often called upon to supply comedic support, as in Ritter Hank, der Schrecken der Tafelrunde (1949), when, portraying Sir Sagramore of King Arthur's Round Table in full suit of armor and pageboy wig, he waxeth eloquent, in his Brooklyn accent but in the most incongruent of Middle English dialects! On the other hand, that same craggy appearance had him in such roles as that of the thug Jeff in Der gläserne Schlüssel (1942), in which he repeatedly and gleefully uses his fists to beat star Alan Ladd's face to a pulp and then sadistically challenges Ladd, once he is healed, to come back and receive further "treatment"! Although he will always be fondly remembered for his light-comedy portrayals (in *three* of the mass media!) of Chester A. Riley in The Life of Riley (1949) and The Life of Riley (1953), perhaps William Bendix's finest and most memorable dramatic performance came in Das Rettungsboot (1944), when he touchingly interprets the role of Gus, the shipwreck survivor whose gangrenous limb has to be removed, the absence of anesthesia notwithstanding.
One of the brightest film stars to grace the screen was born Emilie Claudette Chauchoin on September 13, 1903, in Saint Mandé, France where her father owned a bakery at 57, rue de la République (now Avenue Général de Gaulle). The family moved to the United States when she was three. As Claudette grew up, she wanted nothing more than to play to Broadway audiences (in those days, any actress or actor worth their salt went for Broadway, not Hollywood). After her formal education ended, she enrolled in the Art Students League, where she paid for her dramatic training by working in a dress shop. She made her Broadway debut in 1923 in the stage production of "The Wild Wescotts". It was during this event that she adopted the name Claudette Colbert.
When the Great Depression shut down most of the theaters, Claudette decided to make a go of it in films. Her first film was called For the Love of Mike (1927). Unfortunately, it was a box-office disaster. She wasn't real keen on the film industry, but with an extreme scarcity in theatrical roles, she had no choice but to remain. In 1929 she starred as Joyce Roamer in The Lady Lies (1929). The film was a success and later that year she had another hit entitled The Hole in the Wall (1929). In 1930 she starred opposite Fredric March in Manslaughter (1930), which was a remake of the silent version of eight years earlier. A year after that Claudette was again paired in a film with March, Honor Among Lovers (1931). It fared well at the box-office, probably only because it was the kind of film that catered to women who enjoyed magazine fiction romantic stories. In 1932 Claudette played the evil Poppeia in Cecil B. DeMille's last great work, Im Zeichen des Kreuzes (1932), and once again was cast with March. Later the same year she was paired with Jimmy Durante in The Phantom President (1932). By now Claudette's name symbolized good movies and she, along with March, pulled crowds into the theaters with the acclaimed Aufruhr in Utopia (1933).
The next year started a little on the slow side with the release of Four Frightened People (1934), where Claudette and her co-stars were at odds with the dreaded bubonic plague on board a ship. However, the next two films were real gems for this young actress. First up, Claudette was charming and radiant in Cecil B. DeMille's spectacular Cleopatra (1934). It wasn't one of DeMille's finest by any means, but it was a financial success and showcased Claudette as never before. However, it was as Ellie Andrews, in the now famous Es geschah in einer Nacht (1934), that ensured she would be forever immortalized. Paired with Clark Gable, the madcap comedy was a mega-hit all across the country. It also resulted in Claudette being nominated for and winning the Oscar that year for Best Actress. IN 1935 she was nominated again for Oberarzt Dr. Monet (1935), where she played Dr. Jane Everest, on the staff at a mental institution. The performance was exquisite. Films such as Das Mädchen, das den Lord nicht wollte (1935), Trommeln am Mohawk (1939) and Keine Zeit für die Liebe (1943) kept fans coming to the theaters and the movie moguls happy. Claudette was a sure drawing card for virtually any film she was in. In 1944 she starred as Anne Hilton in Als du Abschied nahmst (1944). Again, although she didn't win, Claudette picked up her third nomination for Best Actress.
By the late 1940s and early 1950s she was not only seen on the screen but the infant medium of television, where she appeared in a number of programs. However, her drawing power was fading somewhat as new stars replaced the older ones. In 1955 she filmed the western Des Teufels rechte Hand (1955) and wasn't seen on the screen again until Sein Name war Parrish (1961). It was her final silver screen performance. Her final appearance before the cameras was in a TV movie, Society (1987). She did, however, remain on the stage where she had returned in 1956, her first love. After a series of strokes, Claudette divided her time between New York and Barbados. On July 30, 1996, Claudette died in Speightstown, Barbados. She was 92.
Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1906, in San Antonio, Texas, to Anna Belle (Johnson) and Thomas E. LeSueur, a laundry laborer. By the time she was born, her parents had separated, and by the time she was a teenager, she'd had three stepfathers. It wasn't an easy life; Crawford worked a variety of menial jobs. She was a good dancer, though, and -- perhaps seeing dance as her ticket to a career in show business -- she entered several contests, one of which landed her a spot in a chorus line. Before long, she was dancing in big Midwestern and East Coast cities. After almost two years, she packed her bags and moved to Hollywood. Crawford was determined to succeed, and shortly after arriving she got her first bit part, as a showgirl in Pretty Ladies (1925).
Three films quickly followed; although the roles weren't much to speak of, she continued toiling. Throughout 1927 and early 1928, she was cast in small parts, but that ended with the role of Diana Medford in Verkaufte Töchter (1928), which elevated her to star status. Crawford had cleared the first big hurdle; now came the second, in the form of talkies. Many stars of the silents saw their careers evaporate, either because their voices weren't particularly pleasant or because their voices, pleasing enough, didn't match the public's expectations (for example, some fans felt that John Gilbert's tenor didn't quite match his very masculine persona). But Crawford wasn't felled by sound. Her first talkie, Untamed (1929), was a success. As the 1930s progressed, Crawford became one of the biggest stars at MGM. She was in top form in films such as Menschen im Hotel (1932), Sadie McKee (1934), Schluss mit den Frauen (1935), and Liebe mit 100 PS (1936); movie patrons were enthralled, and studio executives were satisfied.
By the early 1940s, MGM was no longer giving her plum roles; newcomers had arrived in Hollywood, and the public wanted to see them. Crawford left MGM for rival Warner Bros., and in 1945 she landed the role of a lifetime. Solange ein Herz schlägt (1945) gave her an opportunity to show her range as an actress, and her performance as a woman driven to give her daughter everything garnered Crawford her first, and only, Oscar for Best Actress. The following year she appeared with John Garfield in the well-received Humoreske (1946). In 1947, she appeared as Louise Graham in Hemmungslose Liebe (1947); again she was nominated for a Best Actress from the Academy, but she lost to Loretta Young in Die Farmerstochter (1947). Crawford continued to choose her roles carefully, and in 1952 she was nominated for a third time, for her depiction of Myra Hudson in Maskierte Herzen (1952). This time the coveted Oscar went to Shirley Booth, for Kehr zurück, kleine Sheba (1952). Crawford's career slowed after that; she appeared in minor roles until 1962, when she and Bette Davis co-starred in Was geschah wirklich mit Baby Jane? (1962). Their longstanding rivalry may have helped fuel their phenomenally vitriolic and well-received performances. (Earlier in their careers, Davis said of Crawford, "She's slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie", and Crawford said of Davis, "I don't hate [her] even though the press wants me to. I resent her. I don't see how she built a career out of a set of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. Take away the pop eyes, the cigarette, and those funny clipped words, and what have you got? She's phony, but I guess the public really likes that.")
Crawford's final appearance on the silver screen was in the flop Das Ungeheuer (1970). Turning to vodka more and more, she was hardly seen afterward. On May 10, 1977, Joan died of a heart attack in New York City. She was 71 years old. She had disinherited her adopted daughter Christina and son Christopher; the former wrote a tell-all book called "Mommie Dearest", The Sixth Sense published in 1978. The book cast Crawford in a negative light and was cause for much debate, particularly among her friends and acquaintances, including Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford's first husband. (In 1981, Faye Dunaway starred in Meine liebe Rabenmutter (1981) which did well at the box office.) Crawford is interred in the same mausoleum as fellow MGM star Judy Garland, in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
A reliable featured player and occasional co-star, actress Jeff Donnell was born Jean Marie Donnell in a boys' reformatory in South Windham, Maine in 1921, the younger of schoolteacher Mildred and penologist Howard's two daughters. She took piano and dance lessons during her childhood in Maryland; she loved the popular "Mutt and Jeff" cartoon strip so much that she gave herself the nickname "Jeff."
She studied at the Yale School of Drama and performed briefly in summer stock before marrying her first husband at 19: Bill Anderson, a drama teacher from her Boston alma mater, Leland Powers Drama School. Together they started the Farragut Playhouse in Rye, New Hampshire. Almost immediately a Columbia Studios talent scout noticed her in a play there and quickly signed her.
Whisked to Los Angeles, Jeff made her first appearance in the war-era movie Meine Schwester Ellen (1942) while husband Bill was hired on as a dialogue director. Hardly the chic, glamour-girl type, Jeff possessed a perky, unpretentious, tomboyish quality that worked comfortably in unchallenging "B" escapism --usually the breezy girlfriend or spirited bobbysoxer. Typical of her movie load at the time were the fun but innocuous Doughboys in Ireland (1943), What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943), Nine Girls (1944), 1001 Nacht (1945), Carolina Blues (1944), and Eadie Was a Lady (1945). She also enlivened a number of musical westerns that prominently featured Ken Curtis (Festus of "Gunsmoke").
On a rare occasion, Jeff found herself in "A" pictures, most notably the Bogart film noir classic Ein einsamer Ort (1950), but more often than not she played the obliging or supportive friend of the leading lady. Unable to break away from her established "B" ranking, she later tried a move to RKO Studios (1949) but fared no better or worse. She did make a successful move to TV in the early 50s and was seen in a number of comedy and dramatic parts.
Long separated from and finally divorcing her first husband in 1953 (they had one son, Michael, and an adopted daughter, Sarah Jane), she married rising film actor Aldo Ray in 1954, but the marriage crumbled within two years, beset by drinking problems; she also suffered a miscarriage. She went on to marry and divorce twice more. As the 1950s rolled on, she earned steady work on TV, bringing to life comedian George Gobel's often-mentioned wife Alice on the sitcom The George Gobel Show (1954) for four seasons. She also had the opportunity to play Gidget's mom in a couple of the popular lightweight movies of the early 1960s -- April entdeckt Hawaii (1961) and April entdeckt Rom (1963).
Most daytime fans will remember Jeff's long-running stint on the soap drama General Hospital (1963) as Stella Fields, the Quartermain housekeeper, which started in 1979 and lasted until her death in 1988. Dogged by ill health in later years (including a serious bout with Addison's disease), Jeff died peacefully of a heart attack in her sleep at age 66.
Undoubtedly the woman who had come to epitomize what we recognize today as "celebrity," Zsa Zsa Gabor, is better known for her many marriages, personal appearances, her "dahlink" catchphrase, her actions, gossip, and quotations on men, rather than her film career.
Zsa Zsa was born as Sári Gabor on February 6, 1917 in Budapest, Hungary, to Jolie Gabor (née Janka Tilleman) and Vilmos Gabor (born Farkas Miklós Grün), both of Jewish descent. Her siblings were Eva Gabor and Magda Gabor. Zsa Zsa studied at a Swiss finishing school, was second runner-up in the fifth Miss Hungary pageant, and began her stage career in Vienna in 1934. In 1941, the year she obtained her first divorce, she followed younger sister Eva to Hollywood.
A radiant, beautiful blonde, Zsa Zsa began to appear on television series and occasional films. Her first film was at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Männer machen Mode (1952), co-starring Kathryn Grayson and Red Skelton. She next made a comedy called Wir sind gar nicht verheiratet (1952) at 20th Century Fox with Ginger Rogers. It was far from a star billing; she appeared several names down the cast as a supporting actress. But in 1952 she broke into films big time with her starring role opposite José Ferrer in Moulin Rouge (1952), although it has been said that throughout filming, director John Huston gave her a very difficult time.
In the following years, Zsa Zsa slipped back into supporting roles in films such as Lili (1953) and Im Zirkus der 3 Manegen (1954). Her main period of film work was in the 1950s, with other roles in Death of a Scoundrel (1956), with Yvonne De Carlo, and The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958) with Anna Neagle; again, these were supporting roles. By the 1960s, Zsa Zsa was appearing more as herself in films. She now appeared to follow her own persona around, and cameo appearances were the order of the day in films such as Pepe - Was kann die Welt schon kosten (1960) and Der Diamantenprinz (1967). This continued throughout the 1970s.
She was memorable as herself in Die nackte Kanone 2 1/2 (1991), in which she humorously poked fun at a 1989 incident where she was convicted of slapping a police officer (Paul Kramer) during a traffic stop. She spent three days in jail and had to do 120 hours of community service. Such infamous incidents contributed to her becoming one of the most all-time recognizable of Hollywood celebrities, and sometimes ridiculed as a result. She was also memorable to British television viewers on The Ruby Wax Show (1997).
In 2002, Gabor was reported to be in a coma in a Los Angeles hospital after a horrifying car accident. The 85-year-old star was injured when the car she was traveling in hit a utility pole in West Hollywood, California. The reports about her coma eventually proved to be inaccurate.
Zsa Zsa's life, spanning two continents, nine husbands, and 11 decades, came to an end on December 18, 2016, when she died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, California. She was 99.
Kim Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 13, 1933 with the birth name of Marilyn Pauline Novak. She was the daughter of a former teacher turned transit clerk and his wife, also a former teacher. Throughout elementary and high school, Kim did not get along well with teachers. She even admitted that she didn't like being told what to do and when to do it.
Her first job, after high school, was modeling teen fashions for a local department store. Kim, later, won a scholarship in a modeling school and continued to model part-time. Kim later worked odd jobs as an elevator operator, sales clerk, and a dental assistant. The jobs never seemed to work out so she fell back on modeling, the one job she did well.
After a stint on the road as a spokesperson for an appliance company, Kim decided to go to Los Angeles and try her luck at modeling there. Ultimately, her modeling landed her an uncredited role in the RKO production of Die lockende Venus (1953). The role encompassed nothing more than being seen on a set of stairs.
Later a talent agent arranged for a screen test with Columbia Pictures and won a small six month contract. In truth, some of the studio hierarchy thought that Kim was Columbia's answer to Marilyn Monroe. Kim, who was still going by her own name of Marilyn, was originally going to be called "Kit Marlowe". She wanted to at least keep her family name of Novak, so the young actress and studio personnel settled on Kim Novak.
After taking some acting lessons, which the studio declined to pay for, Kim appeared in her first film opposite Fred MacMurray in Schachmatt (1954). Though her role as "Lona McLane" wasn't exactly a great one, it was her classic beauty that seemed to capture the eyes of the critics. Later that year, Kim appeared in the film, Eine glückliche Scheidung (1954) with Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday. Now more and more fans were eager to see this bright new star. These two films set the tone for her career with a lot of fan mail coming her way.
Her next film was as "Kay Greylek" in 5 Against the House (1955). The film was well-received, but it was her next one for that year that was her best to date. The film was Picknick (1955). Although Kim did a superb job of acting in the film as did her co-stars, the film did win two Oscars for editing and set decoration. Kim's next film was with United Artists on a loan out in the controversial Otto Preminger film Der Mann mit dem goldenen Arm (1955). Her performance was flawless, but it was was Kim's beauty that carried the day. The film was a big hit.
In 1957, Kim played "Linda English" in the hit movie Pal Joey (1957) with Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth. The film did very well at the box office, but was condemned by the critics. Kim really didn't seem that interested in the role. She even said she couldn't stand people such as her character.
That same year, Novak risked her career when she started dating singer/actor Sammy Davis Jr.. The interracial affair alarmed studio executives, most notably Harry Cohn, and they ended their relationship in January of the following year. In 1958, Kim appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's, now classic, Vertigo: Aus dem Reich der Toten (1958) with James Stewart. This film's plot was one that thoroughly entertained the theater patrons wherever it played. The film was one in which Stewart's character, a detective, is hired to tail a friend's wife (Kim) and witnesses her suicide. In the end, Stewart finds that he has been duped in an elaborate scheme.
Her next film was Meine Braut ist übersinnlich (1958) which was only a modest success. By the early 1960s, Kim's star was beginning to fade, especially with the rise of new stars or stars that were remodeling their status within the film community. With a few more nondescript films between 1960 and 1964, she landed the role of "Mildred Rogers" in the remake of Der Menschen Hörigkeit (1964). The film debuted to good reviews.
In the meantime, Kim broke off her engagement to director Richard Quine and embarked on a brief dalliance with basketball player Wilt Chamberlain. While filming Die amourösen Abenteuer der Moll Flanders (1965), she had a romance with co-star Richard Johnson, whom she married, but the marriage failed the following year.
Kim stepped away from the cameras for a while, returning in 1968 to star in Große Lüge Lylah Clare (1968). It was a resounding flop, perhaps the worst of her career. However, after that, Kim, basically, was able to pick what projects she wanted. After Hochwürden dreht sein größtes Ding (1969) in 1969, Kim was away for another four years until she was seen with then-boyfriend Michael Brandon in a television movie called Heiraten wir morgen (1973), playing a veteran Las Vegas showgirl experiencing a midlife crisis.
In a personal development, Novak met equine veterinarian Robert Malloy in October 1974 and the couple married in 1976. Subsequent films were not the type to get the critics to sit up and take notice, but afforded her the opportunity to work with strong talent. She appeared to good effect in Satan's Triangle (1975), Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (1978), Mord im Spiegel (1980) and Malibu (1983).
In 1986 and 1987, Kim played, of all people, "Kit Marlowe" in the TV series Falcon Crest (1981). In 1990, she starred alongside Ben Kingsley in Meine liebe Rose (1990), a fine independent film shot in Europe. It was not widely distributed, thus few got to see Novak giving one of her most powerful performances.
Her last film, on the silver screen, was Todestraum - Der letzte Zeuge schweigt (1991), in which she played a terminally ill woman with a past. The film was a major disappointment in every aspect. Kim clashed with director Mike Figgis over how to play her character. Consequently, the role was cut to shreds. Kim has ruled out any plans for a comeback and says she just isn't cut out for Hollywood.
Fortunately, she has found long-lasting happiness outside her career. Today she lives in Eagle Point, Oregon with her husband Bob, on a ranch where they raise horses and llamas. Kim is also an accomplished artist and has exhibited her painting in galleries around the country. She enjoys riding, canoeing and expressing herself through paint, poetry and photography.
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A reliable featured player and occasional co-star, actress Jeff Donnell was born Jean Marie Donnell in a boys' reformatory in South Windham, Maine in 1921, the younger of schoolteacher Mildred and penologist Howard's two daughters. She took piano and dance lessons during her childhood in Maryland; she loved the popular "Mutt and Jeff" cartoon strip so much that she gave herself the nickname "Jeff."
She studied at the Yale School of Drama and performed briefly in summer stock before marrying her first husband at 19: Bill Anderson, a drama teacher from her Boston alma mater, Leland Powers Drama School. Together they started the Farragut Playhouse in Rye, New Hampshire. Almost immediately a Columbia Studios talent scout noticed her in a play there and quickly signed her.
Whisked to Los Angeles, Jeff made her first appearance in the war-era movie Meine Schwester Ellen (1942) while husband Bill was hired on as a dialogue director. Hardly the chic, glamour-girl type, Jeff possessed a perky, unpretentious, tomboyish quality that worked comfortably in unchallenging "B" escapism --usually the breezy girlfriend or spirited bobbysoxer. Typical of her movie load at the time were the fun but innocuous Doughboys in Ireland (1943), What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943), Nine Girls (1944), 1001 Nacht (1945), Carolina Blues (1944), and Eadie Was a Lady (1945). She also enlivened a number of musical westerns that prominently featured Ken Curtis (Festus of "Gunsmoke").
On a rare occasion, Jeff found herself in "A" pictures, most notably the Bogart film noir classic Ein einsamer Ort (1950), but more often than not she played the obliging or supportive friend of the leading lady. Unable to break away from her established "B" ranking, she later tried a move to RKO Studios (1949) but fared no better or worse. She did make a successful move to TV in the early 50s and was seen in a number of comedy and dramatic parts.
Long separated from and finally divorcing her first husband in 1953 (they had one son, Michael, and an adopted daughter, Sarah Jane), she married rising film actor Aldo Ray in 1954, but the marriage crumbled within two years, beset by drinking problems; she also suffered a miscarriage. She went on to marry and divorce twice more. As the 1950s rolled on, she earned steady work on TV, bringing to life comedian George Gobel's often-mentioned wife Alice on the sitcom The George Gobel Show (1954) for four seasons. She also had the opportunity to play Gidget's mom in a couple of the popular lightweight movies of the early 1960s -- April entdeckt Hawaii (1961) and April entdeckt Rom (1963).
Most daytime fans will remember Jeff's long-running stint on the soap drama General Hospital (1963) as Stella Fields, the Quartermain housekeeper, which started in 1979 and lasted until her death in 1988. Dogged by ill health in later years (including a serious bout with Addison's disease), Jeff died peacefully of a heart attack in her sleep at age 66.
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Aldo Ray, the bull-necked, foghorn-voiced actor who brought arrogance, brawn and a brash talent to films ranging from the significant to the mundane, died Wednesday.
Ray, who portrayed rednecks, gangsters and warriors in a wide-ranging career, was 64 and died of throat cancer at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez in Northern California.
Sheila Cullen, the hospital’s associate director, said he had been admitted Feb. 19.
A former constable in the small Bay Area town of Crockett, Ray came to acting on a fluke.
He had driven his brother to an audition for football players being sought for the film “Saturday’s Hero.” Ray was at the end of what proved a successful campaign for constable. Asked if he would like to read for a part, he delivered a campaign speech instead.
When the film executives heard his raspy vocalizing, which on its best days verged on laryngitis, he was told to go home until he felt better.
“I told them that was the way I always spoke and they loved it,” he told The Times in 1981 as he was struggling to resume his career after an alcohol problem.
He appeared in “Saturday’s Hero,” a 1951 attack on America’s approach to sports, had his option renewed and was reluctantly lured by the money to abandon law enforcement for acting.
He was cast opposite Judy Holliday in “The Marrying Kind,” and the former World War II Navy frogman became an immediate success.
He went on to portray enlisted men in such combat epics as “Battle Cry,” “Men in War,” “What Did You Do in the War Daddy?” and “The Naked and the Dead,” a 1958 film in which he played Norman Mailer’s Sgt. Croft. Ten years later he was back in action in John Wayne’s “The Green Berets,” his last role in a major motion picture.
“In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in,” Ray said in an interview last November. “There were no sophisticated roles for me. I never seemed to get past master sergeant, although I always thought of myself as upper echelon.”
Born Aldo Da Re, he appeared in many nonmilitary roles in such solid productions as “Pat and Mike,” “We’re No Angels,” “The Day They Robbed the Bank of England” and “God’s Little Acre.” One of his most popular roles was as the jovial Sgt. O’Hara, who won Rita Hayworth’s heart in “Miss Sadie Thompson.”
He was invited to Great Britain to film there--a move he described as a mistake because of the caliber of parts he was offered--then returned to the United States to launch a self-described comeback.
But by that time he had experienced three failed marriages (one in 1954 to actress Jeff Donnell) and was deeply in debt. He told The Times that all he had earned for his first 10 years of film work was $100,000.
He made some investments that did not help materially, appeared (fully clothed) in a skinflick and even considered returning to politics.
Although he maintained that drinking did not affect his career, he admitted that “producers get scared by that.”
In 1983, Ray returned to Crockett, about 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, and found an occasional role in films or TV.
“I still do bits and pieces,” he said. “They like to use my name.”
But he never fulfilled the promise of his early years and admitted that he was disappointed by his career.
“I think I should have gotten a lot more good stuff,” he said.
His survivors include a daughter and two sons, one of whom, Eric Da Re, played Leo Johnson, the crazed wife-beater in the television series “Twin Peaks.”
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Born Aldo DaRe in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, on September 25, 1926, movie heavy Aldo Ray was born into a large Italian family and grew up in northern California. He entered the Navy in 1944 at age 18 and served as a frogman during World War II. After his discharge, Ray briefly studied political science at the University of California. In 1950, Ray was working as a peace officer in Crockett, California, when he was discovered for films by a Columbia talent scout. By chance Ray landed a role in the Columbia drama Saturday's Hero (1951; with John Derek), and his performance was good enough for Columbia to sign him to a contract.
LEFT and CENTER: Photos of Aldo Ray, circa 1950s. RIGHT: Ray with his second wife, actress Jeff Donnell, in 1954
His husky voice and tough demeanor made him a natural in such war films as Battle Cry (1955; with Tab Hunter and Dorothy Malone). He also gave good performances in several comedies, including Let's Do It Again (1953; with Jane Wyman and Ray Milland) and We're No Angels (1955; with Humphrey Bogart and Joan Bennett).
After a brief first marriage in 1947 that produced a daughter, Ray married actress and fellow Columbia contract player Jeff Donnell in 1954, but they parted ways two years later. Ray wed his third wife in 1960 and, after welcoming two sons, got divorced again in 1967. Emotionally and financially battered by three failed marriages and child support, Ray remained single for the rest of his life.
the films of aldo ray
Pat and Mike (1952)
With Katharine Hepburn in the MGM comedy Pat and Mike, one of the best films of Ray's career
The Marrying Kind (1952)
From Columbia's bittersweet comedy The Marrying Kind with Judy Holliday
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
From Columbia's Miss Sadie Thompson with Rita Hayworth
Let's Do It Again (1953)
With Jane Wyman in the Columbia musical comedy Let's Do It Again
Battle Cry (1955)
Ray romances window Nancy Olson in the Warner Bros. World War II drama Battle Cry
Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)
With Chuck Connors and Dick York in the war-themed romance Three Stripes in the Sun
Nightfall (1957)
Columbia released the film noir thriller Nightfall. Ray is pictured with Anne Bancroft
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
From the World War II drama The Naked and the Dead. LEFT: With Cliff Robertson. CENTER and RIGHT: With Barbara Nichols
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
From MGM's late noir release The Day They Robbed the Bank of England. LEFT: With Albert Sharpe and Kieron Moore. RIGHT: Lobby card images
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
Ray and James Coburn star in Columbia's crime caper Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
From Blake Edwards' war comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? with James Coburn
Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)
From American International's juvenile delinquent drama Riot on Sunset Strip with Laurie Mock
Kill a Dragon (1967)
From the low-budget action picture Kill a Dragon with Jack Palance
And Hope to Die (1972)
From the French crime drama And Hope to Die
later years
Ray found good roles hard to come by in the 1970s and 1980s, but somehow he managed to keep working in exploitation and horror films; Ray even acted (but remained clothed) in a late 1970s porno titled Sweet Savage (1979; with Carol Connors). Never earning much money and struggling with alcoholism, Ray was often financially strapped and had to make ends meet by appearing in low-budget films. Even during his seven-year contract with Columbia, Ray never earned more than $600 per week. By the 1980s, however, he began to turn his life and career around. Some of his films from the 1980s include Bog (1983; with Marshall Thompson), Vultures (1983; with Yvonne De Carlo), Evils of the Night (1985; with Tina Louise and Julie Newmar), and Terror Night (1987; with John Ireland and Cameron Mitchell). In late 1989, Ray was diagnosed with throat cancer and passed away on March 27, 1991, just two months after the release of his final film, Shock 'Em Dead (1991; with Troy Donahue and Traci Lords). He was 64 years old. Ray was survived by two sons, a daughter, and a grandchild.
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American actor (1926–1991)
Aldo Ray (born Aldo Da Re; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor of film and television. He began his career as a contract player for Columbia Studios before achieving stardom through his roles in The Marrying Kind, Pat and Mike (which earned him a Golden Globe nomination), Let's Do It Again, and Battle Cry. His athletic build and gruff, raspy voice saw him frequently typecast in "tough guy" roles throughout his career, which lasted well into the late 1980s. Though the latter part of his career was marked by appearances in low-budget B-movies and exploitation films, he still appeared occasionally in higher-profile features, including The Secret of NIMH (1982) and The Sicilian (1987).
Early life and education
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Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino, and Louis) and one sister (Regina). His brother Mario Da Re (1933-2010) lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954 and appeared as a contestant on the May 12, 1955, edition of Groucho Marx's NBC-TV quiz show You Bet Your Life.[1] His family moved to the small town of Crockett, California, when Aldo was four years old. His father worked as a laborer at the C&H Sugar Refinery, the largest employer in the town. He attended John Swett High School, where he made the football team; he also coached swimming.[2]
At age 18, during World War II in 1944, Ray entered the United States Navy, serving as a frogman until 1946; he saw action at Okinawa with UDT-17. Upon leaving the Navy in May 1946, he returned to Crockett. He studied and played football at Vallejo Junior College and then entered the University of California at Berkeley to study political science. (Ray later described himself as an "arch conservative" and a "right-winger".[3]) He left college in order to run for the office of constable of the Crockett Judicial District in Contra Costa County, California. "I always knew I was going to be a big man, but I thought it would be in politics," he said.[4]
Career
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Saturday's Hero
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In April 1950 Columbia Studios sent a unit to San Francisco to look for some athletes to appear in a film they were making called Saturday's Hero (1951). Aldo's brother Guido saw an item in the San Francisco Chronicle about the auditions and asked his brother to drive him there. Director David Miller was more interested in Ray than in his brother because of his voice; also, Ray was comfortable talking to the camera owing to his political experience. He later recalled, "They... said, 'What's wrong with your voice kid? Are you sick? If you're sick you don't belong here.' I said, 'No, no, no, this is the way I've always spoken.' And they loved it."[3] Ray would later retell this story in the trailer for Pat and Mike.
Ray signed a contract and was sent to Los Angeles for a screen test. He was cast in the small role of a cynical college football player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed.[5]
Ray worked on the film between the primary and general elections. He was elected constable on 6 June. "I was 23 and a sort of child bride to the voters," he later said.[5] "The guy I ran against was a 16-year incumbent, and I destroyed him with 80 percent of the vote! I was going to work my way up to the U.S. Senate, see, and I would've, too."[6]
Columbia picked up its option on Ray's services and signed him to a seven-year contract. "Of all the people in the picture they took up only one option—mine," he said. "And I said, 'Thank you, goodbye. I'm going home where I can be a big fish in my small pond. You can take this town (Hollywood) and shove it."[3]
Columbia refused to release him from his contract and put him under suspension, giving him a leave of absence to work as constable. "I told them I couldn't care less, they could give me whatever they wanted," he said.[3] Ray started his new job in November 1950.
Hollywood stardom: The Marrying Kind
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After several months, Ray found "the quiet life... monotonous",[5] so he contacted Max Arnow, talent director at Columbia, and expressed interest in appearing in more movies. Four weeks later, Arnow called back, saying Columbia wanted to audition Ray for a small part in Judy Holliday's new movie The Marrying Kind.
Ray went to Hollywood and did a screen test with the director, George Cukor. The first test went badly, but head of Columbia Harry Cohn liked Ray and asked for another test. The second one was done opposite (Miss) Jeff Donnell, whom Ray later married; it was more successful and Ray ended up being cast in the lead.[5]
Harry Cohn felt the name "Aldo Da Re" was too close to "Dare" and wanted to change it to "John Harrison"; the actor refused and "Aldo Ray" was the compromise.[7] He divorced his wife and resigned as constable in September 1951. His studio salary was $200 a week.[6]
Cukor famously suggested that Ray go to ballet school because he walked too much like a football player. The director later talked about the actor:
He has a great advantage: the way his eyes are made. The light comes into them. There are certain people who have opaque eyes which refuse to catch the light. But his eyes had a certain glow and gave quite well in the photographed result. He did this silent scene very well lying there on the bed in the same room with Judy (Holliday). Then later he did comedy scenes with her—very difficult ones—and there were also emotional sequences where he broke down and cried. They were brilliant.[8]
"Cukor is hypersensitive to reality", recalled Ray. "He told me exactly what to do and why. He explains everything and he knows exactly what he wants."[9]
Ray's performance was much praised. Sight & Sound later commented:
To give the performance he did in The Marrying Kind after so little previous experience was clear evidence that in Aldo Ray the screen had discovered one of its rare "naturals". This was no carefully edited, tricked out performance, but a strikingly sincere and imaginative interpretation: an exceptional talent responding to a finely intuitive director... There was about him none of the personality assurance that extracts a special consideration of the actor as distinct from his role.[10]
Cukor then cast Ray in a supporting role in Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Ray's work in Pat and Mike led to his nomination, along with Richard Burton and Robert Wagner, for a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer. Burton won the award that year, but Ray's career was launched. He said after two films with Cukor: "I never needed direction again."[11]
Ray said Spencer Tracy told him: "Kid, I don't know what it is that you got, and I got, and some of us have, but you can work in this business forever." "That," said Ray, "made me feel good, you know, coming from a guy like him. I never bowed down to anybody at Columbia or anywhere else, but my overall idea was, I'll do whatever they tell me because it's their business, not mine, and I've got to learn it."[6]
Columbia leading man
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Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn liked Ray and wanted him for the role of Private Robert Prewitt in From Here to Eternity (1953), but Fred Zinnemann insisted Montgomery Clift be cast.[12] However, other good roles followed instead. "Because of Harry, all my first pictures were big hits, tremendously popular", Ray recalled.[6]
Ray starred opposite Jane Wyman in Let's Do It Again (1953), then followed this acting opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (also 1953), the third film version of the W. Somerset Maugham story "Rain". He also appeared in a production of Stalag 17 at La Jolla Playhouse.[13]
Ray was loaned to Warner Bros to appear in Battle Cry (1955), which was directed by Raoul Walsh, who would become one of Ray's favorite directors. The film was a box-office hit—probably the most popular movie Ray ever made—although it led to his being typecast.
"In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in", reflected Ray later. "There were no sophisticated roles for me. I never seemed to get past master sergeant, though I always thought of myself as upper echelon."[14]
Clash with Columbia
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Ray was meant to appear in My Sister Eileen (1955) as The Wreck, but he walked off the set, claiming his role was too small, and had to be replaced by Dick York.[15]
Battle Cry was a big hit at the box office, so Columbia gave Ray a lead role as a sergeant who marries a Japanese girl in Three Stripes in the Sun (originally The Gentle Wolfhound) (1955) and then loaned him to Paramount for We're No Angels (also 1955), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Joan Bennett.
Ray was profiled in Sight & Sound as follows:
Aldo Ray's technical advance in the four years since The Marrying Kind enables him now to work in subtler, more economical degree; there is an authoritative reserve and, still remarkably intact, the original rare lack of ostentation. All the same, his career seems to have become a nomadic drifting round the studios looking for the right kind of film. The good humour, the lenitive smile, the frog in the throat voice betray nothing of the disappointment the actor must feel after such exciting beginnings under Cukor's guidance.[10]
Ray was meant to appear in Jubal but refused because Columbia had made a profit on his loan-outs for Battle Cry and We're No Angels but not paid Ray a bonus; Rod Steiger took the role instead.[16] Ray was put on suspension.[17]
Ray then refused to appear in Beyond Mombasa (1956) because he did not want to go on location. This led to his being replaced by Cornel Wilde and put under suspension again. However, the situation was resolved when he agreed to make Nightfall (1957), playing an artist who encounters a pair of ruthless bank robbers.[18]
In 1956, in between appearances in Three Stripes In The Sun and Men in War, Ray worked in radio as a personality and announcer at hit music station WNDR in Syracuse, New York. A photo of Ray with a colleague in the WNDR studios, taken as part of a station promotional package, survives and can be found on a WNDR tribute website. By 1957, in any event, he had left WNDR and the radio business and returned to Hollywood.
On January 31, 1957, Ray appeared on NBC's The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He and Tennessee Ernie Ford did a comedy skit from a foxhole.[19]
Two with Anthony Mann
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Columbia loaned Ray out to Security Pictures (who released through United Artists) for him to appear in Men in War (1957) opposite Robert Ryan; it was directed by Anthony Mann, who became Ray's favorite director. Ray was given 5% of the profits, which he later estimated at $70,000.[6]
Ray was reunited with Security Pictures, Ryan, and Mann to star in God's Little Acre (1958), an adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's controversial novel directed by Mann starring Robert Ryan and Tina Louise.
By the seventh year of his contract with Columbia, Ray was earning $750 a week. He later said for the first ten years of his career he made less than $100,000.[3] He expressed interest in producing his own vehicle, The Magic Mesa, from a script by Burt Kennedy, but it was not made.[20]
Instead Ray appeared in an adaptation of David Goodis's novel Nightfall (1957) directed by Jacques Tourneur and The Naked and the Dead (1958), an adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel directed by Raoul Walsh. It was produced by Paul Gregory, who said:
Aldo Ray was drunk the entire time. He was a very sweet guy, but he was gone. He drank drank drank. Raoul Walsh would say, "Let's get him in the morning 'cause in the afternoon it's over."... I just could not get used to it, actors who got all this money and then didn't behave professionally. The English actors have classical training. They perform like professionals. You take someone like Aldo Ray who was just picked up and catapulted into stardom, and then he was just a sponge for booze. He killed himself drinking, not living up to his moral contract.[21]
Ray later admitted that producers were scared of casting him in projects because of his drinking.[3]
Leaving Columbia
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Ray had been popular with Harry Cohn because, in the actor's words, "[h]e took no shit from anybody and he saw that I was that kind of a guy, too."[2] But when Cohn died in 1958, Columbia elected not to renew Ray's contract and he decided to leave Hollywood. He later said, "I never was an expatriate. I spent some time in England and Spain and Italy but I was never out of this country [the US] longer than six months."[22]
He starred in 1959 in Four Desperate Men (The Siege of Pinchgut), filmed in Australia; it was the last movie produced by Ealing Studios (releasing through MGM) and a box office disappointment. He then appeared opposite Lucille Ball in an episode of Desilu Playhouse. He said he made more money from these two projects "than I'd made the whole eight years before."[6]
In 1959, Ray was cast as Hunk Farber in the episode "Payment in Full" of the NBC western series Riverboat. In the story line, Farber betrays his friend and employer to collect reward money that he uses to court his girlfriend, Missy.[23]
Ray made The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, directed by John Guillermin, in the UK and Johnny Nobody in Ireland.[24] He later described his British sojourn as a "big mistake" because none of his British films were widely seen in America.[3]
"Everything went well until the end of '62—then everything collapsed—including me", he later said. "I didn't take care of myself physically and mentally."[25]
He hired a press agent, started taking better care of himself physically, and changed agents.[25]
Return to Hollywood
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Ray returned to Hollywood in 1964. He had a small role in Sylvia (1965) and made a pilot for a TV series financed by producer Joseph E. Levine, Steptoe and Son (an unsuccessful adaptation of the British TV series). "I feel I shall have a complete regeneration of my career", he said in 1965.[25]
He later appeared in What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, and Welcome to Hard Times. He also made several guest appearances on television.
In 1966 Ray claimed, "I've been turning down a lot of TV and B movies. I won't consider anything but important roles in important pictures."[9] He said he was "almost independently wealthy", having saved and invested wisely in real estate from the times when his fee was $100,000 a film. He was interested in returning to politics but not until he had made "at least" four more movies. "The ideal situation would be three films every two years."[9]
In 1966 Ray played "Jake", a deaf mute, in "The Virginian" entitled "Jacob was a plain man".
He formed his own company, Crockett Productions, and bought two original scripts for films that were not made: Soldares, by Edwin Gottlieb, about the search for Pancho Villa,[26] and Frogman, South Pacific, by William Zeck.[27]
His best-known work of the 1960s was his portrayal of Sergeant Muldoon, alongside John Wayne, in The Green Berets (1968).
Ray starred in Kill a Dragon, shot in Hong Kong in 1966, and Suicide Commando, shot in Rome and Spain in 1968. He also made two television pilots in the 1960s; neither was picked up. [citation needed]
Career decline
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As the 1960s ended, Hollywood's appetite for Ray's machismo started to wane. Though he worked steadily in the 1970s, the quality of his roles diminished, and he was typically cast as a gruff and gravelly redneck.
By 1976, Ray was broke. He blamed this on his ex-wives and red tape that meant he could not develop his real estate properties. "I lost it all", he said. "And I am very, very bitter about it... The biggest mistake I ever made was discovering women. I only wish society had been as free and easy when I was coming along as it is today because if that had been the case I wouldn't have been married. Three women in my life utterly destroyed me."[22]
In 1979, Ray appeared in a pornographic movie, Sweet Savage, in a nonsexual role. Ray said later:
I wanted, I guess, to see what it was all about—a kind of half-assed adventure, you know? It was also a kind of vacation for me in a bad time—a nice location in Arizona—and I picked up a few thousand bucks. After it came out, a few people wagged their fingers at me—'Oh-ho-ho, you dirty dog'—but I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. They shot all the sex stuff after I'd flown back to L.A. I won the adult film Oscar for that, by the way, but somebody copped it.[28]
In 1981, Ray told a newspaper that his drinking was "under control" and said, "I think things are going to shoot straight up. I'm working on a deal now and if the picture is made my worries... are over... If things go the way I anticipate and I stay healthy I think I've got better years ahead of me than behind me."[3] He said he was open to a return to politics "if my movie career doesn't take off like I think it will."[3] He admitted being unhappy with his career, saying: "I think I should have gotten more good stuff."[3]
His career decline accelerated in the 1980s, and after being diagnosed with throat cancer in 1989, he accepted virtually any role that came his way to maintain his costly health insurance. He returned to Crockett in 1983.
Though at this stage in his career Ray starred mostly in low-budget and exploitation films, he did appear in occasional higher-profile works. He provided voice-over work as Sullivan for the 1982 animated film The Secret of NIMH alongside fellow character actor John Carradine. Ray was originally cast in the role of Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's 1984 film Dune, as his ex-wife Johanna Ray was the casting director, but was replaced by Patrick Stewart owing to ongoing issues with alcoholism.[29]
During the last stages of his career, Ray made a number of films for Fred Olen Ray. "He'd give me $1,000 in cash, pay my expenses, and I'd do a day's work", said Ray. "Somebody showed me one of his cassettes—'starring Aldo Ray'—but it was just a one-day job... I needed money at the time, and Fred knew I needed a buck, so I did it. He exploited me, yeah... but I was ripe for it."[28] He also appeared in two films for Iranian-born filmmaker Amir Shervan, better known for his cult classic Samurai Cop.
Final years and death
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In 1986 Ray's SAG membership was revoked when it was discovered he was acting in a non-union production, Lethal Injection.[6] However, Ray still got his union pension and benefits. His fee at this stage was $5,000 a week.[28] He appeared in two more higher-profile films, Michael Cimino's The Sicilian (1987) and Blood Red (1989), both in supporting roles that emphasized his Italian heritage.
In 1989, he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his throat that Ray attributed to excessive smoking and drinking.
His last film, which was filmed in mid 1990, was Shock 'Em Dead, in which he appeared with Traci Lords and Troy Donahue. In an interview that same year, he said about his cancer:
I regret that I don't have more control of my tongue and thoughts—because I speak too frankly and too honestly, and this world is not meant for frank and honest people. They don't mix. Reality is pretty phony... I'm in great shape—got all my energy and strength back. I had surgery on my neck last March, and after one more session of the chemo—that's 50 more hours—the doctors say I'll have it all beat... I'm not scared of dying—it's how I die that matters. I'd rather live one good year than ten more crappy years. And I think I've got some good pictures ahead of me if I can find the right roles. There's plenty of good stuff left in me, you know?[28]
Ray remained in Crockett, with his mother and family and friends. On 19 February 1991, he was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez, 40 miles east of San Francisco. He died there of complications from throat cancer and pneumonia on 27 March 1991 at age 64.[7][14] He was cremated and his ashes were put in an urn and buried in Crockett, with a majority of the residents coming out to pay their respects.
Personal life
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Ray was married three times:
Shirley Green on June 20, 1947. They had one child, a daughter named Claire.
Jeff Donnell (married 30 September 1954, divorced 1956)
British actress Johanna Bennet (married March 26, 1960, divorced 1967), who continues to work today under the name Johanna Ray as a respected casting director. They had two sons, Paul and Eric. Johanna Ray, a longtime collaborator with David Lynch, cast her son with Aldo, Eric Da Re, in Lynch's Twin Peaks series as well as in the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Legacy
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Author Richard Matheson said that his best-known work, The Incredible Shrinking Man, was inspired by a scene in Aldo Ray's Let's Do It Again in which a character puts on someone else's hat and it sinks down past his ears; "I thought, what if a man put on his own hat and that happened?" he recounted in an interview for Stephen King's nonfiction work Danse Macabre. [citation needed]
Quentin Tarantino says Aldo Ray would have been ideal casting for the character of Butch in Pulp Fiction (1994) and that the look of Butch in the film (as played by Bruce Willis) was inspired by Ray.[30]
Brad Pitt's character in Tarantino's 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds is a soldier named "Aldo Raine", in tribute to Ray.[citation needed]
Ray appears as a character in Tarantino's 2021 novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The Crockett Museum has a display depicting his life.
A profile in Movie Morlocks analysed Ray's appeal from the film Nightfall:
Nobody smokes a cigarette like Aldo Ray. There's no forethought involved. No effort to seduce or impress audiences with an exaggerated pose or gesture. Ray doesn't have to pretend to be cool, threatening, bruised, battered or tough. He just is. And I find every unassuming gesture he makes utterly captivating. Aldo Ray has never been considered a great Hollywood actor in the traditional sense but his natural, unaffected performances often seemed to emerge from some unsettled place. You could frequently hear a genuine urgency in the way he delivered his lines and his casual swagger told you he'd been around the block more than once. Whenever Ray erupted on screen it felt like you were watching a volcano explode and if you didn't get out of the way it could easily swallow you up in a heavy flow of golden molten lava. Film historians often like to talk about the sea change that occurred in the 1950s, when actor's [sic] like Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando brought a new kind of sincerity to Hollywood. These highly trained method actors changed the way we appreciate and understand acting today and they've rightfully been recognized for their accomplishments. But there were other performers that unconsciously championed a new kind of natural approach to acting. And one of them was Aldo Ray.[8]
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Quick Facts
Also Known As: Aldo Da Re
Died At Age: 64
Family:
Spouse/Ex-: Jeff Donnell (m. 1954 - div. 1956), Johanna Ray (m. 1960 - div. 1967), Shirley Green (m. 1947 - div. 1953)
father: Silvio Da Re
mother: Maria Da Re
children: Claire DaRe, Eric DaRe, Paul DaRe
Height: 6'0" (183 cm), 6'0" Males
Died on: March 27, 1991
place of death: Martinez, California, United States
U.S. State: Pennsylvania
Cause of Death: Throat Cancer
Ancestry: Italian American
: Pneumonia
More Facts
education: University Of California, Berkeley
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This is a 1955 Lydia Lane article where actress Jeff Donnell talks about a bunch of beauty stuff. Enjoy!
I first met Jeff Donnell during the war, She was a blonde then, and under contract to Columbia. “I want very happy with my career at the tune,” she told me on the set at NBO the other day. “The publicity men had me posing on leopard skins, trying to make a glamour girl out of me. I never kidded myself. All I wanted was lo make people laugh, not compete with the beauty queens. I’m a home body, like simple things and have never felt very comfortable ‘in sophisticated clothes. I admire them on models but I know they are not for me. I’m happiest in simple, basic dresses. My favorite is a plain nay blue with a white peter-pan collar. “I firmly believe it’s a mistake for a woman to go against what she feels is her type,” she said seriously.
“But even if you didn’t go for the glamor routine, being under contract to the studio might have taught you how to improve your appearance,” I commented. “That’s true,” Jeff agreed. “I learned that eye make-up is flattering to me. The make up men pointed out that the eyes need some accent when a vibrant shade of lipstick i used, otherwise all the attention will be drawn to the lower part of the face. “I have a unique trick for doing up my eyes.” Jeff confided. “I use a match, a saucer and a fine paint brush. You light the match,” she explained, “put the saucer over it until the bottom is black with carbon and then use the carbon to paint a fine line close to your lashes. This is more doable than a pencil and gives a softer and more natural effect.”
“I find this method more convenient because I always get quite a line keeping a sharp point on a soft eyebrow pencil. I’ve always been careful not to extend the line in doe-eyed fashion because my face is round. “Try this on one eye,” Jeff advised, “and compare it with the other. You’ll be surprised what this little bit of accent doe, even though it’s so subtle no one would know it was there. “I’m not a pretty girl but I’ve always been interested in enhancing good features without fretting about the things I couldn’t change. I’ve found that being interesting, well informed and friendly have taken me a long way. In fact,” Jeff concluded. “I think the ugly ducklings who work at developing personality and individuality often go farther than the pretty girl who feels that her looks are all she needs and is foolish enough to rest on her laurels.”
This is a 1955 Lydia Lane article where ballerina Moira Shearer talks about a bunch of beauty stuff. Enjoy!
Moira Shearer, the beautiful and talented ballerina of “Red Shoes,” confided to me some time ago during a tour that”A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was her swan song as far as the-ballet was concerned, although she had not’yet made a formal announcement. “I am not retiring from the theater.” she explained. “I enjoy making pictures and hope to continue, but the ballet is too demanding now that I have a family. After my baby was born, I found that in order to get back to where I left off, I’d have to work strenuously for six months. The ballet requires ‘tremendous control, discipline and concentration and I no longer desire that kind of dedication,” Moira told me in her suite at the Ambassador Hotel.
“Ballet dancers look fragile but they have to train like boxers -and have the same kind of stamina. “We eat energy foods like tartar steak, the yolks of raw eggs and lots of honey. A few hours before going on stage I always drink the yolks of two eggs mixed with honey and lemon.” Moira was wearing a soft blue dressing gown which she tied around her tiny waist. “What does your waist measure?” I asked her. “Twenty – two indies — without lacing,” she replied. “I think having good firm muscles made it easier for me to get back in shape after the baby came. Ballet is a wonderful body conditioner. ‘I recommend it for anyone who’leads a sedentary life. Besides being wonderful exercise, it develops grace,”
Moira gave me her favorite exercise for keeping her waistline trim when she isn’t dancing. Here it is just as she demonstrated for me. Sit on the floor close enough to a walls so you can rest the soles of your feet against it, making a 45 degree angle with legs straight. Now try to lie down, lowering your spine to the floor, one vertebra at a time. The idea is to get your back flat against the floor without removing your feet from the wall. As you go down, stretch your arms above your head. This helps to release spinal tension. Moira agreed that this not an easy exercise and it. will require working with before you can do it to a steady rhythm but its benefits are three-fold. It reduces the waist, flattens the stomach and helps you relax.
Moira has traveled many times across our continent and observed Americans in every section of the country. She has a great admiration for the fashion sense of the American women and admits that we are much better dressed than the Europeans. “Even the women on limited budgets manage to look very smart,” Moira said, “but I find ‘ that in following fashion they seem to have sacrificed individuality, I’m constantly impressed how much alike the American women seem to look. Personally, I’m more concerned with being different than being in vogue.”
“It’s very easy to fall into a rut about clothes and let others dictate what you should wear but remember that the fashion designers may not be designing for your particular type of figure. Be objective and critical and choose your clothes with discrimination, it isn’t always easy to be honest about yourself but if you are to achieve anything, whether It is success in your career or your personal relationships with people, you must have a true evaluation of yourself,” Moira advised. Moira places a sense of humor high on her list of beauty requisites. “The expression on a woman’s face is equally as important as he shape of the features. If you can laugh-, at yourself and treat trouble in the light perspective, you won’t tear yourself down with worry.”
Moira has the most beautiful red hair I’ve ever seen. “No one ever gives me credit for being a natural redhead,” Moira complained. “I do my hair myself once a week. I think , the right shampoo makes stick a difference, especially with hair as dry as mine,” she added, suggesting that women try different brands. Moira has a typical English complexion — clear and smooth and fresh looking. “The climate In England makes for a good skin. It’s cold over there and we arc used to chilly rooms. It was’difficult for me to get used to the awful central heating in the hotels here. I think the hot, dry air that you are used to in your homes is drying. “With the highly heated rooms in winter and the summer sun, I don’t wonder that your women complain about dry skin so much,” was Moira’s sage observation. Moira also had some definite ideas about make-up. “One has to look natural or it is wrong.” she said. “Too many American women, I think, wear too much make up. Some seem lo think that unless you are overly made – up, you arc not properly made up. I can’t agree with this.”
This is a 1955 Lydia Lane article where actress Barbara Lawrence talks about beauty for teenagers. Enjoy!
Barbara Lawrence has a coveted role in “Oklahoma” and Is now playing In the brand new Broadway comedy “Put Them All Together.” When I first met her she had just been signed by 20th Century-For. It was during the war and we were going to the soldiers hospital and Barbara was fuming because although she was all of 17, and married, She was still forced to have a school teacher on the set. Just before she left for New York recently, Barbara and I reflected back on those frustrating days. “I couldn’t grow up fast enough,” she admitted. “And because I was tall. I could get away with it- Nothing used to thrill me more than passing myself off as 18 when actually I was several years younger. “But now, even though I’m only 24, people think I am much older because I’ve been in pictures so long.
“My advice to teenagers is don’t try to grow up too fast. They have the rest of their lives to be grownup. Don’t rush the girlish years away. “And don’t be too eager to use makeup,” Barbara continued. “When your complexions arc young and fresh, lip stick is all the makeup you need. Learn to put it on neatly by using a farmhand a brush will help re-shape your mouth if you need to change It. One of my favorite tricks with lipstick is to use a dark shade for outlining and then fill in with a lighter color.” Barbara was wearing a vibrant shade of lipstick and her mouth was an excellent testimonial for the brush method of applying lipstick. “I’ve discovered that lipstick has a way of losing its color.” Barbara continued. “What looks just perfect when you hold your face next to the mirror may not be effective across the room. It’s a good idea to look at your- sell from a distance as well as close up.
Barbara, like so many wise women, doesn’t underestimate the importance of the right attitude toward life and its contribution to beauty. If you allow yourself to be filled with resentment when someone disappoints you, or is rude or unfair, you will undermine your health, your ability to work well and certainly your good looks. “If you can lick inner conflict, you’ll find you have just about everything you need for happiness, health and beauty. “I don’t mean that it’s ever wise to ignore the rules pf good grooming, but what is behind your face is equally as important as what you put on it. Instead of fussing because your parents wont let you go overboard with your make-up,” Barbara concluded wisely, “give some thought to what expression you are going to wear.”
This is a 1955 Lydia Lane article where actress Lori nelson talks about make-up. Enjoy!
When I picked up Lori Nelson at Universal-International to take her to visit the veteran’s hospital, she looked pretty enough to have stepped off the cover of a magazine. “There is no doubt about it,” she said. “Under the guidance of the Hollywood studio, you learn to make the most of everything you have. I was only sixteen when Universal signed me up and I’ve seen myself on the screen. “Don’t you think a series of good photographs would be a good substitute for those who cannot see themselves on a movie screen?” I suggested. Yes. I do.” Lori replied. “You can never look Into a mirror with enough detachment to give a good analysis. “One of my mistakes was that T was inclined to dress too fluffy. The studio recommended a more simple line as being the most effective for me, because of my diminutive size. As soon as I saw myself on the screen, I knew exactly what I was doing wrong and from then on I was able to correct such things myself.”
It was a bright sunny day and even in the revealing sunlight it was not obvious that Lori was wearing make-up. I’ve learned the art of applying make-up so lightly that it looks perfectly natural,” she told me. “Indeed you have,” I agreed, wanting to know more about this trick she had acquired. “I used a cream base which is exactly the color of my skin. Getting the right shade is very important. I apply it by putting four-dots of the cream on my face-one on my forehead, one on the chin and one on each cheek. I use both hands to spread and work it in well so that it leaves only a light film. Using a liquid rouge makes it easier to blend the color into the base and I use only enough to give the illusion of a natural blush. “I powder over this very lightly, using the shade of powder recommended for my skin tone, and always using a clean puff. You can buy little powder puffs, designed for use just once, so inexpensively that you can well afford to throw them away.
“I brush off the powder to take care of any excess with a soft complexion brush and then apply a tiny bit of powdered rouge over this. I use a rabbit’s foot as a rouge puff.” “Striving for the natural look when putting on your make-up may take a little more time,” Lori concluded, “but the effect is well worth it.”
This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Cathy Downs talks about make-up and perfume. Enjoy!
I first met Cathy Downs when she was a contract player at Twentieth Century-Fox. The other day I lunched with her at Republic where she’s now shooting the Joe Palooka series for TV. It was a warmish day and we agreed that it was difficult to realize that New Year’s Eve would be here so shortly. “That’s the glamour night of the year,” I commented. “How are you going to dress for the gala event?” “I think glamour begins by being clean that scrubbed look is the best foundation for beauty. It’s fun to be dramatic,” Cathy said, “but we should not exaggerate it, or it becomes comical. This is the time when you can use more eye make-up than usual but experiment before-hand so you’ll know your most becoming shades of eye-shadow and mascara.”
I wanted to know what type of mascara Cathy favored? “I like the cake type but the important point is to let one coat dry thoroughly before applying another. ‘ ; I “THEY SAY familiarity with your, tools brings perfection and mascara is no exception,” Cathy remarked. “If your brush is too wet your lashes will stick together and if it is too dry it will not achieve the desired affect. I like to use a tiny brush the circular type to go over my lashes so that they are completely separated. If you pencil in a line close to the lashes, draw this with a sharp pointed pencil so that – it is not too heavy. ‘”One important thing about applying lipstick,” Cathy continued, “is to check your lighting.” When in doubt, use a shade with a touch of blue , in it or you’re liable to find your mouth is completely overshadowed.
“When I was a model in New York they told me I must learn to use a lipstick brush. I had to practice for weeks before I could handle one properly. Now I am lost without it. ‘ “What about rouge?” I asked. “I like the dry type and I powder over it. This should be blended in so well that you are not aware of it at all. Where you place your rouge should depend on the shape of your face. It is better not to use any rouge,” Cathy warned, “than to use it carelessly.” “Does perfume enter into your glamour picture?” I asked. “Definitely,” Cathy agreed. “I like to spray it on my skirts, undies and through my hair. When you get a fine mist it doesn’t spot your clothes and gives you an all- over fragrance.
This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Barbara Bates talks about dieting and make-up. Enjoy!
Barbara Bates is known to her TV fans as Cathy Morgan in “It’s a Great Life.” When I visited her set at NBC, she was relaxing in a contour chair. “TV has taught me to relax every minute I can,” she told me. As we chatted a man came on the set wheeling a cart of tempting sweets. “Get thee from me,” was Barbara’s reaction. “I have had such trouble keeping thin,” she explained. “I dearly love anything sweet especially chocolate and to say ‘no really takes discipline.”
“But it isn’t healthy to be dieting all the time and letting your weight go up and down is not the right way to go about it. The thing to do is find the weight at which you are comfortable and level off. I keep a check by weighing in every morning and if I’ve gained even a pound, I start cutting down. I have a calorie chart which I carry in my handbag and this helps me limit myself to 500 calories a day until I’m back to normal. But,” she added, knocking on wood, “I haven’t had to diet for quite a while and it’s a wonderful feeling.
I ASKED Barbara to tell me the most useful thing she had learned from. the make-up men. ; “How to put on foundation so that it gives your skin a smooth, even tone without ever looking like make-up,” she replied. “The trick is to use a wet sponge, rub it lightly over a cake of make-up and smooth it quickly over your face and under the thin so as to leave no unblended places. I usually let it dry for about 10 minutes and then with a slightly damp piece of cotton I pat lightly over, the same area. This removes the surface powder but leaves enough color to give my skin a flattering, yet natural look. ”
“I think it’s the exceptional complexion that doesn’t need some make-up but it s better to use nothing than to apply make-up so that it looks obvious. “Subtlety is especially important in eye make-up,’ Barbara continued. Eyebrows should always follow your natural arch and if you fill them out with a- pencil, use feather strokes. A thin, straight line is never flattering. After I have penciled my brows, I brush them to help blend the hairs in the line. For the most natural look, keep trying until you find a pencil which matches your own coloring exactly.”
