BREAKING Dorothy Malone is DEAD

Oscar winner died aged 92.

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by Anonymousreply 188January 23, 2018 3:40 AM

Now she has an interesting story - she became a real estate agent and sold....houses....after becoming an Oscar winner.

by Anonymousreply 1January 20, 2018 12:28 AM

I'd thought she'd died like 20 years ago, but then I realized that was Dorothy McGuire.

by Anonymousreply 2January 20, 2018 12:33 AM

Even as a senior, she kept working it.

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by Anonymousreply 3January 20, 2018 12:35 AM

Dorothy loved her oil derrick.

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by Anonymousreply 4January 20, 2018 12:41 AM

She was FABULOUS at playing cheap tramps with money.

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by Anonymousreply 5January 20, 2018 12:47 AM

So fucking sexy in Written On The Wind.

by Anonymousreply 6January 20, 2018 12:48 AM

Another one Datalounge missed on all their celebrity death lists. And she was a pretty big star.

by Anonymousreply 8January 20, 2018 12:55 AM

She was great in Written on the Wind.

by Anonymousreply 9January 20, 2018 12:58 AM

I think people under 45 would only know her from “Basic Instinct.” I hope she went peacefully.

I am a huge movie buff and thanks to TCM I’ve seen nearly every Oscar movie, but have missed “Written on the Wind” somehow. Is she really good in it?

Not seeing her win I always thought Eileen Heckart in “The Bad Seed” was especially worthy that year.

by Anonymousreply 10January 20, 2018 1:00 AM

I always liked her - blond, sensuous, and at times bitchy.

by Anonymousreply 11January 20, 2018 1:00 AM

I thought she was already dead.

And then I realized that was Dorothy Loudon.

by Anonymousreply 12January 20, 2018 1:00 AM

This thread is making remember how bad some of the acting in Basic Instinct is... whew, and from Oscar winners/nominees!

JE is a shit script writer.

by Anonymousreply 14January 20, 2018 1:01 AM

Had an unbilled cameo as dead pilot Rod Taylor’s nonplussed playgirl “friend” in 1964’s “Fate Is The Hunter,” also starring Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette, Mark Stevens and Wally Cox.

Airplane disaster drama...

by Anonymousreply 15January 20, 2018 1:02 AM

Looking like a dramatic floozy here.

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by Anonymousreply 16January 20, 2018 1:02 AM

r10 "Written on the Wind" was directed by Douglas Sirk. The movie is a hoot. Dorothy is completely over the top (in a good way).

by Anonymousreply 18January 20, 2018 1:05 AM

OMFG! Where is the "so young" troll?

by Anonymousreply 19January 20, 2018 1:07 AM

Dorothy as Marylee Hadley was clearly the inspiration for Lu-Lu Fishpaw.

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by Anonymousreply 21January 20, 2018 1:08 AM

I'm 30 and love Written on the Wind. Own the Criterion DVD. She's fantastic in the film. I think most gay men know this and Sirk's other movies well.

by Anonymousreply 22January 20, 2018 1:09 AM

I liked the movie "The Last Voyage", about a sinking ship, starring Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack.

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by Anonymousreply 23January 20, 2018 1:10 AM

R8, Nope. #6 in the 2018 Death Predictions Thread called it.

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by Anonymousreply 24January 20, 2018 1:11 AM

Here's video of her winning the Academy Award:

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by Anonymousreply 25January 20, 2018 1:11 AM

Also played an ex-hooker turned coffee shop owner in the classic TV movie "Little Ladies of the Night," starring DL fave Linda Purl.

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by Anonymousreply 26January 20, 2018 1:12 AM

R23 She was pinned down by debris and Robert Stack had to hold her head above the rising water.

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by Anonymousreply 27January 20, 2018 1:12 AM

"I always thought Eileen Heckart in “The Bad Seed” was especially worthy that year."

OMG, Heckart is pure camp in her Bad Seed scenes. It's like Carol Burnett as Eunice trying to act at the Pepperpot Playhouse.

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by Anonymousreply 28January 20, 2018 1:14 AM

No mention yet of "Peyton Place"? I loved that show as a young gayling.

by Anonymousreply 29January 20, 2018 1:15 AM

She was a camp icon!!! Loved her. RIP.

by Anonymousreply 30January 20, 2018 1:16 AM

The classic movie star pose.

