{"id":3845,"date":"2016-08-16T02:38:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T02:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2016-08-16T02:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T02:38:53","slug":"happy-birthday-jill-haworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/16\/happy-birthday-jill-haworth\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILL HAWORTH!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ajill.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3846\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3846\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ajill-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"ajill\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a>The late Jill Haworth was a saucy, petite blonde with a wonderfully throaty voice and just a trace of an English accent. She was discovered in 1959 by producer\/director Otto Preminger and made her film debut in\u00a0<em>Exodus<\/em>\u00a0(1960) as the ill-fated Jewish girl opposite Sal Mineo (with whom she had a romance and long friendship with). She received a Golden Globe nomination and then co-starred in Preminger&#8217;s lavish epic\u00a0<em>The Cardinal <\/em>as a selfless young woman caring for the terminally ill\u00a0and his all-star WWII adventure\u00a0<em>In Harm\u2019s Way\u00a0<\/em>as an ill-fated nurse. \u201cWhen you make three films with Otto Preminger, you\u2019ve made three films with <em>Otto Preminger<\/em> and no one dicks around with you after that,\u201d said Jill with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>After appearing in the horror film <em>It!<\/em>, Jill temporarily abandoned films for Broadway when Hal Prince cast her over countless actresses in the coveted role of Sally Bowles in the hit Tony Award winning musical <em>Cabaret<\/em>. Jill enjoyed great success as Sally and remained with the show for over two years. When asked years later if she had a shot for the movie, she quipped, &#8220;No, they always wanted Liza Minnelli for the movie. She&#8217;s still doing the movie!&#8221; Returning to films, she played\u00a0a swinging Londoner opposite Frankie Avalon in the horror opus <em>The Haunted House of Horror.\u00a0 <\/em>Haworth continued in the horror genre begrudgingly through the mid-seventies before returning to the stage. The eighties and nineties found her only doing voice-overs, but she was coaxed out of retirement in 1999 to play an ex-hippie mother in the independent film <em>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/em>. Sadly, we lost Jill in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Read my complete interview with Jill in my book <em><strong>Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Jill Haworth - Cabaret (1968 Tony Awards)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RC4g4wkiN_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Jill Haworth was a saucy, petite blonde with a wonderfully throaty voice and just a trace of an English accent. She was discovered in 1959 by producer\/director Otto Preminger and made her film debut in\u00a0Exodus\u00a0(1960) as the ill-fated Jewish girl opposite Sal Mineo (with whom she had a romance and long friendship with). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}