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MEN IN WAR is a 1957 film directed by Anthony Mann, from a script by Philip Yordan which was adapted from a novel by someone named Van Van Praag (awesome). Even though the majority of movies of the era were being shot in Technicolor, MEN IN WAR is in black and white. I wonder if that was a budgetary issue, an aesthetic decision, or something else. I’d be projecting, as I haven’t been able to dig up an answer to that question just yet, but there is something to the idea that black and white is a more fitting format for this story. It’s less Hollywood-idyllic, and more stark and unforgiving. There’s redemption in it, but not in a sweeping, overstated way. It’s an unabashed tribute to the American military, but an appropriately business-like one. The score by Elmer Bernstein is typically right on-point to the movie’s aims. It’s lovely and effective music, and outside of the title song (whose lyrics are a little too on-the-nose to ever play by today’s standards), it’s as relevant still as the rest of the movie is.
MEN IN WAR stars Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray, two of the most underrated movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s, and two of my all-time favorites. Ryan is the dark figure with the world-weary eyes and fighter’s frame who is best known by today’s audiences, if at all, from his small role in THE DIRTY DOZEN. His career was much longer and more distinguished than that, as described by this tribute that I wrote in honor of the man and ten of his greatest movies.
Ray, for his part, is possibly even less well-remembered today, although the reasons why are hard to understand. (It may have something to do with the apparently sad later years.) At his peak, Ray had an appealing, gravel-gargling voice and an every-day tough-guy manner that are enormously charismatic. I can’t help but think of Michael Chiklis when I think of Aldo Ray, although Quentin Tarantino thought of Brad Pitt. (Pitt’s character in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, Aldo Raine, is a direct tribute to this iconoclastic actor.) Ray also didn’t have the broadest filmography, having not appeared in as many memorable films as he probably deserved to have. Remind me to write up a nifty film noir called NIGHTFALL that Aldo Ray starred in, the same year as MEN IN WAR. Generally Ray played scrappy tough guys, outsiders with big mouths and big attitudes. That’s what he plays here.
MEN IN WAR takes place on a very specific date: September 6th 1950. It takes place during the Korean War, which is interesting, because in 1957 that wasn’t too far in the past. Just as historically interesting, both Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray served during World War II, Ray having seen action in Japan. One has to imagine that this added to the naturalistic performances that this movie displays, something of a hallmark of Anthony Mann’s films.
Ryan plays a beleaguered lieutenant, Benson, whose forces have been diminished and separated from any communication with the rest of the American presence in Korea. He needs to get his men to safety, and they’re already beginning to fall apart. Vic Morrow (now best known as Jennifer Jason Leigh’s dad) makes a strong impression as a shell-shocked young soldier. So does James Edwards as Sergeant Killan, a kind-hearted African-American G.I. who is a friend to Morrow’s character and, unfortunately, due to cinematic conventions, doomed. The scene where Killan stops in a clearing to decorate his helmet with the wildflowers he finds, ending as it does with his silent murder by encroaching commandos, is one of the movie’s most striking images.
Aldo Ray enters the movie in a Jeep, carrying his commanding officer alongside him, even though the colonel has been rendered mute by minefire and, presumably, having witnessed too much carnage. Ray’s character identifies himself only as Montana, a rambunctious and headstrong G.I. who is fed up with battle and only cares to get his colonel to safety. Ryan’s character wants to requisition the Jeep, and Montana’s services, in order to press on with his diminished forces. Ray’s character, even out-ranked as he is, resists every step of the way. The movie centers around the conflict between the two men.
It’s a vivid conflict, and it’s profoundly effective, enacted as it is by two such charismatic actors. The appeal of Ryan and Ray is very different, but equally potent. Ryan, so often a convincing heavy but in this case allowed to play the kind of role here that his obvious real-life decency fits like a glove, is a quieter, sterner kind of a good guy. Ray is the more quintessentially American character, brash and arrogant — although you also see his point. The main question of the movie is about what is the right thing to do in the chaos of war, to look out for self or to fight as part of the unit, even if the latter seems hopeless. It’s not exactly as if Montana is being selfish — he seems to care about his Colonel as much as, if not more than, himself. But ultimately, as pro-military as this movie is, Montana must come to understand and embrace Benson’s all-for-one ethos. That the movie brings us, the audience, to see things the same way, and to appreciate the very real heroism of the men who fight our battles for us overseas, is why it is still a captivating piece of work today, and obviously still just as relevant. There can be no doubt that Steven Spielberg saw this movie before making SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. MEN IN WAR is a little more ambiguous than that much more recent film, but it is just as effective at approximating the senses and textures of battle — an amazing feat, for a movie fifty years old.
Today being Memorial Day, if you’re looking for an appropriate movie to mark the occasion and spark reflection, let me please recommend this one.
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Also Known As: Aldo Da Re
Died At Age: 64
Family:
Spouse/Ex-: Jeff Donnell (m. 1954 - div. 1956), Johanna Ray (m. 1960 - div. 1967), Shirley Green (m. 1947 - div. 1953)
father: Silvio Da Re
mother: Maria Da Re
children: Claire DaRe, Eric DaRe, Paul DaRe
Height: 6'0" (183 cm), 6'0" Males
Died on: March 27, 1991
place of death: Martinez, California, United States
U.S. State: Pennsylvania
Cause of Death: Throat Cancer
Ancestry: Italian American
: Pneumonia
More Facts
education: University Of California, Berkeley
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Aldo Ray (born Aldo Da Re; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl in Northampton County in eastern Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino and Louis) and one sister (Regina). (His brother, Mario Da Re (1933–2010), lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954. On the May 12, 1955 edition of Groucho Marx's NBC-TV quiz show You Bet Your Life Mario appeared as a contestant.[1] His family moved to the small town of Crockett in northern California when Aldo was four years old; his father worked as a laborer at the C & H Sugar Refinery, the largest employer in the town. He attended John Swett High School, where he made the football team; he also coached swimming.[2]
In 1944, at age 18, during World War II, Aldo entered the United States Navy, serving as a frogman until 1946; he saw action at Okinawa with UDT-17. Upon leaving the Navy in May 1946 he returned to Crockett. He studied and played football at Vallejo Junior College, then entered the University of California at Berkeley to study political science. (Ray later described himself as an "arch conservative" and a "right winger".[3]) He left college in order to run for the office of Constable of the Crockett Judicial District in Contra Costa County California. "I always knew I was going to be a big man but I thought it was going to be in politics", he said.[4]
Acting career: Saturday's Hero[]
In April 1950 Columbia Studios sent a unit to San Francisco to look for some athletes to appear in a film they were making called Saturday's Hero (1951). Aldo's brother Guido saw an item in the San Francisco Chronicle about the auditions and asked his brother to drive him there. Director David Miller was more interested in Ray than his brother because of his voice; also, Ray was comfortable talking to the camera due to his political experience. He later recalled, "They...said 'What's wrong with your voice kid? Are you sick? If you're sick you don't belong here.' I said, 'No, no, no, this is the way I've always spoken.' And they loved it."[3] Ray would later retell this story in the trailer for Pat and Mike.
Ray signed a contract and was sent to Los Angeles for a screen test. He was cast in the small role of a cynical college football player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed.[5]
Ray worked on the film between the primary and general elections. He was elected constable on 6 June. "I was 23 and a sort of child bride to the voters", he later said.[5] "The guy I ran against was a 16-year incumbent, and I destroyed him with 80 percent of the vote! I was going to work my way up to the U.S. Senate, see, and I would've, too."[6]
Columbia picked up their option on Ray's services, and signed him to a seven-year contract. "Of all the people in the picture they took up only one option – mine", he said. "And I said, 'thank you, good bye. I'm going home where I can be a big fish in my small pond. You can take this town (Hollywood) and shove it."[3]
Columbia refused to release him from his contract and put him under suspension, giving him a leave of absence to work as constable. "I told them I couldn't care less, they could give me whatever they wanted", he said.[3] Ray started his new job in November 1950.
Hollywood stardom: The Marrying Kind[]
After several months Ray found "the quiet life... monotonous",[5] so he contacted Max Arnow, talent director at Columbia, and expressed interest in appearing in more movies. Four weeks later Arnow called back, saying Columbia wanted to audition Ray for a small part in Judy Holliday's new movie, The Marrying Kind.
Ray went to Hollywood and did a screen test with the director, George Cukor. The first test went badly but head of Columbia Harry Cohn liked Ray and asked for another test. The second one was done opposite Jeff Donnell, who Ray later married; it was more successful and Ray ended up being cast in the lead.[5]
Harry Cohn felt the name "Aldo Da Re" was too close to "Dare" and wanted to change it to "John Harrison"; the actor refused and "Aldo Ray" was the compromise.[7] He divorced his wife and resigned as constable in September 1951. His wage was $200 a week.[6]
Cukor famously suggested that Ray go to ballet school because he walked too much like a football player. The director later talked about the actor:
He has a great advantage: the way his eyes are made. The light comes into them. There are certain people who have opaque eyes which refuse to catch the light. But his eyes had a certain glow and gave quite well in the photographed result. He did this silent scene very well lying there on the bed in the same room with Judy (Holliday). Then later he did comedy scenes with her–very difficult ones–and there were also emotional sequences where he broke down and cried. They were brilliant.[8]
"Cukor is hypersensitive to reality", recalled Ray. "He told me exactly what to do and why. He explains everything and he knows exactly what he wants."[9] Ray's performance was much praised. Sight and Sound later wrote:
To give the performance he did in The Marrying Kind after so little previous experience was clear evidence that in Aldo Ray the screen had discovered one of its rare "naturals". This was no carefully edited, tricked out performance, but a strikingly sincere and imaginative interpretation: an exceptional talent responding to a finely intuitive director... There was about him none of the personality assurance that extracts a special consideration of the actor as distinct from his role.[10]
Cukor then cast Ray in a support role in Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Ray's work in Pat and Mike led to his nomination, along with Richard Burton and Robert Wagner, for a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer. Burton won the award that year, but Ray's career was launched. He says after two films with Cukor "I never needed direction again."[11]
Ray said Spencer Tracy told him, "'Kid, I don't know what it is that you got, and I got, and some of us have, but you can work in this business forever.' That made me feel good, you know, coming from a guy like him. I never bowed down to anybody at Columbia or anywhere else, but my overall idea was, I'll do whatever they tell me because it's their business, not mine, and I've got to learn it."[6]
Columbia leading man[]
Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn liked Ray and wanted him for the role of Private Robert Prewitt in From Here to Eternity (1953) but Fred Zinnemann insisted Montgomery Clift be cast.[12] However other good roles followed instead. ""Because of Harry, all my first pictures were big hits, tremendously popular", Ray recalled.[6]
In 1953, he starred opposite Jane Wyman in Let's Do It Again, then followed this acting opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953), a remake of the W. Somerset Maugham story Rain. He also appeared in a production of Stalag 17 at La Jolla Playhouse.[13]
Ray was loaned to Warner Bros to appear in Battle Cry (1955). This was directed by Raoul Walsh who would be one of Ray's favourite directors. The film was a big hit at the box office – probably the most popular movie Ray ever made – although it led to him being typecast.
"In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in", reflected Ray later. "There were no sophisticated roles for me. I never seemed to get past master sergeant, though I always thought of myself as upper echelon."[14]
Clash with Columbia[]
Ray was meant to appear in My Sister Eileen as The Wreck but walked off the set claiming his role was too small, and had to be replaced by Dick York.[15]
Battle Cry was a big hit at the box office so Columbia gave Ray a lead role as a sergeant who marries a Japanese girl in Three Stripes in the Sun (originally The Gentle Wolfhound), then loaned him to Paramount for We're No Angels (1955), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Joan Bennett.
Ray was profiled in Sight and Sound which said:
Aldo Ray's technical advance in the four years since The Marrying Kind enables him now to work in subtler, more economical degree; there is an authoritative reserve- and, still remarkably intact, the original rare lack of ostentation. All the same, his career seems to have become a nomadic drifting round the studios looking for the right kind of film. The good humour, the lenitive smile, the frog in the throat voice betray nothing of the disappointment the actor must feel after such exciting beginnings under Cukor's guidance.[10]
Ray was meant to appear in Jubal but refused, because Columbia had made a profit on his loan outs for Battle Cry and We're No Angels but not paid Ray a bonus; Rod Steiger took the role instead.[16] Ray was put on suspension.[17]
Ray then refused to appear in Beyond Mombassa because he did not want to go on location. This led to him being replaced by Cornel Wilde and put under suspension again. However the situation was resolved when he agreed to make Nightfall (1957), playing an artist who encounters a pair of ruthless bank robbers.[18]
In 1956, in between appearances in Three Stripes In The Sun and Men in War, Ray tried his hand at radio, working as a personality and announcer at Syracuse, New York hit music station WNDR. A photo of Ray with a colleague in the WNDR studios, taken as part of a station promotional package, survives and can be found on a WNDR tribute website, although it's not known if any aircheck tapes of his radio shows still exist. By 1957, in any event, he had left WNDR and the radio business and returned to Hollywood.
On January 31, 1957, Ray appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He and Tennessee Ernie Ford did a comedy skit from a foxhole.[19]
Two with Anthony Mann[]
Columbia loaned out Ray to Security Pictures (who released through United Artists) to appear in Men in War (1957), opposite Robert Ryan; it was directed by Anthony Mann, who became Ray's favourite director. Ray was given 5% of the profits which he later estimated at having earned him $70,000.[6]
Ray was reunited with Security Pictures, Ryan and Mann to star in God's Little Acre (1958), an adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's controversial novel directed by Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Tina Louise.
By the seventh year of his contract with Columbia Ray was earning $750 a week. He later said for the first ten years of his career he made less than $100,000.[3] He expressed interest in producing his own vehicle, The Magic Mesa from a script by Burt Kennedy, but it was not made.[20]
Instead Ray appeared in The Naked and the Dead, an adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel, directed by Raoul Walsh. It was produced by Paul Gregory who said:
Aldo Ray was drunk the entire time. He was a very sweet guy, but he was gone. He drank drank drank. Raoul Walsh would say, "Let's get him in the morning cause in the afternoon it's over."... I just could not get used to it, actors who got all this money and then didn't behave professionally. The English actors have classical training. They perform like professionals. You take someone like Aldo Ray who was just picked up and catapulted into stardom, and then he was just a sponge for booze. He killed himself drinking, not living up to his moral contract.[21]
Ray later admitted producers were scared off casting him in projects due to his drinking.[3]
Leaving Columbia[]
Ray had been popular with Harry Cohn because, in the actor's words, "He took no shit from anybody and he saw that I was that kind of a guy, too."[2] But when Cohn died in 1958, Columbia elected not to renew Ray's contract and he decided to leave Hollywood. He later said "I never was an expatriate. I spent some time in England and Spain and Italy but I was never out of this country [the US] longer than six months."[22]
He starred in 1959 in Four Desperate Men (The Siege of Pinchgut), filmed in Australia; it was the last movie produced by Ealing Studios (releasing through MGM), and a box office disappointment. He then appeared opposite Lucille Ball in an episode of Desilu Playhouse. He said he made more money from these two projects "than I'd made the whole eight years before."[6]
In 1959, Ray was cast as Hunk Farber in the episode, "Payment in Full" of the NBC western series, Riverboat. In the story line, Farber betrays his friend and employer to collect reward money, which he uses to court his girlfriend, Missy.[23]
Ray made The Day They Robbed the Bank of England in England and Johnny Nobody in Ireland. He later described his British sojourn as a "big mistake" because none of his British films were widely seen in America.[3]
"Everything went well until the end of '62 – then everything collapsed – including me", he later said. "I didn't take care of myself physically and mentally."[24]
He hired a press agent, started taking better care of himself physically and changed agents.[24]
Return to Hollywood[]
Ray returned to Hollywood in 1964. He had a small role in Sylvia (1965) and made a pilot for a TV series financed by Joe E. Levine, Steptoe and Son (an unsuccessful adaptation of the British TV series). "I feel I shall have a complete regeneration of my career", he said in 1965.[24]
He later appeared in What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round and Welcome to Hard Times. He also made several guest appearances on television.
In 1966 Ray claimed that "I've been turning down a lot of TV and B movies. I won't consider anything but important roles in important pictures."[9] He said he was "almost independently wealthy" having saved and invested wisely in real estate from the times when his fee was $100,000 a film. He was interested in returning to politics but not until he had made "at least" four more movies. "The ideal situation would be three films every two years."[9]
He formed his own company, Crockett Productions, and bought two original scripts that were not made: Soldares, by Edwin Gottlieb, about the search for Pancho Villa;[25] and Frogman, South Pacific, by William Zeck.[26]
His best-known work of the 1960s was his portrayal of Sergeant Muldoon, alongside John Wayne, in The Green Berets (1968).
Ray starred in Kill a Dragon shot in Hong Kong in 1966 and Suicide Commando shot in Rome and Spain in 1968. He also made two television pilots in the 1960s; neither was picked up.[citation needed]
Career decline[]
As the 1960s ended, Hollywood's appetite for Ray's machismo started to wane. Though he worked steadily in the 1970s, the quality of his roles diminished, and he was typically cast as gruff and gravelly rednecks.
In 1976 he said he was broke. He blamed this on his ex-wives and red tape that meant he could not develop his real estate properties. "I lost it all", he said. "And I am very very bitter about it.... The biggest mistake I ever made was discovering women. I only wish society had been as free and easy when I was coming along as it is today because if that had been the case I wouldn't have been married. Three women in my life utterly destroyed me."[22]
In 1979, Ray appeared in a pornographic movie, Sweet Savage, in a non-sexual role. Ray said later:
I wanted, I guess, to see what it was all about--a kind of half-assed adventure, you know? It was also a kind of vacation for me in a bad time--a nice location in Arizona--and I picked up a few thousand bucks. After it came out, a few people wagged their fingers at me--'Oh-ho-ho, you dirty dog'--but I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. They shot all the sex stuff after I'd flown back to L.A. I won the adult film Oscar for that, by the way, but somebody copped it.[27]
In 1981 Ray told a newspaper that his drinking was "under control" and "I think things are going to shoot straight up. I'm working on a deal now and if the picture is made my worries... are over... If things go the way I anticipate and I stay healthy I think I've got better years ahead of me than behind me."[3] He said he was open to a return to politics "if my movie career doesn't take off like I think it will."[3] He admitted being unhappy with his career saying "I think I should have gotten more good stuff."[3]
His career decline accelerated in the 1980s, and after being diagnosed with throat cancer, he accepted virtually any role that came his way to maintain his costly health insurance. He returned to Crockett in 1983.
Ray was originally cast in the role of Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel Dune, but was replaced by Patrick Stewart due to ongoing issues with alcoholism.
He made a number of films for Fred Olen Ray. "He'd give me $1000 in cash, pay my expenses, and I'd do a day's work", said Ray. "Somebody showed me one of his cassettes--'starring Aldo Ray'--but it was just a one-day job.... I needed money at the time, and Fred knew I needed a buck, so I did it. He exploited me, yeah, but I was ripe for it."[27]
Final years and death[]
In 1986 Ray's SAG membership was revoked when it was discovered he was acting in a non-union production, Lethal Injection.[6] However Ray still got his union pension and benefits. His fee at this stage was $5,000 a week.[27]
In 1989 he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor.
His last film was Shock 'Em Dead which was filmed in 1990 appearing with Traci Lords and Troy Donahue. The same year he was interviewed and said:
I regret that I don't have more control of my tongue and thoughts--because I speak too frankly and too honestly, and this world is not meant for frank and honest people. They don't mix. Reality is pretty phony... I'm in great shape--got all my energy and strength back. I had surgery on my neck last March, and after one more session of the chemo--that's 50 more hours--the doctors say I'll have it all beat. . .I'm not scared of dying--it's how I die that matters. I'd rather live one good year than ten crappy years. And I think I've got some good pictures ahead of me if I can find the right roles. There's plenty of good stuff left in me, you know?[27]
Ray remained in Crockett, with his mother and family and friends. On 19 February 1991 he was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez, 40 miles east of San Francisco. He died of complications from throat cancer and pneumonia on 27 March.[7][14] He was cremated and buried in Crockett, with a majority of the residents coming out to pay their respects.
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Ray was married several times:
Shirley Green. They had one child, a daughter named Claire.
Jeff (real name, Jean) Donnell (married 30 September 1954, divorced 1956)
British actress Johanna Bennet (married 1960, divorced 1967), who continues to work today under the name Johanna Ray, as a respected casting director. They had two sons and a daughter. Johanna Ray, a longtime collaborator with David Lynch, cast her son Eric Da Re with Aldo in Lynch's Twin Peaks series, as well as the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
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Author Richard Matheson said that his best-known work, The Incredible Shrinking Man, was inspired by a scene in Aldo Ray's Let's Do It Again in which a character puts on someone else's hat and it sinks down past his ears; "I thought, what if a man put on his own hat and that happened?" he recounted in an interview for Stephen King's non fiction work Danse Macabre.[citation needed]
Quentin Tarantino says Aldo Ray would have been ideal casting for the character of Butch in Pulp Fiction (1994), and the look of Butch in the film (as played by Bruce Willis) was inspired by Ray.[28]
Brad Pitt's character in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds is a soldier named "Aldo Raine."
The Crockett Museum has a display depicting his life.
A profile in Movie Morlocks analysed Ray's appeal from the film Nightfall:
Nobody smokes a cigarette like Aldo Ray. There's no forethought involved. No effort to seduce or impress audiences with an exaggerated pose or gesture. Ray doesn’t have to pretend to be cool, threatening, bruised, battered or tough. He just is. And I find every unassuming gesture he makes utterly captivating. Aldo Ray has never been considered a great Hollywood actor in the traditional sense but his natural, unaffected performances often seemed to emerge from some unsettled place. You could frequently hear a genuine urgency in way he delivered his lines and his casual swagger told you he’d been around the block more than once. Whenever Ray erupted on screen it felt like you were watching a volcano explode and if you didn’t get out of the way it could easily swallow you up in a heavy flow of golden molten lava. Film historians often like to talk about the sea change that occurred in the 1950s, when actor's like Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando brought a new kind of sincerity to Hollywood. These highly trained method actors changed the way we appreciate and understand acting today and they’ve rightfully been recognized for their accomplishments. But there were other performers that unconsciously championed a new kind of natural approach to acting. And one of them was Aldo Ray.[8]
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Jean Marie[1] "Jeff" Donnell (July 10, 1921 – April 11, 1988) was an American actress.
Early years
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Donnell was born in South Windham, Maine, to Harold and Mildred Donnell, when her father was superintendent at a boys' reformatory in that town.[1] As a child, she adopted the nickname "Jeff" after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff.[2][note 1][1] To avoid gender confusion, she was sometimes billed as "(Miss) Jeff Donnell."
Donnell graduated from Towson High School, Towson, Maryland, in 1938 and attended the Leland Powers School of Drama in Boston, Massachusetts. Later, she studied at the Yale School of Drama.[2][1]
Career
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Donnell was signed to a contract by Columbia Pictures while she was active with the Farragut Playhouse in New Hampshire, and she made her film debut in My Sister Eileen (1942).[3]
She became a fixture at Columbia, working steadily in comedies, mysteries, westerns, and musicals for five years, and then off and on at the studio from 1950 to 1972. During the 1940s she was typically the house tomboy, a plain-speaking sidekick for the glamorous ingenue, and developed a flair for comedy. Columbia did give Donnell the glamour treatment later (in the 1946 Boston Blackie mystery The Phantom Thief, in which she played a troubled heiress), but she never shook the sidekick image. When her Columbia contract ran out, she freelanced at other studios, mostly in low-budget action pictures. She returned to Columbia in 1950. She had met Lucille Ball on the set of the 1948 RKO Radio Pictures production Easy Living; Ball remembered Donnell and recruited her to play her sidekick in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950).[citation needed]
Donnell continued to play character roles in motion pictures and television; for three seasons, she portrayed George Gobel's wife, Alice, in The George Gobel Show (1954–1957) on NBC-TV.[4] Many of her assignments were for Columbia (notably as Gidget's mother Dorothy Lawrence in Gidget Goes Hawaiian and Gidget Goes to Rome)[3] and Columbia's TV subsidiary Screen Gems (she played Hannah Marshall in the Gidget television series, [4]: 391 and portrayed Mrs. Bennett in the TV series Julia).[4]: 548 In 1966 she made five appearances on Dr. Kildare as Evelyn Driscoll, and she played Ethel on the Matt Helm TV series.[4]: 667
Her last Columbia feature was the women's lib-themed comedy Stand Up and Be Counted (1972). Her final recurring role was as Stella Fields, the Quartermaines' housekeeper, in the popular soap opera General Hospital, from 1979 to 1988.
Personal life
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Donnell's four marriages all ended in divorce. The first, in 1940 (and ultimately longest), was to William R. Anderson, her teacher at the Leland Powers Dramatic School.[5][6] Donnell had her only children with him, namely Michael Phineas—affectionately dubbed Mickey Finn—in 1942 and Sarah Jane (aka Sally[7][8]), whom the couple adopted in the fall of 1947.[9] Anderson and Donnell divorced in 1952.[10]
Next came actor Aldo Ray, whom Donnell married in 1954 and divorced in 1957.[11][12] Her third marriage, to advertising executive John Bricker, began on December 1, 1958 and concluded in an uncontested divorce decree issued on March 19, 1963, with Donnell reporting that Bricker had, among other things, publicly belittled both herself and her adopted daughter.[13][14]
Donnell's fourth and final marriage, to Radcliffe (aka Rod)[15] Bealey, lasted all of three months, comprising roughly the spring of 1970. Commencing in March of that year with a guest list confined to family and close friends,[16] the marriage was officially dissolved in June.[17]
Death
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On April 11, 1988, at age 66, Donnell died of an apparent heart attack at her home in Hollywood, survived by her two children, a sister, a half-brother, and four grandchildren.[7] As for her then still recurring role on General Hospital, a contemporaneous report by syndicated soaps pundit Lynda Hirsch states that Donnell was being replaced by another actress in that season's remaining few episodes, and would then be written out of the show altogether, the onscreen rationale consisting of a note left with her character's employers, explaining that she had to leave to care for an ailing relative.[18]
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But as Photographer Jack Albin said, when he caught them in this exclusive series of shots at Mocambo late one night, “Sometimes a picture’s worth a thousand words.” And no matter how much Jeff and Aldo might like to deny that they’re serious about each other, here’s sure proof. These two are telling the world that they’re in love!
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We’re way overdue for a Cleaning Out the DVR post – haven’t done one since back in April! – so let’s jump right in with 4 capsule reviews of 4 classic crime films:
SINNERS’ HOLIDAY (Warner Brothers 1930; D: John Adolfi) – Early talkie interesting as the screen debut of James Cagney , mixed up in “the booze racket”, who shoots bootlegger Warren Hymer, and who’s penny arcade owner maw Lucille LaVerne covers up by pinning the murder on daughter Evalyn Knapp’s ex-con boyfriend Grant Withers. Some pretty racy Pre-Code elements include Joan Blondell as Cagney’s “gutter floozie” main squeeze. Film’s 60 minute running time makes it speed by, aided by some fluid for the era camerawork. Fun Fact: Cagney and Blondell appeared in the original Broadway play “Penny Arcade”; when superstar entertainer Al Jolson bought the rights, he insisted Jimmy and Joan be cast in the film version, and the rest is screen history. Thanks, Al!
THE BLUE GARDENIA (Warner Brothers 1953; D: Fritz Lang ) – Minor but well done film noir with Anne Baxter, after receiving a ‘Dear Jane’ letter from her soldier boyfriend, falling into the clutches of lecherous artist Raymond Burr ,who plies her with ‘Polynesean Pearl Divers’, gets her drunk, and tries to take advantage of her. Anne grabs a fireplace poker, then blacks out, wakes up, discovers his dead body, and thinks she killed him. Did she? Veteran noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuracra’s shadowy camerawork helps elevate this a few notches above the average ‘B’, as does a high powered cast led by Richard Conte as a newspaperman out to solve the case (and sell papers!), Ann Southern and Jeff Donnell as Anne’s roommates, George Reeves as a dogged homicide captain, and Familiar Faces like Richard Erdman, Frank Ferguson, Celia Lovsky, Almira Sessions, Robert Shayne, and Ray Walker. Based on short story by Vera Caspary, who also wrote the source novel for LAURA. Not top-shelf Lang, but still entertaining. Fun Fact: Nat King Cole has a cameo singing the title tune in a Chinese restaurant, but the real ‘Fun Fact’ is the guy playing violin behind him… that’s Papa John Creach, who later played rock fiddle in the 70’s with Jefferson Airplane/Starship and Hot Tuna!
ILLEGAL (Warner Brothers 1955; D: Lewis Allen) – ‘Original Gangster’ Edward G. Robinson stars as a tough, erudite DA who sends the wrong man to the chair, crawls into a bottle of Scotch, and crawls out as a criminal defense attorney working for racketeer Albert Dekker. EG’s practically the whole show, though he’s surrounded by a top-notch supporting cast, including Nina Foch as his protege, Hugh Marlowe as her husband, Jan Merlin as Dekker’s grinning torpedo, Ellen Corby as EG’s loyal secretary, and Jayne Mansfield in an small early role as Dekker’s moll. Keep your eyes peeled for some Familiar TV Faces: DeForest Kelly (STAR TREK) as EG’S doomed client, Henry “Bomber” Kulky (LIFE OF RILEY, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA) as a witness, Ed Platt (GET SMART) as the DA successor, and sour-voiced Herb Vigran, who guested in just about every TV show ever, as a bailiff. Fun Fact: Co-screenwriter W.R. Burnett wrote the novel LITTLE CAESAR, which Warners turned into Eddie G’s first gangster flick back in 1930!
DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY (20th Century-Fox 1974, D: John Hough) – The late Peter Fonda costars with sexy Susan George in this classic chase movie from the Golden Age of Muscle Cars. Fonda and fellow AIP bikesploitation vet Adam Rourke (a personal fave of mine!) are a down-on-their-luck NASCAR driver and mechanic, respectively, who pull off a robbery and are saddled with ditzy George, with Vic Morrow as the maverick police captain in hot pursuit. The stars are likable, the cars are cool (a ’66 Impala and a ’69 Charger), and there’s plenty of spectacular stunt driving in this fast’n’furious Exploitation gem, with an explosive ending! Fun Fact: Roddy McDowell has an uncredited role as the grocery store manager whose family is held hostage.
BONUS: Now kick back and enjoy the noir-flavored blues of Papa John Creach and his band doing “There Ain’t No More Country Girls” from sometime in the 70’s:
There’s a lot of good stuff being broadcast this month, so it’s time once again to make some room on the ol’ DVR. Here’s a quartet of capsule reviews of films made in that mad, mad decade, the 1960’s:
THE FASTEST GUITAR ALIVE (MGM 1967; D: Michael D. Moore) – MGM tried to make another Elvis out of rock legend Roy Orbison in this Sam Katzman-produced comedy-western. It didn’t work; though Roy possessed one of the greatest voices in rock’n’roll, he couldn’t act worth a lick. Roy (without his trademark shades!) and partner Sammy Jackson (TV’s NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS) peddle ‘Dr. Ludwig Long’s Magic Elixir’ in a travelling medicine show, but are really Confederate spies out to steal gold from the San Francisco mint to fund “the cause” in the waning days of the Civil War. The film’s full of anachronisms and the ‘comical Indians’ aren’t all that funny, but at least Roy gets seven decent tunes to sing. Familiar Faces Lyle Bettger, Iron Eyes Cody, John Doucette , Joan Freeman, and Douglas Kennedy try to help, but the story kind of just limps along. Worthwhile if you’re an Orbison fan, otherwise a waste of time. Fun Fact: Roy’s MGM Records label mate Sam the Sham (of “Wooly Bully” fame) has a small part as a guard at the mint.
KILL A DRAGON (United Artists 1967; D: Michael D. Moore) – Minor action yarn with ruthless Fernando Lamas out to hijack a load of nitroglycerine washed upon a small Japanese island, and the villagers hiring soldier-of-fortune Jack Palance to protect them and their bounty. Palance gives an engaging, tongue-in-cheek performance, Lamas makes an evil adversary, and Aldo Ray is among Jack’s mercenary crew… seeing Aldo in drag is something you won’t wanna miss!! Nothing special, but an adequate time filler for action fans. Fun Fact: Director Moore (who also helmed FASTEST GUITAR) was a former silent film child star (his first film was 1919’s THE UNPAINTED WOMAN, directed by Tod Browning ) who began working behind the scenes in the 1940’s. He became one of Hollywood’s highest regarded Assistant and Second Unit directors, and worked on films ranging from THE TEN COMMANDMENTS to GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, KING CREOLE, BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID, PATTON, EMPEROR OF THE NORTH, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (and it’s two subsequent sequels), and NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. His last was 2000’s 102 DALMATIONS before retirement; Moore passed away at age 98 in 2013. His contributions to Hollywood movies may be unsung, but for people like Cecil B. DeMille and Steven Spielberg, Michael “Mickey” Moore was the go-to guy for action scenes. Job well done, Mr. Moore!
PSYCH-OUT (AIP 1968; D: Richard Rush) – A Hippiesploitation classic! Susan Strasberg stars as a runaway deaf girl looking for her brother Bruce Dern in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love. She hooks up with pony-tailed rock musician Jack Nicholson and his bandmates (Adam Roarke, Max Julien) in a drug-soaked film full of far-out thrift store fashion, plenty of hippie-dippie jargon (“Peace and love, baby!”), LSD and STP induced nightmares, and classic rock from bands Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Seeds (featuring their immortal lead vocalist Sky Saxon!). A group called Boenzee Cryque (with future Poco members Rusty Young and George Grantham) plays a sideways instrumental version of “Purple Haze” called “Ashbury Wednesday” during Henry Jaglom’s trip scene, and the cast includes Dean Stockwell as a philosophical, groovy satyr, future producer/director Garry Marshall as a cop, and low-budget stalwarts John ‘Bud’ Cardos, Gary Kent, and Bob Kelljan in support. Director Richard Rush went on to films like THE STUNT MAN and COLOR OF NIGHT, and the cinematographer is none other than Laslo Kovacs (EASY RIDER, FIVE EASY PIECES, PAPER MOON). It’s a psychedelic artifact of its time, and a treat for exploitation fans. As Stockwell says, “Reality’s a deadly place”! Fun Fact: One of a handful of late 60’s youth films produced by the legendary Dick Clark, of TV’s AMERICAN BANDSTAND and NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN’ EVE fame.
THE BIG CUBE (Warner Brothers 1969; D: Tito Davison) – Glamorous Lana Turner plays a glamorous stage actress who marries rich Dan O’Herlihy against the wishes of his daughter Karin Mossberg. Dad drowns in a yachting accident, and daughter conspires with LSD-making gigolo George Chakiris to drive Lana mad by slipping acid in her sleeping pills! This awful attempt at mixing Lana’s Ross Hunter-era soap operas with 60’s “youth culture” features bad acting, a putrid script, heavy-handed direction, and is a total mess all around. Even the presence of Lana, O’Herlihy, Chakiris, and Richard Egan couldn’t stop this movie from stinking up my living room! No redeeming qualities whatsoever (except the fact that the wooden Miss Mossberg was never heard from again!) Fun Fact: As I sat watching this bomb, slack-jawed and shaking my head, I kept muttering to myself, “This is bad. Just… bad”. The film’s worse than a bad acid trip, but I stuck with it for this review. You have other options. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!
I hate to leave you on such a sour note, so here’s Roy Orbison doing “Pistolero” from Mickey Moore’s FASTEST GUITAR ALIVE! Take it away, Roy:
Groundbreaking 60’s films like BONNIE & CLYDE, THE GRADUATE, THE WILD BUNCH, and MIDNIGHT COWBOY led to the complete obliteration of the Production Code, and by the sizzling 70’s it was anything goes! Low budget exploitation filmmakers benefitted most by this loosening of standards as the following quintet of movies illustrates, filled with bouncing boobs, bloody action, pot smoking, beer drinking, and hell raising:
THE MUTHERS (Dimension 1976; D; Cirio H. Santiago) – A Filipino-made “Women in Prison” Blaxploitation actioner? Yes, please! Former Playboy Playmates Jeanne Bell and Rosanne Katon, future NFL TODAY commentator Jayne Kennedy, and ex-Bond girl Trina Parks are all trapped on a coffee plantation run by the sadistic Monteiro with no chance of escape… until there is! Loaded with gore, torture, kung-fu fighting, bare breasts, a funky score, pirates (that’s right, pirates!), and a slam-bang run through the jungle – what more could you ask for? Forget about some of the gaps in logic, just sit back and enjoy the ride. Fun Fact: The prolific Santiago produced and/or directed such Grindhouse classics as WOMEN IN CAGES, THE BIG BIRD CAGE, TNT JACKSON, EBONY IVORY & JADE, and VAMPIRE HOOKERS, among many others.
THE POM POM GIRLS (Crown International 1976; D: Joseph Ruben)- One of the better Crown International “teensploitation” flicks is a practically plotless but immensely fun outing dealing with the high school shenanigans of football players’n’cheerleaders, featuring a pre-REVENGE OF THE NERDS Robert Carradine as the school’s “class stud” and the ever-delightful Rainbeaux Smith as (what else?) a swingin’ cheerleader. Writer/director Ruben throws in every teen flick trope in the book: food fights, dirt bikes, a groovy “love van”, a football brawl, and a “suicide chicken” race straight outta REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE! There’s plenty of gratuitous nudity and hormones running wild on display, so if drive-in movies are your thing, you can’t do much better than this one.Fun Fact: Ruben went on to helm the mainstream films SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY and MONEY TRAIN.
VIGILANTE FORCE (United Artists 1976; D: George Armitage) – Crack open a frosty PBR and enjoy this slice of 70’s exploitation insanity. The small California town of Elk Hills is being torn up by rowdy oil field workers, so Jan-Michael Vincent recruits his Vietnam vet brother Kris Kristofferson and his crew to clean things up. But Kris has other ideas, and soon he and his boys take over the town, beginning a reign of terror that leads to a violent, explosive climax with Kris’s vigilantes pitted against Jan-Michael’s Green Mountain Boys. Kris is one crazy, mean sumbitch in this wild actioner! Bernadette Peters shines as his sexy off-key saloon singer girl, and Victoria Principal plays Jan-Michael’s more sedate sweetie (who takes a bullet in the back courtesy of Kris… I told you he was mean!). The better-than-average supporting cast is filled with Familiar Faces: Loni Anderson (as ‘Peaches’!), Antony Carbone, Peter Coe , Brad Dexter , David Doyle (Bosley on CHARLIE’S ANGELS), Paul Gleason, James Lydon, Shelley Novack, Andrew Stevens, and a cameo by the one-and-only Dick Miller ! Hang on to your hardhats and get ready for non-stop action. Fun Fact: The producer is exploitation king Roger Corman’s brother Gene, which explains Miller’s cameo and the casting of Carbone (THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA).
THE VAN (Crown International 1977; D: Sam Grossman) – Recent high school grad Bobby (Stuart Getz) buys the “love van” of his dreams in order to score with chicks in this quintessential 70’s teen sex comedy. Hollywood car customizer George Barris created Bobby’s dream machine, complete with 70’s staples like a waterbed, 8-track player, shag carpeting, and mag wheels. It’s a genuinely funny lowbrow drive-in flick featuring a pre-TAXI Danny DeVito as Bobby’s boss at the car wash, who doubles as a bookie. And remember: “Nobody calls Doogie a turd! Nobody!”. Fun Fact: The soundtrack by Sammy Johns includes his big hit “Chevy Van” as the movie’s theme song – even though Bobby’s van is actually a Dodge!
CORVETTE SUMMER (MGM 1978; D: Matthew Robbins) – High school student Mark Hamill restores a ’73 Corvette Stingray to it’s former glory only to have it stolen, so he hitches a ride to Las Vegas with wanna-be hooker Annie Potts to retrieve his baby in this uneven but harmless ‘B’ comedy. The film shifts into high action towards the end, and the finale doesn’t really satisfy, but Potts (in her film debut) delivers a wonderfully deft comic performance as the ditzy chick in yet another 70’s-style “love van” (they were everywhere!!). The supporting cast includes Danny Bonaduce, Philip Bruns, Eugene Roche, Kim Milford, and the ubiquitous Dick Miller! The glittery lights of late 70’s Vegas (set to a glittery disco soundtrack) make it almost worth your time. Fun Fact: This was Hamill’s follow-up to 1977’s STAR WARS , attempting to break free of his Luke Skywalker image. It didn’t work.
More “Cleaning Out the DVR”:
Five Films From Five Decades
Five Films From Five Decades 2
Those Swingin’ Sixties!
B-Movie Roundup!
All-Star Horror Edition!
Film Noir Festival
All-Star Comedy Break
Film Noir Festival Redux
Halloween Leftovers
Five From The Fifties
Too Much Crime On My Hands
ALL-STAR WESTERN ROUNDUP!
Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game is tomorrow night, and in honor of that All-American pastime I’ve corralled an All-Star lineup of (mostly) All-American Westerns filled of blazing six-guns, galloping horses, barroom brawls, sexy saloon gals, and wide-open spaces. Hot damn, that DVR sure enough gets filled up mighty fast! Saddle up and enjoy these capsule looks at one of my favorite genres, the Western:
THE CARIBOO TRAIL (20th Century-Fox, 1950; D: Edwin L. Marin) – Randolph Scott rides tall in the saddle driving his cattle to Vancouver gold rush country in this exciting oater filled with stampedes, Indian attacks, bad hombres, shoot outs, and fisticuffs. There’s a pretty saloon keeper (Karin Booth), a mean town boss (Victor Jory), and Scott’s bitter ex-pardner (Bill Williams), who had to have his arm amputated along the trail. Scenic Colorado stands in for Canada’s Great Northwest, shot in gorgeous Cinecolor by DP Fred Jackman Jr. Look for young Jim Davis and Dale Robertson in supporting parts. The movie doesn’t break any new ground, but for genre fans it’s a real treat! Fun Fact: The always delightful Gabby Hayes plays loveable old windbag Grizzly in his final feature film appearance.
FACE OF A FUGITIVE (Columbia 1959; D: Paul Wendkos) – Escaped outlaw on the run Fred MacMurray settles in the town of Tangle Blue, where he gets tangled up with pretty shopkeeper Dorothy Green, her sheriff brother Lin McCarthy, and evil landowner Alan Baxter. Routine ‘B’ Western elevated somewhat by MacMurray’s low-key performance, Wendkos’ taut direction, and Wilfred M. Cline’s moody cinematography. Fred is always watchable. Fun Fact: Young James Coburn makes his second film appearance as one of Baxter’s hired hands.
ARIZONA RAIDERS (Columbia 1965; D: William Whitney) – Above-average Audie Murphy ‘B’ outing, with the star and his pal Ben Cooper a pair of ex-Quantrill Raiders sprung from prison by the newly appointed head of the Arizona Rangers to hunt down some remaining guerillas terrorizing the territory. Some well-staged action by director Whitney, a veteran of Republic Pictures serials and sagebrush sagas. It’s fun to see another serial & sagebrush vet, the great Buster Crabbe as Ranger Captain Andrews, and the supporting cast features slimy baddies Michael Dante and George Keymas, Gloria Talbott as an Indian maiden, and Ray Stricklyn as Audie’s kid bro. I could’ve done without the opening exposition by Booth Colman as a newspaper editor talking directly to the camera; otherwise this is highly recommended! Fun Fact #1: Unintentionally funny line – Stricklyn (while lying mortally wounded): “Clint, it’s… it’s getting kinda dark” Murphy: “Well, it’s a little cloudy, Danny”! Fun Fact #2: Miss Talbott is well-known to horror genre buffs for her roles in DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL, THE CYCLOPS, and I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE!
RIDE BEYOND VENGEANCE (Columbia 1966; D; Bernard McEveety) – An interesting if flawed attempt at a psychological Western, aided by a solid supporting cast. A modern-day bartender in Cold Iron, Texas (Arthur O’Connell) relates to a census taker (James MacArthur) the legend of “The Day of the Reprisals”, a fateful night in town history. Flashbacks take us to 1884, when buffalo hunter Jonas Trapp (Chuck Connors), returning home to his wife (Kathryn Hays) after 11 years, gets bushwhackers by a trio of nasties (Michael Rennie, Claude Akins, Bill Bixby), who brand him with a red-hot iron and steal his $17,000 savings. Now Jonas goes out for revenge to reclaim both his money and his wife. The mainly backlot sets and a sometimes weak script keep this strictly ‘B’ level, but a game attempt nonetheless. The impressive cast features Buddy Baer, Joan Blondell , Jamie Farr, Paul Fix (Chuck’s RIFLEMAN costar), Frank Gorshin, Gloria Grahame , Robert Q. Lewis, Gary Merrill, and Ruth Warrick. Folk singer Glenn Yarbrough (“Baby, the Rain Must Fall”) sings the title tune. Not a classic, but definitely worth a look. Fun Fact: Production company Goodson/Todman were better known for their myriad TV game shows – BEAT THE CLOCK, FAMILY FEUD, MATCH GAME, PRICE IS RIGHT, WHAT’S MY LINE, et al.
CHISUM (Warner Bros 1970; D: Andrew V. McLaglen) – Cattle baron John Wayne takes on rival town boss Forrest Tucker during the famous Lincoln County Cattle War, with William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid (Geoffey Deuel) thrown in for good measure. This will seem like a rehash to fans of Duke’s older, better movies, with so many Familiar Faces from previous vehicles ( John Agar , Christopher George, Richard Jaeckel , Hank Worden , etc etc) the set must’ve seemed like old home week. Ben Johnson adds some spice as Wayne’s mumbling, grumbling sidekick Pepper, William Clothier’s shots of scenic Durango, Mexico are breathtaking, and the finale (featuring a cattle stampede through town and a knock-down, drag-out brawl between Wayne and Tucker) is fairly exciting. Not one of his best outings, but hey… it’s a John Wayne Movie! That alone makes it worth watching! Fun Fact: Country star Merle Haggard sings the tune “Turn Me Around”, and actor William Conrad does a hip-hop rap over the title credits. Just kidding about that last tidbit, I wanted to make sure you were still paying attention!
ADIOS, SABATA (United Artists 1971; D: Gianfranco Parolini) – Lesser but highly enjoyable entry in the Spaghetti Western canon. This is the second of Parolini’s Sabata Trilogy, with black-clad Yul Brynner taking over for Lee Van Cleef in the title role (Van Cleef returned for the final film). “Soldier of Fortune” Sabata teams with frenemy Ballantine and a colorful band of Mexican revolutionaries to steal Emperor Maximilian’s gold and defeat the sadistic Colonel Skimmel. The bare-bones plot is just an excuse for Parolini (billed in the U.S. print as “Frank Kramer”) to assault our senses with an almost non-stop barrage of violent set pieces, well shot by DP Sandro Mancori. Yul gets off some snappy one-liners, and his sawed-off repeating rifle is way cool, as is Bruno Nicolai’s ersatz Ennio Morricone score. Kick back, pop open an adult beverage, and enjoy the action! Fun Fact: Minor late 50s/early 60s teen idol Dean Reed, who embraced leftist politics and became more successful as an ex-pat entertainer, plays the part of Ballantine.
Ride along with other “Cleaning Out the DVR” posts:
Pt 1: Five Films From Five Decades
Pt 2: Five Films From Five Decades 2
Pt 3: Those Swingin’ Sixties
Pt 4: B-Movie Roundup!
Pt 5: Fabulous 40’s Sleuths
Pt 6: All-Star Horror Edition!
Pt 7: Film Noir Festival
Pt 8: All-Star Comedy Break
Pt 9: Film Noir Festival Redux
Pt 10: Halloween Leftovers
Pt 11: Five From The Fifties
Pt 12: Too Much Crime On My Hands
And too many crime films in my DVR, so it’s time for another housecleaning! This edition of “Cleaning Out the DVR” features bank robbers, thieves, murderers, and other assorted no-goodniks in films from the 30’s to the 70’s. Here we go:
PRIVATE DETECTIVE (Warner Bros 1939; D: Noel Smith) Girl gumshoe Jane Wyman (named “Jinx”!) solves the murder of a divorced socialite embroiled in a child custody case, to the consternation of her cop fiancé Dick Foran. Maxie Rosenbloom plays his usual good-natured lug role as Foran’s partner. The kind of movie for which the term “programmer” was coined, furiously paced and clocking in at a swift 55 minutes. No wonder they talk so fast! Fun Fact: The Warner Brothers Stock Company is well represented with Familiar Faces Willie Best, Morgan Conway, Joseph Crehan, Gloria Dickson, John Eldredge, Leo Gorcey , John Ridgley, and Maris Wrixon all packed into it. What, no Bess Flowers?
HOLLOW TRIUMPH (Eagle-Lion 1948; D:Steve Sekely) This one used to be shown frequently on my local cable access channel from a murky public domain print; TCM aired a nice, crisp copy back in January. Thanks, TCM! Star Paul Henreid (who also produced) plays an unrepentant ex-con who, upon release from stir, holds up a mob-connected gambling joint. Now hunted by the gangsters, he takes it on the lam, murdering a lookalike psychologist and stealing his identity. In true noir fashion, things go steadily downhill from there. Noir Queen Joan Bennett plays the shrink’s secretary/mistress, who falls for the crook. Heel Henreid is certainly no Victor Laszlo in this one! Director Sekely is on point (check out his REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES sometime!), and DP John Alton’s shadowy shots make this an effective B thriller. A personal favorite! Fun Fact: Look quick for young Jack Webb as one of the hoods.
DIAL 1119 (MGM 1950; D:Gerald Mayer) Escapee from State Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane holds the patrons of the dingy Oasis Bar at gunpoint, demanding to see the police shrink who got him convicted. Marshall Thompson makes a convincing psych-killer, and he’s ably supported by a strong cast (Sam Levene, Virginia Field, Leon Ames, Andrea King, Keefe Brasselle). William Conrad is killed off early as the dour bartender “Chuckles”. Worth a look for the cast and some adult-themed subject matter. Fun Fact: This was director Mayer’s first feature, which probably made his uncle, studio boss Louis B. Mayer, proud.
THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS (Warner Bros 1969; D: Antonio Isasi) This US-Spanish coproduced crime caper is totally underrated and totally fun, with a cool 60’s vibe to it. Gary Lockwood (2001: A SPACE ODDYSEY) stars as a Vegas blackjack dealer who plots to steal one of security expert Lee J. Cobb’s hi-tech armored cars, with inside help from sexy Elke Sommer, as revenge for his brother’s death. Jack Palance is also on hand as a Treasury agent investigating Cobb’s shady connections. There’s some nifty twists and turns along the way, and great location footage of the Vegas strip in it’s heyday. It’s as if Sergio Leone decided to make a caper movie, and is highly recommended! Fun Fact: Jean Servais, who starred in the classic French caper film RIFIFI, has the small but pivotal role of Lockwood’s brother.
BUNNY O’HARE (AIP 1971; D: Gerd Osawld) Bette Davis, left homeless when the bank forecloses on her house, teams up with dimwit fugitive Ernest Borgnine to rob banks disguised as hippies, making their escape on a motorcycle. It’s as silly as it sounds, with the two stars trapped by a lame script that seemed outdated when it was made, and non-existent direction by Oswald (who also helmed the dire AGENT FOR H.A.R.M.). Ernie mugs shamelessly throughout, while Miss Davis sued the studio after it was released, claiming the re-edit wasn’t what she signed up for, and hazardous to her career. When you hear her spout the line “I’ll open ya up like a can a’tomata soup”, you’ll probably agree! Some good character actors pop up (Jack Cassidy, John Astin, Jay Robinson, Bruno VeSota), but this mess is for Davis completists only. Fun Fact: Bette and Ernie did much better with their first film together, 1956’s THE CATERED AFFAIR, written by Gore Vidal and directed by Richard Brooks, adapted from a TV play by Paddy Chayefsky.
Enjoy the “Cleaning Out the DVR” series:
Five Films From Five Decades
Five Films From Five Decades 2
Those Swingin’ Sixties
B-Movie Roundup
Fabulous 40’s Sleuths
All-Star Horror Edition!
Film Noir Festival
All-Star Comedy Break
Film Noir Festival Redux
Halloween Leftovers
Five from the Fifties
The 1950’s were a time of change in movies. Television was providing stiff competition, and studios were willing to do anything to fend it off. The bigger budgeted movies tried 3D, Cinerama, wide-screen, and other optical tricks, while smaller films chose to cover unusual subject matter. The following five films represent a cross-section of nifty 50’s cinema:
BORDERLINE (Universal-International 1950; D: William A. Seiter)
BORDERLINE is a strange film, straddling the borderline (sorry) between romantic comedy and crime drama, resulting in a rather mediocre movie. Claire Trevor plays an LAPD cop assigned to Customs who’s sent to Mexico to get the goods on drug smuggler Pete Ritchey (Raymond Burr , being his usual malevolent self). She’s tripped up by Ritchey’s rival Johnny Macklin (Fred MacMurray , channeling his inner Walter Neff), and taken along as he tries to get the dope over the border. What she doesn’t know is he’s also an agent, and thinks she’s a smuggler! The movie usually gets shoehorned into the noir category, but besides the drug smuggling angle, it’s just an average ‘B’ flick. Fun Fact: Claire’s husband Milton Bren was the film’s producer.
THE NARROW MARGIN (RKO 1952; D: Richard Fleischer)
Highly influential ‘B’ noir about a tough cop escorting a mobster’s widow from Chicago to Los Angeles via train to testify on corruption, with hired killers onboard out to stop her by any means possible. Gruff-voiced Charles McGraw and sexpot Marie Windsor deliver Earl Fenton’s hard-boiled dialog with gusto; the film was Oscar-nominated for Best Story, but lost to THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (they were robbed!). Director Richard Fleischer and DP George Diskant create a textbook example on how to make a tense, exciting movie for under $250,000, with a big plot twist I won’t spoil for those of you who haven’t seen this gem. The ambient sounds of the train travelling take the place of the usual music score, making the violence even more ultra-realistic. A must-see! Fun Fact: Marie Windsor was once a gag writer for Jack Benny. When the comedian finally met her in the flesh, he was stunned by her good looks and helped her secure a Hollywood contract.
THE BIGAMIST (The Filmakers 1953; D: Ida Lupino)
San Francisco couple Edmond O’Brien and Joan Fontaine want to adopt a child, but when the child welfare investigator (Edmund Gwenn) looks into the case, he discovers O’Brien has another wife (Ida Lupino) in LA. O’Brien gives a sympathetic performance as the man leading a double life, and Lupino handles the sensational material with depth and sincerity. Watch for the scene where O’Brien meets Lupino on a Hollywood tour bus for glimpses of the homes of stars Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Jack Benny, and Gwenn himself! A quiet but powerful film that’s worth your time. Fun Fact: Producer/screenwriter Collier Young was married to Fontaine at the time; before that, he had been the husband of director/star Lupino! Ah, Hollywood!
THE WILD ONE (Columbia 1953; D: Laszlo Benedict)
The granddaddy of all biker flicks! Marlon Brando is leather clad Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels MC, who terrorize a small California town. Brando’s existential, iconic performance dominates the film, but Mary Murphy is equally good as Kathie, the girl who falls for him. Lee Marvin also deserves a shout-out as Chino, leader of rival gang The Beetles. The scene where Murphy is chased down by the bikers, saved by Johnny, still retains its power. Jerry Paris, Alvy Moore , and that great oddball actor Timothy Carey are among the cyclists; Jay C. Flippen, Ray Teal, and Will Wright represent some of the “straight’ citizens. A bona fide cinema classic, not to be missed! Fun Fact: Brando’s Johnny was the basis for Harvey Lembeck’s goofball Eric Von Zipper character in all those “Beach Party ” movies.
ROCK ROCK ROCK (DCA 1956; D: Will Price)
13 year old Tuesday Weld makes her film debut as a teenybopper trying to raise money to buy a strapless evening dress for the prom, but you can forget about the dumb plot and enjoy a veritable Rock’n’Roll/Doo Wop Hall of Fame lineup: LaVerne Baker, Chuck Berry (“You Can’t Catch Me”), Johnny Burnett Trio, The Flamingos, Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers (“I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent”), The Moonglows, Big Al Sears, and others, hosted by pioneering rock DJ Alan Freed. Tuesday’s vocals are dubbed by Connie Francis, and co-star Teddy Randazzo was a minor singing star who later wrote the hits “Goin’ Out of My Head” and “Hurts So Bad”. Lots of energetic teenage dancing; just sit back and have a foot-wiggling good time! Fun Fact: This was the first film for the production team Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky, better known for their Amicus horror anthologies.
Halloween has come and gone, though most people have plenty of leftovers on hand, including your Cracked Rear Viewer. Here are some treats (and a few tricks) that didn’t quite make the cut this year:
ISLE OF THE DEAD (RKO 1945, D: Mark Robson)
Typically atmospheric Val Lewton production stars Boris Karloff as a Greek general trapped on a plague-ridden island along with a young girl (Ellen Drew) who may or may not be a vorvolaka (vampire-like spirit). This film features one of Lewton’s patented tropes, as Drew wanders through the woods alone, with the howling wind and ominous sounds of the creatures of the night. Very creepy, with another excellent Karloff performance and strong support from Lewton regulars Alan Napier, Jason Robards Sr, and Skelton Knaggs. Fun Fact: Like BEDLAM , this was inspired by a painting, Arnold Bocklin’s “Isle of the Dead”.
THE BOWERY BOYS MEET THE MONSTERS (Allied Artists 1954, D: Edward Bernds)
Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and the gang get mixed up with the creepy Gravesend family in a spooky old mansion, complete with mad scientists, vampires, a man-eating tree, a robot, and of course a killer gorilla in this above-average series entry. Sure it’s low budget and derivative as hell, but it’s also a lot of fun, with a better than usual supporting cast that includes John Dehner, Lloyd Corrigan, and Ellen Corby. Director Bernds and his co-screenwriter Ellwood Ullman put their Three Stooges experience to good use, and the result is a silly scare farce that even non-Bowery Boys fans will probably enjoy. Fun Fact: Ex-bartender Steve Calvert bought Ray “Crash” Corrigan’s old gorilla suit and appeared in JUNGLE JIM, THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST (written by Ed Wood), and the awful BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA .
THE OBLONG BOX (AIP 1969, D:Gordon Hessler)
AIP tried to continue their successful Edgar Allan Poe series with this film. Roger Corman was long gone, so Gordon Hessler took over the director’s chair. Vincent Price is still around though, as the brother of a voodoo victim who was prematurely buried, then dug up by graverobbers to seek revenge. Christopher Lee has “Special Guest Star” status, but isn’t given much to do as a Knox-like doctor using bodies in the name of science. The movie seemed a lot scarier when I saw it as a youth; unfortunately, it doesn’t hold up very well. The 24 year old Hillary Dwyer is much too young to play 58 year old Price’s fiancé. Fun Fact: Michael Reeves (THE SORCERERS , WITCHFINDER GENERAL) was scheduled to direct before his untimely death; this probably would’ve been a better film with him at the helm.