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by Anonymousreply 31January 20, 2018 1:17 AM

Never a huge star. Great as nymphomaniacs, temptresses, hookers.

by Anonymousreply 32January 20, 2018 1:18 AM

R29 Dorothy and Mia Farrow in Peyton Place.

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by Anonymousreply 33January 20, 2018 1:21 AM

I loved her one scene in the noir classic 'The Big Sleep' where she played a slutty bookshop clerk who closes down her shop in the middle of the day so she can fuck Bogie.

She was in that film for less than 3 minutes but managed to make a bigger impact than Lauren Bacall or Martha Vickers on me when I first saw the film.

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by Anonymousreply 34January 20, 2018 1:21 AM

R33 A color photo of them.

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by Anonymousreply 35January 20, 2018 1:22 AM

Her short scene in "The Big Sleep" was scene-stealing.

by Anonymousreply 36January 20, 2018 1:24 AM

Dorothy would have been an incredible addition to a splashy 80s nighttime soap. She might even have made THE COLBYS work.

by Anonymousreply 38January 20, 2018 1:28 AM

You know she must have entered Hollywood via the casting couch.

by Anonymousreply 40January 20, 2018 1:34 AM

Pearls spilling over on bosom.

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by Anonymousreply 41January 20, 2018 1:34 AM

R13

I think Dorothy got him after Ginger Rogers had him.

by Anonymousreply 42January 20, 2018 1:36 AM

She was Texas personified.

by Anonymousreply 43January 20, 2018 1:36 AM

I love that photo at R33. Dorothy could overact (in a good way) even in a publicity still.

by Anonymousreply 44January 20, 2018 1:37 AM

Driving her flashy car in Written On The Wind.

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by Anonymousreply 45January 20, 2018 1:37 AM

Now, I want everyone to get up and

MAMBO LIKE FOOLS ! ! !

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by Anonymousreply 46January 20, 2018 1:39 AM

Vickers steals The Big Sleep from Bacall and Malone damn near steals it from her.

by Anonymousreply 49January 20, 2018 1:47 AM

Malone was one of the last two actors living who were in THE BIG SLEEP (1946), the Humphrey Bogart noir classic where he played Philip Marlowe. I think that Sonia Darrin (mother of Mason Reese) who played a bad girl in this is still with us.

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by Anonymousreply 50January 20, 2018 1:47 AM

Lauren Bacall had the good girl role in Written On The Wind and practically went unnoticed while Malone won the Oscar.

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by Anonymousreply 51January 20, 2018 1:52 AM

I guess Bacall didn't have enough FLAVAH

by Anonymousreply 52January 20, 2018 1:56 AM

Thank God somebody finally did the High Point joke. I was beginning to think this wasn't the DL.

by Anonymousreply 53January 20, 2018 2:01 AM

Sonia Darrin is also noted for being Mason Reese's mom. I believe Mason is currently dating Geri 'Fake Jan' Reischl.

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by Anonymousreply 54January 20, 2018 2:01 AM

I never heard about her selling real estate but she was living in a retirement community in Dallas and had raised her family there. I think her last husband was very wealthy and she wanted her kids not to grow up around the film industry/LA

by Anonymousreply 55January 20, 2018 2:08 AM

After around age 35, anytime she wore a shirt with a collar she always popped it up. Once you realize that, you'll always notice it.

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by Anonymousreply 56January 20, 2018 2:17 AM

I remember her in Rich Man, Poor Man

by Anonymousreply 57January 20, 2018 2:21 AM

So naturally pretty...next week she'd have turned ninety three.

by Anonymousreply 58January 20, 2018 2:25 AM

She was offered Miss Ellie when Barbara Bel Geddes left. She actually lived in Dallas at the time.

Loved her as uptight Constance on PP. She was what a tv mom should be.

by Anonymousreply 60January 20, 2018 2:33 AM

Thanks for posting that, #34. I didn't know she started acting that young. Looks to me like the best acting she ever did.

Started at the top and worked her way down?

by Anonymousreply 61January 20, 2018 2:35 AM

Miss Malone has left the room......

