One of my favorite Carol Lynley movies (and a staple of ABC’s The 4:30 Movie) was The Pleasure Seekers (1964) a remake of Three Coins in the Fountain. Lynley (a news wire service bureau secretary), Ann-Margret (as a performer) and Pamela Tiffin (a newly arrived tourist) are three lovely gals looking for fun and romance […]
Shock Treatment (1964) was Carol Lynley’s first theatrical foray into the realm of suspense. She played a manic depressive afraid of a man’s touch who falls for Stuart Whitman an actor paid to feign madness to find where crazy gardner Roddy McDowall hid the loot after he killed his rich employer. Steely Lauren Bacall runs […]
Carol Lynley ended 1963 with a high profile role in Otto Preminger’s Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated religious epic The Cardinal, which went from the turn of the century to the late thirties and from New England and Georgia to Vienna and Rome. Carol played Mona the youngest sister of priest Tom Tryon whose […]
Visit BearManor Media at BearManorMedia.com to purchase many great books on film & TV including my Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies and my upcoming book Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense. Below are some of my more recent social media posts touting Ms. Lynley: It was back to the realm of suspense for Carol Lynley […]
Visit BearManor Media at BearManorMedia.com to purchase many great books on film & TV including my Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies and my upcoming book Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense. Below are some of my social media posts touting Ms. Lynley: In 1961, Carol Lynley appeared in 2 box office hits. […]
The New York Public Library posted these great NYPL copyright-held photos by Friedman-Abeles of Jill Haworth, the original Sally Bowles in Cabaret, posing with her dog in her dressing room before a performance. Read my interview with her in my Mcfarland and Company book Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema. She told me a story about her […]
Happy 100th Birthday Federico Fellini! In honor I am re-sharing my below post from 2018. Glad to report that since my interview with Peter, he finally received the recognition he deserved for his starring role in Fellini’s Roma and received an award from the Amarcort Film Festival (which is dedicated to Federico Fellini and held […]
So sad. First we lose Carol Lynley this year and now Sue Lyon!?! What is going on? They were part of that group of 1960s blondes that I loved. In the late fifties and early sixties petite pretty baby doll blondes were all the rage with young movie fans. In their teens with shapely figures […]
So sad to hear of the passing of #JoanStaley. She was a Playboy Playmate and guest starred on many sixties TV shows and was a regular on The Lively Ones and Broadside. On the big screen she had small roles in Breakfast and Tiffany’s and Cape Fear. Her most remembered is arguably playing opposite #DonKnotts in The Ghost […]
Sadly my favorite actress of all-time Carol Lynley suddenly passed away last week. She died peacefully in her sleep reportedly related to a heart attack. What shook me about her death was that I spoke with her in March and April as she finally agreed to an interview for my upcoming tribute BearMano Media book […]