HANDS OF THE RIPPER (Hammer 1971, D: Peter Sasdy)
Minor but effective Hammer chiller about the daughter of Jack the Ripper (Angharad Rees) who’s possessed by daddy’s evil spirit, and the psychologist (Eric Porter) who tries to help her by using the then-new Freudian therapy techniques. It’s science vs the supernatural, with some good moments of gore, but the slow pace makes it definitely lesser Hammer. I must admit I loved the ending, though. Fun Fact: Director Sasdy filmed several Hammer horrors in the early 70’s, including TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA and COUNTESS DRACULA. He also was responsible for the Pia Zadora vehicle THE LONELY LADY, winning himself the prestigious Razzie Award in 1983!
BURNT OFFERINGS (United Artists 1976, D: Dan Curtis)
A family rents an eerie old country home for the summer, and are soon pitted against an evil force. With all that talent in front of (Bette Davis , Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckert) and behind (producer/director/writer Curtis , co-writer William F. Nolan, DP Jacques Marquette) the camera, I expected a much better film. Even the great Miss Davis can’t help this obvious haunted house story to rise above the level of a made-for-TV potboiler. Disappointing to say the least. Fun Fact: Production designer Eugene Lourie directed the sci-fi flicks THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, THE GIANT BEHEMOTH , and GORGO.
Welcome back to the decadently dark world of film noir, where crime, corruption, lust, and murder await. Let’s step out of the light and deep into the shadows with these five fateful tales:
PITFALL (United Artists 1948, D: Andre DeToth) Dick Powell is an insurance man who feels he’s stuck in a rut, living in safe suburbia with his wife and kid (Jane Wyatt, Jimmy Hunt). Then he meets hot model Lizabeth Scott on a case and falls into a web of lies, deceit, and ultimately murder. Raymond Burr costars as a creepy PI who has designs on Scott himself. A good cast in a good (not great) drama with a disappointing ending. Fun Fact: The part of Scott’s embezzler boyfriend is played by one Byron Barr, who is not the Byron Barr that later changed his name to Gig Young.
THE BRIBE (MGM 1949, D:Robert Z. Leonard) Despite an A-list cast, this tale of a G-man (boring Robert Taylor ) assigned to break up a war surplus smuggling racket is as tedious as Taylor’s monotone voice overs. Agent Rigby is sent to the island town of Carlotta, off the coast of Central America, to crack the ring responsible for illegally selling airplane engines. He falls in love with married nightclub singer Ava Gardner (who can blame him?), whose booze soaked hubby (John Hodiak) is a major suspect. The oppressive heat in Carlotta seems to make the film’s players sluggish, like the movie itself. Obvious bad guys Charles Laughton and Vincent Price engage in a ham-slicing contest, with a slight edge going to Laughton here. Fun Fact: I couldn’t watch this without being reminded of the superb noir send-up DEAD MEN DON’T WEAR PLAID, which borrows some of this movie’s names (Rigby, Carlotta) and many of it’s scenes. Watch that instead of THE BRIBE, it’s a lot more fun!
THE WINDOW (RKO 1949, D: Ted Tetzlaff) This taut little thriller became a major hit for RKO, and child star Bobby Driscoll won a special Oscar for his performance as a 9 year old who likes to tell tall tales witnessing a murder. No one believes him, not his parents (Arthur Kennedy , Barbara Hale) or the cops, and he’s punished by Mom and Dad. Dad works nights and Mom’s called away to visit her sick sister, so little Tommy gets locked in his room overnight, and the killers who live upstairs (Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman) come to get him. The chase through an abandoned building is gripping, and former DP Tetzlaff (MY MAN GODFREY, NOTORIOUS) ratchets up the suspense. Filmed on location in NYC (a novelty in those days) and based on a Cornell Woolrich short story, THE WINDOW is unique, entertaining, and well worth watching. NOT SO FUN FACT: Disney star Bobby Driscoll (SONG OF THE SOUTH, TREASURE ISLAND, voice of PETER PAN), unable to shake the child star label, became a hopeless drug addict, drifting through a life of arrests and addiction. In the mid-60’s, he was briefly associated with Andy Warhol’s Factory group of underground filmmakers. Sometime early in 1968, he died alone in an abandoned New York tenement house. The body wasn’t identified, and Driscoll was buried in a pauper’s grave. His mother, seeking Bobby in 1969, asked the police for help, and through fingerprints he was finally ID’d. Bobby Driscoll was 31 years old.
THE HITCH-HIKER (RK0 1953, D: Ida Lupino) Fear is the theme of this dark, disturbing psychological tale based on the true story of serial killer Billy Cook. Director Lupino cowrote the script with producer hubby Collier Young, about two pals on a fishing trip (Frank Lovejoy, Edmond O’Brien) who pick up a hitchhiking killer (William Tallman), and are taken hostage and forced to do his bidding. Extremely tense drama enhanced by Nicholas Musuraca’s camerawork, and a chilling performance from Tallman as Emmett Myers, as cold-blooded a killer as there is in noir. His deformed, unblinking dead eye will give you nightmares! O’Brien is also outstanding here, as usual. Fun Fact: Tallman is of course best known to audiences as perennially losing DA Hamilton Burger on TV’s long-running PERRY MASON, where he was outwitted every week by noir icon Raymond Burr.
THE PHENIX CITY STORY (Allied Artists 1955, D: Phil Karlson) Another true story, this one of corruption in a small Alabama town ruled by gambling, prostitution, dope peddling, and murder. The unique prologue features real-life newsman Clete Roberts interviewing some of the locals, including the widow of slain Attorney General candidate Albert Patterson. Then the story unfolds, as Patterson (John McIntyre) refuses to get involved in the efforts to clean up the town. When son John (Richard Kiley) returns home, he does, and finally the older man relents, after the violence escalates to include the murder of a child, and a family friend. That violence is shockingly brutal for the era, and realistically handled onscreen by director Phil Karlson, who’d later helm another Southern crime tale, WALKING TALL. Screenwriters Crane Wilbur (HOUSE OF WAX) and Daniel Mainwaring (OUT OF THE PAST, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS) pull no punches, and supporting actors Edward Andrews, Kathryn Grant (the future Mrs. Bing Crosby), James Edwards , Jean Carson (one of the “Fun Girls” from THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW) and John Larch are all top-notch. Don’t miss this one! Fun Fact: This is one of Martin Scorsese’s favorite movies, and there are plenty of examples of it’s influence on his films to keep an eye out for here!
Tonight I’ll be watching the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, but for those of you non-baseball fans, here’s a look at five funny films from the 1930’s & 40’s:
IT’S A GIFT (Paramount 1934, D: Norman Z. McLeod) The Great Man himself, W.C. Fields , works his magic in this delightfully demented domestic comedy about hen pecked grocer Harold Bissonette, who dreams of owning an orange grove in California. His wife (Kathleen Howard) is a domineering battle-axe, his kid (Tommy Bupp) an obnoxious, roller skating brat, and daughter Mildred (Jean Rouveral) doesn’t want to leave her “true love”. This sets the stage for some of Fields’ funniest surrealistic scenes, including his grocery store being demolished by blind Mr. Mickle and perennial nemesis Baby Leroy; poor W.C. trying to get some sleep on the porch while being constantly disturbed by noisy neighbors, a wayward coconut, a man looking for “Carl LeFong”, and Baby Leroy dropping grapes through a hole in the porch (“Shades of Bacchus!”); and a wild picnic on private property. One of Fields’ best movies, an absurd comic classic! Fun Fact: Kathleen Howard was a former opera singer who costarred in three of W.C.’s films.
GENERAL SPANKY (MGM 1936, D: Fred Newmeyer and Gordon Douglas) Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the “Our Gang” kids star in this Civil War era comedy that plays like a few shorts strung together. There’s not really any overt racism, as some critics claim; except for the use of the derogatory term “pickaninny” early on, it’s simply a product of its era. The story is told from the Southern POV, making it sympathetic to their cause. In fact, the slaves are treated with more dignity by the Southerners than the invading Yankee army! The warm relationship that develops between the two orphans Spanky and Buckwheat rarely gets mentioned. Still, this ain’t GONE WITH THE WIND; if it sounds offensive, just don”t watch. Fans of Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts will want to catch it, though. Fun Fact: Irving Pichel, who I’ve discussed here in past posts , plays the mean Yankee captain at odds with Spanky and friends.
TURNABOUT (United Artists 1949, D: Hal Roach) Gender-bending screwball comedy about a constantly bickering couple (John Hubbard, Carole Landis) that have their wish to swap bodies granted by a Hindu idol come to life. Ultimately the film tries a little too hard at being wacky and is a letdown considering it’s groundbreaking theme. Adolphe Menjou, William Gargan, Mary Astor, Joyce Compton, Verree Teasdale, Franklin Pangborn, Marjorie Main, and especially Donald Meek head a game supporting cast. Based on a novel by Thorne (TOPPER) Smith. Fun Fact: One of a handful of feature films directed by comedy pioneer Roach.
BLONDE INSPIRATION (MGM 1941, D: Busby Berkeley) Minor but amusing screwball comedy concerning an idealistic unpublished writer (John Shelton) who’s conned out of $2000 by two broke publishers (the unlikely but funny comedy team of Albert Dekker and Charles Butterworth !) to write Western pulp fiction when their drunken star scribe Dusty King (Donald Meek again!) quits. Shelton’s bland in the lead, but the rest of the cast makes up for it, with a wisecracking script by Marion Parsonnet and swift direction from musical maestro Berkeley. Virginia Grey plays the publisher’s cynical secretary who ends up falling for the dopey, naïve Shelton. Reginald Owen, Alma Krueger, Byron Foulger, and Charles Halton all add to the fun. Fun Fact: Marion Martin, former Ziegfeld showgirl, is the “blonde inspiration” of the title, playing the dumb-blonde companion of Butterworth.
WHO DONE IT? (Universal 1942, D: Erle C. Kenton) Abbott & Costello play two soda jerks (emphasis on “jerks”) and wanna-be radio mystery writers who get caught up in a real-life murder mystery at the station. This was Bud and Lou’s first effort without the usual musical interludes (no Andrews Sisters, no swing bands, etc), and allows them to unleash their comic mayhem uninhibited. The radio setting gives them good material to work with, like their “watts are volts” wordplay riffing (they even have a bit disparaging their classic ‘Who’s On First?” routine). There are some genuinely scary touches between the slapstick from horror vet Kenton (ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN ), and a solid supporting cast featuring William Gargan and William Bendix as a pair of dopey detectives, Mary Wickes as Lou’s love interest (!!), and Universal’s Familiar Face Brigade: Patric Knowles, Louise Allbritton, Thomas Gomez, Don Porter, Jerome Cowan, and Ludwig Stossel. Cadaverous Milton Parsons even shows up as the coroner! Fast and fun entry in the A&C catalog. Fun Fact: The page boy constantly getting over on Lou is Walter Tetley, a radio actor known to TV affecianados as the voice of Mr. Peabody’s favorite boy, Sherman!
I first got my DVR service from DirecTV just in time for last year’s TCM Summer of Darkness series, and there’s still a ton of films I haven’t gotten around to viewing… until now! So without further ado, let’s dive right into the fog-shrouded world of film noir:
RAW DEAL (Eagle-Lion 1948, D: Anthony Mann)
This tough-talking film seems to cram every film noir trope in the book into its 79 minutes. Gangster Dennis O’Keefe busts out of prison with the help of his moll ( Claire Trevor ), kidnaps social worker Marsha Hunt, and goes after the sadistic crime boss (Raymond Burr) who owes him fifty grand. Director Mann and DP John Alton make this flawed but effective ultra-low budget film work, with help from a great cast. Burr’s nasty, fire-obsessed kingpin is scary, and John Ireland as his torpedo has a great fight scene with O’Keefe. The flaming finale is well staged, but I could do without Trevor’s sporadic narration. Fun Fact: Whit Bissell (BRUTE FORCE ) has a brief role as a killer on the run.
THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (RKO 1947, D: Nicholas Ray)
Nicholas Ray’s first film tells the tale of two young lovers (Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell) on the run who try to but can’t escape his life of crime. Ray’s directorial flourishes aid tremendously in making this a good, but not quite great, movie. It bogs down about halfway through, and probably could’ve used some editing, but producer John Houseman gave Ray free rein to create his feature debut. Ray would go on to direct some great films (IN A LONELY PLACE, JOHNNY GUITAR, and of course REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE) and influence a generation of filmmakers. Character actors Howard DaSilva, Jay C. Flippen, Byron Foulger, Ian Wolfe, and Will Wright offer fine contributions, and lead actress O’Donnell gives an outstanding, subdued performance as Keechie. Fun Fact: Remade in 1974 by Robert Altman as THEIVES LIKE US, with Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall as the young lovers.
BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN (Columbia 1950, D: Gordon Douglas)
Programmer following two squad car cops (Edmond O’Brien, Mark Stevens) out to get the goods on gangster Garris (Donald Buka). The cops are also rivals for Gale Storm’s affections, and who can blame them…. I’ve had a crush on the sweet Miss Storm since adolescence! Not really a noir though it usually gets lumped with to the genre. A good cast can’t quite over come the hokey, clichéd script. Fun Fact: Be on the lookout for Madge Blake (BATMAN’s Aunt Harriet), Roland Winters (the last Monogram Charlie Chan), and Phillip Van Zandt (nemesis in countless Three Stooges shorts).
THE STRIP (MGM 1951, D: Laszlo Kardos)
You’d think a film noir with a jazz club setting would be perfect, and you’d be right… but this isn’t it (it’s 1941’s BLUES IN THE NIGHT, which I’ll be reviewing at a later date!). Mickey Rooney stars here as a jazz drummer fresh from the Korean War who gets involved with an aspiring actress ( Sally Forrest) and a gangster (Clark Gable wanna-be James Craig). The movie’s saving graces are it’s location scenes inside L.A nightclubs of the era, and some jazz numbers from legends Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Vic Damone, and Monica Lewis (the “Chiquita Banana” girl). Otherwise, pretty disappointing. Fun Fact: THE STRIP was nominated for (but didn’t win) an Oscar for the song “A Kiss to Build a Dream On”.
INFERNO (20th Century Fox 1953, D: Roy Ward Baker)
Red haired sexpot Rhonda Fleming and lover William Lundigan leave her husband Robert Ryan to die out in the desert with a broken leg. They think they’ve committed “the perfect murder”, but didn’t count on Ryan’s sheer willpower and McGyver-like ingenuity. INFERNO was 20th Century Fox’s first 3-D movie (in Technicolor), and DP Lucien Ballard’s location shots in the Mojave Desert lend it a rugged feel (I would love to see this one on the big screen as intended). Director Baker also made the Marilyn Monroe noir DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK , and went on to direct some chilling Hammer films later in his career. Henry Hull (WEREWOLF OF LONDON) appears as an old desert rat, and the climactic fight between Ryan and Lundigan in a burning cabin will definitely hold your interest, as indeed will the whole movie. A neat film about survival and revenge, well worth watching! Fun Fact: Remade twenty years later as the TV Movie ORDEAL with Arthur Hill, Diana Muldaur, and James Stacy in the Ryan/Fleming/Lundigan roles.
I’ll leave you with wonderful Louis Armstrong and his all-star band swingin’ the tune “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abendigo” from THE STRIP:
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We’re way overdue for a Cleaning Out the DVR post – haven’t done one since back in April! – so let’s jump right in with 4 capsule reviews of 4 classic crime films:
SINNERS’ HOLIDAY (Warner Brothers 1930; D: John Adolfi) – Early talkie interesting as the screen debut of James Cagney , mixed up in “the booze racket”, who shoots bootlegger Warren Hymer, and who’s penny arcade owner maw Lucille LaVerne covers up by pinning the murder on daughter Evalyn Knapp’s ex-con boyfriend Grant Withers. Some pretty racy Pre-Code elements include Joan Blondell as Cagney’s “gutter floozie” main squeeze. Film’s 60 minute running time makes it speed by, aided by some fluid for the era camerawork. Fun Fact: Cagney and Blondell appeared in the original Broadway play “Penny Arcade”; when superstar entertainer Al Jolson bought the rights, he insisted Jimmy and Joan be cast in the film version, and the rest is screen history. Thanks, Al!
THE BLUE GARDENIA (Warner Brothers 1953; D: Fritz Lang ) – Minor but well done film noir with Anne Baxter, after receiving a ‘Dear Jane’ letter from her soldier boyfriend, falling into the clutches of lecherous artist Raymond Burr ,who plies her with ‘Polynesean Pearl Divers’, gets her drunk, and tries to take advantage of her. Anne grabs a fireplace poker, then blacks out, wakes up, discovers his dead body, and thinks she killed him. Did she? Veteran noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuracra’s shadowy camerawork helps elevate this a few notches above the average ‘B’, as does a high powered cast led by Richard Conte as a newspaperman out to solve the case (and sell papers!), Ann Southern and Jeff Donnell as Anne’s roommates, George Reeves as a dogged homicide captain, and Familiar Faces like Richard Erdman, Frank Ferguson, Celia Lovsky, Almira Sessions, Robert Shayne, and Ray Walker. Based on short story by Vera Caspary, who also wrote the source novel for LAURA. Not top-shelf Lang, but still entertaining. Fun Fact: Nat King Cole has a cameo singing the title tune in a Chinese restaurant, but the real ‘Fun Fact’ is the guy playing violin behind him… that’s Papa John Creach, who later played rock fiddle in the 70’s with Jefferson Airplane/Starship and Hot Tuna!
ILLEGAL (Warner Brothers 1955; D: Lewis Allen) – ‘Original Gangster’ Edward G. Robinson stars as a tough, erudite DA who sends the wrong man to the chair, crawls into a bottle of Scotch, and crawls out as a criminal defense attorney working for racketeer Albert Dekker. EG’s practically the whole show, though he’s surrounded by a top-notch supporting cast, including Nina Foch as his protege, Hugh Marlowe as her husband, Jan Merlin as Dekker’s grinning torpedo, Ellen Corby as EG’s loyal secretary, and Jayne Mansfield in an small early role as Dekker’s moll. Keep your eyes peeled for some Familiar TV Faces: DeForest Kelly (STAR TREK) as EG’S doomed client, Henry “Bomber” Kulky (LIFE OF RILEY, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA) as a witness, Ed Platt (GET SMART) as the DA successor, and sour-voiced Herb Vigran, who guested in just about every TV show ever, as a bailiff. Fun Fact: Co-screenwriter W.R. Burnett wrote the novel LITTLE CAESAR, which Warners turned into Eddie G’s first gangster flick back in 1930!
DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY (20th Century-Fox 1974, D: John Hough) – The late Peter Fonda costars with sexy Susan George in this classic chase movie from the Golden Age of Muscle Cars. Fonda and fellow AIP bikesploitation vet Adam Rourke (a personal fave of mine!) are a down-on-their-luck NASCAR driver and mechanic, respectively, who pull off a robbery and are saddled with ditzy George, with Vic Morrow as the maverick police captain in hot pursuit. The stars are likable, the cars are cool (a ’66 Impala and a ’69 Charger), and there’s plenty of spectacular stunt driving in this fast’n’furious Exploitation gem, with an explosive ending! Fun Fact: Roddy McDowell has an uncredited role as the grocery store manager whose family is held hostage.
BONUS: Now kick back and enjoy the noir-flavored blues of Papa John Creach and his band doing “There Ain’t No More Country Girls” from sometime in the 70’s:
Continuing my quest to watch all these movies sitting in my DVR (so I can record more movies!), here are six more capsule reviews for you Dear Readers:
FIFTH AVENUE GIRL (RKO 1939; D: Gregory LaCava) – A minor but entertaining bit of screwball froth revolving around rich old Walter Connolly , who’s got problems galore: his wife (the criminally underrated Veree Teasdale) is cheating on him, his son (Tim Holt in a rare comedy role) is a polo-playing twit, his daughter (Kathryn Adams) in love with the socialism-spouting chauffer (James Ellison ), and his business is facing bankruptcy because of labor union troubles. On top of all that, no one remembers his birthday! The downcast Connolly wanders around Central Park, where he meets jobless, penniless, and practically homeless Ginger Rogers, and soon life on 5th Avenue gets turned upside-down! Ellison’s in rare form as the proletariat Marxist driver, Franklin Pangborn shines (as usual) as Connolly’s butler, and Ginger makes with the wisecracks as only Ginger could. There are some similarities to LaCava’s MY MAN GODFREY, and though FIFTH AVENUE GIRL isn’t quite as good (few film comedies are!), it’s a more than amusing look at class warfare. Fun Fact: Screenwriter Alan Scott wrote most of Ginger’s classic films with Fred Astaire (TOP HAT, FOLLOW THE FLEET, SWING TIME, SHALL WE DANCE, CAREFREE), and penned the Rogers/LaCava follow-up PRIMROSE PATH, costarring Joel McCrea.
THE FLYING DEUCES (RKO 1939; D: A. Edward Sutherland) – Laurel & Hardy join the Foreign Legion after Ollie is rejected by (unknown to him) married Jean Parker, whose husband Reginald Gardiner becomes their captain! To say complications ensue is putting it mildly in this fast moving (only 69 minutes) comedy, with a cast that includes L&H regulars Richard Cramer, Charles Middleton (who played a similar role in their short BEAU HUNKS), and of course James Finlayson. The gags come fast and furious in this, the best of their non-Hal Roach movies. Fun Fact: This is the film where The Boys perform their famous “Shine On Harvest Moon” song-and-dance routine, sweetly sung by Ollie.
THE TATTOOED STRANGER (RKO 1950; D: Edward J. Montagne) – A young girl is found shotgunned to death in a parked car in Central Park. The only clue to her identity: a Marine Corps tattoo. This low budget police procedural moves fast (it clocks in at just over an hour), contrasting the latest in 50’s forensic investigating with good old fashioned legwork, and benefits from it’s NYC location shooting. The cast is made up of mostly unknowns, all of whom are good, including a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him role for a young Jack Lord. Not the greatest cops-chase-down-killer flick, but certainly not the worst, either. Fun Fact: Director Montagne went on to create the sitcom MCHALE’S NAVY, and produced most of Don Knotts’ 60’s movie comedies.
WITNESS TO MURDER (United Artists 1954; D: Roy Rowland) – Barbara Stanwyck spies George Sanders kill a woman from her apartment window across the street, but with no body or any clues to go on, no one believes her, and Sanders (who’s also an ex-Nazi!) gaslights her, leading the cops to question her sanity. Gary Merrill is the cop who helps crack the case, and the supporting cast includes brief but memorable bits by Claire Carleton and Juanita Moore as Babs’ fellow mental patients. Stanwyck and Sanders help elevate this somewhat derivative entry in the “Woman in Jeopardy” noir subcategory. Fun Fact: The real star of WITNESS TO MURDER is DP John Alton, whose dark cinematography can be found in classics like HE WALKED BY NIGHT, RAW DEAL , and THE BIG COMBO .
GUN THE MAN DOWN (United Artists 1956; D: Andrew V. McLaglen) – Big Jim Arness, TV’s heroic Marshal Dillon on GUNSMOKE, turns to the dark side as a bank robber who’s shot and left for dead by his compadres, who drag his woman along with them to boot! Patched up by a posse and sent to prison, he does his time and returns years later seeking revenge. A routine but very well made Western, as well it should be – director McLaglen was a sagebrush specialist, as was screenwriter Burt Kennedy , cinematographer William Clothier was a favorite of John Ford, and the producer was none other than The Duke himself, John Wayne ! The cast is peppered with sagebrush vets like Harry Carey Jr., Robert Wilke, Don Megowan, and Emile Meyer. A minor outing with major talent before and behind the cameras that’s sure to please any Western buffs. Fun Fact: A brunette Angie Dickinson is given an “introducing” credit as Arness’ love interest (though it’s actually her fourth credited film); three years later, she costarred with Wayne in the classic RIO BRAVO .
NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS (MGM 1971; D: Dan Curtis) – Second feature film spinoff of the popular 60’s Gothic soap opera (following HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS ) sans Jonathan Frid (the vampire Barnabas) and Joan Bennett (matriarch Elizabeth), but featuring many of the show’s cast – David Selby, Kate Jackson, Lara Parker, Grayson Hall, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, Chris Pennock, Thayer David – in a tale about ghosts and reincarnation, revolving around the beautiful but evil 19th Century witch Angelique (Parker). This underrated entry is slow to develop, building with an unsettling sense of dread; worth sticking with for horror buffs. Feature film debut for Jackson, who got her start on the soap before rocketing to stardom as one of TV’s original CHARLIE’S ANGELS, and the later hit series SCRECROW AND MRS. KING. Fun Fact: Robert Cobert’s appropriately eerie score incorporates several familiar music cues from the show, including the haunting “Quentin’s Theme”, which became a #13 hit in the Summer of ’69 for The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde:
I haven’t done one of these posts in a while, and since my DVR is heading towards max capacity, I’m way overdue! Everyone out there in classic film fan land knows about TCM’s annual “Summer Under the Stars”, right? Well, consider this my Winter version, containing a half-dozen capsule reviews of some Hollywood star-filled films of the past!
PLAYMATES (RKO 1941; D: David Butler ) – That great thespian John Barrymore’s press agent (Patsy Kelly) schemes with swing band leader Kay Kyser’s press agent (Peter Lind Hayes) to team the two in a Shakespearean festival! Most critics bemoan the fact that this was Barrymore’s final film, satirizing himself and hamming it up mercilessly, but The Great Profile, though bloated from years of alcohol abuse and hard living, seems to be enjoying himself in this fairly funny but minor screwball comedy with music. Lupe Velez livens things up as Barrymore’s spitfire girlfriend, “lady bullfighter” Carmen Del Toro, and the distinguished May Robson slices up the ham herself as Kay’s Grandmaw. Kay’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge bandmates are all present (Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, Ish Kabbible), and the songs are decent, like the flag-waving “Thank Your Lucky Stars and Stripes” and the ambitious “Romeo Smith and Juliet Jones” production number finale. Yes, it’s sad to watch the looking-worse-for-wear-and-tear Barrymore obviously reading off cue cards, but on the whole, it’s not as bad as some would have you believe. Fun Fact: This was Barrymore’s only opportunity to perform ‘Hamlet’s Soliloquy’ on film – and The Great Profile nails it!
THE MCGUERINS FROM BROOKLYN (Hal Roach/United Artists 1942; D: Kurt Neumann ) – In the early 1940’s, comedy pioneer Hal Roach tried out a new format called “Streamliners”, movies that were longer than short subjects but shorter than a feature, usually running less than an hour to fill the bill for longer main attractions. He cast William Bendix and Joe Sawyer as a pair of dumb but likeable lugs who own a successful cab business in BROOKLYN ORCHID, and THE MCGUERINS FROM BROOKLYN was the second in the series. If the other two are funny as this, count me in! Bendix, warming up for his later LIFE OF RILEY TV sitcom, gets in hot water with his wife Grace Bradley when she catches him in a compromising position with sexy new stenographer Marjorie Woodworth, and complications ensue, complete with bawdy good humor and slapstick situations. Max Baer Sr. plays a fitness guru hired by Grace to make Bendix jealous, and character actors Arline Judge (Sawyer’s girl), Marion Martin, Rex Evans, and a young Alan Hale Jr. all get to participate in the chaos. It’s nothing special, but if you like this kind of lowbrow humor (and I do!), you’ll enjoy this fast-paced piece of silliness. Fun Fact: Grace Bradley, playing Bendix’s ex-burlesque queen wife Sadie, was the real-life wife of cowboy star William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd.
A DANGEROUS PROFESSION (RKO 1949; D: Ted Tetzlaff) – The plot’s as generic as the title of this slow-moving crime drama starring George Raft as Pat O’Brien’s bail bond business partner, whose ex-girlfriend Ella Raines’ husband is arrested for stock swindling and winds up dead. The star trio were all on the wane at this juncture in their careers, and former DP Tetzlaff’s pedestrian handling of the low rent material doesn’t help matters; he did much better with another little crime film later that year, THE WINDOW . Jim Backus plays Raft’s pal, a hard-nosed cop (if you can picture that!). Fun Fact: Raft and O’Brien were reunited ten years later in Billy Wilder’s screwball comedy SOME LIKE IT HOT.
THE LAST HUNT (MGM 1956; D: Richard Brooks) – Writer/director Brooks has given us some marvelous movies (BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, THE PROFESSIONALS , IN COLD BLOOD), but this psychological Western is a minor entry in his fine canon. Buffalo hunter Robert Taylor partners with retired Stewart Granger for one last hunt, and personality conflicts result. Taylor’s character is a nasty man who gets aroused by killing, while Granger suffers from PTSD after years of slaughter. Things take a wrong turn when Taylor kills a white buffalo, considered sacred by Native Americans. There are many adult themes explored (racial prejudice, gun violence, the aftereffects of war), but for me personally, the film was too slowly paced to put it in the classic category. Lloyd Nolan steals the show as the grizzled veteran skinner Woodfoot, and the movie also features Debra Paget as an Indian maiden captured by Taylor, and young Russ Tamblyn as a half-breed who Granger takes under his wing. An interesting film, with beautiful location filming from DP Russel Harlan, but Brooks has done better. Fun Fact: Those shots of buffalo being killed are real, taken during the U.S. Government’s annual “thinning of the herds”, so if you’re squeamish about watching innocent animals being slaughtered for no damn good reason, you’ll probably want to avoid this movie.
QUEEN OF BLOOD (AIP 1966; D: Curtis Harrington ) – The Corman Boys (Roger and Gene) took a copious amount of footage from the Russian sci-fi films A DREAM COME TRUE and BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN, then charged writer/director Harrington with building a new movie around them! The result is a wacky, cheesy, but not completely bad film with astronauts John Saxon , Judi Meredith, and a pre-EASY RIDER Dennis Hopper sent to Mars by International Institute of Space Technology director Basil Rathbone in the futuristic year 1990 to find a downed alien spacecraft. There, they discover the ship’s sole survivor, a green-skinned, blonde-haired beauty with a beehive hairdo (Florence Marly) who’s an insect-based lifeform that feeds on human blood like a sexy mosquito! Sure, it’s silly, and the cheap sets don’t come close to matching the spectacular Soviet footage, but I’ve always found this to be a fun little drive-in flick. Harrington’s good friend, FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND Editor Forrest J Ackerman , appears at the end as one of Rathbone’s assistants, carrying a crate of the alien’s glowing red eggs! Fun Fact: There are also some recognizable names behind the scenes: future director Stephanie Rothman (IT’S A BIKINI WORLD, THE STUDENT NURSES, THE VELVET VAMPIRE) is listed as associate producer, AMERICAN GRAFFITI and STAR WARS producer Gary Kurtz is credited as production manager, and actor Karl Schanzer (SPIDER BABY, BLOOD BATH, DEMENTIA 13) worked in the art department!
THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (AIP 1972; D: Lee Frost) – A loopy low-budget Exploitation masterpiece that’s self-aware enough to know it’s bad and revel in it! Terminally ill scientific genius (and out-and-out racist) Ray Milland has only one way to survive – by having his head grafted onto the body of black death row convict Rosey Grier! Then the fun begins as the Rosey/Ray Thing escapes, the Rosey side setting out to prove his innocence while the Ray side struggles for control. This wonderfully demented movie has it all: an extended car chase that serves no purpose other than to smash up a bunch of cop cars, the Rosey/Ray Thing on a motorcycle, a two-headed ape (played by Rick Baker), a funky Blaxploitation-style score, and a cameo by Exploitation vet William Smith! Ray and the rest of the cast play it totally straight, making this a one-of-a-kind treat you don’t wanna miss! Fun Fact: Director Frost was also responsible for Exploitation classics like CHROME AND HOT LEATHER, THE BLACK GESTAPO, and DIXIE DYNAMITE.
Time to reach deep inside that trick-or-treat bag and take a look at what’s stuck deep in the corners. Just when you thought it was safe, here’s five more thrilling tales of terror:
YOU’LL FIND OUT (RKO 1940; D: David Butler) – Kay Kyser and his College of Musical Knowledge, for those of you unfamiliar…
…were a Swing Era band of the 30’s & 40’s who combined music with cornball humor on their popular weekly radio program. RKO signed them to a movie contract and gave them this silly but entertaining “old dark house” comedy, teaming Kay and the band (featuring Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, and the immortal Ish Kabibble!) with horror greats Boris Karloff , Bela Lugosi , and Peter Lorre . It’s got all the prerequisites: secret passageways, a creepy séance, and of course that old stand-by, the dark and stormy night! The plot has Kyser’s band hired for Helen Parrish’s 21st birthday party at said spooky mansion, with band manager Dennis O’Keefe as her love interest. Bela gets the juiciest part as flamboyant phony medium Prince Saliano, Boris is a shady family friend, and Lorre his usual sinister self. Alma Kruger plays Helen’s aunt who’s into spiritualism, which sets things in motion, and bumbling Kay gets to solve the mystery. Nothing earth-shaking going on here, but fun for fans of the Terror Trio. Fun Fact: The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Song, “I’d Know You Anywhere”, written by Jimmy McHugh and Johnny Mercer, and sweetly sung onscreen by Ginny Simms, who had a brief film career of her own after leaving the band in 1941.
THE LEOPARD MAN (RKO 1943; D: Jacques Tourneur) – One of producer Val Lewton’s most unheralded films, chock full of his trademark use of sound and shadows. A black leopard gets loose from nightclub performer Jean Brooks’ act, and a series of gruesome murders follow in a small New Mexico town. This tense, gripping ‘B’ is loaded with eerie scenes; I especially liked the one in which a young girl gets locked in a cemetery and stalked by the killer cat (or is it a human – the movie will keep you guessing!). Dennis O’Keefe is Jean’s publicity agent whose stunt goes awry, Margo (later married to Eddie Albert) a castanet-clicking dancer/victim, and Isabel Jewell shines as a Gypsy card reader. Mark Robson’s marvelous editing job on this and Lewton’s CAT PEOPLE got him promoted to the director’s chair for THE SEVENTH VICTIM later that year. This chilling horror-noir doesn’t get the attention of other Lewton films, but deserves a much larger audience. Fun Fact: Based on the novel “Black Alibi” by prolific pulp author Cornell Woolrich, whose many books and short stories were made into film noir classics.
THE DISEMBODIED (Allied Artists 1957; D: Walter Grauman) – Ice Princess of Horror Allison Hayes IS Tonda, jungle voodoo queen in this low-budget shocker that wasn’t as bad as I expected, far as jungle voodoo epics go. Paul Burke costars as a filmmaker who brings his wounded friend to Allison’s doctor husband John Weingraf’s jungle compound, but let’s face it – the main reason to watch this is Allison Hayes, thoroughly evil and sexy as hell! And that memorably sensuous voodoo dance she performs…
Hot Damn! She’s the whole show in this minor chiller directed by Walter Grauman, who later helmed 1964’s LADY IN A CAGE and tons of TV (including 53 episodes of MURDER, SHE WROTE). Fun Fact: Weingraf gets off the best line when he tells Allison, “There are only two places where you belong. The jungle – and the place where I first found you!”. Burn!!!
BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (Filmgroup 1959; D: Monte Hellman) – An uneven blend of the horror and crime genres courtesy of the Corman Brothers finds crook Frank Wolff and his gang (including his perpetually soused moll Sheila Caroll) plotting a gold bar heist using an explosion at a mine as a diversion. Wolff and his cohorts (perennial Corman actor Wally Campo and Frank Sinatra’s cousin Richard!) use good-looking ski lodge instructor Michael Forest to lead them on a cross-country ski trip to make their getaway, but the blast awakens a not-so hideous monster from its slumber that tracks them down! First film for director Hellman has its moments, but the rock-bottom budget defeats him. Filmed on location in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Fun Fact: The unscary monster was designed and played by actor Chris Robinson, the original “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV” commercial ad guy!
HORROR HOTEL (Vulcan/Trans-Lux 1960; D: John Llewellyn Moxey) – Also known as CITY OF THE DEAD. New England 1692: accused witch Elizabeth Selwyn curses the town of Whitewood, MA as she’s burned at the stake. Present Day: college student Nan Barlow wants to do her term paper on witchcraft and devil worship, and is directed by her history professor Alan Driscoll to travel to his hometown of Whitewood for research. He even recommends she stay at The Raven’s Inn, run by Mrs. Newless (who bears a striking resemblance to Elizabeth!).
Nan immediately notices strange things about Whitewood: the fog-shrouded town doesn’t look like it’s changed in 200+ years, the townsfolk aren’t very friendly, the old reverend warns her “Leave Whitewood”, and weird noises emanate from the cellar. The only person who welcomes her is the reverend’s granddaughter Patricia, newly arrived herself and running an antique bookstore. Curiosity gets the best of her and… DON’T GO IN THAT BASEMENT, NAN!!
When Nan doesn’t return home after two weeks, her brother Ronald and boyfriend Bill become worried. Patricia, too, is worried, and pays a call on both Ronald and Prof. Driscoll. The men decide separately to go to Whitewood and investigate, and that’s when the fun really begins! This is probably Moxey’s best feature film, though he does have some good TV Movies on his resume (THE NIGHT STALKER, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, NIGHTMARE IN BADHAM COUNTY). Christopher Lee is dark and ominous as Driscoll, but it’s Patricia Jessel (A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM ) who stands out in a truly bloodcurdling performance as Elizabeth Selwyn/Mrs. Newless. The rest of the cast (Betta St. John, Valentine Dyall, Venitia Stevenson, Dennis Lotis) is equally good, and the British actors do a fine job maintaining their American accents. This incredibly creepy nightmare of a movie is an old favorite of mine, and highly recommended! Fun Fact: This was a Vulcan Production from Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky, who soon changed their company’s name to Amicus , premiere makers of horror anthologies in the 60’s & 70’s.
I know all of you, like me, will be watching tonight’s 89th annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and… wait, what’s that? You say you WON’T be watching the All-Star Game? You have no interest in baseball? Heretics!! But I understand, I really do, and for you non-baseball enthusiasts I’ve assembled a quartet of Pre-Code films to view as an alternative, starring some of the era’s most fabulous females. While I watch the game, you can hunt down and enjoy the following four films celebrating the ladies of Pre-Code:
DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON (Paramount 1931; D: Lloyd Corrigan) – Exotic Anna May Wong stars as Princess Ling Moy, an “Oriental dancer” and daughter of the infamous Dr. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland)! When Fu dies, Ling Moy takes up the mantle of vengeance against the Petrie family, tasked with killing surviving son Ronald. Sessue Hayakawa (BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI) plays Chinese detective Ah Kee, assigned to Scotland Yard to track down the last of Fu’s organization, who falls in love with Ling Moy. This was the last of a trilogy of films in which Oland portrays the fiendish Fu (1929’s THE MYSTERIOUS DR. FU MANCH, 1930’s TH RETURN OF FU MANCHU), and though he perishes early on, honorable daughter Wong is just as devious as dear old dad! Director Corrigan and cinematographer Victor Milner do some interesting work with shadows and light, overhead shots, and camera angles; though Corrigan is best remembered today as a character actor, he directed 12 features (and one short) between 1930 and 1937, and is quite good behind the camera. A film that’s structured like a serial, with secret passageways, sadistic tortures, and definite horror undertones, fans of Anna May Wong won’t want to miss it. Fun Fact: Bramwell Fletcher, who plays Ronald, was the actor who “died laughing” in 1932’s THE MUMMY .
MILLIE (RKO 1931; D: John Francis Dillon) – For a brief, shining moment in the early 1930’s, sad-eyed beauty Helen Twelvetrees was one of the Pre-Code Era’s most popular stars, gaining fame in a series of “women’s weepies”. MILLIE was my first chance to see this actress I’d heard so much about, and she excels as Millie Blake, who we first meet as an innocent college girl who marries rich Jack Maitland (Robert Ames), has a child, then discovers he’s a cheating cad. Getting a divorce (and giving up custody in the process), Millie’s next beau also turns out to be a two-timer, causing her to declare her independence from men and become a wild party girl. Years pass, and her now 16 year old daughter (Anita Louise) is almost compromised by one of Millie’s ex-lovers (John Halliday ), whom Mama Bear Millie shoots, leading to a scandalous trial. Joan Blondell and Lilyan Tashman are on hand as Millie’s golddigging pals (see picture above), and director John Francis Dillon knew his soapy stuff, having also guided Pre-Code ladies Ann Harding (GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST), Evelyn Brent (THE PAGAN LADY), and Clara Bow (CALL HER SAVAGE). MILLIE’s a bit dated (okay, more than a bit) and slow going in places, but Miss Twelvetrees made it all worthwhile. Fun Fact: Edward LeSaint plays the judge, and made a career out of magistrate roles; Three Stooges fans will recognize him from their 1934 short DISORDER IN THE COURT.
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MOLLY LOUVAIN (Warner Brothers 1932; D: Michael Curtiz ) – “I’m a pretty bad egg”, says Molly, but Ann Dvorak (SCARFACE, THREE ON A MATCH, HEAT LIGHTNING) is a pretty good actress, starring as poor working girl Molly, who gets pregnant and jilted, gives up her child, and hits the road with small-time crook Leslie Fenton. She leaves the bum to work in a dance hall, encountering naïve young Richard Cromwell. Fenton shows up, steals a car, kills a cop, gets shot himself, and Molly and the starry-eyed kid take it on the lam. Dubbed “the beautiful brunette bandit” by the press, Molly dyes her hair blonde, and the pair lay low… until fast-talking reporter Lee Tracy makes his appearance! There’s great chemistry between Dvorak and Tracy in this racy, double entendree-laden little movie, with a dynamite twist ending I did not see coming. It’s also packed with Familiar Faces: Ben Alexander, Louise Beavers, Richard Cramer, Guy Kibbee , Hank Mann, Frank McHugh , Charles Middleton, and Snub Pollard all pop up in small roles. This lightning-paced entry is an unjustly neglected Pre-Code gem that deserves a larger audience! Fun Fact: A newspaper headline misspells Molly’s last name as “Louvaine”.
SMARTY (Warner Brothers 1934; D: Robert Florey ) – Queen of Pre-Code Joan Blondell is back, and therapists would have a field day with her character of Vicki, a manipulative minx who equates being hit with being loved. Before you jump out of your skin, this is a romantic comedy – now you can jump! S& M overtones abound, and sexual innuendoes fly freely, as Joan’s incessant teasing of hubby Warren William (including a reference to “diced carrots”, obviously a penis size dig) leads him to slapping her face at a bridge party, and Joan winding up married to her divorce lawyer, Edward Everett Horton , who she also tortures into smacking her – but it’s a ploy to get back together with Warren! The censors must’ve been apoplectic viewing SMARTY, one of the last films in the Pre-Code cycle, as Joan also appears in various stages of undress, a voyeur’s delight. Despite the kinky subject matter, the movie is quite funny, with solid support from Claire Dodd, Frank McHugh, and Leonard Carey. Let me be clear: hitting women is NOT funny, but you’re doing yourself a disservice in letting that stop you from watching this outrageous screwball comedy. Fun Fact: Look fast for Dennis O’Keefe in one of his early, uncredited parts as a nightclub patron.
So I’ve been laid up with the flu/early stage pneumonia/whateverthehellitis for the past few days, which seemed like a good excuse to clean out the DVR by watching a bunch of random movies:
JIMMY THE GENT (Warner Brothers 1934; D: Michael Curtiz ) – Fast paced James Cagney vehicle has Jimmy as the head of a shady “missing heir” racket, with Bette Davis as his ex-girl, now working for his classy (but grabby!) rival Alan Dinehart. Allen Jenkins returns once again as Cagney’s sidekick, and Alice White is a riot as Jenkins’s ditzy dame. Some funny dialog by Bertram Milhauser in this one, coming in at the tail-end of the Pre-Code era. Cagney’s always worth watching, even in minor fare like this one. Fun Fact: Cagney’s battles with boss Jack Warner over better roles were legendary, and the actor went out and got a Teutonic-style haircut right before shooting began, just to piss the boss off!
DEAD MEN WALK (PRC 1943; D: Sam Newfield) – Perennial second stringer George Zucco starred in a series of shockers as PRC’s answer to Monogram’s Bela Lugosi series . Here he plays twins, one a good doctor, the other a vampire risen from the grave to enact his gruesome revenge. Despite the ultra-low budget (PRC made Monogram look like MGM!), it’s a surprisingly effective chiller due to some ingenious camerawork from Newfield. Much of the film’s plot elements are borrowed (some would say stolen) from Universal’s DRACULA , including casting Dwight Frye as the vampire’s loyal servant. Fun Fact: Romantic lead Nedrick Young later won a Best Story Oscar for Stanley Kramer’s 1958 THE DEFIANT ONES, which featured another horror icon, Lon Chaney Jr.
LADIES DAY (RKO 1943; D: Leslie Goodwins) – Broad baseball comedy (no pun intended) about star pitcher Eddie Albert , who is easily distracted by pretty women, falling for movie star Lupe Velez . They get hitched, and the other player’s wives band together to kidnap her and keep them apart so Eddie can concentrate on winning the World Series! Silly but enjoyable farce elevated by a cast of comic pros: Patsy Kelly, Iris Adrian , Joan Barclay, Max Baer Sr, Jerome Cowan , Cliff Clark, and Tom Kennedy (Nedrick Young’s in this one, too… a banner year for the actor!). Maybe not a classic, but a whole lot of fun, especially for baseball buffs like me. Fun Fact: Director Goodwins has a cameo as (what else?) a movie director.
MYSTERY STREET (MGM 1950; D: John Sturges ) – Tight little ‘B’ noir as a Boston bar girl’s (Jan Sterling) skeletal remains are discovered on Cape Cod, and police Lt. Ricardo Montalban tries to piece together the murder puzzle with the help of a Harvard forensics professor (Bruce Bennett) and some good old-fashioned detective work. Early effort from Sturges benefits from excellent John Alton photography and a script co-written by Richard Brooks . Elsa Lanchester is a standout as a blackmailing landlady among a strong cast (Betsy Blair, Walter Burke, Sally Forrest, Marshall Thompson, Willard Waterman). Fun Fact: Filmed in Boston, and many of the neighborhood sights are still recognizable almost 70 years later to those familiar with the Olde Towne.
THE STRANGLER (Allied Artists 1964; D: Burt Topper) – Lurid psychological thriller stars Victor Buono in his best screen performance as a sexually repressed, schizoid psycho-killer with a creepy doll fetish. Ellen Corby plays his domineering, invalid mother. Cheap, tawdry, sensationalistic, and definitely worth watching! Fun Fact: Lots of old horror hands worked behind the scenes on this one: DP Jacques Marquette (ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN ), Art Director Eugene Lourie (director of THE GIANT BEHEMOTH and GORGO), Editor Robert Eisen (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS ), and makeup man Wally Westmore (WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, WAR OF THE WORLDS).
HYSTERIA (MGM/Hammer 1965; D: Freddie Francis ) – This Hitchcockian homage gives character actor Robert Webber a rare starring role as an amnesia victim embroiled in a GASLIGHT-like murder plot. Director Francis’s keen eye for composition hide the budget restraints, and producer/writer Jimmy Sangster’s script pulls out all the stops, but I couldn’t help but wonder while watching what The Master of Suspense himself could have done with the material. As it is, a fine but minor piece of British noir with horror undertones. Fun Fact: Australian composer Don Banks’s jazzy score aids in setting the overall mood.
BEN (Cinerama 1972; D: Phil Karlson ) – Sequel to the previous year’s horror hit WILLARD is okay, but nowhere near the original. Crazy Bruce Davison is replaced by lonely little Lee Hartcourt Montgomery, an annoying kid (no wonder he’s lonely!) who befriends Ben and his creepy rat posse. The rodents cause havoc at the grocery (“Rats! Millions of ’em! At the supermarket!”) and a health spa in some too-brief scenes, but on the whole this looks and feels like a TV movie, right down to it’s small screen cast (Meredith Baxter, Joseph Campanella, Kaz Garas, Rosemary Murphy, Arthur O’Connell, Norman Alden). We do get genre vet Kenneth Tobey (THE THING ) in a bit as a city engineer, and the climax will remind you of THEM! , but like most sequels, this one fails to satisfy. Stick with the original. Fun Fact: Montgomery would grow out of his annoying stage and become an 80’s heartthrob in GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN.
And now, here’s Michael Jackson singing the cloying love theme from BEN at the film’s conclusion. Rats – yuchh!:
There’s a lot of good stuff being broadcast this month, so it’s time once again to make some room on the ol’ DVR. Here’s a quartet of capsule reviews of films made in that mad, mad decade, the 1960’s:
THE FASTEST GUITAR ALIVE (MGM 1967; D: Michael D. Moore) – MGM tried to make another Elvis out of rock legend Roy Orbison in this Sam Katzman-produced comedy-western. It didn’t work; though Roy possessed one of the greatest voices in rock’n’roll, he couldn’t act worth a lick. Roy (without his trademark shades!) and partner Sammy Jackson (TV’s NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS) peddle ‘Dr. Ludwig Long’s Magic Elixir’ in a travelling medicine show, but are really Confederate spies out to steal gold from the San Francisco mint to fund “the cause” in the waning days of the Civil War. The film’s full of anachronisms and the ‘comical Indians’ aren’t all that funny, but at least Roy gets seven decent tunes to sing. Familiar Faces Lyle Bettger, Iron Eyes Cody, John Doucette , Joan Freeman, and Douglas Kennedy try to help, but the story kind of just limps along. Worthwhile if you’re an Orbison fan, otherwise a waste of time. Fun Fact: Roy’s MGM Records label mate Sam the Sham (of “Wooly Bully” fame) has a small part as a guard at the mint.
KILL A DRAGON (United Artists 1967; D: Michael D. Moore) – Minor action yarn with ruthless Fernando Lamas out to hijack a load of nitroglycerine washed upon a small Japanese island, and the villagers hiring soldier-of-fortune Jack Palance to protect them and their bounty. Palance gives an engaging, tongue-in-cheek performance, Lamas makes an evil adversary, and Aldo Ray is among Jack’s mercenary crew… seeing Aldo in drag is something you won’t wanna miss!! Nothing special, but an adequate time filler for action fans. Fun Fact: Director Moore (who also helmed FASTEST GUITAR) was a former silent film child star (his first film was 1919’s THE UNPAINTED WOMAN, directed by Tod Browning ) who began working behind the scenes in the 1940’s. He became one of Hollywood’s highest regarded Assistant and Second Unit directors, and worked on films ranging from THE TEN COMMANDMENTS to GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, KING CREOLE, BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID, PATTON, EMPEROR OF THE NORTH, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (and it’s two subsequent sequels), and NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. His last was 2000’s 102 DALMATIONS before retirement; Moore passed away at age 98 in 2013. His contributions to Hollywood movies may be unsung, but for people like Cecil B. DeMille and Steven Spielberg, Michael “Mickey” Moore was the go-to guy for action scenes. Job well done, Mr. Moore!
PSYCH-OUT (AIP 1968; D: Richard Rush) – A Hippiesploitation classic! Susan Strasberg stars as a runaway deaf girl looking for her brother Bruce Dern in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love. She hooks up with pony-tailed rock musician Jack Nicholson and his bandmates (Adam Roarke, Max Julien) in a drug-soaked film full of far-out thrift store fashion, plenty of hippie-dippie jargon (“Peace and love, baby!”), LSD and STP induced nightmares, and classic rock from bands Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Seeds (featuring their immortal lead vocalist Sky Saxon!). A group called Boenzee Cryque (with future Poco members Rusty Young and George Grantham) plays a sideways instrumental version of “Purple Haze” called “Ashbury Wednesday” during Henry Jaglom’s trip scene, and the cast includes Dean Stockwell as a philosophical, groovy satyr, future producer/director Garry Marshall as a cop, and low-budget stalwarts John ‘Bud’ Cardos, Gary Kent, and Bob Kelljan in support. Director Richard Rush went on to films like THE STUNT MAN and COLOR OF NIGHT, and the cinematographer is none other than Laslo Kovacs (EASY RIDER, FIVE EASY PIECES, PAPER MOON). It’s a psychedelic artifact of its time, and a treat for exploitation fans. As Stockwell says, “Reality’s a deadly place”! Fun Fact: One of a handful of late 60’s youth films produced by the legendary Dick Clark, of TV’s AMERICAN BANDSTAND and NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN’ EVE fame.
THE BIG CUBE (Warner Brothers 1969; D: Tito Davison) – Glamorous Lana Turner plays a glamorous stage actress who marries rich Dan O’Herlihy against the wishes of his daughter Karin Mossberg. Dad drowns in a yachting accident, and daughter conspires with LSD-making gigolo George Chakiris to drive Lana mad by slipping acid in her sleeping pills! This awful attempt at mixing Lana’s Ross Hunter-era soap operas with 60’s “youth culture” features bad acting, a putrid script, heavy-handed direction, and is a total mess all around. Even the presence of Lana, O’Herlihy, Chakiris, and Richard Egan couldn’t stop this movie from stinking up my living room! No redeeming qualities whatsoever (except the fact that the wooden Miss Mossberg was never heard from again!) Fun Fact: As I sat watching this bomb, slack-jawed and shaking my head, I kept muttering to myself, “This is bad. Just… bad”. The film’s worse than a bad acid trip, but I stuck with it for this review. You have other options. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!
I hate to leave you on such a sour note, so here’s Roy Orbison doing “Pistolero” from Mickey Moore’s FASTEST GUITAR ALIVE! Take it away, Roy:
To take my mind off the sciatic nerve pain I was suffering last week, I immersed myself on the dark world of film noir. The following quartet of films represent some of the genre’s best, filled with murder, femme fatales, psychopaths, and sleazy living. Good times!!
I’ll begin chronologically with BOOMERANG (20th Century-Fox 1947), director Elia Kazan’s true-life tale of a drifter (an excellent Arthur Kennedy ) falsely accused of murdering a priest in cold blood, and the doubting DA (Dana Andrews ) who fights an uphill battle against political corruption to exonerate him. Filmed on location in Stamford, CT and using many local residents as extras and bit parts, the literate script by Richard Murphy (CRY OF THE CITY, PANIC IN THE STREETS, COMPULSION) takes a realistic look behind the scenes at an American mid-sized city, shedding light into it’s darker corners.
Andrews is solid as the honest DA who pumps the brakes when the politicians, fearing the wrath of the voters demanding action, pressure the police chief (Lee J. Cobb ) into arresting somebody – anybody – for the murder. But it’s Arthur Kennedy who steals the show as a down on his luck WWII veteran caught up in the hysteria, put on trial for a crime he didn’t commit so political hacks can save (as Mel Brooks would say ) their phoney-baloney jobs. The cast is loaded with marvelous actors, including Jane Wyatt as Andrews’ wife, Cara Williams as Kennedy’s bitter ex-girlfriend, Ed Begley as a shady pol, Sam Levene as a muckraking reporter, and a young Karl Malden as one of Cobb’s detectives. Cobb sums the whole thing up best: “Never did like politicians”. Amen to that, Lee J! BOOMERANG is a noir you won’t want to miss.
Director Nicholas Ray contributed a gem to the noir canon with IN A LONELY PLACE (Columbia 1950) . Noir icon Humphrey Bogart stars as Dixon Steele, a Hollywood screenwriter suspected of murdering a hat check girl. Steele has a violent history well-known to the police, but new neighbor Laurel Grey (another noir icon, Gloria Grahame ) provides him with an alibi. Bogart, as the obviously off-center writer who may or may not have killed the girl, goes deep into his dark side, giving one of his best screen performances – and that’s saying a lot! The viewer is never quite certain if Dixon Steele did the deed until the very end, as Bogart’s psycho scenarist keeps everyone off-balance.
Grahame is one cool customer at first, but as things progress and Bogart’s rage rises to the surface, she becomes more and more frightened of him. Grahame and Ray were married while making IN A LONELY PLACE, but the union was becoming unraveled by this time, and they would soon separate. Frank Lovejoy, whom I’ve always thought was a very underrated actor, plays Steele’s former Army buddy, now a cop on the case. I especially enjoyed Robert Warwick as Charlie Waterman, the alcoholic former screen star who relies on Steele for handouts. Other Familiar Faces include Carl Benton Reid, Morris Ankrum , Jeff Donnell, and famous restaurateur ‘Prince’ Michael Romanoff, a friend of Bogie’s playing (what else?) a restaurateur. If you love movies about the dark side of Hollywood, IN A LONELY PLACE is for you!
Joseph Losey’s THE PROWLER (United Artists 1951) gives us Van Heflin as an obsessed cop who falls for married Evelyn Keyes after responding to a peeping tom call. Heflin delivers a dynamite performance as the narcissistic ex-jock turned officer, unhappy with his lot in life, who has most everyone fooled he’s a “wonderful guy”. Keyes is alone most nights because her husband works the overnight shift as a disc jockey. After he tries (and fails) to put the make on her, he returns to apologize. The lonely housewife dances with him while the song “Baby” plays on the radio, cozying up cheek to cheek, and then… well, you know!
Heflin resorts to anything to get what he wants, including setting up Keyes’ hubby and shooting him. After being found innocent in a coroner’s inquiry, literally getting away with murder, he convinces her of his innocence and the two get married. Heflin buys a motel in Vegas, and is ready to live the American dream, but there’s a hitch to his plans when Keyes discovers she’s already four months pregnant, and her deceased hubby was impotent! Realizing questions will be re-raised regarding their relationship while she was married, the two take off to a deserted ‘ghost town’ in the desert to have the child, away from prying eyes. I won’t spoil the ending, except to say it packs a wallop! THE PROWLER is essential viewing for film noir lovers, written by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo under the name of “front” Hugo Butler (and as an inside joke, Losey hired Trumbo to provide the radio voice of Keyes’ disc jockey husband, without the knowledge of anyone involved!).
Last but certainly not least, we come to WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (RKO 1956), directed by the legendary Fritz Lang , who knew a thing or two about crafting film noir! Casey Robinson’s extremely cynical script shows us the power struggle at a New York newspaper, with whoever discovers the identity of “The Lipstick Killer” terrorizing the town being named Executive Director. The characters are sleazy and unlikable, with everyone sleeping with everyone else, and only the top-notch cast makes them palatable, led by Dana Andrews as a Pulitzer Prize-winning TV broadcaster, Thomas Mitchell as the sly old-school pro, George Sanders at his smarmy, sarcastic best, Vincent Price as the dilettante son who inherits a media empire, Rhonda Fleming as his slutty wife (who’s banging art director James Craig on the side), Sally Forrest as Sanders’ secretary in love with Andrews, Ida Lupino as a gossip columnist Sanders sics on Andrews to seduce him, and Howard Duff as the lead cop on the case. You can’t get much better than that cast!
As the sex-killer with mommy issues, John Drew Barrymore (billed a John Barrymore, Jr.) looks more like Elvis than he does his famous father. Barrymore’s career never reached the heights of his dad, mainly due to his excesses, and his was a tragic life. Towards the end, he was cared for by daughter Drew, who’s had quite a career of her own. WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS is arguably Lang’s last great film, with moody cinematography by the great Ernest Laszlo (DOA, KISS ME DEADLY ). With that cast, Robinson’s pessimistic script, and Lang’s deft direction, it’s another must-see for film noir fans. Oh yes, before I forget, if that stylized ‘K’ for Kyne, Inc. looks familiar, it’s because it’s leftover from another RKO film:
That’s right, CITIZEN KANE! Who says RKO didn’t get the most for their money?
More CLEANING OUT THE DVR:
Five Films From Five Decades
Five Films From Five Decades 2
Those Swingin’ Sixties!
B-Movie Roundup!
Fabulous 40’s Sleuths
All-Star Horror Edition!
Film Noir Festival
All-Star Comedy Break
Film Noir Festival Redux
Halloween Leftovers
Five From The Fifties
Too Much Crime On My Hands
All-Star Western Roundup!
Sex & Violence, 70’s Style!
Halloween Leftovers 2
Keep Calm and Watch Movies!