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by Anonymousreply 62January 20, 2018 2:37 AM

She once starred with Robert stack as the wife trapped on a sinking ocean liner.....the movie was called the last voyage. Now miss Dorothy is off on her last voyage.

by Anonymousreply 63January 20, 2018 2:39 AM

"Sonia Darrin (mother of Mason Reese)"

She's pretty. Did she have a problem with the drink? Thalidomide?

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by Anonymousreply 64January 20, 2018 2:39 AM

Can someone pls blur the face on the mason Reese pic......some things just shouldn't be shown public .

by Anonymousreply 66January 20, 2018 2:46 AM

Can someone please explain to me what's going on in this photo of Miss Malone? Is she about to receive a surprise anal by the abominable snowman?!

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by Anonymousreply 67January 20, 2018 2:49 AM

We have to include her famous "Death Dance" scene from "Written on the Wind."

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by Anonymousreply 68January 20, 2018 2:52 AM

Thought I didn't know her, until I saw the mention of The Big Sleep. RIP

by Anonymousreply 69January 20, 2018 2:54 AM

Was she related to Moses?

by Anonymousreply 70January 20, 2018 2:55 AM

That Jacques Bergerac was a hottie — so handsome! Get it, Dottie!

And yes, “The Last Voyage” was excellent — Malone’s being trapped under wreckage as the water was rising was truly harrowing.

by Anonymousreply 71January 20, 2018 3:00 AM

r68 The long version of "Marylee's Death Dance"

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by Anonymousreply 72January 20, 2018 3:01 AM

[quote]Is she about to receive a surprise anal by the abominable snowman?!

Not just Yeti!

by Anonymousreply 73January 20, 2018 3:12 AM

R54

Didn't I mention that in the post ?

by Anonymousreply 74January 20, 2018 3:15 AM

that Oscar acceptance speech ... if you mute it her looks / mannerisms are a cross between Joan Crawford and Cybil Shepherd, but there's no denying Shepherd's resemblance to her with the sound on. If someone told me they are related I would believe it.

She was a better actress than both Crawford and Shepherd. RIP.

by Anonymousreply 75January 20, 2018 3:17 AM

R51

What line ? The 'brush you out of my hair' line ?

by Anonymousreply 76January 20, 2018 3:17 AM

Enjoyed the the clip R34. There is more going on in the 3 minutes then in a Marvel movie.

by Anonymousreply 77January 20, 2018 3:22 AM

77 yes, hate Marvel movies

by Anonymousreply 78January 20, 2018 3:26 AM

"I believe Mason is currently dating Geri 'Fake Jan' Reischl."

Link please.

by Anonymousreply 79January 20, 2018 3:32 AM

What was on her phonograph?

by Anonymousreply 80January 20, 2018 3:34 AM

Her teeth always looked like dentures. It gave her a harsh, low-rent stripper look.

by Anonymousreply 81January 20, 2018 3:36 AM

[quote]What was on her phonograph?

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."

by Anonymousreply 82January 20, 2018 3:38 AM

DM came to represent the Best Supporting Actor/Actress Curse. Once she won the Oscar for Written on the Wind, she made several not-so-good movies that almost ended career (until Peyton Place)

Robert Stack was favored to win the Best Supporting Actor Award, but was upset by Anthony Quinn for Lust for Life. Quinn's performance is the shortest performance to win Best Supporting Actor, approximately 9 minutes (but still longer than Beatrice Straight's five minutes in Network)

While Written on the Wind is fun, it borrows a lot from Giant.

by Anonymousreply 84January 20, 2018 3:45 AM

Gaylings of the 1960s will remember her comeback in Peyton Place (televised TWO nights each week!) as sensational.

by Anonymousreply 85January 20, 2018 3:48 AM

The snowman groping Dorothy from behind is frosty the snowman's pervert cousin.......frisky the snowman.

by Anonymousreply 86January 20, 2018 4:12 AM

R80

Temptation (uncredited) Written by Nacio Herb Brown Lyrics by Arthur Freed Heard in the scene where Marylee dances and Jasper Hadley dies

by Anonymousreply 87January 20, 2018 4:12 AM

Dorothy Malone in later years.

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by Anonymousreply 88January 20, 2018 4:24 AM

Errol Flynn and Malone in Too Much, Too Soon.

