{"id":4516,"date":"2020-03-28T19:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2020-03-28T19:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:04:38","slug":"carol-lynley-1961-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/28\/carol-lynley-1961-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Lynley, 1961-1962"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visit BearManor Media at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bearmanormedia.com\/\">BearManorMedia.com<\/a>&nbsp;to purchase many great books on film &amp; TV including my&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearmanormedia.com\/talking-sixties-drive-in-movies-softcover-edition-by-tom-lisanti?search=lisanti\">Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and my upcoming book&nbsp;<strong><em>Carol Lynley: Her Film &amp; TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy &amp; Suspense<\/em><\/strong>. Below are some of my more recent social media posts touting Ms. Lynley: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> It was back to the realm of suspense for Carol Lynley in 1962 when she guest starred on <em>The Alfred Hitchcock Hour <\/em>in &#8220;Final Vow&#8221; playing a novitiate nun masquerading as a single career gal to get close to thief Clu Gulager who stole a valuable artifact that belongs to her convent. She quickly realizes she is in over her head and her life in jeopardy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Final-Vow-1962-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4517\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Carol Lynley top lined her next 1961 box office hit <em>Return to Peyton Place <\/em>the sequel to 1957&#8217;s smash <em>Peyton Place<\/em>. Not received as favorably (Judith Crist quipped, &#8220;It has enough soap suds to pollute the Mississippi along with the mind&#8221;) the movie still made $$$ and was the 15th highest grossing movie of the year. Carol Lynley is Allison MacKenzie, Eleanor Parker is her mother Connie, Tuesday Weld is Selena Cross, Brett Halsey is Ted Carter, and scene-stealer Mary Astor is acid-tongued bigot Roberta Carter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/22756526277.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4518\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit BearManor Media at&nbsp;BearManorMedia.com&nbsp;to purchase many great books on film &amp; TV including my&nbsp;Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies&nbsp;and my upcoming book&nbsp;Carol Lynley: Her Film &amp; TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy &amp; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","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\/4516","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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}