All last week, I was laid up with sciatic nerve pain, which begins in the back and shoots down my left leg. Anyone who has suffered from this knows how excruciating it can be! Thanks to inversion therapy, where I hang upside down three times a day on a table like one of Bela Lugosi’s pets in THE DEVIL BAT , I’m feeling much better, though not yet 100%.
Fortunately, I had a ton of movies to watch. My DVR was getting pretty full anyway, so I figured since I could barely move, I’d try to make a dent in the plethora of films I’ve recorded.., going all the way back to last April! However, since I decided to go back to work today, I realize I won’t have time to give them all the full review treatment… and so it’s time for the first Cleaning Out the DVR post of 2018!
We begin with BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA (American-International, 1972), a Philippine-made “Women in Prison” entry by director Eddie Romero, the Roger Corman of the Philippines. Blaxploitation Queen Pam Grier stars as a feisty American hooker who escapes from your typical brutal jungle prison chained to rich white revolutionary Margaret Markov. If you’re expecting something along the lines of 1957’s THE DEFIANT ONES, forget it! Instead, strap yourselves in for lots of nudity (including the obligatory shower scene!), violence, torture, and a tongue planted firmly in cheek. For example, Pam and Margaret jump a pair of nuns and steal their habits in order to make their getaway!
Besides WIP veterans Grier (THE BIG DOLL HOUSE, etc) and Markov (THE HOT BOX), the film features the immortal Sid Haig , who’s a riot as a redneck cowboy bounty hunter hired by the local gendarmes to hunt the girls down, dead or alive! I always enjoy Sid in roles large or small, and here he plays this crazy cracker to the hilt! Also in the cast is Vic Diaz, a mainstay of these Filipino exploitation classics, as the ruthless drug lord ripped off by Pam, who’s also hunting our heroines. Lynn Borden is the horny prison matron who peeps on the girls, and wants a piece of Pam pie! BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA is a must for genre fans, who’ll love the violent’n’bloody climax!
From the Philippines, we travel to Spain for the Eurowestern THE TEXICAN (Columbia 1966), a strange hybrid of traditional and Spaghetti styles directed by sagebrush veteran Lesley Selander. This was Audie Murphy’s first and only foray into the Spaghetti genre, and his next-to-last film. and though he’s a little more clean-cut than most Spaghetti protagonists, he fits in with the material just fine (as a side note, Murphy was one of many Western stars who turned down Sergio Leone’s A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS , for which Clint Eastwood is eternally grateful!).
Audie’s still very youthful looking at age 41; unfortunately, the same can’t be said for costar Broderick Crawford, playing the villain who kills Murphy’s brother and triggers this revenge tale. Crawford, at age 55, looks mighty dissipated due to his years of heavy drinking, though it’s still fun to watch him snarl and growl his way through the role of mean town boss Luke Starr. Spaghetti regular Aldo Sambrell appears as Crawford’s right-hand gunman, adding his own brand of ‘foreign’ menace. Nico Fidenco’s score aids in setting the film’s mood, and the showdown in the swirling sandstorm street, followed by final retribution in Crawford’s saloon, is well staged by Selander. If you’re not an Audie Murphy and/or Spaghetti Western fan, you’ll probably want to pass, but those of you who are (and include me in that number) will enjoy this minor entry in the genre’s canon.
GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE (Entertainment Pyramid 1972) was a surprisingly effective low-budget chiller I’d never heard of before. It starts in 1940, as two college kids are making out in a cemetery, when a crypt opens and vampire Caleb Croft attacks, killing the boy and raping the girl. This macabre opening sets the stage as the girl later gives birth to a strange little baby who prefers blood over milk! From there, we flash-forward to the 70’s, as the child (now a grown-up William Smith ) seeks to destroy his unholy father, working at the local university under the name Prof. Adam Lockwood. In reality, Croft/Lockwood is Charles Croyden, an 1800’s nobleman whose wife Sarah was burned at the stake in Salem. Lynn Peters plays student Anne, and of course she’s a dead (no pun intended) ringer for Sarah. Michael Pataki makes a pretty fierce vampire, Smith is always fun to watch, and the film even manages to sneak in a Bela Lugosi reference! Creepy and atmospheric, GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE should be on any horror buff’s must-watch list.
Another surprise was RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP (AIP 1967), one of many Hippiesploitation flicks the studio made during those fabulous 60’s. Aldo Ray stars as Lt. Walt Lorimer, trying to keep the peace between the establishment forces and the kids on the Strip. Walt’s the voice of reason… until his daughter Andy (Mimsy Farmer) is given an LSD-spiked soda at a party and gang-raped by five punks. Mimsy’s interpretive “freak-out” dance is a sight to behold! The movie also features an overacting Anna Mizrahi as Andy’s pink-haired lush of a mom… perhaps she should’ve picked up some acting pointers from husband Lee Strasberg.
The surprise part came for me when some of the great garage bands of the era performed. The Standells (of “Dirty Water” fame) do the title tune, featuring lead singer/drummer/ex-Mouseketeer Dickie Dodd and Russ Tamblyn’s younger brother Larry. There’s The Chocolate Watch Band, who sound like a punk Rolling Stones, and The Enemies, fronted by future Three Dog Night vocalist Cory Wells. The movie has some footage from the actual ’66 riot spliced in, and on the whole is pretty well done for this sort of thing. A psychedelic artifact definitely worth a look.
Last but not least, Roger Corman’s BLOODY MAMA (AIP 1970) is one of the onslaught of gangster epics churned out after the success of 1967’s BONNIE & CLYDE. This one’s a cut above thanks to Corman and star Shelley Winters , giving a bravura performance as the infamous Kate “Ma” Barker without going over the top… well, not too far, anyway! Ma and her cretinous brood (Don Stroud, Robert DeNiro, Robert Wolders, Clint Kimbrough) rob, murder, rape, and kidnap their way to the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list before the carnage-filled finale, with Bruce Dern , Diane Varsi , and Pat Hingle joining them along the way.
Young Mr. DeNiro plays dope fiend son Lloyd in one of his earliest pictures. In fact, this may very well be his first gangster role! It also marks the feature debut of cinematographer John A. Alonso, who went on to lens VANISHING POINT , LADY SINGS THE BLUES, CHINATOWN, FAREWELL MY LOVELY, SCARFACE, and many other films of note. BLOODY MAMA’s got a lot going for it, and Corman has said it’s his favorite among the many films he’s made.
There are a lot more movies I watched while sidelined, and more Cleaning Out the DVR to come! Next time, we’ll return to the dark world of film noir!
Halloween (and ‘Halloween Havoc!’) may have come and gone, but for horror fans every day’s Trick or Treat! Here are 5 fright films scraped from the bottom of this year’s candy bag:
THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (United Artists 1956; D: Edward Nassour and Ismael Rodriguez) – This US/Mexican coproduction stars Guy Madison (TV’s WILD BILL HICKOCK) and Patricia Medina (PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE) up against a giant prehistoric Allosaurus in the Old West. The movie starts as just another standard Western until the three-quarter mark, when the beast finally makes his appearance. Jack Rabin’s cartoonish special effects can’t hold a candle to the great Willis O’Brien , who’s given credit for the film’s story idea (later remade as the much better VALLEY OF GWANGI ). Good as Saturday matinée kiddie fare, nothing more. Fun Fact: Patricia Medina was the wife of actor Joseph Cotten, who made quite a few horror flicks later in his career.
THE DEADLY MANTIS (Universal-International 1957; D; Nathan Juran) – Another William Alland-produced sci-fi flick from the fabulous 50’s, coming at the end of the ‘Big Bug’ cycle, involving a prehistoric Praying Mantis awakened from its frozen slumber to wreak havoc across North America. Air Force Colonel Craig Stevens teams with paleontologist William Hopper and pretty magazine reporter Alix Talton to stop the flesh-eating terror – mainly by talking it to death! Some of the Arctic set scenes are reminiscent of Howard Hawks’ THE THING, but don’t get your hopes up, this film’s nowhere near that classic. This ‘Big Bug’ is a Big Bore! Fun Fact: Director Juran won an Oscar for his art direction on 1942’s HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, and his later directorial credits include a pair of sci-fi hoots from 1958: THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS and the immortal ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN!
INDESTRUCTiBLE MAN (Allied Artists 1956; D: Jack Pollexfen) – Lon Chaney Jr stars as Butcher Benton, an executed convict brought back to life via a massive dose of electric current, giving him superhuman strength in this horror/crime hybrid. Chaney, looking pretty ragged due to his alcoholism at this point in his life, does well in a mostly mute role as the murderous Butcher seeking revenge on the double-crossing rats who sold him out, giving an athletic, energetic performance. Dad would’ve been proud! The rest of the cast is game, but hampered by the ultra-low budget and somewhat silly dialog (“You rotten, stinkin’ mouthpiece!”). Casey Adams (later known as Max Showalter) plays the detective on the case, narrating a’la DRAGNET’s Joe Friday, and Robert Shayne (SUPERMAN’s Inspector Henderson) and Joe Flynn (MCHALE’S NAVY’s Capt. Binghampton) are the biochemists who revive the Butcher. The macho script was written by two women, Vy Russell and Sue Bradford, who also penned the 1963 cult classic MONSTROSITY! Not a great film, but not all that bad; Chaney fans will definitely want to take a look. Fun Fact: DP John Russell (Vy’s husband) was also the cinematographer on another horror film of note – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece PSYCHO!
BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA (Embassy 1966; D: William Beaudine) – The Count goes West to battle a reformed Billy the Kid in this no-budget piece of dreck. John Carradine reprises his role of Dracula from his Universal days, but even at his most demonic can’t save this juvenile schlockfest (though his crazed hypnotic eyes are pretty scary!). It features the cheeziest rubber bat this side of THE DEVIL BAT , and is padded with plenty o’stock footage. The acting, script, and direction are all rock bottom, making this fail as both a Western AND a horror movie. Yet somehow, the producer enticed veterans like Roy Barcroft, Marjorie Bennett, Harry Carey Jr and his mom Olive Carey , Virginia Christine, and Bing Russell to appear. Must’ve done a casting call at the unemployment office that week! The film was shot in just 5 days – and it shows! Fun Fact: This was the last feature for both director Beaudine and Miss Carey, both of whom started their film careers at the dawn of motion pictures (Beaudine in 1915, Olive Carey in 1913).
SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM (AIP 1973; D: Bob Kelljan) – This much maligned sequel isn’t as bad as some claim, just not as good as the original. William Marshall is back as the undead Prince Mamuwalde aka BLACULA , and Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier plays a voodoo cult priestess! There’s some neat touches updating the usual vampire tropes for the 70’s Blaxploitation crowd, and a decent supporting cast (Michael Conrad, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Lawson, Don Mitchell, Lynn Moody, Barbara Rhodes). A fun little fear flick that’s better than it’s reputation. Fun Fact: Director Bob Kelljan also helmed another AIP vampire sequel, 1971’s THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA.
See you next October, fright fans!
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Aldo Ray (born Aldo Da Re; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor. Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl in Northampton County in eastern Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino and Louis) and one sister (Regina). (His brother, Mario Da...
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Aldo Ray (born Aldo Da Re; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl in Northampton County in eastern Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino and Louis) and one sister (Regina). (His brother, Mario Da Re (1933–2010), lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954. On the May 12, 1955 edition of Groucho Marx's NBC-TV quiz show You Bet Your Life Mario appeared as a contestant.[1] His family moved to the small town of Crockett in northern California when Aldo was four years old; his father worked as a laborer at the C & H Sugar Refinery, the largest employer in the town. He attended John Swett High School, where he made the football team; he also coached swimming.[2]
In 1944, at age 18, during World War II, Aldo entered the United States Navy, serving as a frogman until 1946; he saw action at Okinawa with UDT-17. Upon leaving the Navy in May 1946 he returned to Crockett. He studied and played football at Vallejo Junior College, then entered the University of California at Berkeley to study political science. (Ray later described himself as an "arch conservative" and a "right winger".[3]) He left college in order to run for the office of Constable of the Crockett Judicial District in Contra Costa County California. "I always knew I was going to be a big man but I thought it was going to be in politics", he said.[4]
Acting career: Saturday's Hero[]
In April 1950 Columbia Studios sent a unit to San Francisco to look for some athletes to appear in a film they were making called Saturday's Hero (1951). Aldo's brother Guido saw an item in the San Francisco Chronicle about the auditions and asked his brother to drive him there. Director David Miller was more interested in Ray than his brother because of his voice; also, Ray was comfortable talking to the camera due to his political experience. He later recalled, "They...said 'What's wrong with your voice kid? Are you sick? If you're sick you don't belong here.' I said, 'No, no, no, this is the way I've always spoken.' And they loved it."[3] Ray would later retell this story in the trailer for Pat and Mike.
Ray signed a contract and was sent to Los Angeles for a screen test. He was cast in the small role of a cynical college football player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed.[5]
Ray worked on the film between the primary and general elections. He was elected constable on 6 June. "I was 23 and a sort of child bride to the voters", he later said.[5] "The guy I ran against was a 16-year incumbent, and I destroyed him with 80 percent of the vote! I was going to work my way up to the U.S. Senate, see, and I would've, too."[6]
Columbia picked up their option on Ray's services, and signed him to a seven-year contract. "Of all the people in the picture they took up only one option – mine", he said. "And I said, 'thank you, good bye. I'm going home where I can be a big fish in my small pond. You can take this town (Hollywood) and shove it."[3]
Columbia refused to release him from his contract and put him under suspension, giving him a leave of absence to work as constable. "I told them I couldn't care less, they could give me whatever they wanted", he said.[3] Ray started his new job in November 1950.
Hollywood stardom: The Marrying Kind[]
After several months Ray found "the quiet life... monotonous",[5] so he contacted Max Arnow, talent director at Columbia, and expressed interest in appearing in more movies. Four weeks later Arnow called back, saying Columbia wanted to audition Ray for a small part in Judy Holliday's new movie, The Marrying Kind.
Ray went to Hollywood and did a screen test with the director, George Cukor. The first test went badly but head of Columbia Harry Cohn liked Ray and asked for another test. The second one was done opposite Jeff Donnell, who Ray later married; it was more successful and Ray ended up being cast in the lead.[5]
Harry Cohn felt the name "Aldo Da Re" was too close to "Dare" and wanted to change it to "John Harrison"; the actor refused and "Aldo Ray" was the compromise.[7] He divorced his wife and resigned as constable in September 1951. His wage was $200 a week.[6]
Cukor famously suggested that Ray go to ballet school because he walked too much like a football player. The director later talked about the actor:
He has a great advantage: the way his eyes are made. The light comes into them. There are certain people who have opaque eyes which refuse to catch the light. But his eyes had a certain glow and gave quite well in the photographed result. He did this silent scene very well lying there on the bed in the same room with Judy (Holliday). Then later he did comedy scenes with her–very difficult ones–and there were also emotional sequences where he broke down and cried. They were brilliant.[8]
"Cukor is hypersensitive to reality", recalled Ray. "He told me exactly what to do and why. He explains everything and he knows exactly what he wants."[9] Ray's performance was much praised. Sight and Sound later wrote:
To give the performance he did in The Marrying Kind after so little previous experience was clear evidence that in Aldo Ray the screen had discovered one of its rare "naturals". This was no carefully edited, tricked out performance, but a strikingly sincere and imaginative interpretation: an exceptional talent responding to a finely intuitive director... There was about him none of the personality assurance that extracts a special consideration of the actor as distinct from his role.[10]
Cukor then cast Ray in a support role in Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Ray's work in Pat and Mike led to his nomination, along with Richard Burton and Robert Wagner, for a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer. Burton won the award that year, but Ray's career was launched. He says after two films with Cukor "I never needed direction again."[11]
Ray said Spencer Tracy told him, "'Kid, I don't know what it is that you got, and I got, and some of us have, but you can work in this business forever.' That made me feel good, you know, coming from a guy like him. I never bowed down to anybody at Columbia or anywhere else, but my overall idea was, I'll do whatever they tell me because it's their business, not mine, and I've got to learn it."[6]
Columbia leading man[]
Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn liked Ray and wanted him for the role of Private Robert Prewitt in From Here to Eternity (1953) but Fred Zinnemann insisted Montgomery Clift be cast.[12] However other good roles followed instead. ""Because of Harry, all my first pictures were big hits, tremendously popular", Ray recalled.[6]
In 1953, he starred opposite Jane Wyman in Let's Do It Again, then followed this acting opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953), a remake of the W. Somerset Maugham story Rain. He also appeared in a production of Stalag 17 at La Jolla Playhouse.[13]
Ray was loaned to Warner Bros to appear in Battle Cry (1955). This was directed by Raoul Walsh who would be one of Ray's favourite directors. The film was a big hit at the box office – probably the most popular movie Ray ever made – although it led to him being typecast.
"In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in", reflected Ray later. "There were no sophisticated roles for me. I never seemed to get past master sergeant, though I always thought of myself as upper echelon."[14]
Clash with Columbia[]
Ray was meant to appear in My Sister Eileen as The Wreck but walked off the set claiming his role was too small, and had to be replaced by Dick York.[15]
Battle Cry was a big hit at the box office so Columbia gave Ray a lead role as a sergeant who marries a Japanese girl in Three Stripes in the Sun (originally The Gentle Wolfhound), then loaned him to Paramount for We're No Angels (1955), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Joan Bennett.
Ray was profiled in Sight and Sound which said:
Aldo Ray's technical advance in the four years since The Marrying Kind enables him now to work in subtler, more economical degree; there is an authoritative reserve- and, still remarkably intact, the original rare lack of ostentation. All the same, his career seems to have become a nomadic drifting round the studios looking for the right kind of film. The good humour, the lenitive smile, the frog in the throat voice betray nothing of the disappointment the actor must feel after such exciting beginnings under Cukor's guidance.[10]
Ray was meant to appear in Jubal but refused, because Columbia had made a profit on his loan outs for Battle Cry and We're No Angels but not paid Ray a bonus; Rod Steiger took the role instead.[16] Ray was put on suspension.[17]
Ray then refused to appear in Beyond Mombassa because he did not want to go on location. This led to him being replaced by Cornel Wilde and put under suspension again. However the situation was resolved when he agreed to make Nightfall (1957), playing an artist who encounters a pair of ruthless bank robbers.[18]
In 1956, in between appearances in Three Stripes In The Sun and Men in War, Ray tried his hand at radio, working as a personality and announcer at Syracuse, New York hit music station WNDR. A photo of Ray with a colleague in the WNDR studios, taken as part of a station promotional package, survives and can be found on a WNDR tribute website, although it's not known if any aircheck tapes of his radio shows still exist. By 1957, in any event, he had left WNDR and the radio business and returned to Hollywood.
On January 31, 1957, Ray appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He and Tennessee Ernie Ford did a comedy skit from a foxhole.[19]
Two with Anthony Mann[]
Columbia loaned out Ray to Security Pictures (who released through United Artists) to appear in Men in War (1957), opposite Robert Ryan; it was directed by Anthony Mann, who became Ray's favourite director. Ray was given 5% of the profits which he later estimated at having earned him $70,000.[6]
Ray was reunited with Security Pictures, Ryan and Mann to star in God's Little Acre (1958), an adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's controversial novel directed by Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Tina Louise.
By the seventh year of his contract with Columbia Ray was earning $750 a week. He later said for the first ten years of his career he made less than $100,000.[3] He expressed interest in producing his own vehicle, The Magic Mesa from a script by Burt Kennedy, but it was not made.[20]
Instead Ray appeared in The Naked and the Dead, an adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel, directed by Raoul Walsh. It was produced by Paul Gregory who said:
Aldo Ray was drunk the entire time. He was a very sweet guy, but he was gone. He drank drank drank. Raoul Walsh would say, "Let's get him in the morning cause in the afternoon it's over."... I just could not get used to it, actors who got all this money and then didn't behave professionally. The English actors have classical training. They perform like professionals. You take someone like Aldo Ray who was just picked up and catapulted into stardom, and then he was just a sponge for booze. He killed himself drinking, not living up to his moral contract.[21]
Ray later admitted producers were scared off casting him in projects due to his drinking.[3]
Leaving Columbia[]
Ray had been popular with Harry Cohn because, in the actor's words, "He took no shit from anybody and he saw that I was that kind of a guy, too."[2] But when Cohn died in 1958, Columbia elected not to renew Ray's contract and he decided to leave Hollywood. He later said "I never was an expatriate. I spent some time in England and Spain and Italy but I was never out of this country [the US] longer than six months."[22]
He starred in 1959 in Four Desperate Men (The Siege of Pinchgut), filmed in Australia; it was the last movie produced by Ealing Studios (releasing through MGM), and a box office disappointment. He then appeared opposite Lucille Ball in an episode of Desilu Playhouse. He said he made more money from these two projects "than I'd made the whole eight years before."[6]
In 1959, Ray was cast as Hunk Farber in the episode, "Payment in Full" of the NBC western series, Riverboat. In the story line, Farber betrays his friend and employer to collect reward money, which he uses to court his girlfriend, Missy.[23]
Ray made The Day They Robbed the Bank of England in England and Johnny Nobody in Ireland. He later described his British sojourn as a "big mistake" because none of his British films were widely seen in America.[3]
"Everything went well until the end of '62 – then everything collapsed – including me", he later said. "I didn't take care of myself physically and mentally."[24]
He hired a press agent, started taking better care of himself physically and changed agents.[24]
Return to Hollywood[]
Ray returned to Hollywood in 1964. He had a small role in Sylvia (1965) and made a pilot for a TV series financed by Joe E. Levine, Steptoe and Son (an unsuccessful adaptation of the British TV series). "I feel I shall have a complete regeneration of my career", he said in 1965.[24]
He later appeared in What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round and Welcome to Hard Times. He also made several guest appearances on television.
In 1966 Ray claimed that "I've been turning down a lot of TV and B movies. I won't consider anything but important roles in important pictures."[9] He said he was "almost independently wealthy" having saved and invested wisely in real estate from the times when his fee was $100,000 a film. He was interested in returning to politics but not until he had made "at least" four more movies. "The ideal situation would be three films every two years."[9]
He formed his own company, Crockett Productions, and bought two original scripts that were not made: Soldares, by Edwin Gottlieb, about the search for Pancho Villa;[25] and Frogman, South Pacific, by William Zeck.[26]
His best-known work of the 1960s was his portrayal of Sergeant Muldoon, alongside John Wayne, in The Green Berets (1968).
Ray starred in Kill a Dragon shot in Hong Kong in 1966 and Suicide Commando shot in Rome and Spain in 1968. He also made two television pilots in the 1960s; neither was picked up.[citation needed]
Career decline[]
As the 1960s ended, Hollywood's appetite for Ray's machismo started to wane. Though he worked steadily in the 1970s, the quality of his roles diminished, and he was typically cast as gruff and gravelly rednecks.
In 1976 he said he was broke. He blamed this on his ex-wives and red tape that meant he could not develop his real estate properties. "I lost it all", he said. "And I am very very bitter about it.... The biggest mistake I ever made was discovering women. I only wish society had been as free and easy when I was coming along as it is today because if that had been the case I wouldn't have been married. Three women in my life utterly destroyed me."[22]
In 1979, Ray appeared in a pornographic movie, Sweet Savage, in a non-sexual role. Ray said later:
I wanted, I guess, to see what it was all about--a kind of half-assed adventure, you know? It was also a kind of vacation for me in a bad time--a nice location in Arizona--and I picked up a few thousand bucks. After it came out, a few people wagged their fingers at me--'Oh-ho-ho, you dirty dog'--but I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. They shot all the sex stuff after I'd flown back to L.A. I won the adult film Oscar for that, by the way, but somebody copped it.[27]
In 1981 Ray told a newspaper that his drinking was "under control" and "I think things are going to shoot straight up. I'm working on a deal now and if the picture is made my worries... are over... If things go the way I anticipate and I stay healthy I think I've got better years ahead of me than behind me."[3] He said he was open to a return to politics "if my movie career doesn't take off like I think it will."[3] He admitted being unhappy with his career saying "I think I should have gotten more good stuff."[3]
His career decline accelerated in the 1980s, and after being diagnosed with throat cancer, he accepted virtually any role that came his way to maintain his costly health insurance. He returned to Crockett in 1983.
Ray was originally cast in the role of Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel Dune, but was replaced by Patrick Stewart due to ongoing issues with alcoholism.
He made a number of films for Fred Olen Ray. "He'd give me $1000 in cash, pay my expenses, and I'd do a day's work", said Ray. "Somebody showed me one of his cassettes--'starring Aldo Ray'--but it was just a one-day job.... I needed money at the time, and Fred knew I needed a buck, so I did it. He exploited me, yeah, but I was ripe for it."[27]
Final years and death[]
In 1986 Ray's SAG membership was revoked when it was discovered he was acting in a non-union production, Lethal Injection.[6] However Ray still got his union pension and benefits. His fee at this stage was $5,000 a week.[27]
In 1989 he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor.
His last film was Shock 'Em Dead which was filmed in 1990 appearing with Traci Lords and Troy Donahue. The same year he was interviewed and said:
I regret that I don't have more control of my tongue and thoughts--because I speak too frankly and too honestly, and this world is not meant for frank and honest people. They don't mix. Reality is pretty phony... I'm in great shape--got all my energy and strength back. I had surgery on my neck last March, and after one more session of the chemo--that's 50 more hours--the doctors say I'll have it all beat. . .I'm not scared of dying--it's how I die that matters. I'd rather live one good year than ten crappy years. And I think I've got some good pictures ahead of me if I can find the right roles. There's plenty of good stuff left in me, you know?[27]
Ray remained in Crockett, with his mother and family and friends. On 19 February 1991 he was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez, 40 miles east of San Francisco. He died of complications from throat cancer and pneumonia on 27 March.[7][14] He was cremated and buried in Crockett, with a majority of the residents coming out to pay their respects.
Personal life[]
Ray was married several times:
Shirley Green. They had one child, a daughter named Claire.
Jeff (real name, Jean) Donnell (married 30 September 1954, divorced 1956)
British actress Johanna Bennet (married 1960, divorced 1967), who continues to work today under the name Johanna Ray, as a respected casting director. They had two sons and a daughter. Johanna Ray, a longtime collaborator with David Lynch, cast her son Eric Da Re with Aldo in Lynch's Twin Peaks series, as well as the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Legacy[]
Author Richard Matheson said that his best-known work, The Incredible Shrinking Man, was inspired by a scene in Aldo Ray's Let's Do It Again in which a character puts on someone else's hat and it sinks down past his ears; "I thought, what if a man put on his own hat and that happened?" he recounted in an interview for Stephen King's non fiction work Danse Macabre.[citation needed]
Quentin Tarantino says Aldo Ray would have been ideal casting for the character of Butch in Pulp Fiction (1994), and the look of Butch in the film (as played by Bruce Willis) was inspired by Ray.[28]
Brad Pitt's character in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds is a soldier named "Aldo Raine."
The Crockett Museum has a display depicting his life.
A profile in Movie Morlocks analysed Ray's appeal from the film Nightfall:
Nobody smokes a cigarette like Aldo Ray. There's no forethought involved. No effort to seduce or impress audiences with an exaggerated pose or gesture. Ray doesn’t have to pretend to be cool, threatening, bruised, battered or tough. He just is. And I find every unassuming gesture he makes utterly captivating. Aldo Ray has never been considered a great Hollywood actor in the traditional sense but his natural, unaffected performances often seemed to emerge from some unsettled place. You could frequently hear a genuine urgency in way he delivered his lines and his casual swagger told you he’d been around the block more than once. Whenever Ray erupted on screen it felt like you were watching a volcano explode and if you didn’t get out of the way it could easily swallow you up in a heavy flow of golden molten lava. Film historians often like to talk about the sea change that occurred in the 1950s, when actor's like Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando brought a new kind of sincerity to Hollywood. These highly trained method actors changed the way we appreciate and understand acting today and they’ve rightfully been recognized for their accomplishments. But there were other performers that unconsciously championed a new kind of natural approach to acting. And one of them was Aldo Ray.[8]
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Aldo Ray was born in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 25 September 1926. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, served as a US Navy frogman during WWII and saw action on Iwo Jima.
While constable of Crockett, California, he drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Idols in the Dust (1951). Director David Miller hired him for a small role as a cynical football player. Ray's husky frame, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough sexy roles. He was the star of George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) and starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Ray was the none-too-bright boxer in Cukor's Pat and Mike (1952) and an escaped convict in 'Michael Curtiz"s We're No Angels (1955). His career started downhill in the 1970s, with him appearing in a string of low-budget films as a character actor. His last film was Shock 'Em Dead (1991).
Ray was married three times, with one daughter Claire born in 1951 to his first wife Shirley Green whom he married on on 20 June 1947. Ray was then briefly married to actress Jeff Donnell and then had two sons and a daughter with his third wife, Johanna Ray, one of whom is the actor Eric DaRe. Aldo Ray died of throat cancer on 27 March 1991.
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1st Lieutenant Aldo "The Apache" Raine is one of the two main protagonists in Quentin Tarantino's 6th film, Inglourious Basterds. He is an American lieutenant in World War II and the leader of The Basterds, a Jewish-American guerrilla force. Aldo is also the father of Cliff Booth from Tarantino's later film Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.
Biography[]
Background[]
A hillbilly-moonshiner from Maynardville, [[1]], Aldo bears a large scar around his neck which is rumored to be from a lynching. Aldo's nickname "The Apache" comes from his penchant for scalping Nazis (done in the tradition of American Apache Indians). In his introductory scene, Raine states that he is a direct descendant of legendary mountainman Jim Bridger.
Chapter Two - INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS[]
Aldo Raine is first seen talking to a group of soldiers. He introduces himself as Lt. Aldo Raine and claims that he needs 8 soldiers, 8 Jewish-American soldiers to be exact. He tells them that there are rumours about an armada waiting to happen. They will be leaving a little earlier. He tells them that they'll be dropped into France and there, dressed as civilians, they'll be doing one thing and one thing only: killing Nazis.
Some time later we see private Butz telling Hitler how they were ambushed by Raine's men. Aldo calls Seargent Werner Rachtman and asks him if he knows who Hugo Stiglitz is. Afterwards, he demands that he tell him the positions of the other German soldiers, also what weapons they have and how many of them there are. Rachtman refuses and Aldo calls "The Bear Jew" aka Sgt. Donny Donowitz to beat him to death with his baseball bat, as he eats a sandwich. Afterwards, he tells Donny to bring Butz to him to point on a map the location of the other German unit. After Butz tells him what he needs to know, Aldo pulls his knife and gives him a swastika scar. From a trunk shot, we see Donny telling Aldo that he's getting pretty good at that. Aldo confirms that, saying that it's just practice.
Chapter Four - OPERATION KINO[]
He meets with Lt. Archie Hicox in a ruined house in the village of Nadine, where they're supposed to meet with their contact, the German actress Bridget von Hammersmark. Here, we see him being angry that the rendezvous place is a basement. Hicox tells him that it's actually a tavern, to which Raine replies that it's a 'tavern alright', but in a basement. He adds that fighting in a basement is a problem, to which Hicox replies that she wasn't looking for a place to fight, but a place isolated and without Germans. During the rendezvous a shootout occurs, leaving everyone in the tavern dead except von Hammersmark and a German soldier named Wilhelm. Aldo successfully bargains with Wilhelm to let them take von Hammersmark. After Wilhelm drops his weapon, von Hammersmark guns him down. With the German speaking members of the Basterds all dead, Aldo decides that there's no other choice but for him, Donny and Omar Ulmer to attend the premiere in their places, posing as von Hammersmark's Italian escorts.
Chapter Five - REVENGE OF THE GIANT FACE[]
At the premiere, Hans Landa, who speaks Italian fluently, sees through their disguises and kills von Hammersmark and has Aldo captured along with another Basterd, Smithson Utivich. Landa, using Hermann, his radio operator, orders Raine to contact his superior with the OSS and brokers a deal: in exchange for not hindering the explosives plan and thus ending the war, he receives immunity, U.S. citizenship, financial security, and the Medal of Honor for himself and the rest of the members of the operation.
Landa and Hermann drive Aldo and Utivich into Allied territory, where they surrender. To Landa's horror, Aldo shoots Hermann and has Utivich collect his scalp, and for the first time, Landa shows no arrogance but fear. Raine is unable to accept the notion that Landa might go unpunished for his career as a Nazi officer, so he carves a swastika into his forehead as a permanent reminder of his crimes as Landa screams in agony. Proudly inspecting his handiwork, he remarks to Utivich that "this just might be my masterpiece."
Personality[]
Aldo Raine is a violent, brutal, apathetically cruel, intelligent, and patriotic individual who has no qualms about committing mass murder and openly mutilates Nazis with a gleeful grin and consistent conviction. He is also straightforward, fearless, and charming. Aldo Raine’s steady leadership is at the heart of all the Basterds’ successes. He cares deeply for his men, but is a soldier first and foremost. Although Aldo exhibits kindness and decency to all non-Nazis, his hatred for the Nazis is intense and sadistic. He takes special pleasure in carving swastikas into the foreheads of living Nazis so they can never deny their connection to the 3rd Reich.
He expresses remorse and no hatred towards German civilians and workers.
Notable quotes[]
Behind the Scenes[]
Aldo Raine was portrayed by Brad Pitt, who also played Cliff Booth.
The name of Brad Pitt's character, Lt. Aldo Raine, is an homage to both the actor and WWII veteran Aldo Ray and a character from Rolling Thunder, Charles Rane (played by William Devane). One of the casting directors, Johanna Ray, is Aldo Ray's ex-wife.
The name Aldo Ray was mentioned in Tarantino's first film, My Best Friend's Birthday.
Quentin Tarantino met with Brad Pitt at Chateau Miraval in France where he lives with Angelina Jolie. They talked about Brad playing the role of Aldo Raine over the course of a night and five bottles of the estate's own Pink Floyd rosé when he accepted the role.
Trivia[]
The place where Aldo Raine briefs the Basterds is identified as England only in the original draft of the script.
The reason for the scar on Aldo Raine's neck is not mentioned in the film. The script hints that Raine survived a lynching, a common punishment in the 1920s and 1930s.
The hanging scar is a reference to the character Tuco, one of the three protagonists of The Good The Bad The Ugly by Sergio Leone, who managed to avoid death by hanging on several occasions.
When Aldo Raine is introduced, he is shown wearing the insignia for the "Black Devils" the 1st Special Service Force, composed of both Canadian and American soldiers.
Aldo snuffs tobacco from a box with engraved above the eagle Nazi (object certainly stolen from the corpse of one of the enemies), which comes in the form of powder obtained by grinding the leaves of tobacco, was much in vogue in previous centuries, especially during the 17th century.[1]
Shortly after carving the swastika on Butz's forehead, Aldo responds to Donny, who had just complimented him, by saying the phrase: "You know how you get to Carnegie Hall, doncha? Practice". The joke is a reference to this very old American joke: "A tourist visiting New York stops and asks a passerby," How do you get to Carnegie Hall? "(The most prestigious concert hall in the world) meaning, of course, the road directions to reach it and the New Yorker, in the mood of jokes, answers him: "Practice, practice, practice", meaning, however, what you need to do to be able to perform in the famous hall.
Aldo's dagger was made specifically for the film by using the blade of the Bowie hunting knife "Smith & Wesson Texas Hold 'em".
The phrase said by Aldo, "Fightin 'in a basement offers a lot of difficulties. Number one being, you're fightin' in a basement!" is a reference to the movie Fight Club, where Pitt stars.
The standoff between Aldo and Wilhelm during the La Louisiane scene is similar to a scene in Quentin Tarantino's previous movie, Kill Bill: Volume 2, in which protagonist Beatrix Kiddo just finds out she is pregnant and is attacked by a hit woman. The two have a standoff in which she makes a deal with the hit woman to let her go as she is pregnant. Sgt. Wilhelm makes a deal with Aldo to let him go as he had become a father that night. The difference in the two scenarios is that Beatrix honors the deal and the hitwoman escapes, while Aldo honors the deal but Bridget von Hammersmark shoots and kills Sgt. Wilhelm.
When Aldo Raine pretends to be an Italian actor at the movie premiere, he uses name "Enzo Gorlami", which is the birth name of the director of original Inglorious Bastards (The Inglorious Bastards), Enzo G. Castellari.
Despite his character's reputation and being leader of the Basterds, Aldo Raine only kills one person on-screen (the radio operator).
In "Quentin Tarantino's Universe", the character of Lt. Aldo Raine is Floyd's - aka The pothead on the couch from True Romance - great grandfather.
In Legends of the Fall, Brad Pitt plays a man who scalps two German soldiers and gets involved with bootlegging. In this film, he plays the leader of a group that scalps German soldiers and mentions a past involvement in bootlegging.
Aldo said that every 'Basterd' owes him 100 Nazi scalps. This may be a refernce to the Bible story in which King Saul commands David to bring the former 100 Philistine foreskins in exchange for the bride.
Aldo Raine states that he's a descendant of "the mountain man Jim Bridger," who really did have Native American wives. Consequently, his nickname is "Aldo the Apache." However, none of Bridger's three Indian wives were Apache (they were, in order, Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone).
Lt. Aldo Raine says he is from the Smoky Mountains, and later from Maynardville, Tennessee. Maynardville is not actually in the Smoky Mountains, but in one of the East Tennessee valleys between the mountains (some distance north of the Smoky Mountains).
There is no clear story to the birth of Cliff Booth. The only information we have so far is that Aldo Raine is Cliff's father and Cliff took his mother's last name of Booth.
He is rather old to only be a 1st Lieutenant. Lieutenants are usually much younger and both LT Ranks can be achieved in a year each. Brad Pitt was 45 when the movie was made and could be old enough to actually be a Colonel. Assuming Aldo is about 35-40, the youngest realistic rank he could be believable as is Major.
Aldo does mention to Hans Landa that he's been reprimanded for disobedience in the past so his rank as 1st Lieutenant could be the result of a demotion or inability to receive a promotion.
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Down to Earth - (1947) - Color - 101 Minutes - Not Rated
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Miss Sadie Thompson - (1953) - Color - Not Rated
Rita Hayworth, Jose Ferrer, Aldo Ray
You’ll Never Get Rich - (1941) - B&W - Not Rated
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley
My Sister Eileen - (1955) - Color - Not Rated
Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett.
Time Out for Rhythm - (1941) - B&W - Not Rated
Rudy Vallee, Ann Miller, Rosemary Lane, Allen Jenkins, The Three Stooges
Three For The Show - (1955) - Color - Not Rated
Betty Grable, Marge and Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon
Rock Around the Clock - (1956) - B&W - Not Rated
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Jeffrey Townes Collins, M.D., father to three, grandfather to eight, and dear neighbor and friend to many, passed away in his own bed at home in Port Townsend, Washington on February 26, 2024. With his children and other loved ones physically or virtually by his side, Jeff was ready to go after a long struggle against illness. Jeff now rests peacefully in a mountain meadow, next to his wife, Kate O’Donnell, who he survived by just over ten years.
Jeff built and led a marvelous life. He cared deeply about helping others, our beautiful planet and its creatures, human decency, and compassion for fellow human beings. He once said,
"I fully believe we are in an interconnected universe and that we thrive most abundantly when we strive to cooperate."
Jeff’s passion and life’s work was healing through psychiatry, which he practiced for almost 50 years, retiring in 2023. Jeff helped to ease the mental suffering of many over the years and once risked his own career to protect vulnerable patients from abuse in a state mental institution. Some called him a “hero,” but Jeff never mentioned his actions.
How did Jeff become Jeff? He actually started out as Geoff Schaden, born in 1940 in Oklahoma City to Virginia Hale and Herman Schaden, Jr. Herman soon divorced Virginia, but she remarried to a kindly man, Florent Phillips, who died tragically from a heart condition when Jeff was a mere tot of five. Jeff was later adopted by his second step father Robert Collins.
Despite the multiple losses he experienced in early childhood, Jeff somehow thrived. He used his keen intellect to become a brilliant student. Jeff earned both his B.A. and M.D. from the University of Oklahoma, cementing him as lifelong Boomer! Sooner!
Jeff served in the Indian Health Service in 1969 and completed his residency in Psychiatry at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in 1975. During that time, he was married to his first wife, Anna Ingmarie McElvain, née Wieberg, and they had their three children, Anne-Marie, Sven, and Pehr. Ingmarie and Jeff divorced in the early 1990s and Jeff married Kate several years later. In the nearly fifty years after Jeff completed his psychiatry training, he helped to heal others, both in private and public practice, in various places around the country. And through his many travels and experiences, Jeff became devoted to learning and practicing the art of nonviolent communication—as he said, the cornerstone for cooperation that engenders true progress.
Jeff was quite unassuming and didn’t take himself too seriously. He was far more curious about what was on your mind. Or about what was happening with the planet, with politics, or what was going on right outside in his garden, where eagles, jays, hummingbirds, deer, otters, and other magnificent creatures often paid a visit or passed by. He never ceased to be awestruck by the beauty of nature and fellow people.
If you knew Jeff, you also know that he loved music, especially live music, and enjoying it with others. But did you know he once saw Bruce Springsteen in the early 1970s at an intimate small venue? What, What!!! And Jeff said that wasn’t even the best music he saw at that venue. Jeff followed his passion for music throughout his life, and you would often see him at blues or folk shows in Port Townsend, on the Blues Cruise, or dancing at the Upstage, performing his signature shoulder boogie. Jeff thrived on the energy of live music and truly danced like no one was watching. Anne-Marie’s daughter Isabel still laughs about late-night dancing with him in Puerto Vallarta last March and his desire to keep up with them.
Jeff was strikingly handsome, but what was most beautiful was his charming, infectious chuckle, his bright smile, his wild hair, and his overarching kindness. There was no one like him.
Though you will no longer see Jeff doggedly trekking up and down the hill by his house to build his strength battling the dreaded illness, or at the local live music venues or festivals, you can take heart. Jeff’s spirt lives on with all of those fortunate enough to have known him. Don’t be surprised if you continue to see him in our interconnected universe – in his children, grandchildren, and those he touched, as well as in the beasts and fowl that grace this earth.
Sweet Jeff has our love and we have his.
Jeff will be sorely missed by Anne-Marie and her son Alec (who fondly recalls long-boarding the hills of PT, Pac NW college tours, and an engaging NYC dinner with Jeff) and daughter Isabel; Sven, his wife Shannon, and their two daughters, Dayne and Weston; Pehr, his wife Megan, and their son Ethan, and three daughters, Emma, Inga, and Saga; along with his many friends and those he touched in his 83 years.
If you are considering a donation in Jeff’s honor, he was a frequent supporter of the ASPCA, the Defenders of Wildlife, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Sierra Club, Apopo Hero Rats, and Amnesty International.
Also, Jeff would encourage you to vote in the all- important 2024 elections! As Jeff often said, “This, too, shall pass.”
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“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” has perhaps understandably stoked a lot of discussion about its portrayal and reimagining of not just certain events (like the tragic murder of Sharon Tate) but many of the myths upon which Tinseltown is based. But ten years ago, writer-director Quentin Tarantino created his first film in which fiction and real-life history were skillfully blended into “Inglorious Basterds,” an operatic alternative timeline where a small group of American soldiers and a vengeance-seeking French projectionist unknowingly team up to kill Adolf Hitler and stop World War II overnight. In honor of its anniversary (and its eight Academy Award nominations, the most yet for any of his films) Moviefone takes a look back at the lore and the legends that inspired Tarantino to create this unforgettable war movie.
1. Quentin Tarantino’s movies often seem to gestate for a long time before he puts them on the page - and eventually, on screen. He first began thinking about “Inglourious Basterds” while making “Kill Bill Vol. 1” and “2” but didn’t revisit it until after “Death Proof” because he was coming up with what he deemed a satisfying ending.
2. Perhaps even moreso than in his other films, Tarantino’s character names were inspired by actors and filmmakers that he loves. Aldo Raine’s (Brad Pitt) name is a composite of real-life WWII veteran Aldo Ray and “Rolling Thunder” character Charles Rane, while the name he gives at the end of the movie, Enzo Gorlomi, is the birth name of original “Inglorious Bastards” director Enzo G. Castellari. General Ed Fenech (Mike Myers) was named after giallo actress Edwige Fenech. Omar Ulmer (Omar Doom) got his surname from Edgar G. Ulmer, a German expressionist filmmaker. The name of Wilhelm Wicki (Gedeon Burkhard) was inspired by directors Georg Wilhelm Pabst (“The White Hell of Pitz Palu”) and Bernhard Wicki (“The Longest Day”). Sergant Hugo Stiglitz’ (Til Schweiger) name came from the eponymous Mexican b-movie actor. Sergeant Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) uses the alias Antonio Margheriti, the Italian director of “Cannibal Apocalypse.” And Shoshanna Dreyfus’ (Melanie Laurent) last name come from his friend and former collaborator Julie Dreyfus (“Kill Bill Vol. 1”) who plays a small role in the film as translator Francesca Mondino.
3. Their stories are completely different, but Tarantino sought Enzo Castellari’s blessing after deciding to name his film after “The Inglorious Bastards,” eventually purchasing the film's remake rights. Not only did he cast the director as a General yelling “fire!” just like he did in his own film (this time pointing out the fire in the theater) but he also cast “Bastards” star Bo Svenson as an American Colonel. Although Castellari was cut from the film, he repaid Tarantino by naming his 2010 film “Caribbean Basterds.”
4. Though her name was invented by Tarantino, Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) was inspired by several real-life actress-turned-agents, in particular Marlene Dietrich, who didn’t serve overseas but made recordings for the Office of Strategic Services’ Morale Operations Branch.
5. Tarantino revealed that Schweiger had categorically refused to don a Nazi uniform for a role before this film, and only agreed to do so for “Basterds” because he got to wear it while killing them.
6. Quentin Tarantino personally offered Rod Taylor the role of Sir Winston Churchill, in what would be the actor’s final role. Tarantino is a huge fan of Taylor’s film “Dark of the Sun,” and in the scene in which Hickox (Michael Fassbender) is talking to Stiglitz while he sharpens his knife, the theme to that film is playing.
7. Meanwhile, Samm Levine, who plays Pfc. Hirschberg, actually had two roles in the film, including a painter in the background of Adolf Hitler’s introductory scene.
8. To play Shoshanna, Melanie Laurent worked as a projectionist for several weeks at Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the character’s theater was loosely based on the Vista Theatre in Silverlake where Tony Scott filmed exteriors for the “Street Fighter” marathon in “True Romance.”
9. While tackling the main film, Tarantino hired Eli Roth to direct “Nation’s Pride.” Enlisting his brother Gabriel with a second camera, the Roths were able to get 130 camera set-ups in just two days. The entire film they shot runs about five and a half minutes, but it’s meant to be a collection of various scenes from a longer film rather than a coherent narrative unto itself.
10. Tarantino makes a voice cameo in “Nation’s Pride” as an American soldier who says “we must destroy that tower!” He also appears in dummy form as the first German to be scalped in the film.
11. Filmmaker Tom Tykwer translated the parts of the script that were to be in German. However, Tarantino did not learn his dialogue in the various foreign languages in which the lines were performed and directed those scenes intuitively.
12. Tarantino was meticulous in creating period-accurate posters for “Nation’s Pride,” including a German censor approval stamp and design elements common to that era.
13. He also drew upon real historical events in order to provide interesting motivations and details about his characters. When Goebbels (Sylvester Groth) tells Francesca (Julie Dreyfus) never to mention Lilian Harvey’s name, it’s because the real actress fled Nazi Germany in 1939 after helping a Jewish choreographer, Jens Keith, escape to Switzerland.
14. Meanwhile, the second marquee at Shoshanna’s theater advertises “Le Corbeau,” a film produced during the Nazi occupation of France that famously featured hidden anti-Nazi messages that censors failed to detect.
15. Tarantino somewhat infamously confessed to being the one to personally strangle Diane Kruger during von Hammersmark’s death scene, in order to achieve the “authentic” look he wanted from her on camera.
16. According to the “Quentin Tarantino Cinematic Universe,” Lieutenant Aldo Raine is the grandfather of Floyd, the pothead on the couch in “True Romance” played by Brad Pitt. Meanwhile, Donny Donowitz (Roth) is the father of “True Romance” character Lee Donowitz, the producer who made “Coming Home in a Bodybag.”
17. Christoph Waltz won an Academy Award for playing Colonel Hans Landa, in what was his first American film after working for 30 years in Germany. He remains the only actor thus far to win an award for acting in a Tarantino film. What's more, he would perform the feat twice, when he won again for "Django Unchained."
18. To this day, Tarantino refuses to explain why he intentionally misspelled the name of the movie in its title, suggesting that to do so would undermine it as an artistic flourish.
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Jeff Donnell
Jeff Donnell serves a soldier at the Hollywood Canteen
Martha Hyer, Myrna Dell, Robert Sterling, Jeff Donnell & Gloria Grahame (1949)
Tony Curtis & Jeff Donnell (1957)
Aldo Ray & Jeff Donnell
'Throw A Saddle On A Star' - Adele Roberts
petrolino
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Post by petrolino on
Haven't thought of this actress in years. Always enjoyed her - and her melliferous voice. Thanks for another great post.
Some trivia : she became the first actress to play Aunt May Parker in an authorised, full-length live-action 'Spiderman' adaptation in 1977. A number of famous actresses have played the role since. There was also an unauthorised film, Donald Glut's 'Spider-Man' (1969).
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It's odd she never changed her first name back then, Jeff is not commonly used as a girl's name. I remember watching her afterschool in the 80's on General Hospital, she played the Quartermaine's maid, Stella, opposite David Lewis and Anna Lee.
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While I was looking through the movies she made there was one I've seen before, but had until now forgotten about:
Jeff Donnell is on the right, in pink dress.
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It's odd she never changed her first name back then, Jeff is not commonly used as a girl's name. I remember watching her afterschool in the 80's on General Hospital, she played the Quartermaine's maid, Stella, opposite David Lewis and Anna Lee.
That's a lovely picture of Donnell with Anna Lee.
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Jeff Donnell Actress | Soundtrack - Date of Birth 10 July 1921, South Windham, Maine, USA
Date of Death 11 April 1988, Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name Jean Marie Donnell
Mini Bio (1) A reliable featured player and occasional co-star, actress Jeff Donnell was born Jean Marie Donnell in a boy's reformatory in South Windham, Maine in 1921. The younger of two daughters, her father (Howard) was a penologist and mother (Mildred) a schoolteacher. Raised in Maryland, she took piano and dance lessons while growing up. It was during her upbringing that she fixated on the popular "Mutt and Jeff" cartoon strip and gave herself the nickname "Jeff".
Studying at one time at the Yale School of Drama and performing briefly in summer stock, Jeff met her first husband, Bill Anderson, a drama teacher from her old Boston alma mater Leland Powers Drama School, and quickly married him at the young age of 19. Together they started the Farragut Playhouse in Rye, New Hampshire. Almost immediately she was noticed in a play there by a Columbia Studios talent scout and was signed.
Whisked to Los Angeles, Jeff made her first appearance in the war-era movie My Sister Eileen (1942) while husband Bill was hired on as a dialogue director. Hardly the chic, glamour girl type, Jeff possessed a perky, unpretentious, tomboyish quality that worked comfortably in unchallenging "B" escapism -- usually the breezy girlfriend or spirited bobbysoxer. Typical of her movie load at the time were the fun but innocuous Doughboys in Ireland (1943), What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943), Nine Girls (1944), A Thousand and One Nights (1945), Carolina Blues (1944) and Eadie Was a Lady (1945). She also enlivened a number of musical westerns that prominently featured Ken Curtis (Festus of "Gunsmoke").
On a rare occasion, Jeff found herself in "A" pictures, most notably the Bogart film noir classic In a Lonely Place (1950), but more often than not she played the obliging or supportive friend of the leading lady. Unable to break away from her established "B" ranking, she later tried a move to RKO Studios (1949) but fared no better or worse. She did make a successful move to TV in the early 50s and was seen in a number of comedy and dramatic parts.
Long separated from and finally divorcing her first husband in 1953 (they had one son, Michael, and an adopted daughter, Sarah Jane), she married actor Aldo Ray, who was an up-and-rising film star at the time, in 1954 but the marriage crumbled within two years, beset by drinking problems. She also suffered a miscarriage during that marriage. Jeff went on to marry and divorce two more times. As the 1950s rolled on she earned steady work on TV bringing to life comedian George Gobel's often-mentioned wife Alice on the sitcom The George Gobel Show (1954) for four seasons. She also had the opportunity to play Gidget's mom in a couple of the popular lightweight movies of the early 1960s -- Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963).
Most daytime fans will remember Jeff's long-running stint on the soap drama General Hospital (1963) as Stella Fields, the Quartermain housekeeper, which started in 1979 and lasted until her death in 1988. Dogged by ill health in later years (including a serious bout with Addison's disease), Jeff died peacefully of a heart attack in her sleep at age 66.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net
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Radcliffe Bealey (28 February 1974 - 1975) (divorced)
John Bricker (1 September 1958 - 10 March 1964) (divorced)
Aldo Ray (30 September 1954 - 16 October 1956) (divorced)
Bill Anderson (25 December 1940 - 1952) (divorced) (2 children)
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Had a key role in the critically lauded film Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as Tony Curtis' secretary, but her role was cut extensively, including a big romantic scene with Curtis that might have reignited her movie career.
Had two children by her (much older) first husband Bill Anderson: Michael Phineas (nicknamed Mickey Finn), born in 1942, and Sarah Jane (Sally), born 1947.
Lived in Towson, MD during her youth and was a 1938 graduate of the Towson Senior High School.
She was a staunch Republican who gave much of her time and money towards various conservative political causes. She attended several Republican National Conventions, galas, and fund-raisers, and she was active in the campaigns of Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.
Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea in the Pacific Ocean.
Her favorite movie was Gone with the Wind (1939).
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I wasn't the pretty type and I certainly wasn't glamorous, so, I always felt fortunate to be acting. My first concern was for my family, so I never developed a driving ambition. I consider myself a very lucky person.
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Jeff Donnell Actress - Featured player and occasional co-star Jeff Donnell was born Jean Marie Donnell in a boy`s reformatory in South Windham, Maine in 1921, her father a penologist and mother a schoolteacher. It was during her upbringing at the all-male reformatory that she gave herself the nickname "Jeff." She met her first husband, a drama teacher from her Boston alma mater, Leland Powers Drama School, and married him at the age of 19. Together they started the Farragut Playhouse in Rye, New Hampshire, and almost immediately she was noticed in a play there by a Columbia Studios talent scout and signed. Whisked to Los Angeles, she appeared in her first war-era movie, My Sister Eileen (1942) and her husband was hired as a dialogue director. Hardly the chic, glamour girl type, Jeff possessed a perky, unpretentious charm and demeanor that fit comfortably as an occasional light love interest or sidekick in mostly unchallenging "B" escapism. Typical of her movie load were the innocuous What`s Buzzin, Cousin? (1943), A Thousand and One Nights (1944), Carolina Blues (1944) and Eadie Was a Lady (1945). She also enlivened a number of musical westerns that featured Ken ("Gunsmoke") Curtis. In the few "A" films she appeared in, more than not she was the obliging or supportive friend of the leading lady. Jeff later moved to RKO Studios but fared no better and found herself in progressively inferior material. She made a successful move to TV in the early 50s and was seen in a number of comedy and dramatic parts.
Divorcing her first husband in 1952, she married actor Aldo Ray, who was a up-and-rising film star at the time, in 1954 but the marriage crumbled within two years, beset by drinking problems. Jeff would marry and divorce two more times. As the 50s rolled on she earned steady work on TV bringing to life comedian George Gobel`s often-mentioned wife Alice on the sitcom "The George Gobel Show" for four seasons. She also got to play Gidget`s mom in a couple of lightweight movies. Most fans, however, will remember Jeff`s long-running stint on "General Hospital as Stella Fields, a Quartermain housekeeper, which started in 1979 and lasted until her death in 1988. Dogged by ill health in later years, Jeff died peacefully of a heart attack in her sleep at age 66.
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Miss Jeff Donnell, as she was often billed, was signed by Columbia Pictures almost immediately after her graduation from Yale Drama School. Though likeable and talented enough for leading roles, the toothy, frizzy-haired Ms. Donnell was most often seen as the heroine's best friend or as kooky comedy relief. Columbia certainly kept her busy during her ten-year stay at that studio, casting her in such "A" pictures as My Sister Eileen (1942) and In a Lonely Place (1952) and "B"s like The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) and Thief of Damascus (1952); she is particularly amusing in the latter film as Scheherezade, garrulously insisting upon telling her Arabian Nights stories to a villainous caliph whether he likes it or not. From 1954 through 1956, Jeff was married to another longtime Columbia contractee, Aldo Ray. On television, Jeff spent four years on The George Gobel Show as Gobel's wife, "Spooky Old Alice." Jeff Donnell's last regular TV work was the recurring role of Sheila Fields on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.
Biography by Hal Erickson
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American actor (1926–1991)
Aldo Ray (born Aldo Da Re; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor of film and television. He began his career as a contract player for Columbia Studios before achieving stardom through his roles in The Marrying Kind, Pat and Mike (which earned him a Golden Globe nomination), Let's Do It Again, and Battle Cry. His athletic build and gruff, raspy voice saw him frequently typecast in "tough guy" roles throughout his career, which lasted well into the late 1980s. Though the latter part of his career was marked by appearances in low-budget B-movies and exploitation films, he still appeared occasionally in higher-profile features, including The Secret of NIMH (1982) and The Sicilian (1987).
Early life and education
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Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino, and Louis) and one sister (Regina). His brother Mario Da Re (1933-2010) lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954 and appeared as a contestant on the May 12, 1955, edition of Groucho Marx's NBC-TV quiz show You Bet Your Life.[1] His family moved to the small town of Crockett, California, when Aldo was four years old. His father worked as a laborer at the C&H Sugar Refinery, the largest employer in the town. He attended John Swett High School, where he made the football team; he also coached swimming.[2]
At age 18, during World War II in 1944, Ray entered the United States Navy, serving as a frogman until 1946; he saw action at Okinawa with UDT-17. Upon leaving the Navy in May 1946, he returned to Crockett. He studied and played football at Vallejo Junior College and then entered the University of California at Berkeley to study political science. (Ray later described himself as an "arch conservative" and a "right-winger".[3]) He left college in order to run for the office of constable of the Crockett Judicial District in Contra Costa County, California. "I always knew I was going to be a big man, but I thought it would be in politics," he said.[4]
Career
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Saturday's Hero
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In April 1950 Columbia Studios sent a unit to San Francisco to look for some athletes to appear in a film they were making called Saturday's Hero (1951). Aldo's brother Guido saw an item in the San Francisco Chronicle about the auditions and asked his brother to drive him there. Director David Miller was more interested in Ray than in his brother because of his voice; also, Ray was comfortable talking to the camera owing to his political experience. He later recalled, "They... said, 'What's wrong with your voice kid? Are you sick? If you're sick you don't belong here.' I said, 'No, no, no, this is the way I've always spoken.' And they loved it."[3] Ray would later retell this story in the trailer for Pat and Mike.
Ray signed a contract and was sent to Los Angeles for a screen test. He was cast in the small role of a cynical college football player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed.[5]
Ray worked on the film between the primary and general elections. He was elected constable on 6 June. "I was 23 and a sort of child bride to the voters," he later said.[5] "The guy I ran against was a 16-year incumbent, and I destroyed him with 80 percent of the vote! I was going to work my way up to the U.S. Senate, see, and I would've, too."[6]
Columbia picked up its option on Ray's services and signed him to a seven-year contract. "Of all the people in the picture they took up only one option—mine," he said. "And I said, 'Thank you, goodbye. I'm going home where I can be a big fish in my small pond. You can take this town (Hollywood) and shove it."[3]
Columbia refused to release him from his contract and put him under suspension, giving him a leave of absence to work as constable. "I told them I couldn't care less, they could give me whatever they wanted," he said.[3] Ray started his new job in November 1950.