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by Anonymousreply 89January 20, 2018 4:30 AM

Dorothy Malone was a solid, dependable contract player with Universal Pictures, which might explain why she never really got elevated to the Hollywood A-list. Until the late 1950s-1960s, Universal concentrated on low budget horror, westerns, serials, and Douglas Sirk sudsers, and could seldom afford their stable of stars. When they did splurge on big budget films, they either borrowed top talent from other studios or hired freelance stars. Their own players were relegated to secondary roles in A pictures or headliners in B pictures. From 1958 to 1962, top talent agency MCA began its takeover of Universal, upgraded its facilities, and transformed it into a A-movie studio. But by then Dorothy's movie career was on the wane and she was transitioning to television.

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by Anonymousreply 90January 20, 2018 4:34 AM

"And Dorothy Malone as Constance McKenzie"

by Anonymousreply 91January 20, 2018 5:03 AM

"It's nice to meet you . . . 'Shooter'."

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by Anonymousreply 92January 20, 2018 5:08 AM

She had quite popularity resurgence with her run on tv's PEYTON PLACE.

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by Anonymousreply 93January 20, 2018 5:10 AM

Didn't she become a Christian scientist in her latter years?

Anyway loved her in Written in the wind with Lauren Bacall. Such a camp movie!!

Did Lauren and Dorothy get along OK and did Dorothy Malone ever write an autobiography or get referenced much in other celebrities autobiographies?

by Anonymousreply 94January 20, 2018 5:31 AM

Angie Dickinson has outlasted yet another 50's/60's/70's actress who was on the short list for classy, older femme fatale roles.

The stories those two could tell............................

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by Anonymousreply 95January 20, 2018 5:54 AM

Thanks, R34, for that clip from "The Big Sleep". Once seen, never forgotten.

It has little to do with whatever else was going on in that movie. (When asked, Raymond Chandler himself did not know who killed one of the dead guys!)

But this bookstore scene with Malone is truly wonderful.

Thanks again for reminding me.

by Anonymousreply 96January 20, 2018 6:05 AM

Angie Dickinson isn't the kiss and tell type [R95] she's classier than that. Although I didn't know Dorothy had lots of naughty secrets she could tell too?! What do you mean?

by Anonymousreply 97January 20, 2018 6:08 AM

So Kirk Douglas has outlived another one of his costars and leading ladies. He's outlived nearly all of his costars. So few left but of course Doris Day is one of the rare few still alive who co-starred with Kirk.

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by Anonymousreply 98January 20, 2018 6:12 AM

Wasn't she the one left out of the "Oscar's Class Photo" from around ten years ago?

by Anonymousreply 99January 20, 2018 6:15 AM

She looks like Paula Deen at post R3.

by Anonymousreply 100January 20, 2018 6:37 AM

I love Malone but I have to agree with R81 - she was gorgeous when really young but she started to look haggard very early. I guess it was because of her dentures, the combination of blonde hair and dark eyebrows (which is something very few women can get away with ) and her prominent nasolabial folds. It's hard to believe she was only 31 when "Written in the Wind" was made because she looked at least 10 years older.

I'm also surprised there's not much love for "Too Much, Too Soon" in this thread. I watched that film after I saw it featured in the "Bad Movies We Love" book and it did not disappoint - it's one entertaining mess of a movie. It's based on Diana Barrymore's book about the relationship with her father John Barrymore. Real life Diana died of OD shortly after the film came out.

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by Anonymousreply 101January 20, 2018 8:53 AM

R91 dear it was STARRING DOROTHY MALONE as Constance Mackenzie!

by Anonymousreply 102January 20, 2018 9:06 AM

[quote] "I believe Mason is currently dating Geri 'Fake Jan' Reischl." - Link please.

Mason has talked about it in interviews - just google them.

These two lovebird are like Lunt and Fontanne of the autograph convention circuit.

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by Anonymousreply 103January 20, 2018 9:37 AM

The Last Voyage was based on an incident that occurred during the sinking of the Andrea Doria. But in real they were unable to free her. The ship's doctor or her husband, I forgot which, gave her enough pills to knock her out and she went down with the ship.

[quote] While Written on the Wind is fun, it borrows a lot from Giant.

