today’s actress of the day is Deanna Lund from my fave #1969 TV show Land of the Giants. Lund’s movie career included Elvis movies (Spinout; Paradise, Hawaiian Style), spy movies (Out of Sight); and the gritty Frank Sinatra detective yarn Tony Rome. Read interview w/ her in my McFarland and Co. book Fantasy Femmes of […]
in honor of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… is Yvette Mimieux in Three in the Attic. Though released in late 1968, it was one of the biggest box office hits of 1969 as coeds Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett, and Mimieux keep lothario stud Christopher Jones locked in the attic to drain him […]
Today’s starlet from 1969 is Pamela Tiffin in the funny satire Viva Max. This was Pamela’s first Hollywood movie since she went blonde and fled to Rome in 1967. She is a college coed who is taken hostage while working at the Alamo when Mexican General Peter Ustinov and his ragtag bunch of soldiers retake […]
each day I will feature one of my fave 60s starlets from 1969. Today Carol Lynley as a psychotic heiress in the trashy country club set Once You Kiss a Stranger a remake of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. More on Carol in my tribute book Carol Lynley: Lady in Peril coming in early […]
If you are like me and can’t wait for this summer’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood from director Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, then get a jump and read what is was like being a working actress in 1960s Hollywood directly from the mouths of such […]
one of my favorite 1960’s movies Model Shop opened. Director Jacques Demy’s sumptuously filmed paean to Los Angeles starring tight jean clad Gary Lockwood as a drafted architect spending his last day of freedom before army duty & the women he encounters. Anouk Aimee (of A Man and a Woman fame) as a mysterious French […]
I am a bit late on this , but with all the Elvis movie marathons I thought I would share my top 5 1960s Elvis movies. My ranking as changed over the last few years and I know I will get grief over this but as of today my favorites stand as: Paradise, Hawaiian Style […]
Happy New Year from all the ’60s beach/Elvis/biker/hippie/spy/western movie actresses & actors found in my BearManor Media and McFarland & Company book!
[amazon_textlink asin=’B00005Y6Z5′ text=’Wild Guitar’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sixtiescinema-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’44797bdd-e2aa-11e8-89f1-2b0716d10253′] opened in 1962 starring [amazon_textlink asin=’B002WJZWCI’ text=’Arch Hall, Jr.’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sixtiescinema-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’54c1bab3-e2aa-11e8-b765-876225fa9f7e’] and Nancy Czar, [amazon_textlink asin=’B071764GRZ’ text=’Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sixtiescinema-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’6c3e4d6b-e2aa-11e8-9328-fb864eb18a38′] cover gal. It was directed by Ray Dennis Steckler a.k.a. Cash Flagg and produced and written [amazon_textlink asin=’B000GW2BHM’ text=’Arch Hall, Sr.’ […]
With [amazon_textlink asin=’B004CZZZ7W’ text=’Winter a-Go-Go’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’sixtiescinema-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’bd9b8313-dca5-11e8-8cd2-5fc2cfdc5fa2′] opening this week 53 years ago in 1965, I want to pay tribute to actor/screenwriter Bob Kanter who inadvertently or not created the arguably first gay character in the 1960s teenage beach movie genre and cast himself in the part. A personal favorite though most critics consider it […]