Hollywood stardom: The Marrying Kind
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After several months, Ray found "the quiet life... monotonous",[5] so he contacted Max Arnow, talent director at Columbia, and expressed interest in appearing in more movies. Four weeks later, Arnow called back, saying Columbia wanted to audition Ray for a small part in Judy Holliday's new movie The Marrying Kind.
Ray went to Hollywood and did a screen test with the director, George Cukor. The first test went badly, but head of Columbia Harry Cohn liked Ray and asked for another test. The second one was done opposite (Miss) Jeff Donnell, whom Ray later married; it was more successful and Ray ended up being cast in the lead.[5]
Harry Cohn felt the name "Aldo Da Re" was too close to "Dare" and wanted to change it to "John Harrison"; the actor refused and "Aldo Ray" was the compromise.[7] He divorced his wife and resigned as constable in September 1951. His studio salary was $200 a week.[6]
Cukor famously suggested that Ray go to ballet school because he walked too much like a football player. The director later talked about the actor:
He has a great advantage: the way his eyes are made. The light comes into them. There are certain people who have opaque eyes which refuse to catch the light. But his eyes had a certain glow and gave quite well in the photographed result. He did this silent scene very well lying there on the bed in the same room with Judy (Holliday). Then later he did comedy scenes with her—very difficult ones—and there were also emotional sequences where he broke down and cried. They were brilliant.[8]
"Cukor is hypersensitive to reality", recalled Ray. "He told me exactly what to do and why. He explains everything and he knows exactly what he wants."[9]
Ray's performance was much praised. Sight & Sound later commented:
To give the performance he did in The Marrying Kind after so little previous experience was clear evidence that in Aldo Ray the screen had discovered one of its rare "naturals". This was no carefully edited, tricked out performance, but a strikingly sincere and imaginative interpretation: an exceptional talent responding to a finely intuitive director... There was about him none of the personality assurance that extracts a special consideration of the actor as distinct from his role.[10]
Cukor then cast Ray in a supporting role in Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Ray's work in Pat and Mike led to his nomination, along with Richard Burton and Robert Wagner, for a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer. Burton won the award that year, but Ray's career was launched. He said after two films with Cukor: "I never needed direction again."[11]
Ray said Spencer Tracy told him: "Kid, I don't know what it is that you got, and I got, and some of us have, but you can work in this business forever." "That," said Ray, "made me feel good, you know, coming from a guy like him. I never bowed down to anybody at Columbia or anywhere else, but my overall idea was, I'll do whatever they tell me because it's their business, not mine, and I've got to learn it."[6]
Columbia leading man
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Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn liked Ray and wanted him for the role of Private Robert Prewitt in From Here to Eternity (1953), but Fred Zinnemann insisted Montgomery Clift be cast.[12] However, other good roles followed instead. "Because of Harry, all my first pictures were big hits, tremendously popular", Ray recalled.[6]
Ray starred opposite Jane Wyman in Let's Do It Again (1953), then followed this acting opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (also 1953), the third film version of the W. Somerset Maugham story "Rain". He also appeared in a production of Stalag 17 at La Jolla Playhouse.[13]
Ray was loaned to Warner Bros to appear in Battle Cry (1955), which was directed by Raoul Walsh, who would become one of Ray's favorite directors. The film was a box-office hit—probably the most popular movie Ray ever made—although it led to his being typecast.
"In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in", reflected Ray later. "There were no sophisticated roles for me. I never seemed to get past master sergeant, though I always thought of myself as upper echelon."[14]
Clash with Columbia
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Ray was meant to appear in My Sister Eileen (1955) as The Wreck, but he walked off the set, claiming his role was too small, and had to be replaced by Dick York.[15]
Battle Cry was a big hit at the box office, so Columbia gave Ray a lead role as a sergeant who marries a Japanese girl in Three Stripes in the Sun (originally The Gentle Wolfhound) (1955) and then loaned him to Paramount for We're No Angels (also 1955), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Joan Bennett.
Ray was profiled in Sight & Sound as follows:
Aldo Ray's technical advance in the four years since The Marrying Kind enables him now to work in subtler, more economical degree; there is an authoritative reserve and, still remarkably intact, the original rare lack of ostentation. All the same, his career seems to have become a nomadic drifting round the studios looking for the right kind of film. The good humour, the lenitive smile, the frog in the throat voice betray nothing of the disappointment the actor must feel after such exciting beginnings under Cukor's guidance.[10]
Ray was meant to appear in Jubal but refused because Columbia had made a profit on his loan-outs for Battle Cry and We're No Angels but not paid Ray a bonus; Rod Steiger took the role instead.[16] Ray was put on suspension.[17]
Ray then refused to appear in Beyond Mombasa (1956) because he did not want to go on location. This led to his being replaced by Cornel Wilde and put under suspension again. However, the situation was resolved when he agreed to make Nightfall (1957), playing an artist who encounters a pair of ruthless bank robbers.[18]
In 1956, in between appearances in Three Stripes In The Sun and Men in War, Ray worked in radio as a personality and announcer at hit music station WNDR in Syracuse, New York. A photo of Ray with a colleague in the WNDR studios, taken as part of a station promotional package, survives and can be found on a WNDR tribute website. By 1957, in any event, he had left WNDR and the radio business and returned to Hollywood.
On January 31, 1957, Ray appeared on NBC's The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He and Tennessee Ernie Ford did a comedy skit from a foxhole.[19]
Two with Anthony Mann
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Columbia loaned Ray out to Security Pictures (who released through United Artists) for him to appear in Men in War (1957) opposite Robert Ryan; it was directed by Anthony Mann, who became Ray's favorite director. Ray was given 5% of the profits, which he later estimated at $70,000.[6]
Ray was reunited with Security Pictures, Ryan, and Mann to star in God's Little Acre (1958), an adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's controversial novel directed by Mann starring Robert Ryan and Tina Louise.
By the seventh year of his contract with Columbia, Ray was earning $750 a week. He later said for the first ten years of his career he made less than $100,000.[3] He expressed interest in producing his own vehicle, The Magic Mesa, from a script by Burt Kennedy, but it was not made.[20]
Instead Ray appeared in an adaptation of David Goodis's novel Nightfall (1957) directed by Jacques Tourneur and The Naked and the Dead (1958), an adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel directed by Raoul Walsh. It was produced by Paul Gregory, who said:
Aldo Ray was drunk the entire time. He was a very sweet guy, but he was gone. He drank drank drank. Raoul Walsh would say, "Let's get him in the morning 'cause in the afternoon it's over."... I just could not get used to it, actors who got all this money and then didn't behave professionally. The English actors have classical training. They perform like professionals. You take someone like Aldo Ray who was just picked up and catapulted into stardom, and then he was just a sponge for booze. He killed himself drinking, not living up to his moral contract.[21]
Ray later admitted that producers were scared of casting him in projects because of his drinking.[3]
Leaving Columbia
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Ray had been popular with Harry Cohn because, in the actor's words, "[h]e took no shit from anybody and he saw that I was that kind of a guy, too."[2] But when Cohn died in 1958, Columbia elected not to renew Ray's contract and he decided to leave Hollywood. He later said, "I never was an expatriate. I spent some time in England and Spain and Italy but I was never out of this country [the US] longer than six months."[22]
He starred in 1959 in Four Desperate Men (The Siege of Pinchgut), filmed in Australia; it was the last movie produced by Ealing Studios (releasing through MGM) and a box office disappointment. He then appeared opposite Lucille Ball in an episode of Desilu Playhouse. He said he made more money from these two projects "than I'd made the whole eight years before."[6]
In 1959, Ray was cast as Hunk Farber in the episode "Payment in Full" of the NBC western series Riverboat. In the story line, Farber betrays his friend and employer to collect reward money that he uses to court his girlfriend, Missy.[23]
Ray made The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, directed by John Guillermin, in the UK and Johnny Nobody in Ireland.[24] He later described his British sojourn as a "big mistake" because none of his British films were widely seen in America.[3]
"Everything went well until the end of '62—then everything collapsed—including me", he later said. "I didn't take care of myself physically and mentally."[25]
He hired a press agent, started taking better care of himself physically, and changed agents.[25]
Return to Hollywood
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Ray returned to Hollywood in 1964. He had a small role in Sylvia (1965) and made a pilot for a TV series financed by producer Joseph E. Levine, Steptoe and Son (an unsuccessful adaptation of the British TV series). "I feel I shall have a complete regeneration of my career", he said in 1965.[25]
He later appeared in What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, and Welcome to Hard Times. He also made several guest appearances on television.
In 1966 Ray claimed, "I've been turning down a lot of TV and B movies. I won't consider anything but important roles in important pictures."[9] He said he was "almost independently wealthy", having saved and invested wisely in real estate from the times when his fee was $100,000 a film. He was interested in returning to politics but not until he had made "at least" four more movies. "The ideal situation would be three films every two years."[9]
In 1966 Ray played "Jake", a deaf mute, in "The Virginian" entitled "Jacob was a plain man".
He formed his own company, Crockett Productions, and bought two original scripts for films that were not made: Soldares, by Edwin Gottlieb, about the search for Pancho Villa,[26] and Frogman, South Pacific, by William Zeck.[27]
His best-known work of the 1960s was his portrayal of Sergeant Muldoon, alongside John Wayne, in The Green Berets (1968).
Ray starred in Kill a Dragon, shot in Hong Kong in 1966, and Suicide Commando, shot in Rome and Spain in 1968. He also made two television pilots in the 1960s; neither was picked up. [citation needed]
Career decline
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As the 1960s ended, Hollywood's appetite for Ray's machismo started to wane. Though he worked steadily in the 1970s, the quality of his roles diminished, and he was typically cast as a gruff and gravelly redneck.
By 1976, Ray was broke. He blamed this on his ex-wives and red tape that meant he could not develop his real estate properties. "I lost it all", he said. "And I am very, very bitter about it... The biggest mistake I ever made was discovering women. I only wish society had been as free and easy when I was coming along as it is today because if that had been the case I wouldn't have been married. Three women in my life utterly destroyed me."[22]
In 1979, Ray appeared in a pornographic movie, Sweet Savage, in a nonsexual role. Ray said later:
I wanted, I guess, to see what it was all about—a kind of half-assed adventure, you know? It was also a kind of vacation for me in a bad time—a nice location in Arizona—and I picked up a few thousand bucks. After it came out, a few people wagged their fingers at me—'Oh-ho-ho, you dirty dog'—but I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. They shot all the sex stuff after I'd flown back to L.A. I won the adult film Oscar for that, by the way, but somebody copped it.[28]
In 1981, Ray told a newspaper that his drinking was "under control" and said, "I think things are going to shoot straight up. I'm working on a deal now and if the picture is made my worries... are over... If things go the way I anticipate and I stay healthy I think I've got better years ahead of me than behind me."[3] He said he was open to a return to politics "if my movie career doesn't take off like I think it will."[3] He admitted being unhappy with his career, saying: "I think I should have gotten more good stuff."[3]
His career decline accelerated in the 1980s, and after being diagnosed with throat cancer in 1989, he accepted virtually any role that came his way to maintain his costly health insurance. He returned to Crockett in 1983.
Though at this stage in his career Ray starred mostly in low-budget and exploitation films, he did appear in occasional higher-profile works. He provided voice-over work as Sullivan for the 1982 animated film The Secret of NIMH alongside fellow character actor John Carradine. Ray was originally cast in the role of Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's 1984 film Dune, as his ex-wife Johanna Ray was the casting director, but was replaced by Patrick Stewart owing to ongoing issues with alcoholism.[29]
During the last stages of his career, Ray made a number of films for Fred Olen Ray. "He'd give me $1,000 in cash, pay my expenses, and I'd do a day's work", said Ray. "Somebody showed me one of his cassettes—'starring Aldo Ray'—but it was just a one-day job... I needed money at the time, and Fred knew I needed a buck, so I did it. He exploited me, yeah... but I was ripe for it."[28] He also appeared in two films for Iranian-born filmmaker Amir Shervan, better known for his cult classic Samurai Cop.
Final years and death
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In 1986 Ray's SAG membership was revoked when it was discovered he was acting in a non-union production, Lethal Injection.[6] However, Ray still got his union pension and benefits. His fee at this stage was $5,000 a week.[28] He appeared in two more higher-profile films, Michael Cimino's The Sicilian (1987) and Blood Red (1989), both in supporting roles that emphasized his Italian heritage.
In 1989, he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his throat that Ray attributed to excessive smoking and drinking.
His last film, which was filmed in mid 1990, was Shock 'Em Dead, in which he appeared with Traci Lords and Troy Donahue. In an interview that same year, he said about his cancer:
I regret that I don't have more control of my tongue and thoughts—because I speak too frankly and too honestly, and this world is not meant for frank and honest people. They don't mix. Reality is pretty phony... I'm in great shape—got all my energy and strength back. I had surgery on my neck last March, and after one more session of the chemo—that's 50 more hours—the doctors say I'll have it all beat... I'm not scared of dying—it's how I die that matters. I'd rather live one good year than ten more crappy years. And I think I've got some good pictures ahead of me if I can find the right roles. There's plenty of good stuff left in me, you know?[28]
Ray remained in Crockett, with his mother and family and friends. On 19 February 1991, he was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez, 40 miles east of San Francisco. He died there of complications from throat cancer and pneumonia on 27 March 1991 at age 64.[7][14] He was cremated and his ashes were put in an urn and buried in Crockett, with a majority of the residents coming out to pay their respects.
Personal life
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Ray was married three times:
Shirley Green on June 20, 1947. They had one child, a daughter named Claire.
Jeff Donnell (married 30 September 1954, divorced 1956)
British actress Johanna Bennet (married March 26, 1960, divorced 1967), who continues to work today under the name Johanna Ray as a respected casting director. They had two sons, Paul and Eric. Johanna Ray, a longtime collaborator with David Lynch, cast her son with Aldo, Eric Da Re, in Lynch's Twin Peaks series as well as in the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Legacy
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Author Richard Matheson said that his best-known work, The Incredible Shrinking Man, was inspired by a scene in Aldo Ray's Let's Do It Again in which a character puts on someone else's hat and it sinks down past his ears; "I thought, what if a man put on his own hat and that happened?" he recounted in an interview for Stephen King's nonfiction work Danse Macabre. [citation needed]
Quentin Tarantino says Aldo Ray would have been ideal casting for the character of Butch in Pulp Fiction (1994) and that the look of Butch in the film (as played by Bruce Willis) was inspired by Ray.[30]
Brad Pitt's character in Tarantino's 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds is a soldier named "Aldo Raine", in tribute to Ray.[citation needed]
Ray appears as a character in Tarantino's 2021 novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The Crockett Museum has a display depicting his life.
A profile in Movie Morlocks analysed Ray's appeal from the film Nightfall:
Nobody smokes a cigarette like Aldo Ray. There's no forethought involved. No effort to seduce or impress audiences with an exaggerated pose or gesture. Ray doesn't have to pretend to be cool, threatening, bruised, battered or tough. He just is. And I find every unassuming gesture he makes utterly captivating. Aldo Ray has never been considered a great Hollywood actor in the traditional sense but his natural, unaffected performances often seemed to emerge from some unsettled place. You could frequently hear a genuine urgency in the way he delivered his lines and his casual swagger told you he'd been around the block more than once. Whenever Ray erupted on screen it felt like you were watching a volcano explode and if you didn't get out of the way it could easily swallow you up in a heavy flow of golden molten lava. Film historians often like to talk about the sea change that occurred in the 1950s, when actor's [sic] like Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando brought a new kind of sincerity to Hollywood. These highly trained method actors changed the way we appreciate and understand acting today and they've rightfully been recognized for their accomplishments. But there were other performers that unconsciously championed a new kind of natural approach to acting. And one of them was Aldo Ray.[8]
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Jeff Donnell and Aldo Ray were married for 2 years. They dated for 7 months after getting together in Feb 1954 and married on 30th Sep 1954. 2 years later they divorced in Oct 1956.
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American Actor Aldo Ray was born Aldo DaRe on 25th September, 1926 in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, USA and passed away on 27th Mar 1991 Martinez, California, USA aged 64. He is most remembered for We`re No Angels, God`s Little Acre. His zodiac sign is Libra.
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She studied at the Yale School of Drama and performed briefly in summer stock before marrying her first husband at 19: Bill Anderson, a drama teacher from her Boston alma mater, Leland Powers Drama School. Together they started the Farragut Playhouse in Rye, New Hampshire. Almost immediately a Columbia Studios talent scout noticed her in a play there and quickly signed her.
Whisked to Los Angeles, Jeff made her first appearance in the war-era movie Meine Schwester Ellen (1942) while husband Bill was hired on as a dialogue director. Hardly the chic, glamour-girl type, Jeff possessed a perky, unpretentious, tomboyish quality that worked comfortably in unchallenging "B" escapism --usually the breezy girlfriend or spirited bobbysoxer. Typical of her movie load at the time were the fun but innocuous Doughboys in Ireland (1943), What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943), Nine Girls (1944), 1001 Nacht (1945), Carolina Blues (1944), and Eadie Was a Lady (1945). She also enlivened a number of musical westerns that prominently featured Ken Curtis (Festus of "Gunsmoke").
On a rare occasion, Jeff found herself in "A" pictures, most notably the Bogart film noir classic Ein einsamer Ort (1950), but more often than not she played the obliging or supportive friend of the leading lady. Unable to break away from her established "B" ranking, she later tried a move to RKO Studios (1949) but fared no better or worse. She did make a successful move to TV in the early 50s and was seen in a number of comedy and dramatic parts.
Long separated from and finally divorcing her first husband in 1953 (they had one son, Michael, and an adopted daughter, Sarah Jane), she married rising film actor Aldo Ray in 1954, but the marriage crumbled within two years, beset by drinking problems; she also suffered a miscarriage. She went on to marry and divorce twice more. As the 1950s rolled on, she earned steady work on TV, bringing to life comedian George Gobel's often-mentioned wife Alice on the sitcom The George Gobel Show (1954) for four seasons. She also had the opportunity to play Gidget's mom in a couple of the popular lightweight movies of the early 1960s -- April entdeckt Hawaii (1961) and April entdeckt Rom (1963).
Most daytime fans will remember Jeff's long-running stint on the soap drama General Hospital (1963) as Stella Fields, the Quartermain housekeeper, which started in 1979 and lasted until her death in 1988. Dogged by ill health in later years (including a serious bout with Addison's disease), Jeff died peacefully of a heart attack in her sleep at age 66.
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Aldo Ray (born Aldo Da Re; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor of film and television. He began his career as a contract player for Columbia Studios before achieving stardom through his roles in The Marrying Kind, Pat and Mike (which earned him a Golden Globe nomination), Let's Do It Again, and Battle Cry. His athletic build and gruff, raspy voice saw him frequently typecast in "tough guy" roles throughout his career, which lasted well into the late 1980s. Though the latter part of his career was marked by appearances in low-budget B-movies and exploitation films, he still appeared occasionally in higher-profile features, including The Secret of NIMH (1982) and The Sicilian (1987).
Early life and education
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Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino, and Louis) and one sister (Regina). His brother Mario Da Re (1933-2010) lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954 and appeared as a contestant on the May 12, 1955, edition of Groucho Marx's NBC-TV quiz show You Bet Your Life.[1] His family moved to the small town of Crockett, California, when Aldo was four years old. His father worked as a laborer at the C&H Sugar Refinery, the largest employer in the town. He attended John Swett High School, where he made the football team; he also coached swimming.[2]
At age 18, during World War II in 1944, Ray entered the United States Navy, serving as a frogman until 1946; he saw action at Okinawa with UDT-17. Upon leaving the Navy in May 1946, he returned to Crockett. He studied and played football at Vallejo Junior College and then entered the University of California at Berkeley to study political science. (Ray later described himself as an "arch conservative" and a "right-winger".[3]) He left college in order to run for the office of constable of the Crockett Judicial District in Contra Costa County, California. "I always knew I was going to be a big man, but I thought it would be in politics," he said.[4]
Career
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Saturday's Hero
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In April 1950 Columbia Studios sent a unit to San Francisco to look for some athletes to appear in a film they were making called Saturday's Hero (1951). Aldo's brother Guido saw an item in the San Francisco Chronicle about the auditions and asked his brother to drive him there. Director David Miller was more interested in Ray than in his brother because of his voice; also, Ray was comfortable talking to the camera owing to his political experience. He later recalled, "They... said, 'What's wrong with your voice kid? Are you sick? If you're sick you don't belong here.' I said, 'No, no, no, this is the way I've always spoken.' And they loved it."[3] Ray would later retell this story in the trailer for Pat and Mike.
Ray signed a contract and was sent to Los Angeles for a screen test. He was cast in the small role of a cynical college football player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed.[5]
Ray worked on the film between the primary and general elections. He was elected constable on 6 June. "I was 23 and a sort of child bride to the voters," he later said.[5] "The guy I ran against was a 16-year incumbent, and I destroyed him with 80 percent of the vote! I was going to work my way up to the U.S. Senate, see, and I would've, too."[6]
Columbia picked up its option on Ray's services and signed him to a seven-year contract. "Of all the people in the picture they took up only one option—mine," he said. "And I said, 'Thank you, goodbye. I'm going home where I can be a big fish in my small pond. You can take this town (Hollywood) and shove it."[3]
Columbia refused to release him from his contract and put him under suspension, giving him a leave of absence to work as constable. "I told them I couldn't care less, they could give me whatever they wanted," he said.[3] Ray started his new job in November 1950.
Hollywood stardom: The Marrying Kind
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After several months, Ray found "the quiet life... monotonous",[5] so he contacted Max Arnow, talent director at Columbia, and expressed interest in appearing in more movies. Four weeks later, Arnow called back, saying Columbia wanted to audition Ray for a small part in Judy Holliday's new movie The Marrying Kind.
Ray went to Hollywood and did a screen test with the director, George Cukor. The first test went badly, but head of Columbia Harry Cohn liked Ray and asked for another test. The second one was done opposite (Miss) Jeff Donnell, whom Ray later married; it was more successful and Ray ended up being cast in the lead.[5]
Harry Cohn felt the name "Aldo Da Re" was too close to "Dare" and wanted to change it to "John Harrison"; the actor refused and "Aldo Ray" was the compromise.[7] He divorced his wife and resigned as constable in September 1951. His studio salary was $200 a week.[6]
Cukor famously suggested that Ray go to ballet school because he walked too much like a football player. The director later talked about the actor:
He has a great advantage: the way his eyes are made. The light comes into them. There are certain people who have opaque eyes which refuse to catch the light. But his eyes had a certain glow and gave quite well in the photographed result. He did this silent scene very well lying there on the bed in the same room with Judy (Holliday). Then later he did comedy scenes with her—very difficult ones—and there were also emotional sequences where he broke down and cried. They were brilliant.[8]
"Cukor is hypersensitive to reality", recalled Ray. "He told me exactly what to do and why. He explains everything and he knows exactly what he wants."[9]
Ray's performance was much praised. Sight & Sound later commented:
To give the performance he did in The Marrying Kind after so little previous experience was clear evidence that in Aldo Ray the screen had discovered one of its rare "naturals". This was no carefully edited, tricked out performance, but a strikingly sincere and imaginative interpretation: an exceptional talent responding to a finely intuitive director... There was about him none of the personality assurance that extracts a special consideration of the actor as distinct from his role.[10]
Cukor then cast Ray in a supporting role in Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Ray's work in Pat and Mike led to his nomination, along with Richard Burton and Robert Wagner, for a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer. Burton won the award that year, but Ray's career was launched. He said after two films with Cukor: "I never needed direction again."[11]
Ray said Spencer Tracy told him: "Kid, I don't know what it is that you got, and I got, and some of us have, but you can work in this business forever." "That," said Ray, "made me feel good, you know, coming from a guy like him. I never bowed down to anybody at Columbia or anywhere else, but my overall idea was, I'll do whatever they tell me because it's their business, not mine, and I've got to learn it."[6]
Columbia leading man
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Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn liked Ray and wanted him for the role of Private Robert Prewitt in From Here to Eternity (1953), but Fred Zinnemann insisted Montgomery Clift be cast.[12] However, other good roles followed instead. "Because of Harry, all my first pictures were big hits, tremendously popular", Ray recalled.[6]
Ray starred opposite Jane Wyman in Let's Do It Again (1953), then followed this acting opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (also 1953), the third film version of the W. Somerset Maugham story "Rain". He also appeared in a production of Stalag 17 at La Jolla Playhouse.[13]
Ray was loaned to Warner Bros to appear in Battle Cry (1955), which was directed by Raoul Walsh, who would become one of Ray's favorite directors. The film was a box-office hit—probably the most popular movie Ray ever made—although it led to his being typecast.
"In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in", reflected Ray later. "There were no sophisticated roles for me. I never seemed to get past master sergeant, though I always thought of myself as upper echelon."[14]
Clash with Columbia
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Ray was meant to appear in My Sister Eileen (1955) as The Wreck, but he walked off the set, claiming his role was too small, and had to be replaced by Dick York.[15]
Battle Cry was a big hit at the box office, so Columbia gave Ray a lead role as a sergeant who marries a Japanese girl in Three Stripes in the Sun (originally The Gentle Wolfhound) (1955) and then loaned him to Paramount for We're No Angels (also 1955), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Joan Bennett.
Ray was profiled in Sight & Sound as follows:
Aldo Ray's technical advance in the four years since The Marrying Kind enables him now to work in subtler, more economical degree; there is an authoritative reserve and, still remarkably intact, the original rare lack of ostentation. All the same, his career seems to have become a nomadic drifting round the studios looking for the right kind of film. The good humour, the lenitive smile, the frog in the throat voice betray nothing of the disappointment the actor must feel after such exciting beginnings under Cukor's guidance.[10]
Ray was meant to appear in Jubal but refused because Columbia had made a profit on his loan-outs for Battle Cry and We're No Angels but not paid Ray a bonus; Rod Steiger took the role instead.[16] Ray was put on suspension.[17]
Ray then refused to appear in Beyond Mombasa (1956) because he did not want to go on location. This led to his being replaced by Cornel Wilde and put under suspension again. However, the situation was resolved when he agreed to make Nightfall (1957), playing an artist who encounters a pair of ruthless bank robbers.[18]
In 1956, in between appearances in Three Stripes In The Sun and Men in War, Ray worked in radio as a personality and announcer at hit music station WNDR in Syracuse, New York. A photo of Ray with a colleague in the WNDR studios, taken as part of a station promotional package, survives and can be found on a WNDR tribute website. By 1957, in any event, he had left WNDR and the radio business and returned to Hollywood.
On January 31, 1957, Ray appeared on NBC's The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He and Tennessee Ernie Ford did a comedy skit from a foxhole.[19]
Two with Anthony Mann
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Columbia loaned Ray out to Security Pictures (who released through United Artists) for him to appear in Men in War (1957) opposite Robert Ryan; it was directed by Anthony Mann, who became Ray's favorite director. Ray was given 5% of the profits, which he later estimated at $70,000.[6]
Ray was reunited with Security Pictures, Ryan, and Mann to star in God's Little Acre (1958), an adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's controversial novel directed by Mann starring Robert Ryan and Tina Louise.
By the seventh year of his contract with Columbia, Ray was earning $750 a week. He later said for the first ten years of his career he made less than $100,000.[3] He expressed interest in producing his own vehicle, The Magic Mesa, from a script by Burt Kennedy, but it was not made.[20]
Instead Ray appeared in an adaptation of David Goodis's novel Nightfall (1957) directed by Jacques Tourneur and The Naked and the Dead (1958), an adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel directed by Raoul Walsh. It was produced by Paul Gregory, who said:
Aldo Ray was drunk the entire time. He was a very sweet guy, but he was gone. He drank drank drank. Raoul Walsh would say, "Let's get him in the morning 'cause in the afternoon it's over."... I just could not get used to it, actors who got all this money and then didn't behave professionally. The English actors have classical training. They perform like professionals. You take someone like Aldo Ray who was just picked up and catapulted into stardom, and then he was just a sponge for booze. He killed himself drinking, not living up to his moral contract.[21]
Ray later admitted that producers were scared of casting him in projects because of his drinking.[3]
Leaving Columbia
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Ray had been popular with Harry Cohn because, in the actor's words, "[h]e took no shit from anybody and he saw that I was that kind of a guy, too."[2] But when Cohn died in 1958, Columbia elected not to renew Ray's contract and he decided to leave Hollywood. He later said, "I never was an expatriate. I spent some time in England and Spain and Italy but I was never out of this country [the US] longer than six months."[22]
He starred in 1959 in Four Desperate Men (The Siege of Pinchgut), filmed in Australia; it was the last movie produced by Ealing Studios (releasing through MGM) and a box office disappointment. He then appeared opposite Lucille Ball in an episode of Desilu Playhouse. He said he made more money from these two projects "than I'd made the whole eight years before."[6]
In 1959, Ray was cast as Hunk Farber in the episode "Payment in Full" of the NBC western series Riverboat. In the story line, Farber betrays his friend and employer to collect reward money that he uses to court his girlfriend, Missy.[23]
Ray made The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, directed by John Guillermin, in the UK and Johnny Nobody in Ireland.[24] He later described his British sojourn as a "big mistake" because none of his British films were widely seen in America.[3]
"Everything went well until the end of '62—then everything collapsed—including me", he later said. "I didn't take care of myself physically and mentally."[25]
He hired a press agent, started taking better care of himself physically, and changed agents.[25]
Return to Hollywood
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Ray returned to Hollywood in 1964. He had a small role in Sylvia (1965) and made a pilot for a TV series financed by producer Joseph E. Levine, Steptoe and Son (an unsuccessful adaptation of the British TV series). "I feel I shall have a complete regeneration of my career", he said in 1965.[25]
He later appeared in What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, and Welcome to Hard Times. He also made several guest appearances on television.
In 1966 Ray claimed, "I've been turning down a lot of TV and B movies. I won't consider anything but important roles in important pictures."[9] He said he was "almost independently wealthy", having saved and invested wisely in real estate from the times when his fee was $100,000 a film. He was interested in returning to politics but not until he had made "at least" four more movies. "The ideal situation would be three films every two years."[9]
In 1966 Ray played "Jake", a deaf mute, in "The Virginian" entitled "Jacob was a plain man".
He formed his own company, Crockett Productions, and bought two original scripts for films that were not made: Soldares, by Edwin Gottlieb, about the search for Pancho Villa,[26] and Frogman, South Pacific, by William Zeck.[27]
His best-known work of the 1960s was his portrayal of Sergeant Muldoon, alongside John Wayne, in The Green Berets (1968).
Ray starred in Kill a Dragon, shot in Hong Kong in 1966, and Suicide Commando, shot in Rome and Spain in 1968. He also made two television pilots in the 1960s; neither was picked up. [citation needed]
Career decline
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As the 1960s ended, Hollywood's appetite for Ray's machismo started to wane. Though he worked steadily in the 1970s, the quality of his roles diminished, and he was typically cast as a gruff and gravelly redneck.
By 1976, Ray was broke. He blamed this on his ex-wives and red tape that meant he could not develop his real estate properties. "I lost it all", he said. "And I am very, very bitter about it... The biggest mistake I ever made was discovering women. I only wish society had been as free and easy when I was coming along as it is today because if that had been the case I wouldn't have been married. Three women in my life utterly destroyed me."[22]
In 1979, Ray appeared in a pornographic movie, Sweet Savage, in a nonsexual role. Ray said later:
I wanted, I guess, to see what it was all about—a kind of half-assed adventure, you know? It was also a kind of vacation for me in a bad time—a nice location in Arizona—and I picked up a few thousand bucks. After it came out, a few people wagged their fingers at me—'Oh-ho-ho, you dirty dog'—but I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. They shot all the sex stuff after I'd flown back to L.A. I won the adult film Oscar for that, by the way, but somebody copped it.[28]
In 1981, Ray told a newspaper that his drinking was "under control" and said, "I think things are going to shoot straight up. I'm working on a deal now and if the picture is made my worries... are over... If things go the way I anticipate and I stay healthy I think I've got better years ahead of me than behind me."[3] He said he was open to a return to politics "if my movie career doesn't take off like I think it will."[3] He admitted being unhappy with his career, saying: "I think I should have gotten more good stuff."[3]
His career decline accelerated in the 1980s, and after being diagnosed with throat cancer in 1989, he accepted virtually any role that came his way to maintain his costly health insurance. He returned to Crockett in 1983.
Though at this stage in his career Ray starred mostly in low-budget and exploitation films, he did appear in occasional higher-profile works. He provided voice-over work as Sullivan for the 1982 animated film The Secret of NIMH alongside fellow character actor John Carradine. Ray was originally cast in the role of Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's 1984 film Dune, as his ex-wife Johanna Ray was the casting director, but was replaced by Patrick Stewart owing to ongoing issues with alcoholism.[29]
During the last stages of his career, Ray made a number of films for Fred Olen Ray. "He'd give me $1,000 in cash, pay my expenses, and I'd do a day's work", said Ray. "Somebody showed me one of his cassettes—'starring Aldo Ray'—but it was just a one-day job... I needed money at the time, and Fred knew I needed a buck, so I did it. He exploited me, yeah... but I was ripe for it."[28] He also appeared in two films for Iranian-born filmmaker Amir Shervan, better known for his cult classic Samurai Cop.
Final years and death
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In 1986 Ray's SAG membership was revoked when it was discovered he was acting in a non-union production, Lethal Injection.[6] However, Ray still got his union pension and benefits. His fee at this stage was $5,000 a week.[28] He appeared in two more higher-profile films, Michael Cimino's The Sicilian (1987) and Blood Red (1989), both in supporting roles that emphasized his Italian heritage.
In 1989, he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his throat that Ray attributed to excessive smoking and drinking.
His last film, which was filmed in mid 1990, was Shock 'Em Dead, in which he appeared with Traci Lords and Troy Donahue. In an interview that same year, he said about his cancer:
I regret that I don't have more control of my tongue and thoughts—because I speak too frankly and too honestly, and this world is not meant for frank and honest people. They don't mix. Reality is pretty phony... I'm in great shape—got all my energy and strength back. I had surgery on my neck last March, and after one more session of the chemo—that's 50 more hours—the doctors say I'll have it all beat... I'm not scared of dying—it's how I die that matters. I'd rather live one good year than ten more crappy years. And I think I've got some good pictures ahead of me if I can find the right roles. There's plenty of good stuff left in me, you know?[28]
Ray remained in Crockett, with his mother and family and friends. On 19 February 1991, he was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez, 40 miles east of San Francisco. He died there of complications from throat cancer and pneumonia on 27 March 1991 at age 64.[7][14] He was cremated and his ashes were put in an urn and buried in Crockett, with a majority of the residents coming out to pay their respects.
Personal life
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Ray was married three times:
Shirley Green on June 20, 1947. They had one child, a daughter named Claire.
Jeff Donnell (married 30 September 1954, divorced 1956)
British actress Johanna Bennet (married March 26, 1960, divorced 1967), who continues to work today under the name Johanna Ray as a respected casting director. They had two sons, Paul and Eric. Johanna Ray, a longtime collaborator with David Lynch, cast her son with Aldo, Eric Da Re, in Lynch's Twin Peaks series as well as in the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
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Author Richard Matheson said that his best-known work, The Incredible Shrinking Man, was inspired by a scene in Aldo Ray's Let's Do It Again in which a character puts on someone else's hat and it sinks down past his ears; "I thought, what if a man put on his own hat and that happened?" he recounted in an interview for Stephen King's nonfiction work Danse Macabre. [citation needed]
Quentin Tarantino says Aldo Ray would have been ideal casting for the character of Butch in Pulp Fiction (1994) and that the look of Butch in the film (as played by Bruce Willis) was inspired by Ray.[30]
Brad Pitt's character in Tarantino's 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds is a soldier named "Aldo Raine", in tribute to Ray.[citation needed]
Ray appears as a character in Tarantino's 2021 novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The Crockett Museum has a display depicting his life.
A profile in Movie Morlocks analysed Ray's appeal from the film Nightfall:
Nobody smokes a cigarette like Aldo Ray. There's no forethought involved. No effort to seduce or impress audiences with an exaggerated pose or gesture. Ray doesn't have to pretend to be cool, threatening, bruised, battered or tough. He just is. And I find every unassuming gesture he makes utterly captivating. Aldo Ray has never been considered a great Hollywood actor in the traditional sense but his natural, unaffected performances often seemed to emerge from some unsettled place. You could frequently hear a genuine urgency in the way he delivered his lines and his casual swagger told you he'd been around the block more than once. Whenever Ray erupted on screen it felt like you were watching a volcano explode and if you didn't get out of the way it could easily swallow you up in a heavy flow of golden molten lava. Film historians often like to talk about the sea change that occurred in the 1950s, when actor's [sic] like Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando brought a new kind of sincerity to Hollywood. These highly trained method actors changed the way we appreciate and understand acting today and they've rightfully been recognized for their accomplishments. But there were other performers that unconsciously championed a new kind of natural approach to acting. And one of them was Aldo Ray.[8]
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'Inglourious Basterds' pays homage to WWII films, and it does so while keeping viewers entertained for nearly three hours. It's incredible!
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2009’s Inglourious Basterds is a war movie, comedy and drama all at the same time. It’s an homage to World War II movies and Spaghetti Westerns, and is just an all-around fantastic Jewish revenge fantasy. While long, it entertains from start to finish, and it truly shows Quentin Tarantino’s love for history.
Below is a list of things you may not know about the film or might have missed, earning it a well-deserved rewatch.
The subtle detail in the opening scene
In the opening scene of the film, Schutzstaffel (SS) Col. Hans Landa arrives at the home of a French family, in search of a missing Jewish family believed to be hiding there. When he enters the residence, he sits at the table and the father, Pierre LaPadite, calls for one of his daughters to get him a glass of wine. Landa stops her, grabbing her wrist in a very particular way.
Some audiences believe this was to check her pulse for any hint of whether the family was hiding something. While many argue that having an SS officer in one’s home would automatically make them nervous, others suggest the fear of hiding something (or someone) would strike an obvious difference in one’s pulse.
Other audiences feel the gesture is another movie gimmick where the sinister villain touches their victim in a gentle way. Either way, the scene provides palpable tension leading up to the violence that was about to break out in the home.
Where the name “Aldo Raine” came from
When Tarantino was coming up with the name for head “Basterd” Aldo Raine, he did like he usually does and took inspiration from people who’ve left an impression on him. The first name “Aldo” was inspired by real-life World War II veteran Aldo Ray, who served as a frogman in the US Navy from 1944-46. He was only 18 years old when he enlisted, and when the war came to a close, he moved to Los Angeles and became an actor best known for his role in 1952 film, The Marrying Kind.
The last name “Raine” was inspired by the fictional character Charles Rane, the hook-handed US Air Force major from Rolling Thunder who returns home after spending seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and seeks vengeance for the murders of his wife and son. The combination of the two created Aldo Raine, played by Brad Pitt.
The Black Devils insignia
When Aldo Raine is first introduced in the film, he’s seen sporting the “Black Devils” insignia. This was the symbol for the 1st Special Service Force, an elite American-Canadian unit organized in 1942 under the US Fifth Army and disbanded in ’44, prior to the end of the Second World War.
It began under the command of Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick, and the men were rigorously trained in stealth tactics, hand-to-hand combat, explosives, parachuting, amphibious warfare, mountain warfare and as ski troops. The insignia is a red spearhead with the words “USA” written horizontally and “CANADA” presented vertically, and can be seen on the left shoulder of Aldo Raine.
Tarantino certainly did his homework.
Le Corbeau evades censorship
Shosanna Dreyfus, portrayed by Mélanie Laurent, is a Jewish cinema owner and projectionist whose family was hiding in the LaPadite house at the beginning of Inglourious Basterds. She was the only one to survive and made it her mission to bring an end to the war. At her theater, the film, Nation’s Pride, is played, much to her reluctance.
The second marquee, however, was the 1943 film, Le Corbeau, a very real movie with hidden anti-German messages. The censors missed this, and the film was allowed to play. In real life, the movie was pulled upon the Germans realizing its messages, but not before it saw box office success in France.
Sedgley OSS .38
In the film, two American soldiers kill two German guards by punching them while wearing gloves with pistols mounted to them. They look like something out of a movie (pun intended), but were actual weapons manufactured by RF Sedgley for the US Navy. They weren’t very popular, and only a small quantity were manufactured, somewhere between 50 and 200. While there is no recorded use of them in combat, they look really cool both on and off the big screen.
The weapon is a “single-shot .38 S&W barrel mounted alongside a plunger, which extends beyond the muzzle of the barrel. The whole thing is riveted onto a heavy leather glove. When the wearer makes a fist, the plunger and muzzle are left slightly in front of the knuckles. Upon punching something or someone, the plunger is depressed, which fires the cartridge.”
Scalping training – the best three win!
One thing Aldo Raine expects of his “Basterds” was they each present him with 100 scalps from 100 German soldiers. Naturally, the act was a very prominent part of the film. To make it realistic, Tarantino had the actors go through “scalp training.” He even offered them a reward for perfecting the technique – the three best scalpers would be given closeups during the film. Considering it was the highest grossing Tarantino film from 2009-12, having a closeup was definitely a valuable reward.
More from us: The Seven Most Heartbreaking Deaths in Military Movies
The technique was not necessarily accurate and looked more like someone peeling a potato than scalping a human. However, given it was shown in a movie, it certainly accomplished the gruesome procedure that was being displayed.
Samantha Franco
Samantha Franco is a Freelance Content Writer who received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Guelph, and her Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Western Ontario. Her research focused on Victorian, medical, and epidemiological history with a focus on childhood diseases. Stepping away from her academic career, Samantha previously worked as a Heritage Researcher and now writes content for multiple sites covering an array of historical topics.
In her spare time, Samantha enjoys reading, knitting, and hanging out with her dog, Chowder!
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Shirley A. Shiets, 81, of Fremont, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at Valley View Care Center. She was born December 18, 1942 in Fremont, the daughter of LaMar and Helen Rose (Tewers) Wolf. Shirley was a 1960 graduate of Fremont Ross High.
On June 18, 1965 she married John Shiets at St. John's Lutheran Church in Fremont, OH.
Shirley's love for reading and books was evident in her career. She worked for East Side Presbyterian Church, Sandusky County Law Library and Birchard Public Library where she retired in 2002. At St. John’s Lutheran Church, she was an active member of the Altar Guild and was in charge of the church’s library. She also enjoyed crossword puzzles, embroidery, traveling and camping.
Surviving are her husband of 58 years, John Shiets of Fremont, OH; children Christy Donnell of Woodville, OH; Steven (Bridget) Shiets of Bellevue, OH; sister Barb (Tom) Trout of Fremont, OH. She was preceded in death by her parents and son-in-law Jeff Donnell.
Visitation will take place on Friday, March 8, 2024 from 2-4 & 5-7 P.M. at Herman-Karlovetz Funeral Home and Crematory, 900 North Street, Fremont, OH. Additional visitation will begin at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at St. John's Lutheran Church, funeral services will begin at 11:00 A.M. Rev. Matthew Wheeler will officiate. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Memory Gardens, Clyde, OH. Memorial contributions may be made to St. John's Lutheran Church, Birchard Public Library or Luther Home of Mercy.
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Aldo Ray’s career was launched as he was cast in 1952 opposite Judy holiday in the George Cukor film THE MARRYING KIND and PAT AND MIKE with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. His thick neck and large frame aided his a tough, sexy roles for that time became his trademark. Cukor once told him that he moved like a ‘football player’ and suggested that he take ballet lessons. He was nominated for a “Best Newcomer” award for the Golden Globe awards that year along with Robert Wagner only to lose out to someone called Richard Burton. Ray made a picture with Rita Hayworth called MISS SADIE THOMPSON in 1953. Columbia pictures boss Harry Cohen wanted Ray in the role of Private Robert Prewitt in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY(1953) but Director Fred Zinnemann insisted on Montgomery Clift.
In 1955, Ray featured in starring roles in BATTLE CRY, THREE STRIPES IN A SUN, MEN IN WAR and one of his best-loved films, WE’RE NO ANGELS (1955), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone and Joan Bennett. He tried his hand or rather voice as a radio personality on the hit music station WNDR New York.
In personal life Aldo Ray settled in Crockett California after military discharge with his wife Shirley Green where he was elected as Town Constable.They had one child, a daughter named Claire The marriage ended in divorce in 1953 as did second union to actress Jeff Donnell which also ended in divorce in 1956
By the dawn of the 1960s, Aldo was most often typecast as the tough guy, capitalizing on his husky good looks and gravelly voice. Another iconic role came Ray’s way as he played SGT. Muldoon along side John Wayne in THE GREEN BERETS.(1968) plus appearance in various televsion shows such as BONANZA. He married Johanna Bennet, who continues to work today under the name Johanna Ray, as a respected Casting Director. They were divorced in 1967. Aldo grew tired of the ‘macho redneck’ roles plus the quality of the stories in 60’s yet he still worked in some less then notable films as character attitudes changed.
In the 1980s as Ray was diagnosed with throat cancer and would take any job including non sexual roles in porngraphic films to pay for his costly health insurance. His SCREEN ACTOR GUILD card was revoked when it was found out he was working on non union productions. However ex wife Johanna Ray, a longtime collaborator with David Lynch, cast her son Eric with Aldo in Lynch’s 1990 TWIN PEEKS television series, as well as the movie FIREWALK WITH ME released in 1992. Ray also appeared in 1991 horror picture SHOCK’EM DEAD with Tracie Lords and Troy Donohue.
Aldo Ray retured to Crockett California with his mother, family and friends where he passed away in 1991.
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Aldo Ray’s career was launched as he was cast in 1952 opposite Judy holiday in the George Cukor film THE MARRYING KIND and PAT AND MIKE with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. His thick neck and large frame aided his a tough, sexy roles for that time became his trademark. Cukor once told him that he moved like a ‘football player’ and suggested that he take ballet lessons. He was nominated for a “Best Newcomer” award for the Golden Globe awards that year along with Robert Wagner only to lose out to someone called Richard Burton. Ray made a picture with Rita Hayworth called MISS SADIE THOMPSON in 1953. Columbia pictures boss Harry Cohen wanted Ray in the role of Private Robert Prewitt in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY(1953) but Director Fred Zinnemann insisted on Montgomery Clift.
In 1955, Ray featured in starring roles in BATTLE CRY, THREE STRIPES IN A SUN, MEN IN WAR and one of his best-loved films, WE’RE NO ANGELS (1955), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone and Joan Bennett. He tried his hand or rather voice as a radio personality on the hit music station WNDR New York.
In personal life Aldo Ray settled in Crockett California after military discharge with his wife Shirley Green where he was elected as Town Constable.They had one child, a daughter named Claire The marriage ended in divorce in 1953 as did second union to actress Jeff Donnell which also ended in divorce in 1956
By the dawn of the 1960s, Aldo was most often typecast as the tough guy, capitalizing on his husky good looks and gravelly voice. Another iconic role came Ray’s way as he played SGT. Muldoon along side John Wayne in THE GREEN BERETS.(1968) plus appearance in various televsion shows such as BONANZA. He married Johanna Bennet, who continues to work today under the name Johanna Ray, as a respected Casting Director. They were divorced in 1967. Aldo grew tired of the ‘macho redneck’ roles plus the quality of the stories in 60’s yet he still worked in some less then notable films as character attitudes changed.
In the 1980s as Ray was diagnosed with throat cancer and would take any job including non sexual roles in porngraphic films to pay for his costly health insurance. His SCREEN ACTOR GUILD card was revoked when it was found out he was working on non union productions. However ex wife Johanna Ray, a longtime collaborator with David Lynch, cast her son Eric with Aldo in Lynch’s 1990 TWIN PEEKS television series, as well as the movie FIREWALK WITH ME released in 1992. Ray also appeared in 1991 horror picture SHOCK’EM DEAD with Tracie Lords and Troy Donohue.
Aldo Ray retured to Crockett California with his mother, family and friends where he passed away in 1991.
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The Marrying Kind, 1952, Columbia Pictures. Starring Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray. Directed by George Cukor. B&W, 92 minutes.
Down on their luck and ready to go their separate ways, Florence “Florrie” (Judy Holliday) and Chet (Aldo Ray) Keefer stand before a judge (Madge Kennedy), asking for a decree of divorce. The judge, however, hoping the couple can remember what first brought them together, asks them to recount the story of their marriage.
What follows is an account of both gentle comedy and deep tragedy as the two struggle through the telling of this tale.
Written by the husband and wife team of Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, the story is complex and at times confusing. It’s difficult to discern the message, if any, about the role of women in marriage; the film doesn’t entirely present a stereotypical 1950’s way of thinking, yet in the end seems to fall back on just that.
Kanin later said that writing with his wife was difficult, as the two rarely saw eye-to-eye in how the story should be told. While their collaboration was effective in previous ventures, such as Adam’s Rib, it perhaps was best they made this their final joint effort.
That’s not to say The Marrying Kind isn’t worth watching. It is. Judy Holliday plays a character distinctly different from her earlier roles in Born Yesterday and others, in which she perfected the not-so-dumb blonde character. Florrie is capable and opinionated, yet also subject to the demands of her husband, which she gives in to out of love, not fear.
Chet, for his part, shows signs of both ingenuity and complacency, a man who could do more yet is easily discouraged by setbacks big and small.
The Marrying Kind was Aldo Ray’s film debut. Director Cukor later said of the actor, “He was a natural sort of actor with enormous individuality.” Ray went on to have moderate success in film and later television, although he never achieved what had been predicted for him at the start of his career.
While distinctly dated in some of its elements, there are timeless truths about marriage and family revealed between Florrie and Chet. Watch for a piercing question or two from their daughter, a character who makes a brief yet poignant appearance in the film.
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Jeff Donnell Actress | Soundtrack - Date of Birth 10 July 1921, South Windham, Maine, USA
Date of Death 11 April 1988, Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name Jean Marie Donnell
Mini Bio (1) A reliable featured player and occasional co-star, actress Jeff Donnell was born Jean Marie Donnell in a boy's reformatory in South Windham, Maine in 1921. The younger of two daughters, her father (Howard) was a penologist and mother (Mildred) a schoolteacher. Raised in Maryland, she took piano and dance lessons while growing up. It was during her upbringing that she fixated on the popular "Mutt and Jeff" cartoon strip and gave herself the nickname "Jeff".
Studying at one time at the Yale School of Drama and performing briefly in summer stock, Jeff met her first husband, Bill Anderson, a drama teacher from her old Boston alma mater Leland Powers Drama School, and quickly married him at the young age of 19. Together they started the Farragut Playhouse in Rye, New Hampshire. Almost immediately she was noticed in a play there by a Columbia Studios talent scout and was signed.
Whisked to Los Angeles, Jeff made her first appearance in the war-era movie My Sister Eileen (1942) while husband Bill was hired on as a dialogue director. Hardly the chic, glamour girl type, Jeff possessed a perky, unpretentious, tomboyish quality that worked comfortably in unchallenging "B" escapism -- usually the breezy girlfriend or spirited bobbysoxer. Typical of her movie load at the time were the fun but innocuous Doughboys in Ireland (1943), What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943), Nine Girls (1944), A Thousand and One Nights (1945), Carolina Blues (1944) and Eadie Was a Lady (1945). She also enlivened a number of musical westerns that prominently featured Ken Curtis (Festus of "Gunsmoke").
On a rare occasion, Jeff found herself in "A" pictures, most notably the Bogart film noir classic In a Lonely Place (1950), but more often than not she played the obliging or supportive friend of the leading lady. Unable to break away from her established "B" ranking, she later tried a move to RKO Studios (1949) but fared no better or worse. She did make a successful move to TV in the early 50s and was seen in a number of comedy and dramatic parts.
Long separated from and finally divorcing her first husband in 1953 (they had one son, Michael, and an adopted daughter, Sarah Jane), she married actor Aldo Ray, who was an up-and-rising film star at the time, in 1954 but the marriage crumbled within two years, beset by drinking problems. She also suffered a miscarriage during that marriage. Jeff went on to marry and divorce two more times. As the 1950s rolled on she earned steady work on TV bringing to life comedian George Gobel's often-mentioned wife Alice on the sitcom The George Gobel Show (1954) for four seasons. She also had the opportunity to play Gidget's mom in a couple of the popular lightweight movies of the early 1960s -- Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963).
Most daytime fans will remember Jeff's long-running stint on the soap drama General Hospital (1963) as Stella Fields, the Quartermain housekeeper, which started in 1979 and lasted until her death in 1988. Dogged by ill health in later years (including a serious bout with Addison's disease), Jeff died peacefully of a heart attack in her sleep at age 66.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net
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Radcliffe Bealey (28 February 1974 - 1975) (divorced)
John Bricker (1 September 1958 - 10 March 1964) (divorced)
Aldo Ray (30 September 1954 - 16 October 1956) (divorced)
Bill Anderson (25 December 1940 - 1952) (divorced) (2 children)
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Had a key role in the critically lauded film Sweet Smell of Success (1957) as Tony Curtis' secretary, but her role was cut extensively, including a big romantic scene with Curtis that might have reignited her movie career.
Had two children by her (much older) first husband Bill Anderson: Michael Phineas (nicknamed Mickey Finn), born in 1942, and Sarah Jane (Sally), born 1947.
Lived in Towson, MD during her youth and was a 1938 graduate of the Towson Senior High School.
She was a staunch Republican who gave much of her time and money towards various conservative political causes. She attended several Republican National Conventions, galas, and fund-raisers, and she was active in the campaigns of Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.
Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea in the Pacific Ocean.
Her favorite movie was Gone with the Wind (1939).
Personal Quotes (1)
I wasn't the pretty type and I certainly wasn't glamorous, so, I always felt fortunate to be acting. My first concern was for my family, so I never developed a driving ambition. I consider myself a very lucky person.
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Jeff Donnell Actress - Featured player and occasional co-star Jeff Donnell was born Jean Marie Donnell in a boy`s reformatory in South Windham, Maine in 1921, her father a penologist and mother a schoolteacher. It was during her upbringing at the all-male reformatory that she gave herself the nickname "Jeff." She met her first husband, a drama teacher from her Boston alma mater, Leland Powers Drama School, and married him at the age of 19. Together they started the Farragut Playhouse in Rye, New Hampshire, and almost immediately she was noticed in a play there by a Columbia Studios talent scout and signed. Whisked to Los Angeles, she appeared in her first war-era movie, My Sister Eileen (1942) and her husband was hired as a dialogue director. Hardly the chic, glamour girl type, Jeff possessed a perky, unpretentious charm and demeanor that fit comfortably as an occasional light love interest or sidekick in mostly unchallenging "B" escapism. Typical of her movie load were the innocuous What`s Buzzin, Cousin? (1943), A Thousand and One Nights (1944), Carolina Blues (1944) and Eadie Was a Lady (1945). She also enlivened a number of musical westerns that featured Ken ("Gunsmoke") Curtis. In the few "A" films she appeared in, more than not she was the obliging or supportive friend of the leading lady. Jeff later moved to RKO Studios but fared no better and found herself in progressively inferior material. She made a successful move to TV in the early 50s and was seen in a number of comedy and dramatic parts.
Divorcing her first husband in 1952, she married actor Aldo Ray, who was a up-and-rising film star at the time, in 1954 but the marriage crumbled within two years, beset by drinking problems. Jeff would marry and divorce two more times. As the 50s rolled on she earned steady work on TV bringing to life comedian George Gobel`s often-mentioned wife Alice on the sitcom "The George Gobel Show" for four seasons. She also got to play Gidget`s mom in a couple of lightweight movies. Most fans, however, will remember Jeff`s long-running stint on "General Hospital as Stella Fields, a Quartermain housekeeper, which started in 1979 and lasted until her death in 1988. Dogged by ill health in later years, Jeff died peacefully of a heart attack in her sleep at age 66.
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Miss Jeff Donnell, as she was often billed, was signed by Columbia Pictures almost immediately after her graduation from Yale Drama School. Though likeable and talented enough for leading roles, the toothy, frizzy-haired Ms. Donnell was most often seen as the heroine's best friend or as kooky comedy relief. Columbia certainly kept her busy during her ten-year stay at that studio, casting her in such "A" pictures as My Sister Eileen (1942) and In a Lonely Place (1952) and "B"s like The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) and Thief of Damascus (1952); she is particularly amusing in the latter film as Scheherezade, garrulously insisting upon telling her Arabian Nights stories to a villainous caliph whether he likes it or not. From 1954 through 1956, Jeff was married to another longtime Columbia contractee, Aldo Ray. On television, Jeff spent four years on The George Gobel Show as Gobel's wife, "Spooky Old Alice." Jeff Donnell's last regular TV work was the recurring role of Sheila Fields on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.
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Aldo Ray (born Aldo Da Re; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl in Northampton County in eastern Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino and Louis) and one sister (Regina). (His brother, Mario Da Re (1933–2010), lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954. On the May 12, 1955 edition of Groucho Marx's NBC-TV quiz show You Bet Your Life Mario appeared as a contestant.[1] His family moved to the small town of Crockett in northern California when Aldo was four years old; his father worked as a laborer at the C & H Sugar Refinery, the largest employer in the town. He attended John Swett High School, where he made the football team; he also coached swimming.[2]
In 1944, at age 18, during World War II, Aldo entered the United States Navy, serving as a frogman until 1946; he saw action at Okinawa with UDT-17. Upon leaving the Navy in May 1946 he returned to Crockett. He studied and played football at Vallejo Junior College, then entered the University of California at Berkeley to study political science. (Ray later described himself as an "arch conservative" and a "right winger".[3]) He left college in order to run for the office of Constable of the Crockett Judicial District in Contra Costa County California. "I always knew I was going to be a big man but I thought it was going to be in politics", he said.[4]
Acting career: Saturday's Hero[]
In April 1950 Columbia Studios sent a unit to San Francisco to look for some athletes to appear in a film they were making called Saturday's Hero (1951). Aldo's brother Guido saw an item in the San Francisco Chronicle about the auditions and asked his brother to drive him there. Director David Miller was more interested in Ray than his brother because of his voice; also, Ray was comfortable talking to the camera due to his political experience. He later recalled, "They...said 'What's wrong with your voice kid? Are you sick? If you're sick you don't belong here.' I said, 'No, no, no, this is the way I've always spoken.' And they loved it."[3] Ray would later retell this story in the trailer for Pat and Mike.
Ray signed a contract and was sent to Los Angeles for a screen test. He was cast in the small role of a cynical college football player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed.[5]
Ray worked on the film between the primary and general elections. He was elected constable on 6 June. "I was 23 and a sort of child bride to the voters", he later said.[5] "The guy I ran against was a 16-year incumbent, and I destroyed him with 80 percent of the vote! I was going to work my way up to the U.S. Senate, see, and I would've, too."[6]
Columbia picked up their option on Ray's services, and signed him to a seven-year contract. "Of all the people in the picture they took up only one option – mine", he said. "And I said, 'thank you, good bye. I'm going home where I can be a big fish in my small pond. You can take this town (Hollywood) and shove it."[3]
Columbia refused to release him from his contract and put him under suspension, giving him a leave of absence to work as constable. "I told them I couldn't care less, they could give me whatever they wanted", he said.[3] Ray started his new job in November 1950.
Hollywood stardom: The Marrying Kind[]
After several months Ray found "the quiet life... monotonous",[5] so he contacted Max Arnow, talent director at Columbia, and expressed interest in appearing in more movies. Four weeks later Arnow called back, saying Columbia wanted to audition Ray for a small part in Judy Holliday's new movie, The Marrying Kind.