Written on the Wind was very, very loosely based on the death of young tobacco heir Smith Reynolds after his marriage to Broadway and nightclub chanteuse Libby Holman She was a damnyankee, Jewish and much older. The marriage created quite the scandal in conservative, Southern Winston-Salem. The family had the death ruled a suicide but no one really knows whether it was suicide or murder or what actually happened that night after a drunken party with Smith, his best friend (and some say fuck buddy) Ab Walker and Holman. Holman was initially charged with murder but the Reynolds family got the charges dropped, gave the pregnant Holman a large settlement and hustled her out of town. Too much possible scandal could have come out in a trial.

From Wikipedia:

"Zachary Smith Reynolds (November 5, 1911 - July 6, 1932) was an American amateur aviator and younger son of R. J. Reynolds. The Zachary Smith Reynolds story was the basis for two movies, Reckless, starring Jean Harlow, and the popular 1950s classic, Written on the Wind. The latter was loosely based on a novel by Robert Wilder. In addition, the 1933 film Sing, Sinner, Sing was loosely based upon the allegations surrounding Reynolds' death."

by Anonymousreply 104January 20, 2018 9:51 AM

Has Mia Farrow commented yet?

by Anonymousreply 105January 20, 2018 12:12 PM

Mia did comment about her beautiful tv mother for 2 years

by Anonymousreply 106January 20, 2018 12:17 PM

Mia is too busy ragging on Woody on a bunch of other threads.

by Anonymousreply 107January 20, 2018 2:37 PM

Has Kirk Douglas commented?

by Anonymousreply 108January 20, 2018 3:14 PM

Kirk drooled and shit himself.

by Anonymousreply 109January 20, 2018 3:22 PM

Malone said of the movies she made after her Oscar win that she knew most of them were terrible. She said she would go to parties and restaurants and people would give her the side eye as if to say: "WHY did I vote for YOU?"

by Anonymousreply 110January 20, 2018 3:26 PM

She gave a charming Oscar acceptance speech and looked GORGEOUS !

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by Anonymousreply 111January 20, 2018 3:37 PM

Did Bacall or Malone play the Libby Holman role in Written on the Wind?

by Anonymousreply 112January 20, 2018 3:40 PM

"Written on the Wind" was heavily fictionalized to avoid a lawsuit from the Reynolds family.

by Anonymousreply 113January 20, 2018 5:02 PM

r96, you are so right about that scene in The Big Sleep". I've loved it for years and yet never realized it was Malone. Man, her transformation is so smoothly accomplished. Love it.

I read the LA Times obit and from the quotes they included, she sounds like a good old-fashioned "broad". Good with a quip, realistic about life, able to take it on the chin and move along.

i hope there's a Dorothy Malone film fest held in Dallas in the coming months.

by Anonymousreply 114January 20, 2018 5:25 PM

She's great in "The Big Sleep". the scene was written especially for her. Her being under contract to Universal probably was a big problem--they were a pretty much nothing studio until the late 50s. Even Columbia was better poised to take on the majors when they lost their theater chains.

by Anonymousreply 115January 20, 2018 5:48 PM

[quote] The Last Voyage was based on an incident that occurred during the sinking of the Andrea Doria. But in real they were unable to free her. The ship's doctor or her husband, I forgot which, gave her enough pills to knock her out and she went down with the ship.

I don't think this is true.

If you are referring to Dr. Thure Peterson and his wife Martha, she died as they were using a jack to lift the wreckage.

[quote] Mr. Peterson saw the white Stockholm prow pass him as he was thrown in the air through a wall into cabin 58. Mrs. Peterson awoke entangled and trapped in the wreckage. At 4:10 am Mrs. Peterson died as her husband and Rovelli lifted the wreckage with a jack. Thure was rescued by the Ile de France. Thure passed away in 1970.

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by Anonymousreply 116January 20, 2018 6:19 PM

Rovelli, mentioned above:

[quote] Giovanni Rovelli, the valient steward who worked through the night in cabin 56 with Dr. Thure Peterson to rescue two American women pinned in the wreckage.....Treated at St. Vincent's Hospital

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by Anonymousreply 117January 20, 2018 6:21 PM

Her hair had SUCH lustre!

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by Anonymousreply 118January 20, 2018 6:58 PM

Her Oscar acceptance speech is so lovely! Spontaneous, modest and sincere. Not like you see/hear today.

She doesn't seem to me to be speaking for a long time but I guess back then it was usually a simple thank you and off you go.

by Anonymousreply 119January 20, 2018 7:06 PM

Not that it makes much difference now, but in what year was she born - IMDB says 1925 but wikipedia says 1924.

by Anonymousreply 120January 20, 2018 11:12 PM

She just won an Oscar and she's doing cheap-o hair commercials in R118?

by Anonymousreply 121January 20, 2018 11:17 PM

r121=Cher, seeking validation

by Anonymousreply 122January 20, 2018 11:19 PM

She turned Liberace straight!

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by Anonymousreply 123January 21, 2018 6:05 AM

R115, she was under contract to Warners when she made Big Sleep. They put her mostly in crap. That is a great scene, and much credit should go to director Howard Hawks. All his women had this great insolence--Bacall in her debut, Angie Dickenson in Rio Bravo, Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby. Russell in His Girl Friday. Poor Martha Vickers as the crazy sister in Sleep.

by Anonymousreply 124January 21, 2018 8:42 AM

R123 Is that really Malone? It looks more like Eleanor Parker to me.

by Anonymousreply 125January 21, 2018 8:55 AM

R116 and r117, have you considered that there might be differences between the stories Dr. Peterson and the hero stewart Rovelli told publicly to the press and what they told privately to friends?

The Last Voyage was nonetheless inspired by a true incident that occurred on the Andrea Doria.

by Anonymousreply 126January 21, 2018 9:15 AM

Regardless, as much as I love The Italian Line and its gorgeous ships, there is no doubt Rovelli was a hero. He stayed to help rescue passengers while his co-workers were commandeering lifeboats to rescue themselves, leaving passengers to their own fates.

I was going to post pics of Rex, Conte di Savoia, one of my favorites, Saturnia, and Cristoforo Columbo as well as Stockholm, on which my grandparents sailed shortly before the collision, but it would all be too off-topic.

by Anonymousreply 127January 21, 2018 9:45 AM

Ruth Roman and her young son were on the ship. They were briefly separated during the ordeal.

In the movie, the hero was portrayed by Woody Strode!

by Anonymousreply 128January 21, 2018 11:34 AM

This thread made me download and watch The Last Voyage last night - I was surprised by how good and fast-paced it was. It's obvious it had a big influence on movies like The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Titanic. The only thing that really bothered me was the random narration by some annyoing British guy which popped up every once in a while. But Malone looked divine with that peach lipstick of hers, even when she was contemplating suicide while half-submerged underwater.

There was also a weird scene at the beginning of the film where one male member of the ship's crew was tapping the butts of other crewmembers who were putting out fire. Was this a standard gesture of encouragement among men in the past?

by Anonymousreply 129January 21, 2018 12:44 PM

Here's the butt-tapping guy:

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by Anonymousreply 130January 21, 2018 12:54 PM

You haven't lived till you see her play Diana Barrymore doing imitations in her nightclub act at some burlesque house drunk in "Too Much Too Soon." Perfection!

by Anonymousreply 132January 21, 2018 1:13 PM

The only thing I've ever seen her in was 'Young at Heart', where she played the sister and second fiddle to DL icon, Ms. Doris Day, with Frank Sinatra as the leading man. It's sort of a strange film from that era, in that it is parts light-hearted family comedy, romantic melodrama and then ends with Sinatra killing himself by turning off his windshield wipers while driving during a snow storm.

by Anonymousreply 133January 21, 2018 2:42 PM

Yes, R125, that's Dorothy Malone in 1955's Sincerely Yours, a bigger disaster film than The Last Voyage. Was there ever a less convincing impersonation of a straight man than Liberace's?

by Anonymousreply 134January 21, 2018 3:57 PM

My stars r131, he's certainly a handsy one, isn't he?

by Anonymousreply 135January 21, 2018 4:04 PM

Fun fact: the doomed ship in THE LAST VOYAGE was actually the Ile de France, which was slated for the scrapyard. The Ile de France was one of the ships that came to the rescue of the Andrea Doria.

by Anonymousreply 136January 21, 2018 4:13 PM

I consider The Last Voyage, and not Airport, to be the first true modern disaster film. Andrew L. Stone who made it also directed Julie starring Doris Day which was later partially ripped off in Airport 75.