Ray went to Hollywood and did a screen test with the director, George Cukor. The first test went badly but head of Columbia Harry Cohn liked Ray and asked for another test. The second one was done opposite Jeff Donnell, who Ray later married; it was more successful and Ray ended up being cast in the lead.[5]
Harry Cohn felt the name "Aldo Da Re" was too close to "Dare" and wanted to change it to "John Harrison"; the actor refused and "Aldo Ray" was the compromise.[7] He divorced his wife and resigned as constable in September 1951. His wage was $200 a week.[6]
Cukor famously suggested that Ray go to ballet school because he walked too much like a football player. The director later talked about the actor:
He has a great advantage: the way his eyes are made. The light comes into them. There are certain people who have opaque eyes which refuse to catch the light. But his eyes had a certain glow and gave quite well in the photographed result. He did this silent scene very well lying there on the bed in the same room with Judy (Holliday). Then later he did comedy scenes with her–very difficult ones–and there were also emotional sequences where he broke down and cried. They were brilliant.[8]
"Cukor is hypersensitive to reality", recalled Ray. "He told me exactly what to do and why. He explains everything and he knows exactly what he wants."[9] Ray's performance was much praised. Sight and Sound later wrote:
To give the performance he did in The Marrying Kind after so little previous experience was clear evidence that in Aldo Ray the screen had discovered one of its rare "naturals". This was no carefully edited, tricked out performance, but a strikingly sincere and imaginative interpretation: an exceptional talent responding to a finely intuitive director... There was about him none of the personality assurance that extracts a special consideration of the actor as distinct from his role.[10]
Cukor then cast Ray in a support role in Pat and Mike, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Ray's work in Pat and Mike led to his nomination, along with Richard Burton and Robert Wagner, for a Golden Globe as Best Newcomer. Burton won the award that year, but Ray's career was launched. He says after two films with Cukor "I never needed direction again."[11]
Ray said Spencer Tracy told him, "'Kid, I don't know what it is that you got, and I got, and some of us have, but you can work in this business forever.' That made me feel good, you know, coming from a guy like him. I never bowed down to anybody at Columbia or anywhere else, but my overall idea was, I'll do whatever they tell me because it's their business, not mine, and I've got to learn it."[6]
Columbia leading man[]
Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn liked Ray and wanted him for the role of Private Robert Prewitt in From Here to Eternity (1953) but Fred Zinnemann insisted Montgomery Clift be cast.[12] However other good roles followed instead. ""Because of Harry, all my first pictures were big hits, tremendously popular", Ray recalled.[6]
In 1953, he starred opposite Jane Wyman in Let's Do It Again, then followed this acting opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953), a remake of the W. Somerset Maugham story Rain. He also appeared in a production of Stalag 17 at La Jolla Playhouse.[13]
Ray was loaned to Warner Bros to appear in Battle Cry (1955). This was directed by Raoul Walsh who would be one of Ray's favourite directors. The film was a big hit at the box office – probably the most popular movie Ray ever made – although it led to him being typecast.
"In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in", reflected Ray later. "There were no sophisticated roles for me. I never seemed to get past master sergeant, though I always thought of myself as upper echelon."[14]
Clash with Columbia[]
Ray was meant to appear in My Sister Eileen as The Wreck but walked off the set claiming his role was too small, and had to be replaced by Dick York.[15]
Battle Cry was a big hit at the box office so Columbia gave Ray a lead role as a sergeant who marries a Japanese girl in Three Stripes in the Sun (originally The Gentle Wolfhound), then loaned him to Paramount for We're No Angels (1955), in which he starred with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Leo G. Carroll, and Joan Bennett.
Ray was profiled in Sight and Sound which said:
Aldo Ray's technical advance in the four years since The Marrying Kind enables him now to work in subtler, more economical degree; there is an authoritative reserve- and, still remarkably intact, the original rare lack of ostentation. All the same, his career seems to have become a nomadic drifting round the studios looking for the right kind of film. The good humour, the lenitive smile, the frog in the throat voice betray nothing of the disappointment the actor must feel after such exciting beginnings under Cukor's guidance.[10]
Ray was meant to appear in Jubal but refused, because Columbia had made a profit on his loan outs for Battle Cry and We're No Angels but not paid Ray a bonus; Rod Steiger took the role instead.[16] Ray was put on suspension.[17]
Ray then refused to appear in Beyond Mombassa because he did not want to go on location. This led to him being replaced by Cornel Wilde and put under suspension again. However the situation was resolved when he agreed to make Nightfall (1957), playing an artist who encounters a pair of ruthless bank robbers.[18]
In 1956, in between appearances in Three Stripes In The Sun and Men in War, Ray tried his hand at radio, working as a personality and announcer at Syracuse, New York hit music station WNDR. A photo of Ray with a colleague in the WNDR studios, taken as part of a station promotional package, survives and can be found on a WNDR tribute website, although it's not known if any aircheck tapes of his radio shows still exist. By 1957, in any event, he had left WNDR and the radio business and returned to Hollywood.
On January 31, 1957, Ray appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. He and Tennessee Ernie Ford did a comedy skit from a foxhole.[19]
Two with Anthony Mann[]
Columbia loaned out Ray to Security Pictures (who released through United Artists) to appear in Men in War (1957), opposite Robert Ryan; it was directed by Anthony Mann, who became Ray's favourite director. Ray was given 5% of the profits which he later estimated at having earned him $70,000.[6]
Ray was reunited with Security Pictures, Ryan and Mann to star in God's Little Acre (1958), an adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's controversial novel directed by Mann, starring Robert Ryan and Tina Louise.
By the seventh year of his contract with Columbia Ray was earning $750 a week. He later said for the first ten years of his career he made less than $100,000.[3] He expressed interest in producing his own vehicle, The Magic Mesa from a script by Burt Kennedy, but it was not made.[20]
Instead Ray appeared in The Naked and the Dead, an adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel, directed by Raoul Walsh. It was produced by Paul Gregory who said:
Aldo Ray was drunk the entire time. He was a very sweet guy, but he was gone. He drank drank drank. Raoul Walsh would say, "Let's get him in the morning cause in the afternoon it's over."... I just could not get used to it, actors who got all this money and then didn't behave professionally. The English actors have classical training. They perform like professionals. You take someone like Aldo Ray who was just picked up and catapulted into stardom, and then he was just a sponge for booze. He killed himself drinking, not living up to his moral contract.[21]
Ray later admitted producers were scared off casting him in projects due to his drinking.[3]
Leaving Columbia[]
Ray had been popular with Harry Cohn because, in the actor's words, "He took no shit from anybody and he saw that I was that kind of a guy, too."[2] But when Cohn died in 1958, Columbia elected not to renew Ray's contract and he decided to leave Hollywood. He later said "I never was an expatriate. I spent some time in England and Spain and Italy but I was never out of this country [the US] longer than six months."[22]
He starred in 1959 in Four Desperate Men (The Siege of Pinchgut), filmed in Australia; it was the last movie produced by Ealing Studios (releasing through MGM), and a box office disappointment. He then appeared opposite Lucille Ball in an episode of Desilu Playhouse. He said he made more money from these two projects "than I'd made the whole eight years before."[6]
In 1959, Ray was cast as Hunk Farber in the episode, "Payment in Full" of the NBC western series, Riverboat. In the story line, Farber betrays his friend and employer to collect reward money, which he uses to court his girlfriend, Missy.[23]
Ray made The Day They Robbed the Bank of England in England and Johnny Nobody in Ireland. He later described his British sojourn as a "big mistake" because none of his British films were widely seen in America.[3]
"Everything went well until the end of '62 – then everything collapsed – including me", he later said. "I didn't take care of myself physically and mentally."[24]
He hired a press agent, started taking better care of himself physically and changed agents.[24]
Return to Hollywood[]
Ray returned to Hollywood in 1964. He had a small role in Sylvia (1965) and made a pilot for a TV series financed by Joe E. Levine, Steptoe and Son (an unsuccessful adaptation of the British TV series). "I feel I shall have a complete regeneration of my career", he said in 1965.[24]
He later appeared in What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round and Welcome to Hard Times. He also made several guest appearances on television.
In 1966 Ray claimed that "I've been turning down a lot of TV and B movies. I won't consider anything but important roles in important pictures."[9] He said he was "almost independently wealthy" having saved and invested wisely in real estate from the times when his fee was $100,000 a film. He was interested in returning to politics but not until he had made "at least" four more movies. "The ideal situation would be three films every two years."[9]
He formed his own company, Crockett Productions, and bought two original scripts that were not made: Soldares, by Edwin Gottlieb, about the search for Pancho Villa;[25] and Frogman, South Pacific, by William Zeck.[26]
His best-known work of the 1960s was his portrayal of Sergeant Muldoon, alongside John Wayne, in The Green Berets (1968).
Ray starred in Kill a Dragon shot in Hong Kong in 1966 and Suicide Commando shot in Rome and Spain in 1968. He also made two television pilots in the 1960s; neither was picked up.[citation needed]
Career decline[]
As the 1960s ended, Hollywood's appetite for Ray's machismo started to wane. Though he worked steadily in the 1970s, the quality of his roles diminished, and he was typically cast as gruff and gravelly rednecks.
In 1976 he said he was broke. He blamed this on his ex-wives and red tape that meant he could not develop his real estate properties. "I lost it all", he said. "And I am very very bitter about it.... The biggest mistake I ever made was discovering women. I only wish society had been as free and easy when I was coming along as it is today because if that had been the case I wouldn't have been married. Three women in my life utterly destroyed me."[22]
In 1979, Ray appeared in a pornographic movie, Sweet Savage, in a non-sexual role. Ray said later:
I wanted, I guess, to see what it was all about--a kind of half-assed adventure, you know? It was also a kind of vacation for me in a bad time--a nice location in Arizona--and I picked up a few thousand bucks. After it came out, a few people wagged their fingers at me--'Oh-ho-ho, you dirty dog'--but I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. They shot all the sex stuff after I'd flown back to L.A. I won the adult film Oscar for that, by the way, but somebody copped it.[27]
In 1981 Ray told a newspaper that his drinking was "under control" and "I think things are going to shoot straight up. I'm working on a deal now and if the picture is made my worries... are over... If things go the way I anticipate and I stay healthy I think I've got better years ahead of me than behind me."[3] He said he was open to a return to politics "if my movie career doesn't take off like I think it will."[3] He admitted being unhappy with his career saying "I think I should have gotten more good stuff."[3]
His career decline accelerated in the 1980s, and after being diagnosed with throat cancer, he accepted virtually any role that came his way to maintain his costly health insurance. He returned to Crockett in 1983.
Ray was originally cast in the role of Gurney Halleck in David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel Dune, but was replaced by Patrick Stewart due to ongoing issues with alcoholism.
He made a number of films for Fred Olen Ray. "He'd give me $1000 in cash, pay my expenses, and I'd do a day's work", said Ray. "Somebody showed me one of his cassettes--'starring Aldo Ray'--but it was just a one-day job.... I needed money at the time, and Fred knew I needed a buck, so I did it. He exploited me, yeah, but I was ripe for it."[27]
Final years and death[]
In 1986 Ray's SAG membership was revoked when it was discovered he was acting in a non-union production, Lethal Injection.[6] However Ray still got his union pension and benefits. His fee at this stage was $5,000 a week.[27]
In 1989 he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor.
His last film was Shock 'Em Dead which was filmed in 1990 appearing with Traci Lords and Troy Donahue. The same year he was interviewed and said:
I regret that I don't have more control of my tongue and thoughts--because I speak too frankly and too honestly, and this world is not meant for frank and honest people. They don't mix. Reality is pretty phony... I'm in great shape--got all my energy and strength back. I had surgery on my neck last March, and after one more session of the chemo--that's 50 more hours--the doctors say I'll have it all beat. . .I'm not scared of dying--it's how I die that matters. I'd rather live one good year than ten crappy years. And I think I've got some good pictures ahead of me if I can find the right roles. There's plenty of good stuff left in me, you know?[27]
Ray remained in Crockett, with his mother and family and friends. On 19 February 1991 he was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez, 40 miles east of San Francisco. He died of complications from throat cancer and pneumonia on 27 March.[7][14] He was cremated and buried in Crockett, with a majority of the residents coming out to pay their respects.
Personal life[]
Ray was married several times:
Shirley Green. They had one child, a daughter named Claire.
Jeff (real name, Jean) Donnell (married 30 September 1954, divorced 1956)
British actress Johanna Bennet (married 1960, divorced 1967), who continues to work today under the name Johanna Ray, as a respected casting director. They had two sons and a daughter. Johanna Ray, a longtime collaborator with David Lynch, cast her son Eric Da Re with Aldo in Lynch's Twin Peaks series, as well as the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Legacy[]
Author Richard Matheson said that his best-known work, The Incredible Shrinking Man, was inspired by a scene in Aldo Ray's Let's Do It Again in which a character puts on someone else's hat and it sinks down past his ears; "I thought, what if a man put on his own hat and that happened?" he recounted in an interview for Stephen King's non fiction work Danse Macabre.[citation needed]
Quentin Tarantino says Aldo Ray would have been ideal casting for the character of Butch in Pulp Fiction (1994), and the look of Butch in the film (as played by Bruce Willis) was inspired by Ray.[28]
Brad Pitt's character in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds is a soldier named "Aldo Raine."
The Crockett Museum has a display depicting his life.
A profile in Movie Morlocks analysed Ray's appeal from the film Nightfall:
Nobody smokes a cigarette like Aldo Ray. There's no forethought involved. No effort to seduce or impress audiences with an exaggerated pose or gesture. Ray doesn’t have to pretend to be cool, threatening, bruised, battered or tough. He just is. And I find every unassuming gesture he makes utterly captivating. Aldo Ray has never been considered a great Hollywood actor in the traditional sense but his natural, unaffected performances often seemed to emerge from some unsettled place. You could frequently hear a genuine urgency in way he delivered his lines and his casual swagger told you he’d been around the block more than once. Whenever Ray erupted on screen it felt like you were watching a volcano explode and if you didn’t get out of the way it could easily swallow you up in a heavy flow of golden molten lava. Film historians often like to talk about the sea change that occurred in the 1950s, when actor's like Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando brought a new kind of sincerity to Hollywood. These highly trained method actors changed the way we appreciate and understand acting today and they’ve rightfully been recognized for their accomplishments. But there were other performers that unconsciously championed a new kind of natural approach to acting. And one of them was Aldo Ray.[8]
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Jeff Donnell; Played Wife of George Gobel in Series
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Jeff Donnell, who began in films as a wide-eyed ingenue playing teen-age daughters and ended by portraying their mothers, has died of a probable heart attack.
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Jeff Donnell, who began in films as a wide-eyed ingenue playing teen-age daughters and ended by portraying their mothers, has died of a probable heart attack.
George Gobel’s long-suffering wife “Alice” on the TV series of the 1950s was 66.
Her son, Phineas Anderson, said Wednesday his mother had died at her Hollywood home on Monday. A featured or utility player in more than 50 films, she most recently had been seen as Stella Fields, a housekeeper and maid on “General Hospital.” In a Columbia pictures career that spanned 30 years, Miss Donnell was seen in such films as “My Sister Eileen,” “A Night to Remember,” “Roughshod,” “The Fuller Brush Girl,” “My Man Godfrey,” “Tora! Tora! Tora!” and “Stand Up and Be Counted,” in 1972.
She also was seen as Gidget’s mother in the film series about young love at the beach.
On television she appeared frequently on “U.S. Steel Hour,” “Play of the Week,” “Playhouse 90” and the June Allyson and Ann Sothern shows.
Since 1979 she had been the housekeeper for the Quartermaines, an elderly couple on “General Hospital.” A spokesman for the series said no decision had been made on the future of the role.
Born Jean Marie Donnell in South Windham, Me., Miss Donnell took the name “Jeff” to the stage in deference to a favored uncle. (She was given the name legally in 1966).
She attended Yale University Drama School, Leland Powers School in Boston and was appearing in summer stock and repertory theater in New England when seen by agents for Columbia.
Her 1942 screen test in New York produced what proved to be a permanent trip to Hollywood. Although she was in her early 20s she appeared so youthful on screen that she was given roles normally assigned to teen-agers.
But her appearances from 1954 to 1958 on the popular Gobel show probably made her more of a celebrity than all her films.
On them she was “Lonesome George’s” alternately loving and tormenting wife, adding to the consternations already plaguing the diminutive, crew-cut comic. From the show sprang such popular phrases as “You don’t hardly get those no more” and “Well, I’ll be a dirty bird.”
Miss Donnell was married and divorced three times. Her second husband was the actor Aldo Ray.
A memorial service will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at Pierce Brothers Mortuary, 1218 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles 90024. Her son asked that in lieu of flowers checks be sent to the mortuary in care of his sister, Sally Durham.
“We hope to get enough money to get her a star” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he said. “It was something we had wanted to do as a surprise while she was alive.”
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We’re way overdue for a Cleaning Out the DVR post – haven’t done one since back in April! – so let’s jump right in with 4 capsule reviews of 4 classic crime films:
SINNERS’ HOLIDAY (Warner Brothers 1930; D: John Adolfi) – Early talkie interesting as the screen debut of James Cagney , mixed up in “the booze racket”, who shoots bootlegger Warren Hymer, and who’s penny arcade owner maw Lucille LaVerne covers up by pinning the murder on daughter Evalyn Knapp’s ex-con boyfriend Grant Withers. Some pretty racy Pre-Code elements include Joan Blondell as Cagney’s “gutter floozie” main squeeze. Film’s 60 minute running time makes it speed by, aided by some fluid for the era camerawork. Fun Fact: Cagney and Blondell appeared in the original Broadway play “Penny Arcade”; when superstar entertainer Al Jolson bought the rights, he insisted Jimmy and Joan be cast in the film version, and the rest is screen history. Thanks, Al!
THE BLUE GARDENIA (Warner Brothers 1953; D: Fritz Lang ) – Minor but well done film noir with Anne Baxter, after receiving a ‘Dear Jane’ letter from her soldier boyfriend, falling into the clutches of lecherous artist Raymond Burr ,who plies her with ‘Polynesean Pearl Divers’, gets her drunk, and tries to take advantage of her. Anne grabs a fireplace poker, then blacks out, wakes up, discovers his dead body, and thinks she killed him. Did she? Veteran noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuracra’s shadowy camerawork helps elevate this a few notches above the average ‘B’, as does a high powered cast led by Richard Conte as a newspaperman out to solve the case (and sell papers!), Ann Southern and Jeff Donnell as Anne’s roommates, George Reeves as a dogged homicide captain, and Familiar Faces like Richard Erdman, Frank Ferguson, Celia Lovsky, Almira Sessions, Robert Shayne, and Ray Walker. Based on short story by Vera Caspary, who also wrote the source novel for LAURA. Not top-shelf Lang, but still entertaining. Fun Fact: Nat King Cole has a cameo singing the title tune in a Chinese restaurant, but the real ‘Fun Fact’ is the guy playing violin behind him… that’s Papa John Creach, who later played rock fiddle in the 70’s with Jefferson Airplane/Starship and Hot Tuna!
ILLEGAL (Warner Brothers 1955; D: Lewis Allen) – ‘Original Gangster’ Edward G. Robinson stars as a tough, erudite DA who sends the wrong man to the chair, crawls into a bottle of Scotch, and crawls out as a criminal defense attorney working for racketeer Albert Dekker. EG’s practically the whole show, though he’s surrounded by a top-notch supporting cast, including Nina Foch as his protege, Hugh Marlowe as her husband, Jan Merlin as Dekker’s grinning torpedo, Ellen Corby as EG’s loyal secretary, and Jayne Mansfield in an small early role as Dekker’s moll. Keep your eyes peeled for some Familiar TV Faces: DeForest Kelly (STAR TREK) as EG’S doomed client, Henry “Bomber” Kulky (LIFE OF RILEY, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA) as a witness, Ed Platt (GET SMART) as the DA successor, and sour-voiced Herb Vigran, who guested in just about every TV show ever, as a bailiff. Fun Fact: Co-screenwriter W.R. Burnett wrote the novel LITTLE CAESAR, which Warners turned into Eddie G’s first gangster flick back in 1930!
DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY (20th Century-Fox 1974, D: John Hough) – The late Peter Fonda costars with sexy Susan George in this classic chase movie from the Golden Age of Muscle Cars. Fonda and fellow AIP bikesploitation vet Adam Rourke (a personal fave of mine!) are a down-on-their-luck NASCAR driver and mechanic, respectively, who pull off a robbery and are saddled with ditzy George, with Vic Morrow as the maverick police captain in hot pursuit. The stars are likable, the cars are cool (a ’66 Impala and a ’69 Charger), and there’s plenty of spectacular stunt driving in this fast’n’furious Exploitation gem, with an explosive ending! Fun Fact: Roddy McDowell has an uncredited role as the grocery store manager whose family is held hostage.
BONUS: Now kick back and enjoy the noir-flavored blues of Papa John Creach and his band doing “There Ain’t No More Country Girls” from sometime in the 70’s:
Continuing my quest to watch all these movies sitting in my DVR (so I can record more movies!), here are six more capsule reviews for you Dear Readers:
FIFTH AVENUE GIRL (RKO 1939; D: Gregory LaCava) – A minor but entertaining bit of screwball froth revolving around rich old Walter Connolly , who’s got problems galore: his wife (the criminally underrated Veree Teasdale) is cheating on him, his son (Tim Holt in a rare comedy role) is a polo-playing twit, his daughter (Kathryn Adams) in love with the socialism-spouting chauffer (James Ellison ), and his business is facing bankruptcy because of labor union troubles. On top of all that, no one remembers his birthday! The downcast Connolly wanders around Central Park, where he meets jobless, penniless, and practically homeless Ginger Rogers, and soon life on 5th Avenue gets turned upside-down! Ellison’s in rare form as the proletariat Marxist driver, Franklin Pangborn shines (as usual) as Connolly’s butler, and Ginger makes with the wisecracks as only Ginger could. There are some similarities to LaCava’s MY MAN GODFREY, and though FIFTH AVENUE GIRL isn’t quite as good (few film comedies are!), it’s a more than amusing look at class warfare. Fun Fact: Screenwriter Alan Scott wrote most of Ginger’s classic films with Fred Astaire (TOP HAT, FOLLOW THE FLEET, SWING TIME, SHALL WE DANCE, CAREFREE), and penned the Rogers/LaCava follow-up PRIMROSE PATH, costarring Joel McCrea.
THE FLYING DEUCES (RKO 1939; D: A. Edward Sutherland) – Laurel & Hardy join the Foreign Legion after Ollie is rejected by (unknown to him) married Jean Parker, whose husband Reginald Gardiner becomes their captain! To say complications ensue is putting it mildly in this fast moving (only 69 minutes) comedy, with a cast that includes L&H regulars Richard Cramer, Charles Middleton (who played a similar role in their short BEAU HUNKS), and of course James Finlayson. The gags come fast and furious in this, the best of their non-Hal Roach movies. Fun Fact: This is the film where The Boys perform their famous “Shine On Harvest Moon” song-and-dance routine, sweetly sung by Ollie.
THE TATTOOED STRANGER (RKO 1950; D: Edward J. Montagne) – A young girl is found shotgunned to death in a parked car in Central Park. The only clue to her identity: a Marine Corps tattoo. This low budget police procedural moves fast (it clocks in at just over an hour), contrasting the latest in 50’s forensic investigating with good old fashioned legwork, and benefits from it’s NYC location shooting. The cast is made up of mostly unknowns, all of whom are good, including a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him role for a young Jack Lord. Not the greatest cops-chase-down-killer flick, but certainly not the worst, either. Fun Fact: Director Montagne went on to create the sitcom MCHALE’S NAVY, and produced most of Don Knotts’ 60’s movie comedies.
WITNESS TO MURDER (United Artists 1954; D: Roy Rowland) – Barbara Stanwyck spies George Sanders kill a woman from her apartment window across the street, but with no body or any clues to go on, no one believes her, and Sanders (who’s also an ex-Nazi!) gaslights her, leading the cops to question her sanity. Gary Merrill is the cop who helps crack the case, and the supporting cast includes brief but memorable bits by Claire Carleton and Juanita Moore as Babs’ fellow mental patients. Stanwyck and Sanders help elevate this somewhat derivative entry in the “Woman in Jeopardy” noir subcategory. Fun Fact: The real star of WITNESS TO MURDER is DP John Alton, whose dark cinematography can be found in classics like HE WALKED BY NIGHT, RAW DEAL , and THE BIG COMBO .
GUN THE MAN DOWN (United Artists 1956; D: Andrew V. McLaglen) – Big Jim Arness, TV’s heroic Marshal Dillon on GUNSMOKE, turns to the dark side as a bank robber who’s shot and left for dead by his compadres, who drag his woman along with them to boot! Patched up by a posse and sent to prison, he does his time and returns years later seeking revenge. A routine but very well made Western, as well it should be – director McLaglen was a sagebrush specialist, as was screenwriter Burt Kennedy , cinematographer William Clothier was a favorite of John Ford, and the producer was none other than The Duke himself, John Wayne ! The cast is peppered with sagebrush vets like Harry Carey Jr., Robert Wilke, Don Megowan, and Emile Meyer. A minor outing with major talent before and behind the cameras that’s sure to please any Western buffs. Fun Fact: A brunette Angie Dickinson is given an “introducing” credit as Arness’ love interest (though it’s actually her fourth credited film); three years later, she costarred with Wayne in the classic RIO BRAVO .
NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS (MGM 1971; D: Dan Curtis) – Second feature film spinoff of the popular 60’s Gothic soap opera (following HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS ) sans Jonathan Frid (the vampire Barnabas) and Joan Bennett (matriarch Elizabeth), but featuring many of the show’s cast – David Selby, Kate Jackson, Lara Parker, Grayson Hall, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, Chris Pennock, Thayer David – in a tale about ghosts and reincarnation, revolving around the beautiful but evil 19th Century witch Angelique (Parker). This underrated entry is slow to develop, building with an unsettling sense of dread; worth sticking with for horror buffs. Feature film debut for Jackson, who got her start on the soap before rocketing to stardom as one of TV’s original CHARLIE’S ANGELS, and the later hit series SCRECROW AND MRS. KING. Fun Fact: Robert Cobert’s appropriately eerie score incorporates several familiar music cues from the show, including the haunting “Quentin’s Theme”, which became a #13 hit in the Summer of ’69 for The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde:
I haven’t done one of these posts in a while, and since my DVR is heading towards max capacity, I’m way overdue! Everyone out there in classic film fan land knows about TCM’s annual “Summer Under the Stars”, right? Well, consider this my Winter version, containing a half-dozen capsule reviews of some Hollywood star-filled films of the past!
PLAYMATES (RKO 1941; D: David Butler ) – That great thespian John Barrymore’s press agent (Patsy Kelly) schemes with swing band leader Kay Kyser’s press agent (Peter Lind Hayes) to team the two in a Shakespearean festival! Most critics bemoan the fact that this was Barrymore’s final film, satirizing himself and hamming it up mercilessly, but The Great Profile, though bloated from years of alcohol abuse and hard living, seems to be enjoying himself in this fairly funny but minor screwball comedy with music. Lupe Velez livens things up as Barrymore’s spitfire girlfriend, “lady bullfighter” Carmen Del Toro, and the distinguished May Robson slices up the ham herself as Kay’s Grandmaw. Kay’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge bandmates are all present (Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, Ish Kabbible), and the songs are decent, like the flag-waving “Thank Your Lucky Stars and Stripes” and the ambitious “Romeo Smith and Juliet Jones” production number finale. Yes, it’s sad to watch the looking-worse-for-wear-and-tear Barrymore obviously reading off cue cards, but on the whole, it’s not as bad as some would have you believe. Fun Fact: This was Barrymore’s only opportunity to perform ‘Hamlet’s Soliloquy’ on film – and The Great Profile nails it!
THE MCGUERINS FROM BROOKLYN (Hal Roach/United Artists 1942; D: Kurt Neumann ) – In the early 1940’s, comedy pioneer Hal Roach tried out a new format called “Streamliners”, movies that were longer than short subjects but shorter than a feature, usually running less than an hour to fill the bill for longer main attractions. He cast William Bendix and Joe Sawyer as a pair of dumb but likeable lugs who own a successful cab business in BROOKLYN ORCHID, and THE MCGUERINS FROM BROOKLYN was the second in the series. If the other two are funny as this, count me in! Bendix, warming up for his later LIFE OF RILEY TV sitcom, gets in hot water with his wife Grace Bradley when she catches him in a compromising position with sexy new stenographer Marjorie Woodworth, and complications ensue, complete with bawdy good humor and slapstick situations. Max Baer Sr. plays a fitness guru hired by Grace to make Bendix jealous, and character actors Arline Judge (Sawyer’s girl), Marion Martin, Rex Evans, and a young Alan Hale Jr. all get to participate in the chaos. It’s nothing special, but if you like this kind of lowbrow humor (and I do!), you’ll enjoy this fast-paced piece of silliness. Fun Fact: Grace Bradley, playing Bendix’s ex-burlesque queen wife Sadie, was the real-life wife of cowboy star William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd.
A DANGEROUS PROFESSION (RKO 1949; D: Ted Tetzlaff) – The plot’s as generic as the title of this slow-moving crime drama starring George Raft as Pat O’Brien’s bail bond business partner, whose ex-girlfriend Ella Raines’ husband is arrested for stock swindling and winds up dead. The star trio were all on the wane at this juncture in their careers, and former DP Tetzlaff’s pedestrian handling of the low rent material doesn’t help matters; he did much better with another little crime film later that year, THE WINDOW . Jim Backus plays Raft’s pal, a hard-nosed cop (if you can picture that!). Fun Fact: Raft and O’Brien were reunited ten years later in Billy Wilder’s screwball comedy SOME LIKE IT HOT.
THE LAST HUNT (MGM 1956; D: Richard Brooks) – Writer/director Brooks has given us some marvelous movies (BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, THE PROFESSIONALS , IN COLD BLOOD), but this psychological Western is a minor entry in his fine canon. Buffalo hunter Robert Taylor partners with retired Stewart Granger for one last hunt, and personality conflicts result. Taylor’s character is a nasty man who gets aroused by killing, while Granger suffers from PTSD after years of slaughter. Things take a wrong turn when Taylor kills a white buffalo, considered sacred by Native Americans. There are many adult themes explored (racial prejudice, gun violence, the aftereffects of war), but for me personally, the film was too slowly paced to put it in the classic category. Lloyd Nolan steals the show as the grizzled veteran skinner Woodfoot, and the movie also features Debra Paget as an Indian maiden captured by Taylor, and young Russ Tamblyn as a half-breed who Granger takes under his wing. An interesting film, with beautiful location filming from DP Russel Harlan, but Brooks has done better. Fun Fact: Those shots of buffalo being killed are real, taken during the U.S. Government’s annual “thinning of the herds”, so if you’re squeamish about watching innocent animals being slaughtered for no damn good reason, you’ll probably want to avoid this movie.
QUEEN OF BLOOD (AIP 1966; D: Curtis Harrington ) – The Corman Boys (Roger and Gene) took a copious amount of footage from the Russian sci-fi films A DREAM COME TRUE and BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN, then charged writer/director Harrington with building a new movie around them! The result is a wacky, cheesy, but not completely bad film with astronauts John Saxon , Judi Meredith, and a pre-EASY RIDER Dennis Hopper sent to Mars by International Institute of Space Technology director Basil Rathbone in the futuristic year 1990 to find a downed alien spacecraft. There, they discover the ship’s sole survivor, a green-skinned, blonde-haired beauty with a beehive hairdo (Florence Marly) who’s an insect-based lifeform that feeds on human blood like a sexy mosquito! Sure, it’s silly, and the cheap sets don’t come close to matching the spectacular Soviet footage, but I’ve always found this to be a fun little drive-in flick. Harrington’s good friend, FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND Editor Forrest J Ackerman , appears at the end as one of Rathbone’s assistants, carrying a crate of the alien’s glowing red eggs! Fun Fact: There are also some recognizable names behind the scenes: future director Stephanie Rothman (IT’S A BIKINI WORLD, THE STUDENT NURSES, THE VELVET VAMPIRE) is listed as associate producer, AMERICAN GRAFFITI and STAR WARS producer Gary Kurtz is credited as production manager, and actor Karl Schanzer (SPIDER BABY, BLOOD BATH, DEMENTIA 13) worked in the art department!
THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (AIP 1972; D: Lee Frost) – A loopy low-budget Exploitation masterpiece that’s self-aware enough to know it’s bad and revel in it! Terminally ill scientific genius (and out-and-out racist) Ray Milland has only one way to survive – by having his head grafted onto the body of black death row convict Rosey Grier! Then the fun begins as the Rosey/Ray Thing escapes, the Rosey side setting out to prove his innocence while the Ray side struggles for control. This wonderfully demented movie has it all: an extended car chase that serves no purpose other than to smash up a bunch of cop cars, the Rosey/Ray Thing on a motorcycle, a two-headed ape (played by Rick Baker), a funky Blaxploitation-style score, and a cameo by Exploitation vet William Smith! Ray and the rest of the cast play it totally straight, making this a one-of-a-kind treat you don’t wanna miss! Fun Fact: Director Frost was also responsible for Exploitation classics like CHROME AND HOT LEATHER, THE BLACK GESTAPO, and DIXIE DYNAMITE.
Time to reach deep inside that trick-or-treat bag and take a look at what’s stuck deep in the corners. Just when you thought it was safe, here’s five more thrilling tales of terror:
YOU’LL FIND OUT (RKO 1940; D: David Butler) – Kay Kyser and his College of Musical Knowledge, for those of you unfamiliar…
…were a Swing Era band of the 30’s & 40’s who combined music with cornball humor on their popular weekly radio program. RKO signed them to a movie contract and gave them this silly but entertaining “old dark house” comedy, teaming Kay and the band (featuring Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, and the immortal Ish Kabibble!) with horror greats Boris Karloff , Bela Lugosi , and Peter Lorre . It’s got all the prerequisites: secret passageways, a creepy séance, and of course that old stand-by, the dark and stormy night! The plot has Kyser’s band hired for Helen Parrish’s 21st birthday party at said spooky mansion, with band manager Dennis O’Keefe as her love interest. Bela gets the juiciest part as flamboyant phony medium Prince Saliano, Boris is a shady family friend, and Lorre his usual sinister self. Alma Kruger plays Helen’s aunt who’s into spiritualism, which sets things in motion, and bumbling Kay gets to solve the mystery. Nothing earth-shaking going on here, but fun for fans of the Terror Trio. Fun Fact: The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Song, “I’d Know You Anywhere”, written by Jimmy McHugh and Johnny Mercer, and sweetly sung onscreen by Ginny Simms, who had a brief film career of her own after leaving the band in 1941.
THE LEOPARD MAN (RKO 1943; D: Jacques Tourneur) – One of producer Val Lewton’s most unheralded films, chock full of his trademark use of sound and shadows. A black leopard gets loose from nightclub performer Jean Brooks’ act, and a series of gruesome murders follow in a small New Mexico town. This tense, gripping ‘B’ is loaded with eerie scenes; I especially liked the one in which a young girl gets locked in a cemetery and stalked by the killer cat (or is it a human – the movie will keep you guessing!). Dennis O’Keefe is Jean’s publicity agent whose stunt goes awry, Margo (later married to Eddie Albert) a castanet-clicking dancer/victim, and Isabel Jewell shines as a Gypsy card reader. Mark Robson’s marvelous editing job on this and Lewton’s CAT PEOPLE got him promoted to the director’s chair for THE SEVENTH VICTIM later that year. This chilling horror-noir doesn’t get the attention of other Lewton films, but deserves a much larger audience. Fun Fact: Based on the novel “Black Alibi” by prolific pulp author Cornell Woolrich, whose many books and short stories were made into film noir classics.
THE DISEMBODIED (Allied Artists 1957; D: Walter Grauman) – Ice Princess of Horror Allison Hayes IS Tonda, jungle voodoo queen in this low-budget shocker that wasn’t as bad as I expected, far as jungle voodoo epics go. Paul Burke costars as a filmmaker who brings his wounded friend to Allison’s doctor husband John Weingraf’s jungle compound, but let’s face it – the main reason to watch this is Allison Hayes, thoroughly evil and sexy as hell! And that memorably sensuous voodoo dance she performs…
Hot Damn! She’s the whole show in this minor chiller directed by Walter Grauman, who later helmed 1964’s LADY IN A CAGE and tons of TV (including 53 episodes of MURDER, SHE WROTE). Fun Fact: Weingraf gets off the best line when he tells Allison, “There are only two places where you belong. The jungle – and the place where I first found you!”. Burn!!!
BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (Filmgroup 1959; D: Monte Hellman) – An uneven blend of the horror and crime genres courtesy of the Corman Brothers finds crook Frank Wolff and his gang (including his perpetually soused moll Sheila Caroll) plotting a gold bar heist using an explosion at a mine as a diversion. Wolff and his cohorts (perennial Corman actor Wally Campo and Frank Sinatra’s cousin Richard!) use good-looking ski lodge instructor Michael Forest to lead them on a cross-country ski trip to make their getaway, but the blast awakens a not-so hideous monster from its slumber that tracks them down! First film for director Hellman has its moments, but the rock-bottom budget defeats him. Filmed on location in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Fun Fact: The unscary monster was designed and played by actor Chris Robinson, the original “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV” commercial ad guy!
HORROR HOTEL (Vulcan/Trans-Lux 1960; D: John Llewellyn Moxey) – Also known as CITY OF THE DEAD. New England 1692: accused witch Elizabeth Selwyn curses the town of Whitewood, MA as she’s burned at the stake. Present Day: college student Nan Barlow wants to do her term paper on witchcraft and devil worship, and is directed by her history professor Alan Driscoll to travel to his hometown of Whitewood for research. He even recommends she stay at The Raven’s Inn, run by Mrs. Newless (who bears a striking resemblance to Elizabeth!).
Nan immediately notices strange things about Whitewood: the fog-shrouded town doesn’t look like it’s changed in 200+ years, the townsfolk aren’t very friendly, the old reverend warns her “Leave Whitewood”, and weird noises emanate from the cellar. The only person who welcomes her is the reverend’s granddaughter Patricia, newly arrived herself and running an antique bookstore. Curiosity gets the best of her and… DON’T GO IN THAT BASEMENT, NAN!!
When Nan doesn’t return home after two weeks, her brother Ronald and boyfriend Bill become worried. Patricia, too, is worried, and pays a call on both Ronald and Prof. Driscoll. The men decide separately to go to Whitewood and investigate, and that’s when the fun really begins! This is probably Moxey’s best feature film, though he does have some good TV Movies on his resume (THE NIGHT STALKER, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, NIGHTMARE IN BADHAM COUNTY). Christopher Lee is dark and ominous as Driscoll, but it’s Patricia Jessel (A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM ) who stands out in a truly bloodcurdling performance as Elizabeth Selwyn/Mrs. Newless. The rest of the cast (Betta St. John, Valentine Dyall, Venitia Stevenson, Dennis Lotis) is equally good, and the British actors do a fine job maintaining their American accents. This incredibly creepy nightmare of a movie is an old favorite of mine, and highly recommended! Fun Fact: This was a Vulcan Production from Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky, who soon changed their company’s name to Amicus , premiere makers of horror anthologies in the 60’s & 70’s.
I know all of you, like me, will be watching tonight’s 89th annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and… wait, what’s that? You say you WON’T be watching the All-Star Game? You have no interest in baseball? Heretics!! But I understand, I really do, and for you non-baseball enthusiasts I’ve assembled a quartet of Pre-Code films to view as an alternative, starring some of the era’s most fabulous females. While I watch the game, you can hunt down and enjoy the following four films celebrating the ladies of Pre-Code:
DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON (Paramount 1931; D: Lloyd Corrigan) – Exotic Anna May Wong stars as Princess Ling Moy, an “Oriental dancer” and daughter of the infamous Dr. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland)! When Fu dies, Ling Moy takes up the mantle of vengeance against the Petrie family, tasked with killing surviving son Ronald. Sessue Hayakawa (BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI) plays Chinese detective Ah Kee, assigned to Scotland Yard to track down the last of Fu’s organization, who falls in love with Ling Moy. This was the last of a trilogy of films in which Oland portrays the fiendish Fu (1929’s THE MYSTERIOUS DR. FU MANCH, 1930’s TH RETURN OF FU MANCHU), and though he perishes early on, honorable daughter Wong is just as devious as dear old dad! Director Corrigan and cinematographer Victor Milner do some interesting work with shadows and light, overhead shots, and camera angles; though Corrigan is best remembered today as a character actor, he directed 12 features (and one short) between 1930 and 1937, and is quite good behind the camera. A film that’s structured like a serial, with secret passageways, sadistic tortures, and definite horror undertones, fans of Anna May Wong won’t want to miss it. Fun Fact: Bramwell Fletcher, who plays Ronald, was the actor who “died laughing” in 1932’s THE MUMMY .
MILLIE (RKO 1931; D: John Francis Dillon) – For a brief, shining moment in the early 1930’s, sad-eyed beauty Helen Twelvetrees was one of the Pre-Code Era’s most popular stars, gaining fame in a series of “women’s weepies”. MILLIE was my first chance to see this actress I’d heard so much about, and she excels as Millie Blake, who we first meet as an innocent college girl who marries rich Jack Maitland (Robert Ames), has a child, then discovers he’s a cheating cad. Getting a divorce (and giving up custody in the process), Millie’s next beau also turns out to be a two-timer, causing her to declare her independence from men and become a wild party girl. Years pass, and her now 16 year old daughter (Anita Louise) is almost compromised by one of Millie’s ex-lovers (John Halliday ), whom Mama Bear Millie shoots, leading to a scandalous trial. Joan Blondell and Lilyan Tashman are on hand as Millie’s golddigging pals (see picture above), and director John Francis Dillon knew his soapy stuff, having also guided Pre-Code ladies Ann Harding (GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST), Evelyn Brent (THE PAGAN LADY), and Clara Bow (CALL HER SAVAGE). MILLIE’s a bit dated (okay, more than a bit) and slow going in places, but Miss Twelvetrees made it all worthwhile. Fun Fact: Edward LeSaint plays the judge, and made a career out of magistrate roles; Three Stooges fans will recognize him from their 1934 short DISORDER IN THE COURT.
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MOLLY LOUVAIN (Warner Brothers 1932; D: Michael Curtiz ) – “I’m a pretty bad egg”, says Molly, but Ann Dvorak (SCARFACE, THREE ON A MATCH, HEAT LIGHTNING) is a pretty good actress, starring as poor working girl Molly, who gets pregnant and jilted, gives up her child, and hits the road with small-time crook Leslie Fenton. She leaves the bum to work in a dance hall, encountering naïve young Richard Cromwell. Fenton shows up, steals a car, kills a cop, gets shot himself, and Molly and the starry-eyed kid take it on the lam. Dubbed “the beautiful brunette bandit” by the press, Molly dyes her hair blonde, and the pair lay low… until fast-talking reporter Lee Tracy makes his appearance! There’s great chemistry between Dvorak and Tracy in this racy, double entendree-laden little movie, with a dynamite twist ending I did not see coming. It’s also packed with Familiar Faces: Ben Alexander, Louise Beavers, Richard Cramer, Guy Kibbee , Hank Mann, Frank McHugh , Charles Middleton, and Snub Pollard all pop up in small roles. This lightning-paced entry is an unjustly neglected Pre-Code gem that deserves a larger audience! Fun Fact: A newspaper headline misspells Molly’s last name as “Louvaine”.
SMARTY (Warner Brothers 1934; D: Robert Florey ) – Queen of Pre-Code Joan Blondell is back, and therapists would have a field day with her character of Vicki, a manipulative minx who equates being hit with being loved. Before you jump out of your skin, this is a romantic comedy – now you can jump! S& M overtones abound, and sexual innuendoes fly freely, as Joan’s incessant teasing of hubby Warren William (including a reference to “diced carrots”, obviously a penis size dig) leads him to slapping her face at a bridge party, and Joan winding up married to her divorce lawyer, Edward Everett Horton , who she also tortures into smacking her – but it’s a ploy to get back together with Warren! The censors must’ve been apoplectic viewing SMARTY, one of the last films in the Pre-Code cycle, as Joan also appears in various stages of undress, a voyeur’s delight. Despite the kinky subject matter, the movie is quite funny, with solid support from Claire Dodd, Frank McHugh, and Leonard Carey. Let me be clear: hitting women is NOT funny, but you’re doing yourself a disservice in letting that stop you from watching this outrageous screwball comedy. Fun Fact: Look fast for Dennis O’Keefe in one of his early, uncredited parts as a nightclub patron.
So I’ve been laid up with the flu/early stage pneumonia/whateverthehellitis for the past few days, which seemed like a good excuse to clean out the DVR by watching a bunch of random movies:
JIMMY THE GENT (Warner Brothers 1934; D: Michael Curtiz ) – Fast paced James Cagney vehicle has Jimmy as the head of a shady “missing heir” racket, with Bette Davis as his ex-girl, now working for his classy (but grabby!) rival Alan Dinehart. Allen Jenkins returns once again as Cagney’s sidekick, and Alice White is a riot as Jenkins’s ditzy dame. Some funny dialog by Bertram Milhauser in this one, coming in at the tail-end of the Pre-Code era. Cagney’s always worth watching, even in minor fare like this one. Fun Fact: Cagney’s battles with boss Jack Warner over better roles were legendary, and the actor went out and got a Teutonic-style haircut right before shooting began, just to piss the boss off!
DEAD MEN WALK (PRC 1943; D: Sam Newfield) – Perennial second stringer George Zucco starred in a series of shockers as PRC’s answer to Monogram’s Bela Lugosi series . Here he plays twins, one a good doctor, the other a vampire risen from the grave to enact his gruesome revenge. Despite the ultra-low budget (PRC made Monogram look like MGM!), it’s a surprisingly effective chiller due to some ingenious camerawork from Newfield. Much of the film’s plot elements are borrowed (some would say stolen) from Universal’s DRACULA , including casting Dwight Frye as the vampire’s loyal servant. Fun Fact: Romantic lead Nedrick Young later won a Best Story Oscar for Stanley Kramer’s 1958 THE DEFIANT ONES, which featured another horror icon, Lon Chaney Jr.
LADIES DAY (RKO 1943; D: Leslie Goodwins) – Broad baseball comedy (no pun intended) about star pitcher Eddie Albert , who is easily distracted by pretty women, falling for movie star Lupe Velez . They get hitched, and the other player’s wives band together to kidnap her and keep them apart so Eddie can concentrate on winning the World Series! Silly but enjoyable farce elevated by a cast of comic pros: Patsy Kelly, Iris Adrian , Joan Barclay, Max Baer Sr, Jerome Cowan , Cliff Clark, and Tom Kennedy (Nedrick Young’s in this one, too… a banner year for the actor!). Maybe not a classic, but a whole lot of fun, especially for baseball buffs like me. Fun Fact: Director Goodwins has a cameo as (what else?) a movie director.
MYSTERY STREET (MGM 1950; D: John Sturges ) – Tight little ‘B’ noir as a Boston bar girl’s (Jan Sterling) skeletal remains are discovered on Cape Cod, and police Lt. Ricardo Montalban tries to piece together the murder puzzle with the help of a Harvard forensics professor (Bruce Bennett) and some good old-fashioned detective work. Early effort from Sturges benefits from excellent John Alton photography and a script co-written by Richard Brooks . Elsa Lanchester is a standout as a blackmailing landlady among a strong cast (Betsy Blair, Walter Burke, Sally Forrest, Marshall Thompson, Willard Waterman). Fun Fact: Filmed in Boston, and many of the neighborhood sights are still recognizable almost 70 years later to those familiar with the Olde Towne.
THE STRANGLER (Allied Artists 1964; D: Burt Topper) – Lurid psychological thriller stars Victor Buono in his best screen performance as a sexually repressed, schizoid psycho-killer with a creepy doll fetish. Ellen Corby plays his domineering, invalid mother. Cheap, tawdry, sensationalistic, and definitely worth watching! Fun Fact: Lots of old horror hands worked behind the scenes on this one: DP Jacques Marquette (ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN ), Art Director Eugene Lourie (director of THE GIANT BEHEMOTH and GORGO), Editor Robert Eisen (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS ), and makeup man Wally Westmore (WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, WAR OF THE WORLDS).
HYSTERIA (MGM/Hammer 1965; D: Freddie Francis ) – This Hitchcockian homage gives character actor Robert Webber a rare starring role as an amnesia victim embroiled in a GASLIGHT-like murder plot. Director Francis’s keen eye for composition hide the budget restraints, and producer/writer Jimmy Sangster’s script pulls out all the stops, but I couldn’t help but wonder while watching what The Master of Suspense himself could have done with the material. As it is, a fine but minor piece of British noir with horror undertones. Fun Fact: Australian composer Don Banks’s jazzy score aids in setting the overall mood.
BEN (Cinerama 1972; D: Phil Karlson ) – Sequel to the previous year’s horror hit WILLARD is okay, but nowhere near the original. Crazy Bruce Davison is replaced by lonely little Lee Hartcourt Montgomery, an annoying kid (no wonder he’s lonely!) who befriends Ben and his creepy rat posse. The rodents cause havoc at the grocery (“Rats! Millions of ’em! At the supermarket!”) and a health spa in some too-brief scenes, but on the whole this looks and feels like a TV movie, right down to it’s small screen cast (Meredith Baxter, Joseph Campanella, Kaz Garas, Rosemary Murphy, Arthur O’Connell, Norman Alden). We do get genre vet Kenneth Tobey (THE THING ) in a bit as a city engineer, and the climax will remind you of THEM! , but like most sequels, this one fails to satisfy. Stick with the original. Fun Fact: Montgomery would grow out of his annoying stage and become an 80’s heartthrob in GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN.
And now, here’s Michael Jackson singing the cloying love theme from BEN at the film’s conclusion. Rats – yuchh!:
There’s a lot of good stuff being broadcast this month, so it’s time once again to make some room on the ol’ DVR. Here’s a quartet of capsule reviews of films made in that mad, mad decade, the 1960’s:
THE FASTEST GUITAR ALIVE (MGM 1967; D: Michael D. Moore) – MGM tried to make another Elvis out of rock legend Roy Orbison in this Sam Katzman-produced comedy-western. It didn’t work; though Roy possessed one of the greatest voices in rock’n’roll, he couldn’t act worth a lick. Roy (without his trademark shades!) and partner Sammy Jackson (TV’s NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS) peddle ‘Dr. Ludwig Long’s Magic Elixir’ in a travelling medicine show, but are really Confederate spies out to steal gold from the San Francisco mint to fund “the cause” in the waning days of the Civil War. The film’s full of anachronisms and the ‘comical Indians’ aren’t all that funny, but at least Roy gets seven decent tunes to sing. Familiar Faces Lyle Bettger, Iron Eyes Cody, John Doucette , Joan Freeman, and Douglas Kennedy try to help, but the story kind of just limps along. Worthwhile if you’re an Orbison fan, otherwise a waste of time. Fun Fact: Roy’s MGM Records label mate Sam the Sham (of “Wooly Bully” fame) has a small part as a guard at the mint.
KILL A DRAGON (United Artists 1967; D: Michael D. Moore) – Minor action yarn with ruthless Fernando Lamas out to hijack a load of nitroglycerine washed upon a small Japanese island, and the villagers hiring soldier-of-fortune Jack Palance to protect them and their bounty. Palance gives an engaging, tongue-in-cheek performance, Lamas makes an evil adversary, and Aldo Ray is among Jack’s mercenary crew… seeing Aldo in drag is something you won’t wanna miss!! Nothing special, but an adequate time filler for action fans. Fun Fact: Director Moore (who also helmed FASTEST GUITAR) was a former silent film child star (his first film was 1919’s THE UNPAINTED WOMAN, directed by Tod Browning ) who began working behind the scenes in the 1940’s. He became one of Hollywood’s highest regarded Assistant and Second Unit directors, and worked on films ranging from THE TEN COMMANDMENTS to GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, KING CREOLE, BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID, PATTON, EMPEROR OF THE NORTH, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (and it’s two subsequent sequels), and NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. His last was 2000’s 102 DALMATIONS before retirement; Moore passed away at age 98 in 2013. His contributions to Hollywood movies may be unsung, but for people like Cecil B. DeMille and Steven Spielberg, Michael “Mickey” Moore was the go-to guy for action scenes. Job well done, Mr. Moore!
PSYCH-OUT (AIP 1968; D: Richard Rush) – A Hippiesploitation classic! Susan Strasberg stars as a runaway deaf girl looking for her brother Bruce Dern in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love. She hooks up with pony-tailed rock musician Jack Nicholson and his bandmates (Adam Roarke, Max Julien) in a drug-soaked film full of far-out thrift store fashion, plenty of hippie-dippie jargon (“Peace and love, baby!”), LSD and STP induced nightmares, and classic rock from bands Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Seeds (featuring their immortal lead vocalist Sky Saxon!). A group called Boenzee Cryque (with future Poco members Rusty Young and George Grantham) plays a sideways instrumental version of “Purple Haze” called “Ashbury Wednesday” during Henry Jaglom’s trip scene, and the cast includes Dean Stockwell as a philosophical, groovy satyr, future producer/director Garry Marshall as a cop, and low-budget stalwarts John ‘Bud’ Cardos, Gary Kent, and Bob Kelljan in support. Director Richard Rush went on to films like THE STUNT MAN and COLOR OF NIGHT, and the cinematographer is none other than Laslo Kovacs (EASY RIDER, FIVE EASY PIECES, PAPER MOON). It’s a psychedelic artifact of its time, and a treat for exploitation fans. As Stockwell says, “Reality’s a deadly place”! Fun Fact: One of a handful of late 60’s youth films produced by the legendary Dick Clark, of TV’s AMERICAN BANDSTAND and NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN’ EVE fame.
THE BIG CUBE (Warner Brothers 1969; D: Tito Davison) – Glamorous Lana Turner plays a glamorous stage actress who marries rich Dan O’Herlihy against the wishes of his daughter Karin Mossberg. Dad drowns in a yachting accident, and daughter conspires with LSD-making gigolo George Chakiris to drive Lana mad by slipping acid in her sleeping pills! This awful attempt at mixing Lana’s Ross Hunter-era soap operas with 60’s “youth culture” features bad acting, a putrid script, heavy-handed direction, and is a total mess all around. Even the presence of Lana, O’Herlihy, Chakiris, and Richard Egan couldn’t stop this movie from stinking up my living room! No redeeming qualities whatsoever (except the fact that the wooden Miss Mossberg was never heard from again!) Fun Fact: As I sat watching this bomb, slack-jawed and shaking my head, I kept muttering to myself, “This is bad. Just… bad”. The film’s worse than a bad acid trip, but I stuck with it for this review. You have other options. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!
I hate to leave you on such a sour note, so here’s Roy Orbison doing “Pistolero” from Mickey Moore’s FASTEST GUITAR ALIVE! Take it away, Roy:
To take my mind off the sciatic nerve pain I was suffering last week, I immersed myself on the dark world of film noir. The following quartet of films represent some of the genre’s best, filled with murder, femme fatales, psychopaths, and sleazy living. Good times!!
I’ll begin chronologically with BOOMERANG (20th Century-Fox 1947), director Elia Kazan’s true-life tale of a drifter (an excellent Arthur Kennedy ) falsely accused of murdering a priest in cold blood, and the doubting DA (Dana Andrews ) who fights an uphill battle against political corruption to exonerate him. Filmed on location in Stamford, CT and using many local residents as extras and bit parts, the literate script by Richard Murphy (CRY OF THE CITY, PANIC IN THE STREETS, COMPULSION) takes a realistic look behind the scenes at an American mid-sized city, shedding light into it’s darker corners.
Andrews is solid as the honest DA who pumps the brakes when the politicians, fearing the wrath of the voters demanding action, pressure the police chief (Lee J. Cobb ) into arresting somebody – anybody – for the murder. But it’s Arthur Kennedy who steals the show as a down on his luck WWII veteran caught up in the hysteria, put on trial for a crime he didn’t commit so political hacks can save (as Mel Brooks would say ) their phoney-baloney jobs. The cast is loaded with marvelous actors, including Jane Wyatt as Andrews’ wife, Cara Williams as Kennedy’s bitter ex-girlfriend, Ed Begley as a shady pol, Sam Levene as a muckraking reporter, and a young Karl Malden as one of Cobb’s detectives. Cobb sums the whole thing up best: “Never did like politicians”. Amen to that, Lee J! BOOMERANG is a noir you won’t want to miss.
Director Nicholas Ray contributed a gem to the noir canon with IN A LONELY PLACE (Columbia 1950) . Noir icon Humphrey Bogart stars as Dixon Steele, a Hollywood screenwriter suspected of murdering a hat check girl. Steele has a violent history well-known to the police, but new neighbor Laurel Grey (another noir icon, Gloria Grahame ) provides him with an alibi. Bogart, as the obviously off-center writer who may or may not have killed the girl, goes deep into his dark side, giving one of his best screen performances – and that’s saying a lot! The viewer is never quite certain if Dixon Steele did the deed until the very end, as Bogart’s psycho scenarist keeps everyone off-balance.
Grahame is one cool customer at first, but as things progress and Bogart’s rage rises to the surface, she becomes more and more frightened of him. Grahame and Ray were married while making IN A LONELY PLACE, but the union was becoming unraveled by this time, and they would soon separate. Frank Lovejoy, whom I’ve always thought was a very underrated actor, plays Steele’s former Army buddy, now a cop on the case. I especially enjoyed Robert Warwick as Charlie Waterman, the alcoholic former screen star who relies on Steele for handouts. Other Familiar Faces include Carl Benton Reid, Morris Ankrum , Jeff Donnell, and famous restaurateur ‘Prince’ Michael Romanoff, a friend of Bogie’s playing (what else?) a restaurateur. If you love movies about the dark side of Hollywood, IN A LONELY PLACE is for you!
Joseph Losey’s THE PROWLER (United Artists 1951) gives us Van Heflin as an obsessed cop who falls for married Evelyn Keyes after responding to a peeping tom call. Heflin delivers a dynamite performance as the narcissistic ex-jock turned officer, unhappy with his lot in life, who has most everyone fooled he’s a “wonderful guy”. Keyes is alone most nights because her husband works the overnight shift as a disc jockey. After he tries (and fails) to put the make on her, he returns to apologize. The lonely housewife dances with him while the song “Baby” plays on the radio, cozying up cheek to cheek, and then… well, you know!
Heflin resorts to anything to get what he wants, including setting up Keyes’ hubby and shooting him. After being found innocent in a coroner’s inquiry, literally getting away with murder, he convinces her of his innocence and the two get married. Heflin buys a motel in Vegas, and is ready to live the American dream, but there’s a hitch to his plans when Keyes discovers she’s already four months pregnant, and her deceased hubby was impotent! Realizing questions will be re-raised regarding their relationship while she was married, the two take off to a deserted ‘ghost town’ in the desert to have the child, away from prying eyes. I won’t spoil the ending, except to say it packs a wallop! THE PROWLER is essential viewing for film noir lovers, written by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo under the name of “front” Hugo Butler (and as an inside joke, Losey hired Trumbo to provide the radio voice of Keyes’ disc jockey husband, without the knowledge of anyone involved!).
Last but certainly not least, we come to WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (RKO 1956), directed by the legendary Fritz Lang , who knew a thing or two about crafting film noir! Casey Robinson’s extremely cynical script shows us the power struggle at a New York newspaper, with whoever discovers the identity of “The Lipstick Killer” terrorizing the town being named Executive Director. The characters are sleazy and unlikable, with everyone sleeping with everyone else, and only the top-notch cast makes them palatable, led by Dana Andrews as a Pulitzer Prize-winning TV broadcaster, Thomas Mitchell as the sly old-school pro, George Sanders at his smarmy, sarcastic best, Vincent Price as the dilettante son who inherits a media empire, Rhonda Fleming as his slutty wife (who’s banging art director James Craig on the side), Sally Forrest as Sanders’ secretary in love with Andrews, Ida Lupino as a gossip columnist Sanders sics on Andrews to seduce him, and Howard Duff as the lead cop on the case. You can’t get much better than that cast!
As the sex-killer with mommy issues, John Drew Barrymore (billed a John Barrymore, Jr.) looks more like Elvis than he does his famous father. Barrymore’s career never reached the heights of his dad, mainly due to his excesses, and his was a tragic life. Towards the end, he was cared for by daughter Drew, who’s had quite a career of her own. WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS is arguably Lang’s last great film, with moody cinematography by the great Ernest Laszlo (DOA, KISS ME DEADLY ). With that cast, Robinson’s pessimistic script, and Lang’s deft direction, it’s another must-see for film noir fans. Oh yes, before I forget, if that stylized ‘K’ for Kyne, Inc. looks familiar, it’s because it’s leftover from another RKO film:
That’s right, CITIZEN KANE! Who says RKO didn’t get the most for their money?
More CLEANING OUT THE DVR:
Five Films From Five Decades
Five Films From Five Decades 2
Those Swingin’ Sixties!
B-Movie Roundup!
Fabulous 40’s Sleuths
All-Star Horror Edition!
Film Noir Festival
All-Star Comedy Break
Film Noir Festival Redux
Halloween Leftovers
Five From The Fifties
Too Much Crime On My Hands
All-Star Western Roundup!
Sex & Violence, 70’s Style!
Halloween Leftovers 2
Keep Calm and Watch Movies!
All last week, I was laid up with sciatic nerve pain, which begins in the back and shoots down my left leg. Anyone who has suffered from this knows how excruciating it can be! Thanks to inversion therapy, where I hang upside down three times a day on a table like one of Bela Lugosi’s pets in THE DEVIL BAT , I’m feeling much better, though not yet 100%.
Fortunately, I had a ton of movies to watch. My DVR was getting pretty full anyway, so I figured since I could barely move, I’d try to make a dent in the plethora of films I’ve recorded.., going all the way back to last April! However, since I decided to go back to work today, I realize I won’t have time to give them all the full review treatment… and so it’s time for the first Cleaning Out the DVR post of 2018!
We begin with BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA (American-International, 1972), a Philippine-made “Women in Prison” entry by director Eddie Romero, the Roger Corman of the Philippines. Blaxploitation Queen Pam Grier stars as a feisty American hooker who escapes from your typical brutal jungle prison chained to rich white revolutionary Margaret Markov. If you’re expecting something along the lines of 1957’s THE DEFIANT ONES, forget it! Instead, strap yourselves in for lots of nudity (including the obligatory shower scene!), violence, torture, and a tongue planted firmly in cheek. For example, Pam and Margaret jump a pair of nuns and steal their habits in order to make their getaway!
Besides WIP veterans Grier (THE BIG DOLL HOUSE, etc) and Markov (THE HOT BOX), the film features the immortal Sid Haig , who’s a riot as a redneck cowboy bounty hunter hired by the local gendarmes to hunt the girls down, dead or alive! I always enjoy Sid in roles large or small, and here he plays this crazy cracker to the hilt! Also in the cast is Vic Diaz, a mainstay of these Filipino exploitation classics, as the ruthless drug lord ripped off by Pam, who’s also hunting our heroines. Lynn Borden is the horny prison matron who peeps on the girls, and wants a piece of Pam pie! BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA is a must for genre fans, who’ll love the violent’n’bloody climax!
From the Philippines, we travel to Spain for the Eurowestern THE TEXICAN (Columbia 1966), a strange hybrid of traditional and Spaghetti styles directed by sagebrush veteran Lesley Selander. This was Audie Murphy’s first and only foray into the Spaghetti genre, and his next-to-last film. and though he’s a little more clean-cut than most Spaghetti protagonists, he fits in with the material just fine (as a side note, Murphy was one of many Western stars who turned down Sergio Leone’s A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS , for which Clint Eastwood is eternally grateful!).
Audie’s still very youthful looking at age 41; unfortunately, the same can’t be said for costar Broderick Crawford, playing the villain who kills Murphy’s brother and triggers this revenge tale. Crawford, at age 55, looks mighty dissipated due to his years of heavy drinking, though it’s still fun to watch him snarl and growl his way through the role of mean town boss Luke Starr. Spaghetti regular Aldo Sambrell appears as Crawford’s right-hand gunman, adding his own brand of ‘foreign’ menace. Nico Fidenco’s score aids in setting the film’s mood, and the showdown in the swirling sandstorm street, followed by final retribution in Crawford’s saloon, is well staged by Selander. If you’re not an Audie Murphy and/or Spaghetti Western fan, you’ll probably want to pass, but those of you who are (and include me in that number) will enjoy this minor entry in the genre’s canon.
GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE (Entertainment Pyramid 1972) was a surprisingly effective low-budget chiller I’d never heard of before. It starts in 1940, as two college kids are making out in a cemetery, when a crypt opens and vampire Caleb Croft attacks, killing the boy and raping the girl. This macabre opening sets the stage as the girl later gives birth to a strange little baby who prefers blood over milk! From there, we flash-forward to the 70’s, as the child (now a grown-up William Smith ) seeks to destroy his unholy father, working at the local university under the name Prof. Adam Lockwood. In reality, Croft/Lockwood is Charles Croyden, an 1800’s nobleman whose wife Sarah was burned at the stake in Salem. Lynn Peters plays student Anne, and of course she’s a dead (no pun intended) ringer for Sarah. Michael Pataki makes a pretty fierce vampire, Smith is always fun to watch, and the film even manages to sneak in a Bela Lugosi reference! Creepy and atmospheric, GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE should be on any horror buff’s must-watch list.
Another surprise was RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP (AIP 1967), one of many Hippiesploitation flicks the studio made during those fabulous 60’s. Aldo Ray stars as Lt. Walt Lorimer, trying to keep the peace between the establishment forces and the kids on the Strip. Walt’s the voice of reason… until his daughter Andy (Mimsy Farmer) is given an LSD-spiked soda at a party and gang-raped by five punks. Mimsy’s interpretive “freak-out” dance is a sight to behold! The movie also features an overacting Anna Mizrahi as Andy’s pink-haired lush of a mom… perhaps she should’ve picked up some acting pointers from husband Lee Strasberg.
The surprise part came for me when some of the great garage bands of the era performed. The Standells (of “Dirty Water” fame) do the title tune, featuring lead singer/drummer/ex-Mouseketeer Dickie Dodd and Russ Tamblyn’s younger brother Larry. There’s The Chocolate Watch Band, who sound like a punk Rolling Stones, and The Enemies, fronted by future Three Dog Night vocalist Cory Wells. The movie has some footage from the actual ’66 riot spliced in, and on the whole is pretty well done for this sort of thing. A psychedelic artifact definitely worth a look.
Last but not least, Roger Corman’s BLOODY MAMA (AIP 1970) is one of the onslaught of gangster epics churned out after the success of 1967’s BONNIE & CLYDE. This one’s a cut above thanks to Corman and star Shelley Winters , giving a bravura performance as the infamous Kate “Ma” Barker without going over the top… well, not too far, anyway! Ma and her cretinous brood (Don Stroud, Robert DeNiro, Robert Wolders, Clint Kimbrough) rob, murder, rape, and kidnap their way to the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list before the carnage-filled finale, with Bruce Dern , Diane Varsi , and Pat Hingle joining them along the way.
Young Mr. DeNiro plays dope fiend son Lloyd in one of his earliest pictures. In fact, this may very well be his first gangster role! It also marks the feature debut of cinematographer John A. Alonso, who went on to lens VANISHING POINT , LADY SINGS THE BLUES, CHINATOWN, FAREWELL MY LOVELY, SCARFACE, and many other films of note. BLOODY MAMA’s got a lot going for it, and Corman has said it’s his favorite among the many films he’s made.
There are a lot more movies I watched while sidelined, and more Cleaning Out the DVR to come! Next time, we’ll return to the dark world of film noir!
Halloween (and ‘Halloween Havoc!’) may have come and gone, but for horror fans every day’s Trick or Treat! Here are 5 fright films scraped from the bottom of this year’s candy bag:
THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (United Artists 1956; D: Edward Nassour and Ismael Rodriguez) – This US/Mexican coproduction stars Guy Madison (TV’s WILD BILL HICKOCK) and Patricia Medina (PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE) up against a giant prehistoric Allosaurus in the Old West. The movie starts as just another standard Western until the three-quarter mark, when the beast finally makes his appearance. Jack Rabin’s cartoonish special effects can’t hold a candle to the great Willis O’Brien , who’s given credit for the film’s story idea (later remade as the much better VALLEY OF GWANGI ). Good as Saturday matinée kiddie fare, nothing more. Fun Fact: Patricia Medina was the wife of actor Joseph Cotten, who made quite a few horror flicks later in his career.
THE DEADLY MANTIS (Universal-International 1957; D; Nathan Juran) – Another William Alland-produced sci-fi flick from the fabulous 50’s, coming at the end of the ‘Big Bug’ cycle, involving a prehistoric Praying Mantis awakened from its frozen slumber to wreak havoc across North America. Air Force Colonel Craig Stevens teams with paleontologist William Hopper and pretty magazine reporter Alix Talton to stop the flesh-eating terror – mainly by talking it to death! Some of the Arctic set scenes are reminiscent of Howard Hawks’ THE THING, but don’t get your hopes up, this film’s nowhere near that classic. This ‘Big Bug’ is a Big Bore! Fun Fact: Director Juran won an Oscar for his art direction on 1942’s HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, and his later directorial credits include a pair of sci-fi hoots from 1958: THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS and the immortal ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN!
INDESTRUCTiBLE MAN (Allied Artists 1956; D: Jack Pollexfen) – Lon Chaney Jr stars as Butcher Benton, an executed convict brought back to life via a massive dose of electric current, giving him superhuman strength in this horror/crime hybrid. Chaney, looking pretty ragged due to his alcoholism at this point in his life, does well in a mostly mute role as the murderous Butcher seeking revenge on the double-crossing rats who sold him out, giving an athletic, energetic performance. Dad would’ve been proud! The rest of the cast is game, but hampered by the ultra-low budget and somewhat silly dialog (“You rotten, stinkin’ mouthpiece!”). Casey Adams (later known as Max Showalter) plays the detective on the case, narrating a’la DRAGNET’s Joe Friday, and Robert Shayne (SUPERMAN’s Inspector Henderson) and Joe Flynn (MCHALE’S NAVY’s Capt. Binghampton) are the biochemists who revive the Butcher. The macho script was written by two women, Vy Russell and Sue Bradford, who also penned the 1963 cult classic MONSTROSITY! Not a great film, but not all that bad; Chaney fans will definitely want to take a look. Fun Fact: DP John Russell (Vy’s husband) was also the cinematographer on another horror film of note – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece PSYCHO!
BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA (Embassy 1966; D: William Beaudine) – The Count goes West to battle a reformed Billy the Kid in this no-budget piece of dreck. John Carradine reprises his role of Dracula from his Universal days, but even at his most demonic can’t save this juvenile schlockfest (though his crazed hypnotic eyes are pretty scary!). It features the cheeziest rubber bat this side of THE DEVIL BAT , and is padded with plenty o’stock footage. The acting, script, and direction are all rock bottom, making this fail as both a Western AND a horror movie. Yet somehow, the producer enticed veterans like Roy Barcroft, Marjorie Bennett, Harry Carey Jr and his mom Olive Carey , Virginia Christine, and Bing Russell to appear. Must’ve done a casting call at the unemployment office that week! The film was shot in just 5 days – and it shows! Fun Fact: This was the last feature for both director Beaudine and Miss Carey, both of whom started their film careers at the dawn of motion pictures (Beaudine in 1915, Olive Carey in 1913).
SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM (AIP 1973; D: Bob Kelljan) – This much maligned sequel isn’t as bad as some claim, just not as good as the original. William Marshall is back as the undead Prince Mamuwalde aka BLACULA , and Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier plays a voodoo cult priestess! There’s some neat touches updating the usual vampire tropes for the 70’s Blaxploitation crowd, and a decent supporting cast (Michael Conrad, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Lawson, Don Mitchell, Lynn Moody, Barbara Rhodes). A fun little fear flick that’s better than it’s reputation. Fun Fact: Director Bob Kelljan also helmed another AIP vampire sequel, 1971’s THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA.
See you next October, fright fans!
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For all of you who love classic films, here is the Turner Classic Movies schedule of movies for the month of September. I had to list this in several posts because it was so long. The first post is for Sept. 1 through Sept. 5
Schedule September 2009
All Times Eastern
1 Tuesday
6:00 AM Flaxy Martin (1949)
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder. Cast: Zachary Scott, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone. Dir: Richard Bare. BW-86 mins, TV-PG
7:30 AM Window, The (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can't get anyone but the killer to believe him. Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy. Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC
8:45 AM Whip Hand, The (1951)
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge. Cast: Elliott Reid, Raymond Burr, Carla Balenda. Dir: William C. Menzies. BW-82 mins, TV-PG
10:15 AM Hour Of 13, The (1952)
A gentleman thief in Victorian England tries to reform and do one good deed. Cast: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver. Dir: Harold French. BW-80 mins, TV-PG
11:45 AM Tea And Sympathy (1956)
A faculty wife risks her marriage to help a troubled teen tormented by his fellow students. Cast: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society. Cast: Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
4:00 PM Escape From East Berlin (1962)
An East German helps dig a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall. Cast: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer. Dir: Robert Siodmak. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
5:45 PM Above And Beyond (1952)
The pilot who helped drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima struggles with the demands of the dangerous mission. Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore. Dir: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama. BW-122 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 PM Hangover Square (1945)
A composer who can't control his creative temperament turns to murder. Cast: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders. Dir: John Brahm. BW-78 mins,
9:30 PM Devil and Daniel Webster, The (1941)
A farmer sells his soul for seven years of good crops. Cast: Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, John Craig. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-106 mins, TV-G, CC
11:30 PM Citizen Kane (1941)
The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about his scandalous life. Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
1:45 AM Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family. Cast: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead. Dir: Orson Welles. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
3:30 AM On Dangerous Ground (1951)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry's blind sister. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond. Dir: Nicholas Ray. BW-82 mins, TV-PG, CC
5:00 AM Set-Up, The (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight. Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-73 mins, TV-PG, CC
2 Wednesday
6:15 AM Gay Desperado, The (1936)
A Mexican bandit kidnaps a singing cowboy star to learn American ways. Cast: Nino Martini, Ida Lupino, Leo Carillo. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. BW-87 mins, TV-G
7:45 AM Gay Falcon, The (1942)
A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Gladys Cooper. Dir: Irving Reis. BW-67 mins, TV-G, CC
9:00 AM We Went To College (1936)
Three middle-aged men try to recapture the joys of their college days. Cast: Charles Butterworth, WalterAbel, Hugh Herbert. Dir: Joseph Santley. BW-68 mins, TV-G
10:15 AM Sorority House (1939)
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join. Cast: Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Barbara Read. Dir: John Farrow. BW-64 mins, TV-PG
11:30 AM Man to Remember, A (1938)
A small-town doctor fights crooked politicians during a polio epidemic. Cast: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman. Dir: Garson Kanin. BW-78 mins, TV-G
1:00 PM Night to Remember, A (1942)
A mystery writer and his wife stumble on a murder in their new apartment. Cast: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell. Dir: Richard Wallace. BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC
2:45 PM Song to Remember, A (1945)
The famed composer Chopin sacrifices everything, even love, for his native Poland. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni. Dir: Charles Vidor. C-112 mins, TV-G, CC
4:45 PM Day to Remember, A (1953)
A trip to France for a dart tournament brings a British team's personal crises to a head. Cast: Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, James Hayter. Dir: Ralph Thomas. BW-90 mins,
6:30 PM 27th Day, The (1957)
Aliens give five people from different nations the power to destroy their enemies. Cast: Gene Barry, George Voskovec, Stefan Schnabel. Dir: William Asher. BW-76 mins, TV-PG
8:00 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
An idealistic Senate replacement takes on political corruption. Cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-130 mins, TV-G, CC
10:15 PM Casablanca (1942)
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
12:15 AM Mr. Skeffington (1944)
A flighty beauty marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives. Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel. Dir: Vincent Sherman. BW-146 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
2:45 AM Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil. Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:30 AM Four Daughters (1938)
A small-town family's peaceful life is shattered when one daughter falls for a rebellious musician. Cast: Claude Rains, John Garfield, Priscilla Lane. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC
3 Thursday
6:15 AM Daughters Courageous (1939)
A father returns to the family he left years earlier and tries to solve their problems. Cast: Claude Rains, John Garfield, Priscilla Lane. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC
8:15 AM Four Wives (1939)
Three married women play matchmaker for their widowed sister. Cast: Claude Rains, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC
10:15 AM Four Mothers (1941)
Four married sisters face financial problems as motherhood approaches. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane. Dir: William Keighley. BW-85 mins, TV-G
12:00 PM Man In The Net, The (1959)
An artist falsely accused of ransacking his own house is proved innocent by the children of the neighborhood. Cast: Alan Ladd, Carolyn Jones, Diane Brewster. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-97 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
2:00 PM Blue Dahlia, The (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn't kill his cheating wife. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix. Dir: George Marshall. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:00 PM Shane (1953)
A mysterious drifter helps farmers fight off a vicious gunman. Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Brandon de Wilde. Dir: George Stevens. C-118 mins, TV-G, CC
6:00 PM Hell Below Zero (1954)
A whaler signs on to locate a young woman's missing father. Cast: Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-91 mins, TV-PG
8:00 PM Magnificent Seven, The (1960)
Seven American gunmen hire themselves out to protect a Mexican village from bandits. Cast: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson. Dir: John Sturges. C-128 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 PM Return Of The Seven (1966)
A notorious gunman organizes a team of specialists to save Mexican villagers from an insane rancher. Cast: Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Warren Oates. Dir: Burt Kennedy. C-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
The last of the original seven assembles a new crew of experts to rescue a captive rebel leader. Cast: George Kennedy, James Whitmore, Joe Don Baker. Dir: Paul Wendkos. C-106 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM Magnificent Seven Ride!, The (1972)
A retired gunman fights to save a group of kidnapped women from the man who raped and murdered his wife. Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan. Dir: George McCown. C-100 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
4:00 AM Sabata (1970)
A gunman enlists a team of specialists to protect him from a wealthy villain. Cast: Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Pedro Sanchez. Dir: Frank Kramer. C-106 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
4 Friday
6:00 AM Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
Dick Cavett narrates this documentary about the MGM auction and the studio's glorious history. C-51 mins, TV-G, CC
7:00 AM Hitler's Children (1943)
A German-American girl is forced to enter a Hitler youth program. Cast: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-82 mins, TV-14
8:30 AM Behind The Rising Sun (1943)
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis. Cast: J. Carrol Naish, Tom Neal, Margo. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 AM Seven Miles From Alcatraz (1942)
Escaped convicts land at a lighthouse being used by Nazi spies. Cast: James Craig, Bonita Granville, Frank Jenks. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-62 mins, TV-PG
11:15 AM Tender Comrade (1943)
Lady welders pool their resources to share a house during World War II. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:00 PM Falcon Strikes Back, The (1943)
A society sleuth is framed for murder by criminals running a war-bond racket. Cast: Tom Conway, Harriet Hilliard, Edgar Kennedy. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-66 mins, TV-G
2:15 PM Cornered (1946)
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife. Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Pidgeon, Morris Carnovsky. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:00 PM Till The End Of Time (1946)
A returning World War II veteran falls for a troubled war widow. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-105 mins, TV-G, CC
6:00 PM So Well Remembered (1947)
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career. Cast: John Mills, Martha Scott, Trevor Howard. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-115 mins, TV-G, CC
8:00 PM War Of The Worlds, The (1953)
A scientist on vacation stumbles upon a Martian invasion. Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne. Dir: George Pal. C-85 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:30 PM Time Machine, The (1960)
A turn-of-the-century inventor sends himself into the future to save humanity. Cast: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young. Dir: George Pal. C-103 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
11:30 PM Houdini (1953)
The famed magician and escape artist rises to stardom while haunted by the loss of his mother. Cast: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher. Dir: George Marshall. C-106 mins, TV-14, CC
1:30 AM Private Screenings: Tony Curtis (1999)
TCM host Robert Osborne interviews Tony Curtis on his life and career. Curtis appears in interviews and film clips. BW-54 mins, TV-PG, CC
2:30 AM I Saw What You Did (1965)
A prank call turns deadly when two teenagers dial a murderer's number. Cast: Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Sara Lane. Dir: William Castle. BW-82 mins,
4:00 AM Homicidal (1961)
A nurse and her husband conspire to collect a rich inheritance. Cast: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich. Dir: William Castle. BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:30 AM Time Out For Trouble (1961)
Filmmakers examine household accidents to determine their causes. Cast: Bonnie Hammett, John Nesom, Stephen Bell. Dir: David B. Glidden. BW-19 mins, TV-PG
5 Saturday
6:00 AM Captain Caution (1940)
When a ship's captain dies at war, his daughter takes command. Cast: Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo. Dir: Richard Wallace. BW-86 mins, TV-G
7:30 AM Kelly the Second (1936)
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer. Cast: Patsy Kelly, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Charley Chase. Dir: Gus Meins. BW-70 mins, TV-G
9:00 AM Bridge of Terror, The (1937)
In the second chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective is trapped beneath a collapsing bridge. Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-19 mins,
9:00 AM Spider Strikes, The (1937)
In the first chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective takes on the diabolical head of a criminal ring. Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-29 mins,
10:00 AM Bedknobs And Broomsticks (1971)
An apprentice witch and three war orphans try to prevent the Nazi invasion of England. Cast: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall. Dir: Robert Stevenson. C-117 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 PM Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Showmen try to exploit a giant ape raised by an orphan. Cast: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong. Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack. C-94 mins, TV-G, CC
2:00 PM Alexander The Great (1956)
Biography of the ancient warrior who conquered the known world. Cast: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Danielle Darrieux. Dir: Robert Rossen. C-136 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
4:30 PM Baron Of Arizona, The (1950)
A swindler forges documents to make himself the owner of an entire state. Cast: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Samuel Fuller. BW-97 mins, TV-PG
6:15 PM Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
A cowboy drifts into a lawless town and brings things back together. Cast: James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan. Dir: Burt Kennedy. C-93 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Guns of Navarone, The (1961)
A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns. Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn. Dir: J. Lee-Thompson. C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
11:00 PM I Aim at the Stars (1960)
Rocket scientist Werner von Braun faces controversy when he emigrates to the U.S. to work in the space program. Cast: Curt Jurgens, Victoria Shaw, Herbert Lom. Dir: J. Lee Thompson. BW-107 mins, TV-PG
1:00 AM Taras Bulba (1962)
A cossack leader clashes with his rebellious son. Cast: Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann. Dir: J. Lee Thompson. C-124 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
3:15 AM Huckleberry Finn (1974)
Mark Twain's famed tale of a Missouri bad boy who helps a runaway slave escape to the North. Cast: Jeff East, Paul Winfield, David Wayne. Dir: J. Lee-Thompson. C-114 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #20 (1955)
Esther Williams performs in a clip from "Ziegfeld Follies"; Donna Reed introduces a clip from "Ransom." Hosted by George Murphy. BW-26 mins, TV-G
9/6 through 9/12
6 Sunday
6:00 AM Latin Lovers (1953)
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil. Cast: Lana Turner, Ricardo Montalban, Jean Hagen. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. C-104 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 AM Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she's married to his new boss. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready. Dir: Charles Vidor. BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 AM Facts of Life, The (1960)
Suburban marrieds are tempted to dabble in adultery. Cast: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey. Dir: Melvin Frank. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 PM Last Time I Saw Paris, The (1954)
A writer recalls his turbulent marriage to an expatriate heiress. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Donna Reed. Dir: Richard Brooks. C-116 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 PM Affair To Remember, An (1957)
A romantic shipboard romance inspires a couple to promise to meet six months later. Cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning. Dir: Leo McCarey. C-115 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:15 PM Way We Were, The (1973)
A fiery liberal fights to make her marriage to a successful writer work. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, James Woods. Dir: Sydney Pollack. BW-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
6:30 PM Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)
A movie character steps off the screen and into the life of his biggest fan. Cast: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello. Dir: Woody Allen. BW-82 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Magic Box, The (1951)
A successful photographer becomes obsessed with inventing a motion picture projector. Cast: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnson, Maria Schell. Dir: John Boulting. C-108 mins, TV-G, CC
10:00 PM Nickelodeon (1976)
A bashful lawyer gets mixed up in the movies' turbulent early years. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal. Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. C-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM Ace Of Hearts, The (1921)
In this silent film, a revolutionary is ordered to kill his romantic rival. Cast: Lon Chaney, Leatrice Joy, John Bowers. Dir: Wallace Worsley. BW-75 mins, TV-PG
2:00 AM La Ronde (1950)
A series of inter-related affairs link lovers from all levels of society. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Simone Simon. Dir: Max Ophuls. BW-93 mins, TV-14
4:00 AM Room at the Top (1959)
A young accountant claws his way to the top in the boardroom and the bedroom. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears. Dir: Jack Clayton. BW-117 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
7 Monday
6:00 AM Godless Girl, The (1929)
A young couple's flirtation with atheism leads to disaster. Cast: Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. BW-119 mins, TV-PG
8:00 AM I'm King Kong: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005)
TCM original documentary that explores the career of Hollywood producer Merian C. Cooper. BW-57 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:00 AM King Kong (1933)
A film crew discovers the "eighth wonder of the world," a giant prehistoric ape, and brings him back to New York, where he wreaks havoc. Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot. Dir: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
11:00 AM Uncle Silas (1947)
A young woman's uncle and governess plot to kill her for her inheritance. Cast: Derek Bond, Frederick Burtwell, O.B. Clarence. Dir: Charles Frank. BW-103 mins,
1:00 PM Black Book, The (1949)
Opponents plot to bring down Robespierre during the French Revolution. Cast: Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Arnold Moss. Dir: Anthony Mann. BW-88 mins, TV-PG
2:45 PM Men Who Made the Movies, The: Sam Fuller (2002)
Film clips and an exclusive interview capture the genius of Sam Fuller, one of Hollywoods most rebellious and original directors. Dir: Richard Schickel. BW-55 mins, TV-14, CC
3:45 PM Park Row (1952)
A crusading newspaperman fights to save his paper from a hostile takeover. Cast: Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Bela Kovacs. Dir: Samuel Fuller. BW-83 mins, TV-PG
5:15 PM OPTICAL POEM, AN (1938)
Animated geometric forms reflect the moods of Liszt's' "Hungarian Rhapsody." Dir: Oskar Fischinger. C-7 mins, TV-G
5:30 PM Short Film: Dot and the Line, The (1965)
In this animated short, a straight line tries to woo a dot. C-10 mins,
5:45 PM Phantom Tollbooth, The (1969)
A bored boy enters a fantasy world where letters and numbers are at war. Cast: Butch Patrick, Hans Conreid, June Foray. Dir: Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, David Monahan. C-89 mins, TV-G, CC
7:30 PM Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood (2009)
This TCM original documentary explores the life and career of Academy Award winning animator Chuck Jones. Dir: Peggy Sterns. C-26 mins, TV-14, CC
8:00 PM They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge. Cast: Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Griffith Jones. Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti. BW-101 mins, TV-PG
10:00 PM I'm Not Scared (2004)
A young boy discovers a child chained in a deserted cellar. Cast: Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia De Pierro, Adriana Conserva. Dir: Gabriele Salvatores. C-101 mins, , Letterbox Format
12:00 AM Ascent, The (1976)
Two Soviet soldiers are captured in WWII Belarus. Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev. Dir: Larisa Shepitko. BW-111 mins,
2:00 AM Rain People, The (1969)
A housewife who feels trapped leaves home and takes up with a hitchhiker. Cast: James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall. Dir: Francis Ford Coppola. C-101 mins, , Letterbox Format
4:00 AM Junior Bonner (1972)
An aging rodeo rider tries to deal with his dysfunctional family. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino. Dir: Sam Peckinpah. C-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8 Tuesday
6:00 AM Off The Record (1939)
A lady reporter adopts the young delinquent her crime exposes helped send to jail. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan. Dir: James Flood. BW-71 mins, TV-G
7:15 AM Three Girls About Town (1941)
Sisters working at a hotel try to hide a dead body before the next convention arrives. Cast: Joan Blondell, Robert Benchley, Binnie Barnes. Dir: Leigh Jason. BW-73 mins, TV-G
8:45 AM There's Always a Woman (1938)
While working on a simple case, married private eyes uncover a murder. Cast: Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor. Dir: Alexander Hall. BW-81 mins, TV-G
10:15 AM Amazing Mr. Williams, The (1939)
The mayor's secretary competes with her homicide detective fiancé's devotion to his job. Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb. Dir: Alexander Hall. BW-85 mins, TV-G
11:45 AM Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
An English professor helps a waitress take a dream vacation in Paris. Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Alan Curtis. Dir: Alexander Hall. BW-75 mins, TV-G
1:15 PM Clay Pigeon, The (1949)
A man awakens from a coma to discover he's accused of treason. Cast: Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine. Dir: Richard Fleischer. BW-63 mins, TV-PG
2:30 PM Slight Case Of Murder, A (1938)
A gangster finds the straight life ain't so simple. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-85 mins, TV-G, CC
4:00 PM Joy In The Morning (1965)
A law student and his bride try to build a life together despite her fear of intimacy. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux, Arthur Kennedy. Dir: Alex Segal. C-102 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM Rhapsody (1954)
A wealthy socialite is torn between the classical violinist who excites her and the pianist who needs her. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson. Dir: Charles Vidor. C-116 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Five Fingers (1952)
A British valet in Turkey during World War II sells secrets to the Germans. Cast: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-108 mins, , CC
10:00 PM Snows Of Kilimanjaro, The (1952)
As he fights a deadly jungle fever, a hunter remembers his lost loves.. Cast: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner. Dir: Henry King. C-114 mins, TV-PG, CC
12:00 AM Beneath The 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Love brings together two families of rival sponge fishers. Cast: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland. Dir: Robert D. Webb. C-101 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM Naked And The Dead, The (1958)
A green lieutenant comes up against incompetent officers and a sadistic sergeant during World War II. Cast: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey. Dir: Raoul Walsh. C-131 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:15 AM 3 Worlds of Gulliver, The (1960)
A physician lost at sea discovers lands populated by tiny warriors and giant kings. Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Basil Sydney, Jo Morrow. Dir: Jack Sher. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
9 Wednesday
6:00 AM They Live by Night (1949)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape. Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, Howard da Silva. Dir: Nicholas Ray. BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC
7:45 AM Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim's bones to go on. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester. Dir: John Sturges. BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:30 AM Tension (1950)
A man who had planned to murder his wife's lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it. Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Barry Sullivan. Dir: John Berry. BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC
11:15 AM Dial 1119 (1950)
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Sam Levene. Dir: Gerald Mayer. BW-75 mins, TV-G
12:45 PM Cause For Alarm (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder. Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling. Dir: Tay Garnett. BW-74 mins, TV-PG, CC
2:00 PM No Questions Asked (1951)
A young lawyer's primrose path to success gets him framed for murder. Cast: Barry Sullivan, George Murphy, Arlene Dahl. Dir: Harold F. Kress. BW-81 mins, TV-PG
3:30 PM Narrow Margin, The (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White. Dir: Richard Fleischer. BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:45 PM While The City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer. Cast: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price. Dir: Fritz Lang. BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC
6:30 PM Nowhere To Go (1958)
A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl. Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee. Dir: Seth Holt. BW-87 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
A prizefighter who died before his time is reincarnated as a tycoon with a murderous wife. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains. Dir: Alexander Hall. BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC
9:45 PM Angel On My Shoulder (1946)
The Devil sends a murdered gangster to Earth as a respected judge. Cast: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC
11:30 PM Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
1:30 AM Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC
3:30 AM Kings Row (1942)
Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
5:45 AM Old Yeller (1958)
A frontier boy develops close ties with a yellow dog. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk. Dir: Robert Stevenson. C-84 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
10 Thursday
7:30 AM Son Of Lassie (1945)
The beloved collie goes to war to help the resistance in occupied Norway. Cast: Peter Lawford, June Lockhart, Donald Crisp. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. C-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
9:15 AM Courage Of Lassie (1946)
A young girl tries to rehabilitate the famous collie after his return from combat service in World War II. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake. Dir: Fred M. Wilcox. C-93 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
11:00 AM Hills Of Home (1948)
Lassie helps a Scottish doctor deal with his patients' problems. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Janet Leigh. Dir: Fred M. Wilcox. C-97 mins, TV-G, CC
12:45 PM Sun Comes Up, The (1949)
Lassie helps an embittered woman find happiness with an orphaned boy. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Claude Jarman, Jr., Lloyd Nolan. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-93 mins, TV-G
2:30 PM Challenge To Lassie (1949)
A faithful dog changes the lives of all who know her after her master dies. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-76 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
4:00 PM Flipper (1963)
A fisherman in the Florida Keys opposes his son's friendship with a dolphin. Cast: Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Kathleen Maguire. Dir: James B. Clark. C-90 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
5:45 PM Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
The heroic dolphin helps capture a group of escaped convicts. Cast: Luke Halpin, Pamela Franklin, Brian Kelly. Dir: Leon Benson. C-98 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
7:30 PM MGM Parade Show #20 (1955)
Esther Williams performs in a clip from "Ziegfeld Follies"; Donna Reed introduces a clip from "Ransom." Hosted by George Murphy. BW-26 mins, TV-G
8:00 PM Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
A young thief faces amazing monsters to return Bagdad's deposed king to the throne. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez. Dir: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan. C-106 mins, TV-G, CC
10:00 PM Drum, The (1938)
An Indian prince tries to save his British masters from a deadly revolt. Cast: Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson. Dir: Zoltan Korda. BW-94 mins, TV-G
12:00 AM Song of India (1949)
A jungle prince stands against a maharajah's plan to capture and sell wild animals. Cast: Sabu, Gail Russell, Turhan Bey. Dir: Albert S. Rogell. BW-77 mins, TV-G
1:30 AM End of the River, The (1947)
A South American Indian's move to civilization leads to tragic consequences. Cast: Sabu, Bibi Frrerira, Esmond Knight. Dir: Derek N. Twist. C-83 mins,
3:00 AM Jungle Book, The (1942)
A boy raised by wolves adjusts to life among humans. Cast: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, Rosemary De Camp. Dir: Zoltan Korda. C-102 mins, TV-G, CC
4:45 AM Five Came Back (1939)
Survivors of a jungle plane crash realize that their repaired airplane can only carry five passengers. Cast: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, C. Aubrey Smith. Dir: John Farrow. BW-75 mins, TV-PG, CC
11 Friday
6:15 AM Shadow Of The Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Donna Reed. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC
8:00 AM Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
A wheelchair-bound doctor fights off a homicidal maniac. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Philip Dorn, Donna Reed. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-84 mins, TV-G
9:30 AM Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
A wheelchair-bound doctor tries to prove a convicted killer's innocence. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Donna Reed. Dir: Willis Goldbeck. BW-89 mins, TV-PG
11:15 AM Eyes In The Night (1942)
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter. Cast: Edward Arnold, Donna Reed, Ann Harding. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC
12:45 PM Man From Down Under, The (1943)
A World War I veteran sneaks two orphans back to his native Australia. Cast: Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Donna Reed. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-103 mins, TV-PG
2:30 PM Gentle Annie (1944)
A frontierswoman turns her family into a band of bank robbers. Cast: Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Henry Morgan. Dir: Andrew Marton. BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC
4:00 PM Green Dolphin Street (1947)
In 19th-century New Zealand, two sisters compete for the same man against a backdrop of political unrest and natural disaster. Cast: Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed. Dir: Victor Saville. BW-141 mins, TV-G, CC
6:30 PM Three Hours to Kill (1954)
After escaping a lynch mob, an innocent man returns to find out who framed him for murder. Cast: Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster. Dir: Alfred L. Werker. BW-77 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 PM Million Dollar Baby (1941)
A young innocent's surprise inheritance causes problems with her poor but proud boyfriend. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC
9:45 PM Brewster's Millions (1945)
A veteran has to spend $1 million in two months to inherit a fortune. Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson. Dir: Allan Dwan. BW-79 mins, TV-G
11:15 PM Man With A Million (1954)
On a bet, a man tries to see how much he can get without breaking a million-pound bank note. Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire. Dir: Ronald Neame. C-89 mins, TV-G
1:00 AM Always Together (1947)
A dying millionaire gives his fortune to a working girl, then recovers and tries to get it back. Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Cecil Kellaway. Dir: Frederick De Cordova. BW-79 mins, TV-G
2:30 AM Sonny Boy (1990)
A small-town crook and his cross-dressing "wife" abuse their adopted son to make him the perfect criminal accomplice. Cast: David Carradine, Paul L. Smith, Brad Dourif. Dir: Robert Martin Carroll. C-97 mins, TV-MA
4:15 AM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12 Saturday
6:00 AM Great Rupert, The (1950)
A squirrel becomes the guardian angel for an impoverished family. Cast: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake. Dir: Irving Pichel. BW-88 mins, TV-G
7:30 AM Shield for Murder (1954)
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, John Agar, Carolyn Jones. Dir: Edmond O'Brien & Howard Koch. BW-82 mins, TV-PG
9:00 AM Fur Pirates, The (1937)
In the third chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective's plane crashes into a railroad bridge. Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-20 mins, TV-G
9:00 AM Death Rides the Sky (1937)
In the fourth chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective is caught between two ships about to crash. Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-20 mins, TV-G
10:00 AM They Drive by Night (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho. Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Raoul Walsh. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC
12:00 PM Apache (1954)
Refusing to accept peace, a renegade leads a one-man war against the U.S. Cavalry. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, Charles Bronson. Dir: Robert Aldrich. C-87 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:30 PM Geronimo (1962)
A defiant Apache warrior tries to unite his tribe against the U.S. Army. Cast: Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi, Ross Martin. Dir: Arnold Laven. C-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
3:30 PM Kelly's Heroes (1970)
An American platoon tries to recover buried treasure behind enemy lines. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland. Dir: Brian G. Hutton. C-144 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
6:00 PM Point Blank (1967)
A gangster plots an elaborate revenge on the wife and partner who did him dirty. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn. Dir: John Boorman. C-92 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Long Hot Summer, The (1958)
A drifter with a past brings a wealthy family's problems to a head. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles. Dir: Martin Ritt. C-117 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)
A psychiatrist tries to help a woman integrate her split personalities. Cast: Joanne Woodward, Lee J. Cobb, David Wayne. Dir: Nunnally Johnson. BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
A New York City housewife faces a midlife crisis that forces her to re-consider her way of life. Cast: Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney. Dir: Gilbert Cates. C-88 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM Count Three and Pray (1955)
A Westerner turns preacher to overcome his shady past. Cast: Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey. Dir: George Sherman. C-102 mins, TV-G
4:00 AM Paris Blues (1961)
Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier. Dir: Martin Ritt. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
9/13 through 9/23
13 Sunday
6:00 AM Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
To avoid marriage, a nobleman schemes to marry off the eligible women on his family's list. Cast: Roland Young, John Loder, Wendy Barrie. Dir: Alexander Korda. BW-79 mins, TV-G
7:30 AM Pot O' Gold (1941)
A young man is caught between his music-hating uncle and a pretty girl from a family of musicians. Cast: James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Charles Winninger. Dir: George Marshall. BW-86 mins, TV-G
9:00 AM What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
Woody Allen dubbed in comic dialogue for this outrageous spoof of secret-agent thrillers. Cast: Voices of Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Mickey Rose. Dir: Woody Allen. C-80 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:30 AM High School Confidential (1958)
A young police officer returns to high school undercover to investigate the drug trade. Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, Mamie Van Doren. Dir: Jack Arnold. BW-85 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 PM Pat And Mike (1952)
Romance blooms between a female athlete and her manager. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray. Dir: George Cukor. BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
2:00 PM Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo (1977)
Thieves plant stolen diamonds under the hood of a magical Volkswagen. Cast: Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars. Dir: Vincent McEveety. C-105 mins, TV-G, CC
4:00 PM Foul Play (1978)
An innocent woman stumbles onto a plot to murder the pope. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore. Dir: Colin Higgins. C-116 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM Divorce, American Style (1967)
A bored couple drifts toward divorce, only to discover how hard the single life is. Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards. Dir: Bud Yorkin. C-109 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Les Miserables (1952)
An obsessive policeman relentlessly hunts a man who escaped prison after stealing bread. Cast: Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 PM Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The (1939)
A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder. Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-117 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
12:00 AM Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
A gentle slave tries to survive his sale to a vicious plantation overseer. Cast: James B. Lowe, Virginia Grey, George Siegmann. Dir: Harry A. Pollard. BW-112 mins, TV-14
2:00 AM Earrings of Madame De..., The (1954)
When a woman sells her earrings to pay a gambling debt, it leads to a string of betrayals. Cast: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica. Dir: Max Ophuls. BW-100 mins, TV-PG
4:15 AM Love Is A Ball (1962)
A Riviera matchmaker tries to groom a young woman for a wealthy marriage. Cast: Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Hope Lange. Dir: David Swift. C-113 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
14 Monday
6:15 AM Colossus of Rhodes, The (1961)
The Greek Army sets out to destroy the Colossus of Rhodes. Cast: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal. Dir: Sergio Leone. C-129 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:30 AM Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963)
When two legendary Greek heroes are marooned, they're pushed into conflict with the famed Biblical strongman. Cast: Kirk Morris, Richard Lloyd, Enzo Cerusico. Dir: Pietro Francisci. C-86 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 AM Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
A legendary hero tries to save a young Christian woman's life. Cast: Mark Forrest, Marilu Tolo, Elisabetta Fanti. Dir: Mario Caiano. C-100 mins,
11:45 AM Solomon And Sheba (1959)
Epic tale of the Biblical king's seduction by a pagan queen. Cast: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders. Dir: King Vidor. C-141 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
2:15 PM Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961)
A Greek fisherman gets caught up in court intrigue in a land of scientific wonders. Cast: Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, John Dall. Dir: George Pal. C-90 mins, TV-G, CC
4:00 PM 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
A Chinese showman uses his magical powers to save a Western town from itself. Cast: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell. Dir: George Pal. C-100 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:45 PM Tom Thumb (1958)
A six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks. Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas. Dir: George Pal. C-92 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
7:30 PM John Leguizamo (2008)
Celebrities reveal the classic movies that influenced their lives in interviews with acclaimed film critic/interviewer Elvis Mitchell. C-28 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Yentl (1983)
A Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to study Torah, but falls in love with her best friend. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving. Dir: Barbra Streisand. C-133 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
10:30 PM Way We Were, The (1973)
A fiery liberal fights to make her marriage to a successful writer work. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, James Woods. Dir: Sydney Pollack. BW-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:45 AM Funny Girl (1968)
Comedienne Fanny Brice fights to prove that she can be the greatest star and find romance even though she isn't pretty. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford. Dir: William Wyler. C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3:30 AM Owl and the Pussycat, The (1970)
When a bookworm gets a prostitute evicted, she moves into his apartment. Cast: Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein. Dir: Herbert Ross. C-95 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
5:15 AM Honeymoon Machine, The (1961)
Two sailors discover a way to beat the roulette tables in a Venice casino. Cast: Steve McQueen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-87 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
15 Tuesday
6:45 AM Live, Love And Learn (1937)
A bohemian artist and a society girl try to adjust to marriage. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC
8:30 AM Janie (1944)
A small-town girl defies her father by falling for a soldier. Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Ann Harding. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-102 mins, TV-G, CC
10:30 AM See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
A green recruit has a series of madcap adventures in the Army. Cast: Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Wesley Ruggles. BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC
12:30 PM Pan-Americana (1945)
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls. Cast: Audrey Long, Phillip Terry, Robert Benchley. Dir: John H. Auer. BW-84 mins, TV-G
2:00 PM Stork Club, The (1945)
A hat-check girl gets rich quick when she saves a millionaire's life. Cast: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore. Dir: Hal Walker. BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC
4:00 PM Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
In this remake of Grand Hotel, guests at a New York hotel fight to survive personal tragedy. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Lana Turner. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-130 mins, TV-G, CC
6:15 PM Janie Gets Married (1946)
A war bride helps her husband adjust to civilian life. Cast: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold. Dir: Vincent Sherman. BW-89 mins, TV-G
8:00 PM Trouble With Harry, The (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor's son when he stumbles on their assassination plot. Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he's been hired to tail. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:30 AM 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, The (1958)
Sinbad hunts for a roc's egg to save his love from an evil sorcerer. Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher. Dir: Nathan Juran. C-88 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
4:15 AM Mysterious Island (1961)
Escaped Civil War POWs end up on an island populated by giant animals. Cast: Michael Craig, Michael Callan, Joan Greenwood. Dir: Cy Endfield. C-101 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
16 Wednesday
6:00 AM Number Seventeen (1932)
A detective sets out to recover a necklace lifted by jewel thieves. Cast: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-61 mins, TV-PG
7:15 AM Rich and Strange (1932)
An unexpected inheritance proves less than a boon to a young married couple. Cast: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-83 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:45 AM Lady For A Day (1933)
A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter. Cast: May Robson, Warren William, Guy Kibbee. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-96 mins, TV-G
10:30 AM One Man's Journey (1933)
Father and son doctors disagree over the son's materialistic goals. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, May Robson, Joel McCrea. Dir: John S. Robertson. BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC
11:45 AM It Happened One Night (1934)
A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:45 PM Les Miserables (1935)
An obsessed policeman relentlessly pursues an escaped convict. Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke. Dir: Richard Boleslawski. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC
3:45 PM Nothing Sacred (1937)
When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine. Cast: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly. Dir: William A. Wellman. C-74 mins, TV-PG
5:00 PM There Goes My Heart (1938)
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk. Cast: Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-83 mins, TV-G
6:45 PM Affairs Of Martha, The (1942)
A servant's scandalous novel lands her employers in hot water. Cast: Marsha Hunt, Richard Carlson, Spring Byington. Dir: Jules Dassin. BW-67 mins, TV-G, CC
8:00 PM Passage to Marseille (1944)
Devil's Island escapees join up with the Allies during World War II. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michele Morgan. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 PM Sealed Cargo (1951)
A fisherman tangles with Nazi smugglers off the Canadian coast. Cast: Dana Andrews, Carla Balenda, Claude Rains. Dir: Alfred Werker. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC
11:45 PM Juarez (1939)
True story of Mexico's Abraham Lincoln and his fight against Napoleon's empire. Cast: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-121 mins, TV-G, CC
2:00 AM Caesar And Cleopatra (1945)
Julius Caesar gives the famed Egyptian queen lessons in government. Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger. Dir: Gabriel Pascal. C-128 mins, TV-G
4:30 AM Anthony Adverse (1936)
An orphan runs off to a life of adventure, then returns to France in search of the girl he left behind. Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-141 mins, TV-G, CC
17 Thursday
7:00 AM Hearts Divided (1936)
Napoleon's younger brother falls for a girl from Baltimore. Cast: Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Claude Rains. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-76 mins, TV-G, CC
8:30 AM Stolen Holiday (1937)
A Paris fashion model marries a fortune hunter to protect him from the law. Cast: Claude Rains, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC
10:00 AM Lady With Red Hair (1940)
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC
11:30 AM Canadian Pacific (1949)
A railroad surveyor faces an Indian rebellion. Cast: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carroll Naish. Dir: Edwin L. Marin. C-95 mins, TV-G
1:15 PM Sea Of Grass, The (1947)
Husband-and-wife ranchers take opposite sides in a range war. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-124 mins, TV-PG, CC
3:30 PM Saddle The Wind (1958)
A rancher with a questionable past tries to stop his outlaw brother. Cast: Robert Taylor, John Cassavetes, Julie London. Dir: Robert Parrish. C-84 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 PM Rancho Notorious (1952)
A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend's killer. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer. Dir: Fritz Lang. C-89 mins, TV-G, CC
6:30 PM Mail Order Bride (1964)
An aging cowhand tries to help a young rancher settle down by buying him a wife. Cast: Buddy Ebsen, Keir Dullea, Lois Nettleton. Dir: Burt Kennedy. C-83 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Wicked Lady, The (1945)
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc. Dir: Leslie Arliss. BW-104 mins, TV-PG
10:00 PM Johnny Guitar (1954)
A lady saloon owner battles a female rancher out to frame her for murder. Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge. Dir: Nicholas Ray. C-110 mins, TV-PG, CC
12:00 AM Jubilee Trail (1954)
A pregnant widow ventures West in search of a new life. Cast: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker. Dir: Joseph Kane. C-103 mins, TV-G, CC
2:00 AM Hollywood Canteen (1944)
A serviceman and a starlet find love at the star-staffed serviceman's center. Cast: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-124 mins, TV-G, CC
4:15 AM Around The World (1943)
Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge entertain the troops overseas. Cast: Kay Kyser, Ish Kabibble, Ginny Simms. Dir: Allan Dwan. BW-79 mins, TV-G
18 Friday
6:00 AM Mata Hari (1931)
Romantic biography of World War I's notorious lady spy. Cast: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-89 mins, TV-PG, CC
7:30 AM Grand Hotel (1932)
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through scandal and heartache. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
9:30 AM Greta Garbo Part 1: The Temptress (1986)
In the first part of this rarely-seen Swedish documentary tracks Garbo's rise to ultra-stardom, from her early film career in Sweden to her introduction to the studio system . BW-60 mins, TV-MA
10:30 AM Greta Garbo Part 2: The Clown (1986)
In the second part of this series, Garbo's career in talking pictures and her life off the screen is discussed. Featuring interviews and film clips of some of her best work. BW-59 mins, TV-PG
11:30 AM Two Faced Woman (1941)
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband. Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett. Dir: George Cukor. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC
1:15 PM I Take This Woman (1940)
A tenement doctor's marriage to a European refugee threatens his practice. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC
3:00 PM Hold Your Man (1933)
A hard-boiled babe and a con man wear down each other's rough edges. Cast: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:30 PM Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
A young misfit lands on a prison chain gang and falls for the foreman's daughter. Cast: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale. Dir: Lewis Seiler. BW-88 mins, TV-G, CC
6:00 PM Strange Cargo (1940)
Devil's Island escapees are changed forever by a prisoner who thinks he's Jesus. Cast: Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 PM Carmen Jones (1954)
A sultry factory worker seduces a young soldier then dumps him for another man. Cast: Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey. Dir: Otto Preminger C-105 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM Buck and the Preacher (1972)
A con man helps a group of former slaves survive the perils of the wild West in their search for the promised land. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee. Dir: Sidney Poitier. C-103 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM Angel Levine, The (1970)
An angel helps an embittered man find life's meaning. Cast: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska. Dir: Jan Kadar. C-106 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Three go-go dancers resort to murder in search of a family's hidden treasure. Cast: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams. Dir: Russ Meyer. BW-83 mins, TV-14
4:00 AM Mudhoney (1965)
A drifter with a past falls for an abused small-town wife. Cast: Hal Hopper, Antoinette Christiani, John Furlong. Dir: Russ Meyer. BW-93 mins, TV-MA
9/19 through 9/24
19 Saturday
6:00 AM Sons of the Desert (1933)
Two friends hatch a harebrained scheme to attend a lodge convention over their wives' objections. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-65 mins, TV-G
7:30 AM Outlaws Is Coming, The (1965)
Three bumblers travel West to save the buffalo and end up fighting to save themselves. Cast: The Three Stooges, Adam West, Nancy Kovack. Dir: Norman Maurer. BW-98 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
9:00 AM Dangerous Waters (1937)
In the sixth chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective must survive a fall of several stories. Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-16 mins, TV-G
9:00 AM Brother Against Brother (1937)
In the fifth chapter of Dick Tracy, the famed detective must escape a crashing plane. Cast: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette. Dir: Alan James, Ray Taylor. BW-19 mins, TV-G
10:00 AM Long Night, The (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price. Dir: Anatole Litvak. BW-97 mins, TV-G
12:00 PM Of Mice and Men (1939)
A drifter and his slow-witted pal try to make their way in the West. Cast: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-106 mins, TV-14
2:00 PM Between Two Worlds (1944)
Passengers on a luxury liner realize they are en route to the afterlife. Cast: John Garfield, Edmund Gwenn, Eleanor Parker. Dir: Edward A. Blatt. BW-112 mins, TV-G, CC
4:00 PM Cry, the Beloved Country (1952)
A South African minister travels to Johannesburg to find his missing son. Cast: Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson. Dir: Zoltan Korda. BW-108 mins, TV-14
6:00 PM Great White Hope, The (1970)
A black boxer and his white mistress face racial prejudice when he wins the championship. Cast: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris. Dir: Martin Ritt. C-103 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Wuthering Heights (1939)
A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Dir: William Wyler. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:00 PM Devotion (1946)
The Bronte sisters and their brother fight personal demons to realize their artistic ambitions. Cast: Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC
12:00 AM Hound Of The Baskervilles, The (1959)
Sherlock Holmes investigates the haunting of an isolated British estate by a murderous canine. Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell. Dir: Terence Fisher. C-87 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 AM Man From Planet X, The (1951)
A space visitor uses hypnotic powers to enslave a Scottish island. Cast: Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert. Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. BW-71 mins, TV-PG, CC
3:00 AM Kes (1970)
A young man finds escape from his working-class life training a pet falcon. Cast: David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie. Dir: Kenneth Loach. C-111 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
5:00 AM Bill Murray (2008)
Celebrities reveal the classic movies that influenced their lives in interviews with acclaimed film critic/interviewer Elvis Mitchell. C-29 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #20 (1955)
Esther Williams performs in a clip from "Ziegfeld Follies"; Donna Reed introduces a clip from "Ransom." Hosted by George Murphy. BW-26 mins, TV-G
20 Sunday
6:00 AM Let's Do It Again (1953)
A divorced couple finds it impossible to stay out of each other's lives. Cast: Jane Wyman, Ray Milland, Aldo Ray. Dir: Alexander Hall. C-94 mins, TV-G
8:00 AM Goldwyn Follies, The (1938)
A movie mogul hires an innocent girl to teach him what the average audience member likes. Cast: Adolphe Menjou, The Ritz Brothers, Kenny Baker. Dir: George Marshall. C-116 mins, TV-G, CC
10:00 AM Trouble With Harry, The (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 PM Thousand Clowns, A (1965)
A free-living New Yorker fights to maintain custody of his nephew. Cast: Jason Robards Jr., Martin Balsam, Barry Gordon. Dir: Fred Coe. BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:15 PM Angels In The Outfield (1951)
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance. Cast: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
4:00 PM Thing From Another World, The (1951)
The crew of a remote Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space. Cast: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness. Dir: Christian Nyby. BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
5:30 PM Face In The Crowd, A (1957)
A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star. Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Bad News Bears, The (1976)
The coach of a losing little league team brings in a female pitcher. Cast: Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Chris Barnes. Dir: Michael Ritchie. C-102 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM Karate Kid, The (1984)
A boy learns karate from a retired master to deal with school bullies. Cast: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue. Dir: John G. Avildsen. C-127 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM Wild Oranges (1924)
In this silent film, an escaped convict terrorizes a young girl and her grandfather on a remote island. Cast: Virginia Valli, Frank Mayo, Ford Sterling. Dir: King Vidor. BW-88 mins, TV-PG
2:00 AM Cranes Are Flying, The (1957)
A Russian woman is tormented by fears that her boyfriend has been killed in World War II. Cast: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev. Dir: Mikheil Kalatozishvili. BW-95 mins, TV-PG
4:00 AM Bridge To The Sun (1961)
An American woman marries a Japanese diplomat on the eve of World War II. Cast: Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi. Dir: Etienne Perier. BW-112 mins, TV-PG
21 Monday
6:00 AM Impossible Years, The (1968)
A psychiatrist's mental health is tested when his daughter starts dating. Cast: David Niven, Lola Albright, Ozzie Nelson. Dir: Michael Gordon. C-98 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 AM Affairs Of Dobie Gillis, The (1953)
A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Hans Conried. Dir: Don Weis. BW-73 mins, TV-G, CC
9:30 AM Corn Is Green, The (1945)
A dedicated teacher sacrifices everything to send a young miner to Oxford. Cast: Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, John Dall. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-114 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
11:30 AM Cowboy From Brooklyn (1938)
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Priscilla Lane. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-77 mins, TV-G, CC
1:00 PM Bad Little Angel (1939)
An orphan on the run tries to find a new home. Cast: Virginia Weidler, Gene Reynolds, Guy Kibbee. Dir: William Thiele. BW-72 mins, TV-G
2:15 PM Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
A freethinker's liberal ways are tested when her daughter announces plans for a premarital fling. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Fay Bainter. Dir: William Keighley. BW-86 mins, TV-G, CC
3:45 PM Window, The (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can't get anyone but the killer to believe him. Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy. Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC
5:00 PM Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
A small-time crook on the run is reformed by the love of a crippled woman. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington. Dir: Robert Stevenson. BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC
6:30 PM Behave Yourself! (1951)
A young couple's dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders. Cast: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest. Dir: George Beck. BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 PM Sherlock Jr. (1924)
In this silent film, a movie projectionist dreams himself into a mystery movie. Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane. Dir: Buster Keaton. BW-44 mins, TV-G
9:00 PM Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
In this silent film, a student tries to win a rival captain's daughter after taking over his father's riverboat. Cast: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron. Dir: Charles Reisner. BW-69 mins, TV-G
10:15 PM On The Waterfront (1954)
A young stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks. Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
A mad United States General orders an air strike against Russia. Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution. Cast: Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. C-149 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
4:30 AM Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question. Cast: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier. Dir: Otto Preminger. BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
22 Tuesday
6:30 AM I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
A World War I veteran faces inhuman conditions when he's sentenced to hard labor. Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:15 AM Hi, Nellie! (1934)
A crusading newspaper editor keeps digging into corruption, even when he's forced to write advice to the lovelorn. Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-75 mins, TV-G, CC
9:45 AM Black Fury (1935)
A coal worker gets mixed up in the mob's efforts to infiltrate his union. Cast: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC
11:30 AM Bordertown (1935)
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with his boss's neurotic wife. Cast: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC
1:15 PM Story Of Louis Pasteur, The (1935)
True story of the French scientist's battle to establish modern medical methods. Cast: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-86 mins, TV-G, CC
2:45 PM Good Earth, The (1937)
Epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements. Cast: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly. Dir: Sidney Franklin. BW-138 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
5:15 PM Life Of Emile Zola, The (1937)
The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason. Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-116 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
7:30 PM MGM Parade Show #20 (1955)
Esther Williams performs in a clip from "Ziegfeld Follies"; Donna Reed introduces a clip from "Ransom." Hosted by George Murphy. BW-26 mins, TV-G
8:00 PM North By Northwest (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
10:30 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
12:30 AM Marnie (1964)
A rich man marries a compulsive thief and tries to unlock the secrets of her mind. Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:45 AM Joy In The Morning (1965)
A law student and his bride try to build a life together despite her fear of intimacy. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux, Arthur Kennedy. Dir: Alex Segal. C-102 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
4:30 AM Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped. Cast: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen. Dir: Alex Segal. BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC
23 Wednesday
6:15 AM Human Comedy, The (1943)
A small-town telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-117 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:15 AM Courtship Of Andy Hardy, The (1942)
A teenager dates a girl whose parents' divorce is being decided by his father. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Donna Reed. Dir: George B. Seitz. BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC
10:00 AM Girl Crazy (1943)
A womanizing playboy finds true love when he's sent to a desert college. Cast: Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Guy Kibbee. Dir: Norman Taurog. BW-99 mins, TV-G
12:00 PM Little Dorrit: Part One Nobody's Fault (1988)
A man returns to England and tries to help an impoverished seamstress. Cast: Derek Jacobi, Sarah Pickering, Alec Guinness. Dir: Christine Edzard. C-175 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
3:00 PM Little Dorrit: Part Two Little Dorrit's Story (1988)
An impoverished seamstress tries to help a once wealthy benefactor. Cast: Derek Jacobi, Sarah Pickering, Alec Guinness. Dir: Christine Edzard. C-184 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
6:15 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC
8:00 PM Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone. Dir: William Keighley, Michael Curtiz. C-102 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
10:00 PM Sea Hawk, The (1940)
A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I. Cast: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Flora Robson. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-128 mins, TV-G, CC
12:15 AM Prince And The Pauper, The (1937)
Rousing adaptation of the Mark Twain tale of a 16th-century prince who trades places with a lookalike peasant. Cast: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Billy and Bobby Mauch. Dir: William Keighley. BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS
2:30 AM White Tower, The (1950)
Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak. Cast: Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Lloyd Bridges. Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. C-98 mins, TV-G
4:15 AM Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
A gold strike in California triggers a bitter feud between farmers and prospectors. Cast: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains. Dir: Michael Curtiz. C-94 mins, TV-G, CC
24 Thursday
6:00 AM Passionate Friends, The (1949)
A married woman has one last fling with her childhood sweetheart. Cast: Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard. Dir: David Lean. BW-91 mins, TV-PG
7:45 AM Thunder Road (1958)
A fast-driving moonshiner locks horns with a Chicago gangster. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith. Dir: Arthur Ripley. BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:30 AM Young Billy Young (1969)
A mysterious stranger bent on revenge helps out a young gunfighter. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker, Jr. Dir: Burt Kennedy. C-89 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
11:15 AM Home From The Hill (1960)
A southern landowner's family is torn apart by the revelation that he has an illegitimate son. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-150 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 PM Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, The (1962)
Members of an Argentinian family fight on opposite sides during World War II. Cast: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-153 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
4:45 PM Two Weeks In Another Town (1962)
A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
6:45 PM Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente (1987)
Liza Minnelli shares memories of her famous father while showing clips from his greatest movies. Cast: Liza Minnelli, Vincente Minnelli, Judy Garland. Dir: Richard Schickel. BW-69 mins,
8:00 PM 3:10 To Yuma (1957)
A sheriff must run the gauntlet to get his prisoner out of town. Cast: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM Hour Of The Gun (1967)
Wyatt Earp tracks down the survivors of the Clanton Gang after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Cast: James Garner, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Ryan. Dir: John Sturges. C-101 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM Badman's Territory (1946)
A sheriff and a newspaperwoman take on a band of outlaws invading the Oklahoma panhandle. Cast: Randolph Scott, Ann Richards, Gabby Hayes. Dir: Tim Whelan. BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC
2:00 AM Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973)
The legendary outlaw clashes with his former best friend, now the sheriff. Cast: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan. Dir: Sam Peckinpah. C-115 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format
4:15 AM Billy The Kid (1930)
A town marshal struggles to capture a rebellious kid turned outlaw. Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson. Dir: King Vidor. BW-95 mins, TV-G
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HAECKEL DAVID BAZAN
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
HISPANIC
22 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
Bond - REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO CHEMICAL TEST
1,000.00 Bond - VIOLATION OF OMNIBUS DWI ACT
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 23 06:45am
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HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
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2,500.00 Bond - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
5,156.00 Bond - CHILD SUPPORT
0.00 Bond - HOLD FOR OTHER AGENCY(CLARK CO)
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 23 06:45am
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ROYAL, AR
WHITE
21 Y.O.
Arresting Office: GARLAND COUNTY S.O.
Bond - PUBLIC INTOXICATION
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 21 10:15pm
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HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
WHITE
29 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
1,000.00 Bond - THEFT OF PROPERTY
500.00 Bond - PUBLIC INTOXICATION
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 21 08:00pm
CAITLIN OGDEN
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
WHITE
36 Y.O.
Arresting Office: GARLAND COUNTY S.O.
2,500.00 Bond - FAILURE TO COMPLY
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 21 08:00pm
BOBBY EUGENE HANNON
MAUMELLE, AR
WHITE
65 Y.O.
Arresting Office: ARKANSAS STATE POLICE
3,500.00 Bond - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 22 07:05am
AMAJIGE DEONDRE SARTIN
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
BLACK
21 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
1,000.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 21 03:35pm
ZACHARY CHARLES JOHNSON
HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, AR
WHITE
41 Y.O.
Arresting Office: GARLAND COUNTY S.O.
500.00 Bond - PUBLIC INTOXICATION
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 21 07:40am
LAUREN ELIZABETH SHEPHERD
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
WHITE
27 Y.O.
Arresting Office: GARLAND COUNTY S.O.
2,500.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 21 04:25pm
CHALIN BLAINE MCGREW
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
WHITE
24 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
1,000.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 23 06:45am
SHONDA NICHOLE BOSLEY
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
WHITE
50 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
0.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
0.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
1,000.00 Bond - THEFT OF PROPERTY
5,000.00 Bond - FORGERY 1ST DEGREE
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 23 06:45am
KEVIN EUGENE DUNHOO
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
BLACK
30 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
1,000.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 20 07:05pm
BOBBY LANE LARKIN
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
WHITE
23 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
2,500.00 Bond - FAILURE TO COMPLY
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 22 03:10pm
WILLOW JADE BROOKS
HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, AR
WHITE
26 Y.O.
Arresting Office: GARLAND COUNTY S.O.
0.00 Bond - DRIVING ON A SUSPENDED DRIVER'S LICENSE
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 23 06:45am
ERICA LEA BYARS
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
WHITE
47 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
1,000.00 Bond - RESISTING ARREST
500.00 Bond - DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 20 06:40pm
NATALIE BROOK CORSON
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
WHITE
39 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
500.00 Bond - DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 20 09:25am
FLOYD RICHARD BECKWITH
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
WHITE
60 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
1,000.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
2,500.00 Bond - POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
2,500.00 Bond - THEFT BY RECEIVING
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 23 06:45am
ERICA SHIRLEY NITCHOL
GLENWOOD, AR
WHITE
19 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
500.00 Bond - OBSTRUCTING GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
500.00 Bond - PURCHASE, POSSESSION OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR BY MINOR
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 20 07:45am
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HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
BLACK
35 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
0.00 Bond - PAROLE HOLD
0.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
0.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
0.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
0.00 Bond - BOND REVOCATION
0.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
7,500.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
750.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
Bond - THEFT OF LEASED / RENTED PROPERTY
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 21 01:40pm
CAMERON MORRIS WHITWORTH
HOUSTON, AR
BLACK
34 Y.O.
Arresting Office: GARLAND COUNTY S.O.
0.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
0.00 Bond - FAILURE TO APPEAR
Bond - REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO ARREST
3,500.00 Bond - FLEEING ON FOOT
2,000.00 Bond - POSSESSION OF FIREARM BY CERTAIN PERSONS
2,000.00 Bond - THEFT BY RECEIVING
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 20 08:20am
ERIC CHARLES BROUGHTON
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR
BLACK
34 Y.O.
Arresting Office: HOT SPRINGS P.D.
0.00 Bond - HOLD FOR HOT SPRING COUNTY
Bond - PAROLE HOLD
Bond - DRIVING ON A SUSPENDED DRIVER'S LICENSE
Bond - RESISTING ARREST
Bond - OBSTRUCTING GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS X4
Bond - CRIMINAL MISCHIEF 1ST DEGREE
25,000.00 Bond - FLEEING IN VEHICLE
Bond - COERCION
Bond - POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
50,000.00 Bond - POSSESSION OF SCH.I OR SCH. II CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITH PURPOSE TO DELIVER
Last Seen on Roster: Aug 21 01:40pm
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Aldo Ray was an Italian-American actor who portrayed Don Siano in The Sicilian.
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Born to a large family in Pennsylvania, he began in the Navy before being hired for the film Saturday's Hero, despite the fact he was only driving his brother Guido to the audition. After then he became a major Hollywood star, usually appearing under his birth name Aldo DaRe.
After many years of making films alongside stars such as Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov, Ray died of throat cancer in 1991.
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As frequent confidante or comic sidekick, sprightly character actress Jeff Donnell played supporting parts in a range of film and television productions, including such highly regarded pictures as "Sweet Smell of Success" and "In a Lonely Place." Born Jean Marie Donnell in South Windham, Maine, she self-appointed her nickname from an obsession with the comic strip "Mutt and Jeff."
She graduated from the Yale School of Drama and made her first appearance in the 1942 screwball comedy "My Sister Eileen." She landed occasional larger roles in many of her '40s pictures, including several Western musicals, though she stepped up a notch for the 1950 noir "In a Lonely Place" as best friend to the tormented Gloria Grahame. Subsequent films included "Thief of Damascus," as renowned storyteller Scheherazade, and "The Blue Gardenia," a late work by German director Fritz Lang.
In the grim and gritty "Sweet Smell of Success," she played the needy secretary of desperate publicist Tony Curtis, and on the other end of the spectrum, she played the mother of the beach-loving heroine in "Gidget Goes Hawaiian." After a number of '50s television appearances, she moved more squarely into guest spots on series in the '60s and beyond, with only a few more film roles, including a part in the drama of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
Throughout the '80s, Donnell played a recurring role on the soap "General Hospital" as a housekeeper until her sudden death from a heart attack in 1988.
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Born Aldo DaRe in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, on September 25, 1926, movie heavy Aldo Ray was born into a large Italian family and grew up in northern California. He entered the Navy in 1944 at age 18 and served as a frogman during World War II. After his discharge, Ray briefly studied political science at the University of California. In 1950, Ray was working as a peace officer in Crockett, California, when he was discovered for films by a Columbia talent scout. By chance Ray landed a role in the Columbia drama Saturday's Hero (1951; with John Derek), and his performance was good enough for Columbia to sign him to a contract.
LEFT and CENTER: Photos of Aldo Ray, circa 1950s. RIGHT: Ray with his second wife, actress Jeff Donnell, in 1954
His husky voice and tough demeanor made him a natural in such war films as Battle Cry (1955; with Tab Hunter and Dorothy Malone). He also gave good performances in several comedies, including Let's Do It Again (1953; with Jane Wyman and Ray Milland) and We're No Angels (1955; with Humphrey Bogart and Joan Bennett).
After a brief first marriage in 1947 that produced a daughter, Ray married actress and fellow Columbia contract player Jeff Donnell in 1954, but they parted ways two years later. Ray wed his third wife in 1960 and, after welcoming two sons, got divorced again in 1967. Emotionally and financially battered by three failed marriages and child support, Ray remained single for the rest of his life.
the films of aldo ray
Pat and Mike (1952)
With Katharine Hepburn in the MGM comedy Pat and Mike, one of the best films of Ray's career
The Marrying Kind (1952)
From Columbia's bittersweet comedy The Marrying Kind with Judy Holliday
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
From Columbia's Miss Sadie Thompson with Rita Hayworth
Let's Do It Again (1953)
With Jane Wyman in the Columbia musical comedy Let's Do It Again
Battle Cry (1955)
Ray romances window Nancy Olson in the Warner Bros. World War II drama Battle Cry
Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)
With Chuck Connors and Dick York in the war-themed romance Three Stripes in the Sun
Nightfall (1957)
Columbia released the film noir thriller Nightfall. Ray is pictured with Anne Bancroft
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
From the World War II drama The Naked and the Dead. LEFT: With Cliff Robertson. CENTER and RIGHT: With Barbara Nichols
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
From MGM's late noir release The Day They Robbed the Bank of England. LEFT: With Albert Sharpe and Kieron Moore. RIGHT: Lobby card images
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
Ray and James Coburn star in Columbia's crime caper Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
From Blake Edwards' war comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? with James Coburn
Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)
From American International's juvenile delinquent drama Riot on Sunset Strip with Laurie Mock
Kill a Dragon (1967)
From the low-budget action picture Kill a Dragon with Jack Palance
And Hope to Die (1972)
From the French crime drama And Hope to Die
later years
Ray found good roles hard to come by in the 1970s and 1980s, but somehow he managed to keep working in exploitation and horror films; Ray even acted (but remained clothed) in a late 1970s porno titled Sweet Savage (1979; with Carol Connors). Never earning much money and struggling with alcoholism, Ray was often financially strapped and had to make ends meet by appearing in low-budget films. Even during his seven-year contract with Columbia, Ray never earned more than $600 per week. By the 1980s, however, he began to turn his life and career around. Some of his films from the 1980s include Bog (1983; with Marshall Thompson), Vultures (1983; with Yvonne De Carlo), Evils of the Night (1985; with Tina Louise and Julie Newmar), and Terror Night (1987; with John Ireland and Cameron Mitchell). In late 1989, Ray was diagnosed with throat cancer and passed away on March 27, 1991, just two months after the release of his final film, Shock 'Em Dead (1991; with Troy Donahue and Traci Lords). He was 64 years old. Ray was survived by two sons, a daughter, and a grandchild.
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Zodiac Sign (Western)
Libra
Sunsign, Tropical Zodiac
Zodiac Sign (Vedic)
Taurus
Moonsign, Sidereal Zodiac
Age (Today)
97 years, 10 months, 25 days
Your next birthday is 36 days away.
Birthday
Saturday, September 25, 1926
Death Anniversary
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Next death anniversary is 145 days away.
Death Date
March 27, 1991
Place of Birth
Northampton County
Time Zone -
Chinese Zodiac Sign
Tiger (虎)
Birth Number
7
Life Path Number
7
Name Number (Chaldean)
19 => 1
Name Number (Pythagorean)
4
Meaning of the name - Aldo
Old, wise, powerful
Read Full Aldo Name Analysis
September 25, 1926 Facts
Generation Group
Aldo Ray belongs to the GI Generation group.
Place of Birth: Northampton County
Place of Death: Martinez
Cause of Death: esophageal cancer
Educated At: John Swett High School
Occupation: television actor | film actor
Spouses: Johanna Ray | Jeff Donnell
Children: Eric Da Re
Employers:
Awards Received:
Astrology Analysis
Western Astrology Chart
North Indian Kundli
Ephemeris for September 25, 1926
Note: Moon position is location and time sensitive.
Planet Position (Tropical, Western) Transits on September 25, 2023 Secondary Progressions for September 25, 2023 Sun 1 Libra 52 2 Libra 22 9 Capricorn 17 Moon 24 Taurus 53 10 Aquarius 38 0 Sagittarius 4 Mercury 6 Libra 47 15 Virgo 7 23 Sagittarius 29 Venus 17 Virgo 21 19 Leo 56 18 Capricorn 59 Mars 19 Taurus 22 18 Libra 59 8 Taurus 6 Jupiter 17 Aquarius 46 14 Taurus 48 26 Aquarius 10 Saturn 22 Scorpio 54 1 Pisces 44 3 Sagittarius 38 Uranus 27 Pisces 16 22 Taurus 47 25 Pisces 48 Neptune 25 Leo 52 26 Pisces 5 26 Leo 43 Pluto 15 Cancer 51 27 Capricorn 56 14 Cancer 59 Rahu 12 Cancer 7 26 Aries 1 6 Cancer 59 Ketu 12 Capricorn 7 26 Libra 1 6 Capricorn 59
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Love Compatibility
Personality Traits
Libra Man
Libra Woman
Chandra Kundali (Equal House, North Indian Diamond Chart)
Astrology Transits Analysis for Year 2024
Note: Multiple transits occurring in close proximity often signify a major event in a person's life.
Aldo Ray's 2024 Transits to Natal Planets
Mars conjunction Ketu
Exact: 21 January, 2024
Mars opposition Rahu
Exact: 21 January, 2024
Jupiter trine Ketu
Exact: 11 March, 2024
Mars aspects Mercury
Exact: 31 March, 2024
Jupiter trine Venus
Exact: 31 March, 2024
Jupiter conjunction Mars
Exact: 10 April, 2024
Jupiter opposition Saturn
Exact: 30 April, 2024
Mars opposition Mercury
Exact: 10 May, 2024
Jupiter conjunction Moon
Exact: 10 May, 2024
Saturn opposition Venus
Exact: 20 May, 2024
Mars aspects Saturn
Exact: 30 May, 2024
Jupiter trine Sun
Exact: 09 June, 2024
Jupiter trine Mercury
Exact: 29 June, 2024
Saturn sextile Mars
Exact: 29 June, 2024
Mars aspects Ketu
Exact: 08 August, 2024
Saturn opposition Venus
Exact: 08 August, 2024
Jupiter trine Jupiter
Exact: 28 August, 2024
Mars square Sun
Exact: 07 September, 2024
Ketu conjunction Mercury
Exact: 07 September, 2024
Mars square Mercury
Exact: 17 September, 2024
Mars conjunction Rahu
Exact: 27 September, 2024
Mars opposition Ketu
Exact: 27 September, 2024
Mars aspects Jupiter
Exact: 07 October, 2024
Jupiter trine Jupiter
Exact: 16 November, 2024
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Ralph Bernard O'Donnell, age 89, died Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at St. Ann's Residence in Duluth. Ralph was born May 12, 1925 in Duluth. He married his wife Dora in 1953 and...
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Ralph Bernard O'Donnell, age 89, died Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at St. Ann's Residence in Duluth. Ralph was born May 12, 1925 in Duluth. He married his wife Dora in 1953 and together they owned and operated the O'Donnell's Sweet Shop in Lakeside. He later retired from the DTA in 1986.
Ralph was a proud Army veteran of World War II. He served in Central Europe in A Battery 70th Div. Artillery. He was recently interviewed by the veterans, proud to tell his story! In his later years, Ralph was an eager and willing volunteer for many organizations including Lakeshore, The Depot, St. Luke's Hospital and St. Louis County Social Services.
Ralph was a former member of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Lakeside where he worshiped for many years. Ralph was preceded in death by his wife Dora; and grandson Kyle O'Donnell. Ralph is survived by his daughter Dianne and John Parenteau; his son Bob and Diane O'Donnell; grandchildren Jeff and Jamee, Jay, Joel and Alyson and Leo Jewett; great-granddaughter Aunna Parenteau; his sister Patricia Maleska; and his brother Jerome (Pat) O'Donnell; and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation: Monday, November 24th. at 12 noon until the 1 PM Funeral Service at Dougherty Funeral Home. Military honors will be accorded by the Duluth Honor Guard. Burial will be at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis.
Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home, 600 East Second St., Duluth, 727-3555.
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American actress (1921–1988)
Jean Marie[1] "Jeff" Donnell (July 10, 1921 – April 11, 1988) was an American actress.
Early years
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Donnell was born in South Windham, Maine, to Harold and Mildred Donnell, when her father was superintendent at a boys' reformatory in that town.[1] As a child, she adopted the nickname "Jeff" after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff.[2][note 1][1] To avoid gender confusion, she was sometimes billed as "(Miss) Jeff Donnell."
Donnell graduated from Towson High School, Towson, Maryland, in 1938 and attended the Leland Powers School of Drama in Boston, Massachusetts. Later, she studied at the Yale School of Drama.[2][1]
Career
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Donnell was signed to a contract by Columbia Pictures while she was active with the Farragut Playhouse in New Hampshire, and she made her film debut in My Sister Eileen (1942).[3]
She became a fixture at Columbia, working steadily in comedies, mysteries, westerns, and musicals for five years, and then off and on at the studio from 1950 to 1972. During the 1940s she was typically the house tomboy, a plain-speaking sidekick for the glamorous ingenue, and developed a flair for comedy. Columbia did give Donnell the glamour treatment later (in the 1946 Boston Blackie mystery The Phantom Thief, in which she played a troubled heiress), but she never shook the sidekick image. When her Columbia contract ran out, she freelanced at other studios, mostly in low-budget action pictures. She returned to Columbia in 1950. She had met Lucille Ball on the set of the 1948 RKO Radio Pictures production Easy Living; Ball remembered Donnell and recruited her to play her sidekick in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950).[citation needed]
Donnell continued to play character roles in motion pictures and television; for three seasons, she portrayed George Gobel's wife, Alice, in The George Gobel Show (1954–1957) on NBC-TV.[4] Many of her assignments were for Columbia (notably as Gidget's mother Dorothy Lawrence in Gidget Goes Hawaiian and Gidget Goes to Rome)[3] and Columbia's TV subsidiary Screen Gems (she played Hannah Marshall in the Gidget television series, [4]: 391 and portrayed Mrs. Bennett in the TV series Julia).[4]: 548 In 1966 she made five appearances on Dr. Kildare as Evelyn Driscoll, and she played Ethel on the Matt Helm TV series.[4]: 667
Her last Columbia feature was the women's lib-themed comedy Stand Up and Be Counted (1972). Her final recurring role was as Stella Fields, the Quartermaines' housekeeper, in the popular soap opera General Hospital, from 1979 to 1988.
Personal life
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Donnell's four marriages all ended in divorce. The first, in 1940 (and ultimately longest), was to William R. Anderson, her teacher at the Leland Powers Dramatic School.[5][6] Donnell had her only children with him, namely Michael Phineas—affectionately dubbed Mickey Finn—in 1942 and Sarah Jane (aka Sally[7][8]), whom the couple adopted in the fall of 1947.[9] Anderson and Donnell divorced in 1952.[10]
Next came actor Aldo Ray, whom Donnell married in 1954 and divorced in 1957.[11][12] Her third marriage, to advertising executive John Bricker, began on December 1, 1958 and concluded in an uncontested divorce decree issued on March 19, 1963, with Donnell reporting that Bricker had, among other things, publicly belittled both herself and her adopted daughter.[13][14]
Donnell's fourth and final marriage, to Radcliffe (aka Rod)[15] Bealey, lasted all of three months, comprising roughly the spring of 1970. Commencing in March of that year with a guest list confined to family and close friends,[16] the marriage was officially dissolved in June.[17]
Death
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On April 11, 1988, at age 66, Donnell died of an apparent heart attack at her home in Hollywood, survived by her two children, a sister, a half-brother, and four grandchildren.[7] As for her then still recurring role on General Hospital, a contemporaneous report by syndicated soaps pundit Lynda Hirsch states that Donnell was being replaced by another actress in that season's remaining few episodes, and would then be written out of the show altogether, the onscreen rationale consisting of a note left with her character's employers, explaining that she had to leave to care for an ailing relative.[18]
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Quentin Tarantino has taken his first step into the literary world with an adaptation of his own movie Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.
Here Tarantino does both, allowing himself to simultaneously honor and reinvent his own work. Let’s take a look at all the differences, as well as some fun Easter eggs along the way.
1. Bounty Law is referenced but never “shown.”
2. Rick and Marvin Schwarz don’t meet at Musso & Frank’s.
3. Cliff Booth is a major cinephile.
4. And we learn a lot more about Cliff's time in WWII.
5. It's revealed that Cliff has TWO Medals of Valor.
6. And we also learn that Cliff did in fact kill his wife.
7. Brandy the dog gets an elaborate backstory.
8. Cliff actually got away with murder TWICE.
9. Charlie Manson inspires Pussycat to go on something he called a "kreepy krawl."
10. There's a whole chapter about Sharon Tate hitchhiking to Hollywood.
11. The Playboy Mansion party is omitted.
12. The flamethrower finale makes a surprisingly early appearance.
13. Rick Dalton is undiagnosed bipolar.
14. Squeaky and George Spahn have a real relationship.
15. We learn more about Charles Manson's real-life wannabe rock star phase.
16. Cliff wanted to KILL Bruce Lee.
17. Cliff pays a visit to Tarantino’s real-life theater.
18. Rick and Cliff’s FBI screening party is omitted.
19. Rick’s Great Escape story is greatly inflated.
20. There's a serious Lancer deep dive.
21. Cliff considered being a pimp.
22. Cliff got away with murder…for a THIRD time.
23. Pussycat gets even more ~friendly~ with Cliff.
24. The Manson Family Spahn Ranch confrontation is omitted.
25. The George Spahn Scene is told from Squeaky’s POV.
26. We learn how Pussycat met Charlie.
27. Cliff inadvertently gets real-life actor Aldo Ray in trouble.
28. Little Trudi Fraser gets more time to shine.
29. Quentin Tarantino references a fictionalized version of himself.
30. Rick and Cliff enter “the Drinker’s Hall Of Fame.”
31. Tarantino’s stepfather is in the book.
32. Quentin Tarantino references himself…again.
33. Marvin Schwarz has another pivotal scene.
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Aldo Ray was in 2 on-screen matchups, including Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) and Tina Louise in God's Little Acre (1958).
Aldo Ray is a member of the following lists: American film actors, American television actors and 1991 deaths.
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First Name Aldo Last Name Ray Full Name at Birth Aldo DaRe Birthday 25th September, 1926 Birthplace Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, USA Died 27th March, 1991 Place of Death Martinez, California, USA Cause of Death Throat Cancer Build Average Hair Color Brown - Light Zodiac Sign Libra Sexuality Straight Ethnicity White Nationality American University University of California at Berkeley, Occupation Text Film actor Occupation Actor Claim to Fame We`re No Angels, God`s Little Acre Year(s) Active 1951-1991, 1951–1991 Brother Mario DaRe Sister Gina DaRe
Aldo Ray (born Aldo Da Re; September 25, 1926 – March 27, 1991) was an American actor of film and television. He began his career as a contract player for Columbia Studios, before achieving stardom through his roles in The Marrying Kind, Pat and Mike (which earned him a Golden Globe nomination), Let's Do It Again, and Battle Cry. His athletic build and gruff, raspy voice saw him frequently typecast in "tough guy" roles throughout his career, which lasted well into the late 1980s. Though the latter part of his career was marked by appearances in low-budget B-movies and exploitation films, he still starred occasionally in higher-profile features, including The Secret of NIMH (1982) and The Sicilian (1987).
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Also Known As: Aldo Da Re
Died At Age: 64
Family:
Spouse/Ex-: Jeff Donnell (m. 1954 - div. 1956), Johanna Ray (m. 1960 - div. 1967), Shirley Green (m. 1947 - div. 1953)
father: Silvio Da Re
mother: Maria Da Re
children: Claire DaRe, Eric DaRe, Paul DaRe
Height: 6'0" (183 cm), 6'0" Males
Died on: March 27, 1991
place of death: Martinez, California, United States
U.S. State: Pennsylvania
Cause of Death: Throat Cancer
Ancestry: Italian American
: Pneumonia
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education: University Of California, Berkeley
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Actress. Born Jean Marie Donnell she moved to Towson, Maryland with her parents and older sister when she was a toddler. She took dancing and piano lessons while in school and loved the "Mutt and Jeff" comic series so much that she adopted the name 'Jeff' as her nickname. After graduating in 1938 from Towson Senior High School, she studied for one semester at the Yale School of Drama where she met her first husband a much older drama teacher. Married at age 19, the two newlyweds created the Farragut Playhouse in Rye, New Hampshire where she was discovered by a talent agent from Columbia Pictures. She made her film debut in the 1942 movie "My Sister Eileen", and would go on to have a steady career in smaller roles in a number of films and television shows from then on until her death 40 years later. She gained notoriety in the 1960s with the role of 'Gidget's' mother 'Mrs. Lawrence' in the beach films "Gidget Goes Hawaiian" (1961) and "Gidget Goes To Rome" (1963). Shed had semi-recurring roles on the television series "The George Gobel Show", "Dr. Kildare", and "Julia". To later audiences she is remembered for playing the maid to the wealthy 'Quartermaines' on the television soap opera "General Hospital". After her first marriage ended in 1952, Jeff Donnell would marry and divorce three more times including one that lasted two years to actor Aldo Ray. In her last years, she suffered from Addision's Disease and died in her sleep from the complications of a heart attack.
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Not only are the MLB Playoffs approaching with the participation of Canada's team, The Toronto Blue Jays, but hockey season is on its way. It sure is hard to squeeze in a movie a day at times but I'm trying. Before I get into the round up I have to mention I attended a VHS…
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Not only are the MLB Playoffs approaching with the participation of Canada’s team, The Toronto Blue Jays, but hockey season is on its way. It sure is hard to squeeze in a movie a day at times but I’m trying.
Before I get into the round up I have to mention I attended a VHS swap meet and brought along a couple hundred tapes and other assorted movie related items to sell and or trade. Thankfully I found some tapes at the tables of other participants including a Kirk Douglas title I’d long been hoping to come across, and a later day Tony Curtis movie that was shot in my own hometown.
On to the round up.
1930’s ….
King of the Underworld (1939) TCM Airing. Great title for a Bogart movie even if it is one of his lesser efforts.
1940’s ….
The Frightened Lady (1940) Kino Classics British Noir Vol. 3 DVD. Creepy murder mystery thanks to a demented performance from Marius Goring that is somewhat ahead of its time in the psycho department.
The Silver Fleet (1943) Granada DVD.
Ralph Richardson stars as a shipyard owner in Holland just as the country falls under Nazi rule. He’s looked upon as a traitor by those he employs when he collaborates with the enemy to build them U-Boats. Even his wife, Googie Withers, has her doubts about his intentions. Rousing call to arms with Ralph more then he seems to those around him. Enjoyable film from yesteryear that reminded me what a pleasure it is to see Mr. Richardson on screen.
The Lady from Shanghai (1947) Indicator blu ray. Classic Noir from actor/director Orson Welles starring his then wife Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane. Love the camera work in this one that finds Orson playing patsy to murder. But just who is the intended victim and who is pulling the strings? A must see.
1950’s ….
Big Timber (1950) Rarefilmm : The Cave of Forgotten Films.
Rare indeed. This Monogram feature is one of 6 that a young Roddy McDowall produced and starred in. Here he signs on to a lumber company working the woods where he’ll learn what it takes to be a man. Decent effort directed by workhorse, Jean Yarbrough that also stars Lyle Talbot.
Borderline (1950) TCM Airing. Noir entry with its tongue in cheek far too often. Still, it’s an enjoyable effort when Claire Trevor is sent down to Mexico to get information on a narcotics ring run by Raymond Burr. At the same time, she’ll also run afoul of another gangster, Fred MacMurray, who ultimately offers up romance and might not be all that he seems. Plenty of action keeps the film moving at a brisk pace.
Gold Raiders (1951) WB DVD. Standard “B” western with George O’Brien once again taming a town of outlaws led by Lyle Talbot who hides behind a suit while his gang attempt to rob a gold shipment. Tired plot, same old thing BUT, the Three Stooges are shoehorned into the story (perhaps horseshoed is a better word) as traveling salesmen who George enlists to lend a hand. The boys (Moe, Larry and Shemp) are up to their old tricks with plenty of slapstick gags that give this oater a notch up over it’s B circuit competition.
Assignment: Paris (1952) Mill Creek Noir Archive Collection Vol. 1 blu ray.
Dana Andrews stars as a newspaper reporter working for editor George Sanders. While on assignment in communist Hungary he’ll be arrested as a spy which leads to an international incident. Noir favorite Audrey Totter also stars but is sadly underused. Not bad.
Tight Spot (1955) Indicator Columbia Noir Vol. 2 blu ray. Eddie G. Robinson and Brian Keith are determined to put gangster Lorne Greene behind bars and the way to do it is to have his onetime moll, Ginger Rogers, testify against him in a courtroom. This marks her for death unless Eddie and Brian can keep her on ice and alive until her court appearance. Not bad.
Dial Red 0 (1955) Warner Archive DVD. Short yet nifty Noir thriller that has Paul Picerni murdering his mistress just as her incarcerated husband, Keith Larsen escapes from prison. Larsen is the obvious suspect but as the plot thickens, Detective Bill Elliott isn’t so sure.
1960’s ….
The Secret of Monte Cristo (1961) TCM Airing.
Leaving his six shooter back in Hollywood, Rory Calhoun, went overseas for this British effort that has him with a Sabre in one hand and a damsel in the other. The year is 1815 and Rory is enlisted in a dangerous mission where a quartet of fortune hunters make their way to a sparsely inhabited island to locate a long-buried treasure. Thieves and treachery await in this standard fare that makes for a nice lazy afternoon viewing.
The Crawling Hand (1963) VCI DVD. Low budget tale stars Alan Hale Jr. as a small town sheriff trying to solve a mysterious murder. There’s a strangler on the loose but the finger prints that have been lifted at the scene belong to an astronaut who died in an explosion when his rocket was coming back to Earth. In other words, there’s a severed hand with the power to take over the mind of others to do its evil bidding. No kidding.
Kill a Dragon (1967) TCM Airing. Jack Palance and Aldo Ray take on crime king Fernando Lamas in Hong Kong.
Stranger on The Run (1967) Kino Lorber Studio Classics. blu ray.
Don Siegel telefilm that stars Henry Fonda as a down and out cowboy in an unfriendly town. He’s drowning in a bottle of booze and finds himself wrongly accused of killing a woman forcing him to run. Michael Parks plays the sheriff who sets out to hunt him down. Sal Mineo, Anne Baxter and Dan Duryea co star. Rather dull affair but I will say Duryea turns in a fine performance as an aging lawman who has had his fill of senseless killing and violence.
Bedazzled (1967) Twilight Time blu ray. Classic, warped comedy with Dudley Moore selling his soul to the Devil as played by Peter Cook. All for the love of a girl, Eleanor Bron. Hilarity ensues as Dudley is constantly tricked by Cook as he goes about using up his seven wishes. Raquel Welch as Lust? Might be the best casting decision in the history of film. So, you didn’t know there was an earlier version of the enjoyable Brendan Fraser/Elizabeth Hurley film? Yes, there is and it’s a comedic gem.
1970’s ….
The Fourth Victim (1971) Severin blu ray. Carroll Baker stars opposite Michael Craig in this thriller that has Craig as being very unlikely when it comes to wives. He’s been widowed three times and suspected of killing each one. Could Miss Baker be number 4? Plot twists abound in this Eugenio Martin (Horror Express) Giallo entry.
The Boxer from Shantung (1972) Arrow Video Shawscope Collection Vol. 1 blu ray.
Kuan Tai Chen stars in the title role as the young fighter who has come to the city looking to remove the current “Bosses” who control the underworld where everyone pays them tribute. Great score in this one with superior fight scenes and one of the bloodier finales of the period that gives The Wild Bunch a good run for its money. I must say the film looks great so thanks to Arrow for this superb collection.
Blood Ceremony (1973) Mondo Macabro blu ray. Covers similar ground as Hammer’s Countess Dracula minus Ingrid Pitt. This time it’s Lucia Bose starring as the blood thirsty Countess who learns that bathing in the blood of virgins keeps her skin young and soft. Rather uninvolving considering the subject material.
The Day the Earth Moved (1974) Echo Bridge DVD. TV Movie of the week starring Jackie Cooper as a small-time flyer who gets railroaded in a hick desert town that includes William Windom and Beverly Garland. When he realizes that an earthquake is imminent, he does his best to fly everyone to safety. Typical feature of the week from the era. Also stars Stella Stevens as his gal and Cleavon Little as his co-pilot.
The Take (1974) Mill Creek blu ray. Billy Dee Williams tangles with mobster Vic Morrow.
Cry of a Prostitute (1974) Code Red blu ray. Hard hitting mafioso tale from Italy that finds hitman Henry Silva involved with dueling families in a very Yojimbo like plot. Violent sure but there’s a nasty sex scene involving Silva and Barbara Bouchet that is uncalled for and again towards the end. Had it on the shelf and with Silva’s passing I thought I’d give it a first time watch. Not bad but a bit too far at times where Miss Bouchet is concerned. The title? Doesn’t really fit and was used for exploitation purposes I should think.
Bound for Glory (1976) Twilight Time blu ray.
There’s an authentic feel to this Hal Ashby directed film starring David Carradine as the depression era singer, Woody Guthrie. Probably one of David’s finest performances and easily one of his best movies. Also stars Ronny Cox and both he and David sing and strum guitars to a number of well-known songs that the real-life Guthrie penned while riding the rails. Recommended.
Mardi Gras Massacre (1978) Severin blu ray. I guess the title tells all in this film that seems to be heavily influenced by the work of Herschell Gordon Lewis. Specifically, the 1964 gruesome affair, Blood Feast. Low budget? You bet.
1980’s ….
Rehearsal For Murder (1982) Simitar DVD. Mystery movie of the week on network television plays like an Agatha Christie tale. All that’s missing is Angela Lansbury. Robert Preston stars as a playwright who uses his latest play to solve the murder of his fiancé, Lynn Redgrave, an actress whose death was ruled a suicide. Preston believes one of her costars at the time murdered her. He reunites the cast one year later to read for his latest play hoping to unveil her killer. Among the suspects are Patrick Macnee, Jeff Goldblum and Madolyn Smith. Nice to see Preston do his thing in one of his final roles.
A Breed Apart (1984) Shout Factory blu ray.
Donald Pleasence hires mountain climber Powers Boothe to steal some eggs from a Bald Eagle’s nest located on a small inland island. Boothe’s obstacle is that the island is owned by Rutger Hauer who intends to see the eggs hatch in order that the endangered species may flourish. A little bit different with Kathleen Turner costarring as Hauer’s love interest. Pleasence is only in it for a few minutes to bookend the film and damn near steals the show.
Spookies (1986) Vinegar Syndrome blu ray. Plenty of old school F/X in this VHS era horror flick that pretty much tosses everything at us for 85 minutes. Zombies rising from the grave. A werewolf like creature, teens wanting to have sex, a Ouija board with ominous warnings, a creepy graveyard, an Angus Scrimm like character and an abandoned mansion where two carloads of travelers seek refuge and shelter only to be murdered in various bloody methods. Made on the cheap but a tip of the hat for the effort put forth.
Deadly Prey (1987) Olive Films. David A. Prior directs brother Ted in this wanna be Rambo flick. Ted gets picked up off the street and is forced to run for his life by a group of mercenaries who train by hunting people. Sadly, they had no idea that Prior was a highly decorated killing machine from his days in the military. Also stars Cameron Mitchell and Troy Donahue. Low budget and it shows but all in all its passable for the audience it’s aiming at.
Through the Fire (1988) Vinegar Syndrome blu ray. Super low budget thriller with Linda Blair look-a-like, Tamara Hext, picking up a firearm and taking on a satanic cult with mixed results.
1990’s ….
Raw Nerve (1991) Culture Shock blu ray.
Passable B flick from low budget specialist David A. Prior who employs his actor/brother Ted once again. There’s a serial killer on the loose and Police Capt. Glenn Ford wants him stopped. Jan-Michael Vincent is the detective on the case and believes Prior to be his number one suspect. Then again maybe it’s Randall Tex Cobb. Also stars Traci Lords as Prior’s younger sister and possibly the next victim. I suppose the most notable thing about this movie is the fact that it was Ford’s final theatrical film.
as of late ….
Snatch (2000) Screen Gems DVD.
Surely, you’ve seen this gangland classic from Guy Ritchie. The one with Brad Pitt, Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro and Rade Serbedzija. No? Then drop what you’re doing and get to it. Classic. I hadn’t seen it in a while and went to watch another title I had on DVD and before that movie started a trailer advertising Snatch kicked in prompting me to change my mind and eject one disc for the real deal. As I said, it had been a while and I had a great time revisiting this underworld tale.
Rage (2014) Eone DVD. Nicolas Cage action drama has merit but somehow needed a better delivery considering the powerful twist at the end. He’s a retired mobster who’s past comes back to haunt him when his daughter is kidnapped and murdered. He calls upon old friends and the trio singlehandedly start a mob war. Peter Stormare and Danny Glover also star.
Darkest Hour (2017) Crave TV.
Gary Oldman’s Oscar winning turn as Winston Churchill. Well made and inspiring. Been meaning to watch this for a while and since I’ve embarked on reading Churchill’s books on the WW2 years, beginning with The Gathering Storm, now’s the time. I’m currently in the first follow-up book, Their Finest Hour. I find it ironic that Oldman who is known to play some of the great screen villains over the past 30 odd years wins the Oscar for playing someone history looks upon as heroic. At least that’s my interpretation. Good movie for history buffs and those looking to learn about the past who might not be interested in reading up on it.
The Lost City (2022) Amazon Prime. Let’s be honest. I want to like this film and yes I laughed on occasion but it’s a missed opportunity and DAMN I hate crappy CGI. Sandra Bullock stars as a writer who along with Channing Tatum enter the world of Romancing the Stone where Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner did it far better. Daniel Radcliffe gets to chew the scenery as a Bond-like villain, but the film plays it light meaning he isn’t going to pay the price for his misdeeds. If you feel you must, give it a shot or maybe watch the trailer as it’s better than the movie as a whole.
Me Time (2022) Netflix.
Shoddy CGI again alongside Kevin Hart shenanigans only this time he’s teamed with Mark Wahlberg instead of D.J. He’s a stay-at-home Dad who finds reuniting with old pla Mark is going to have some consequences with his marriage and the trouble he gets in to. Sure, I laughed at times but it’s totally forgettable.
Totals.
34 Films Seen
10 revisits.
24 new to me.
The most enjoyable revisit? I’m going with Bedazzled. I watched it with Number 2 son, Kirk, and we both had a great time appreciating the performances and the smartly written script. I will add it was nice to revisit both Bound for Glory and Snatch once again.
Of the new to me titles I’d like to recommend The Silver Fleet for a classic era title and for something more recent I guess it would have to be Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour.
On to October and my own personal horrorfest. My goal is to watch 31 blu ray titles released by Scream Factory. I’ve got plenty of them sitting on the shelf.
Let me add that I’m giving Letterboxd a try. It’s an app where you can keep track of what you watch but also check out what others are watching. If you know of the App you can find me with the handle MikesTake.
Feedback always welcomed so let Brando the Weiner Dog and yours truly know how many of these you’ve seen.
R.I.P. Henry Silva 1926-2022.
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Prepare yourself for a love story of the ages…who are we kidding, we met on Instagram. Our story began when I (Taylor) was mindlessly scrolling through Instagram one night and stumbled across a photo of a cute guy in a black sweater on my explore page. It didn’t take long for me to slide in this guy’s (Jeff) DM’s with the now infamous two waving hand emojis. Jeff didn’t respond until the next day, but when he did, the connection was instantaneous. We spent that entire day messaging back and forth, sending corny jokes, bad pick up lines, and I must admit, I may or may not have sent a few boast-worthy pictures of meals I had recently cooked, you know, to prove I was worth pursuing. . We ended up meeting that night after we had both been out separately with friends. We spent the entire night and into next morning just talking and getting to know each other. Fun fact—that night, before we had ever even met in person, Jeff was out at a bar and felt so strongly about us that he actually wrote our initials in a heart on a chalkboard in the mens room. The rest is history. Over the past three years we’ve traveled the world together, hosted some amazing parties, cooked a ton, drank lots of red wine, got our first apartment together, brought the most beautiful pup into our lives, and we just bought our first home together! Our friends and family describe us as the perfect case of opposites attract. Jeff is carefree, light-hearted, and grounded. He loves to sing and dance and play any instrument he can get his hands on. Which makes him the perfect match for me, someone who sometimes takes life too seriously, leads every conversation with sarcasm, and has my head in the clouds looking for the next adventure. My favorite thing about us has always been our honesty and transparency with one another, our relationship has always seemed so effortless—perfect in its own way.
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Often overlooked among the films George Cukor directed in the fifties, The Marrying Kind (1952) starring Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray might have suffered from the fact that it was not a pure comedy like Pat and Mike (1952) and It Should Happen to You (1954). It is quite unique from anything else that Cukor…
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Often overlooked among the films George Cukor directed in the fifties, The Marrying Kind (1952) starring Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray might have suffered from the fact that it was not a pure comedy like Pat and Mike (1952) and It Should Happen to You (1954). It is quite unique from anything else that Cukor attempted and it deserves more than the no-frills DVD release that was issued from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment back in 2003. This is one that cries out for a Criterion Collection Blu-Ray upgrade with all of the extra features that celebrate the featured film in context to its time, place and creation. The Marrying Kind is also an intriguing reminder of the career Aldo Ray might have had if other directors had not cast the actor in roles that accented his imposing physical presence over his acting ability.
After the phenomenal success of Born Yesterday (1950) as both a play and a movie, the director (George Cukor), writer (Garson Kanin) and star (Judy Holliday) regrouped for a second film entitled The Marrying Kind (1952), only this time they were joined by actress/screenwriter Ruth Gordon who co-wrote the script with her husband Kanin. Because Judy Holliday had already established herself as a hilarious and gifted comic, audiences and critics were expecting another laugh-filled comedy but the resulting film defied easy classification. Mixing humor, drama and tragedy in unexpected ways, the film opens with a divorce court hearing. The judge is reviewing the case of Chet and Florence Keefer and we see in flashback the high and low points of their relationship beginning with their first meeting in Central Park and including their courtship, child-rearing, career disappointments, domestic squabbles and an unexpected death in the family.
From the beginning Kanin and Gordon never intended for The Marrying Kind to be treated as a straight comedy but as a marriage-on-the-rocks tragicomedy. “Its aim is realism,” Kanin told Cukor, “Its tone is documentary rather than arty, its medium is photography rather than caricature. I think it is the closest we have ever come to “holding the mirror up to nature.”
Kanin was very emphatic that the movie not have the “shiny,” slick look of a big budget commercial film. He also wanted the actors to be “extremely real. The trouble with most actors is that they look and sound and behave like actors, even the good ones.” In this regard, he advised Holliday to play her part differently from the role she created in Born Yesterday and to give a “performance of a real person who does real things.”
For the role of Chet Keefer, Cukor wanted an actor who was not a well-known or typical leading man. He found who he was looking for in Aldo Ray who had only appeared in bit parts and supporting roles as Aldo DaRe up to then. According to Patrick McGilligan in George Cukor: A Double Life, the director “believed in Ray’s future, however, and worked long hours, in screen tests and throughout the filming, to put the gravelly voiced former town constable at ease, and to convey his offbeat personality”. In addition, Cukor had Ray take ballet lessons in order to alter his way of walking which reminded him of a football player. When The Marrying Kind was released, Cukor even went so far as to promote his new discovery with a special on-screen credit at the end: “You have just seen our New Personality Aldo Ray. Please watch for his next picture.”
Ray unfortunately never really got the opportunity to deliver on his promise as an actor despite his impressive performances in The Marrying Kind and Cukor’s next feature, Pat and Mike (1952). Most casting directors only saw him as a gruff, hulking “salt of the earth” type who seemed best suited to play army men, police officers or crude rednecks. As a result, most movie fans probably associate Ray with his macho sergeant in The Naked and the Dead, the 1958 film adaptation of Norman Mailer’s WWII novel, or the lustful dirt-poor southerner in the once steamy God’s Little Acre (1958), probably the best known of his later work.
The rest of the cast of The Marrying Kind was selected with the same care and concern as Ray though Cukor and Kanin sometimes disagreed over specific actors. Cukor wanted Ina Claire to play the part of Judge Kroll but Kanin disliked her “artificial acting” and said it would throw the picture into “a strange and make-believe key.” They ended up casting Madge Kennedy in the role, who like Ina Claire, was a longtime friend of Cukor; The Marrying Kind marked her first screen appearance in twenty-eight years. Other actors featured in smaller parts were Sheila Bond, a Tony-award winning Broadway actress making her film debut here; Peggy Cass, also making her screen debut (she would later achieve fame as a guest panelist on TV shows such as What’s My Line? and Match Game); and an uncredited Charles Bronson who plays Chet’s pal at his post office job (Bronson was still going by the name Charles Buchinsky at this stage of his career). To ground the movie in reality, The Marrying Kind was shot on location in New York City in real settings such as Central Park, Times Square and the Stuyvesant Town apartment complex in East Manhattan [SPOILERS AHEAD]. For the memorable Decoration Day picnic in which the Keefer’s son Joey drowns in the lake, Cukor drew inspiration from a production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
At the time of The Marrying Kind, Kanin and Gordon were one of the busiest screenwriting teams in Hollywood. Not only were they working out the final script for this new film but also putting the finishing touches on Pat and Mike and Years Ago, the film adaptation of Gordon’s autobiographical play which was retitled The Actress, for MGM. Unfortunately, The Marrying Kind did not come close to the success of Born Yesterday despite the fact that Kanin and Gordon’s script was nominated for Best Written American Comedy by the Writers Guild and Holliday was nominated for Best Foreign Actress by the BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts).
The uneven tone of the film jarred most audiences and reviewers who had set expectations about it. Admittedly, Cukor’s excessive use of voice-over narration during several of the flashback scenes tends to hinder character development instead of enriching it. And Florrie and Chet are not immediately likable or sympathetic. In fact, they both could test anyone’s patience with their annoying idiosyncrasies. Cukor’s documentary-like approach also tends to flatten his attempts at humor which often seem contrived or artificial in this context. On the other hand, the arguments between the couple that increase in intensity and bitterness as the film develops may hit too close to home for many a married couple – petty arguments about in-laws, bad financial decisions, jealousy. Added to this is the fact that the film never really recovers its equilibrium after Florrie and Chet lose their child in a drowning accident even though the movie ends on a hopeful note with the couple reconciled. This may account for the film’s poor box office prospects, for The Marrying Kind is much closer to tragedy than comedy and not anyone’s idea of escapist fare. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times, however, was one of the few reviewers at the time that recognized and admired what Cukor and Kanin were attempting to do in The Marrying Kind: “Think it not curious if we don’t seem to be as side-splittingly impressed with the hilarities in this picture as its promotion might lead you to expect. Hilarity is in it – hilarity of the best – as would be almost mandatory in any picture with Miss Holliday. But the charming and lastingly affecting thing about The Marrying Kind is its bittersweet comprehension of the thorniness of the way that stretches out for two young people after they have taken the marriage vows…This reviewer has fond recollections of King Vidor’s old film, The Crowd [1928], which was also about the frustrations of a young married couple in New York. The Marrying Kind compares to it, and that’s the nicest compliment we can pay.”
* This is an extended and revised version of the article that originally appeared on the Turner Classic Movies website
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Jeff Donnell was a popular American actress who appeared in many films and television shows from the 1940s to the 1980s. She was best known for her roles as Alice Gobel in The George Gobel Show, Dorothy Lawrence in the Gidget movies, and Stella Fields in General Hospital. She was also the daughter-in-law of former President Jimmy Carter. But how did Jeff Donnell die? What was her cause of death? In this article, we will explore the life and death of Jeff Donnell, and the legacy she left behind.
Early Life and Career
Jeff Donnell was born as Jean Marie Donnell on July 10, 1921, in Windham, Maine. She adopted the nickname “Jeff” after the character in her favorite comic strip, Mutt and Jeff. She graduated from Towson High School in Maryland, and attended the Leland Powers School of Drama in Boston, and the Yale School of Drama. She was signed to a contract by Columbia Pictures in 1942, and made her film debut in My Sister Eileen. She became a versatile actress, working in comedies, mysteries, westerns, and musicals. She also developed a flair for comedy, and often played the tomboyish or plain-speaking sidekick of the glamorous heroine.
Personal Life and Relationships
Jeff Donnell was married four times, and had two children. Her first husband was William Anderson, whom she married in 1940 and divorced in 1953. Her second husband was actor Aldo Ray, whom she married in 1954 and divorced in 1956. Her third husband was John Bricker, whom she married in 1958 and divorced in 1963. Her fourth and final husband was Radcliffe Bealey, whom she married in 1974 and divorced in 1975. Her son, Jeff Carter, is the son of former President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter. Her daughter, Margaret Carter, is an actress and singer. Jeff Donnell was also a grandmother of four, and a great-grandmother of one.
Cause of Death and Legacy
Jeff Donnell died of a heart attack on April 11, 1988, at the age of 66. She was in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles, California. She had suffered from ill health in her later years, including a serious bout with Addison’s disease, a rare disorder that affects the adrenal glands. She was cremated, and her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean. Jeff Donnell was remembered as a talented and versatile actress, who brought joy and laughter to many audiences. She was also a loving and devoted mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, who was proud of her family. She left behind a legacy of films and television shows, that are still enjoyed by many fans today. According to Wikipedia, some of her notable credits include The Fuller Brush Girl, In a Lonely Place, Sweet Smell of Success, Julia, and Dr. Kildare. She was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for her contributions to television. Jeff Donnell was a remarkable woman, who lived a full and rich life. She will always be remembered as a star, both on and off the screen.
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Married couple Chet (Aldo Ray) and Florrie (Judy Holliday) sit in divorce court before Judge Anne B. Carroll (Madge Kennedy) who gets them to talk at length about their relationship in the belief that it will get them to remain together.
The film is structured as a series of flashbacks punctuated by contemporary reactions of the couple and judge in the present. Since the events unfold in a largely linear order, some of the more impactful moments of the marriage that represent real inflection points don't have quite the…
I went into this one thinking it was a romantic comedy... it’s not. It’s actually quite sad! But very good. Judy Holliday was absolutely wonderful here, and I was impressed with Aldo Ray, too. I’d never seen anything with him before. (He was a cutie!)
It’s about a couple on the brink of divorce who are looking back on their marriage, trying to figure it all out. So many quotes that stuck with me:
“You don’t seem to remember anything and when you do you remember it all wrong.”
“The kind of love they got in books and movies that’s not for people, you’ve gotta be more realistic.”
“Well I always thought if I ever got married the one thing…
Here is the first of five Cukor posts—a director whose qualities seem to vary somewhat radically depending on his time in Hollywood. Sarris’s original take on him in American Cinema tends to be a bit reductive. Kent Jones comments, “Cukor at his best, which covers about 90% of his career, is never less than vibrantly alive to textures, behaviors, rhythms, moods, emotional tones. His career offers ample proof that there are numerous varieties of consistency apart from thematic, and that movies “move” in many different ways. In Cukor’s case it has to do with staging, always with a keen understanding of the frame.” While his films I think are perhaps defined in narrative mostly by romance (which is to say,…
There are plenty of 1950s films about the false promise of postwar middle class prosperity and consumerism, but not many reverberate with the sadness of this one. Though it does have comic elements (mostly in the first third but recurring in strange additions like Ray’s stress-induced hustle culture nightmares), but even then this is a shockingly modern depiction of just how depressing it is on one’s soul to try to do more than merely subsist and to dream of any possible escape route from the rat race of living to work. Cukor is surprisingly hands off throughout, leaving plenty of literal space for his actors to work through the subtle and the explosive angst of their characters. Probably the closest…
Aside from some early walk-ons, Judy Holliday made just eight films, but her name still endures today due to the second of them, a rom-com par excellence by the name of Born Yesterday, for which she won the 1950 Best Actress Oscar.
Half of the eight were scripted by Garson Kanin, an erratic but talented screenwriter and director who often worked in partnership with his wife, part-time character actor Ruth Gordon. Holliday had torn up the screen as a nervy, murderous wife in Adam's Rib, starred in Kanin's Born Yesterday on stage and screen, and would go on to appear in It Should Happen to You, a superlative satire that triples up as an affecting romance and knockout comedy.
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Ray, Aldo(b. 25 September 1926 in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania; d. 27 March 1991 in Martinez, California), gravel-voiced American screen actor who portrayed tough guys with soft hearts in the 1950s and 1960s. Source for information on Ray, Aldo: The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives dictionary.
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Ray, Aldo
(b. 25 September 1926 in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania; d. 27 March 1991 in Martinez, California), gravel-voiced American screen actor who portrayed tough guys with soft hearts in the 1950s and 1960s.
Ray was born Aldo Da Re, the first of five children born to Silvio Matteo Da Re, an Italian immigrant who worked as a laborer, and Maria De Pizzol, a homemaker who was born in Brazil but grew up in Italy. When Ray was an infant his family moved from Pennsylvania to Crockett, California, about forty miles northeast of San Francisco, where Silvio Da Re found work in a sugar refinery. After graduating from John Swett High School in 1944 Ray enlisted in the U.S. Navy and became a frogman during the last year of World War II. He served in the Pacific, including in the invasion of Okinawa. After the war, from 1946 to 1948, Ray attended Vallejo Junior College, where he was a star athlete in football and swimming. Upon receiving his associate of arts degree he studied political science at the University of California at Berkeley from 1948 to 1950 but left without graduating.
Ray moved back to Crockett and successfully campaigned for election as constable (sheriff). In 1950 he drove his brother to an audition as an extra in a film called Saturday’s Hero. The director David Miller asked Ray to read for a part. Instead, Ray delivered one of his campaign speeches. The studio executives, who loved his gravelly voice, declared him a natural actor and offered him a part in the movie. The head of Columbia Pictures, Harry Cohn, wanted Ray to change his name to John Harrison, but Ray agreed only to drop the first syllable of his last name and to anglicize the spelling of the last syllable. In 1951 Ray married Shirley Green; they had one daughter and were divorced in 1952.
After Saturday’s Hero, Ray’s contract was renewed, and he was cast opposite the established actress Judy Holliday in The Marrying Kind (1952). Ray was acclaimed an instant success. A role in Pat and Mike (1952), with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, followed by Ray’s portrayal of Sergeant O’Hara in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953), with Rita Hayworth, led to Battle Cry (1955), in which Ray portrayed a World War II soldier who returned home an amputee. This role called for a wide range of emotions, from a brash and harsh soldier to a sensitive and loving husband. It was rumored that Cohn had wanted Ray to play the lead opposite Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity (1953), but the director Fred Zinnemann insisted the role be given to Montgomery Clift. Perhaps Ray’s career would have taken a different direction had he won the part. In 1954 he married Jean Marie Donnell, an actress known as Jeff Donnell. They divorced in 1956.
Ray’s all-American, wholesome good looks, athletic build, and blond hair were a dramatic contrast to Humphrey Bogart’s dark, dour character in We’re No Angèls (1955), which demonstrated that Ray could play comedy roles. His next major role was in God’s Little Acre (1958). Later that year he played the sadistic yet complex Sergeant Croft in The Nailed and the Dead, based on the 1948 book by Norman Mailer, arguably Ray’s most memorable role. His last major film was The Green Berets (1968), with John Wayne, in which Ray was typecast as still another sergeant, this time during the Vietnam War. In 1960 Ray married Johanna Bennett, with whom he had two sons. They were divorced in 1967.
When his career took a downward turn after The Nailed and the Dead, Ray decided to try filmmakers in Europe, but he was offered only minor roles. Returning to California, he made almost fifty B films over the next seventeen years, all beneath his talents. In the last interview before his death, Ray stated: “In some ways the tough soldier role locked me in. There were no sophisticated roles for me. I never seemed to get past master sergeant, although I always thought of myself as upper echelon.”
Mired in debt and unable to secure major roles in films, Ray returned to his hometown of Crockett in 1983. He worked occasionally in minor films and television, including a small part in Falcon Crest in 1985. Ruefully Ray later worked in a nonunion film and was forced to resign from the Screen Actors Guild in 1986. Though Ray continued to work until 1989, he was plagued by illness. Admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez, California, in February 1991, he died of throat cancer and complications from pneumonia at the age of sixty-four. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered into the water beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Ray never became a big Hollywood star, but he was not just a supporting actor, at least for the first ten years of his career. Although he showed early promise in comedy and romantic roles, directors never explored that promise. Consequently he was locked into portrayals of military men whose complexity was never allowed to develop.
An excellent, factual article on Ray is in Bob King, ed., Films of the Golden Age 13 (summer 1998): 74-84. Biographical sketches are in many indices of performing arts, including Barbara McNeil and Miranda C. Herbert, eds., Performing Arts Biography Master Index (1981), and Dennis La Beau, ed., Theatre, Film, and Television Biographical Master Index (1979). Obituaries are in Deborah Andrews, ed., The Annual Obituary 1991 the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times (both 28 Mar. 1991), Newsweek and Time (both 8 Apr. 1991).
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