Stone was also responsible for one slightly different "disaster" film which I know is very dear to some eldergays around here - THE SONG OF NORWAY!

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by Anonymousreply 137January 21, 2018 4:27 PM

I've never watched Peyton Place. Was she the shows leading lady or was it more an ensemble cast kind of scenario?

by Anonymousreply 138January 21, 2018 5:22 PM

Dorothy was in the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis musical-comedy "Artists and Models" with Shirley Maclaine, Eva Gabor, and Anita Ekberg.

by Anonymousreply 139January 21, 2018 5:22 PM

Publicity still from Artists and Models

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by Anonymousreply 140January 21, 2018 5:24 PM

[quote]Is that really Malone? It looks more like Eleanor Parker to me.

They all look the same to me.

by Anonymousreply 141January 21, 2018 5:28 PM

For R104, R116, R117, R126, R127, R129 and anyone else interested in true the story about the woman trapped in her cabin on the Andrea Doria , below is a link to the story fro Collier's Weekly, September 28, 1956. (The collision between the Stockholm and the Andrea Doria took place 2 months earlier on July 25, 1956.)

The article was written by Cornelius Ryan who would later become best known for his history books about World War II: The Longest Day, The Last Battle and A Bridge Too Far.

The name of the article is "Five Desperate Hours in Cabin 56".

The true story closely resembles the plot of "The Last Voyage".

Mrs. Martha Peterson's death is described on page 7 of the 8 page article.

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by Anonymousreply 143January 21, 2018 6:35 PM

R23 posted this picture from The Last Voyage" above.

I couldn't find any images of the last scenes when they are the deck trying for the waiting lifeboat as the water is pouring over the deck.

That scene is fucking terrifying and no phony CGI either.

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by Anonymousreply 144January 21, 2018 6:48 PM

R133

[quote]...then ends with Sinatra killing himself by turning off his windshield wipers while driving during a snow storm.

Nope.

Sinatra's character only tried to kill himself.

The movie ends on a sunny Easter with everyone reconciled, Doris and Frank cooing over their baby, and the rest of the happy family gather round. Frank is playing that song that he finally finished and Doris bursts into song.

Final scene shows the outside of the house, complete with picket fence, as the music soars.

THE END

by Anonymousreply 145January 21, 2018 6:55 PM

I think Gig Young is in that. He did kill himself, after killing his young wife. The movie is a remake of Four Daughters, in which John Garfield was the Sinatra character.

Does anyone else think DM had a resemblance to Faye Dunaway? Something about the facial structure.

by Anonymousreply 146January 21, 2018 7:39 PM

I’m going to rewatch “The Last Voyage” soon, and see if it’s as harrowing as I remember. Malone’s plot line was frightening, and she was vividly real.

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by Anonymousreply 147January 21, 2018 7:49 PM

TCM should have one of their tributes to her, but how many good films of Dorothy do they have the rights to?

by Anonymousreply 148January 21, 2018 7:51 PM

With Dorothy, you always got a good portion of acting for the buck.

by Anonymousreply 150January 21, 2018 9:43 PM

The little girl in THE LAST VOYAGE was Tami Marihugh who had roles in a couple of more films.....grew up and became a Las Vegas Showgirl.....kinda like Nomi and the Cheetah club.....

Robert Stack wrote in his autobiography that he was furious with her parents because they let her be put in dangerous shots and scared to tears in other scenes to make the film more "real." He took a few days of it, and then told the director and parents if they did it again, Stack would quit movie.....so they did it when he was away from the set.

Tami does look genuinely scared in most of her scenes.

It was also strange to see Stack and Malone playing man and wife when they had famously played brother and sister a few years before.

by Anonymousreply 151January 21, 2018 9:54 PM

But they had also played husband and wife in Tarnished Angels.

by Anonymousreply 152January 21, 2018 9:59 PM

[quote]It was also strange to see Stack and Malone playing man and wife when they had famously played brother and sister a few years before.

I fail to see the problem.

by Anonymousreply 154January 21, 2018 10:19 PM

Fascinating info, Joyce Haber at R151! Tammy Marihugh, the little girl in “The Last Voyage”, seemed truly terrified in the film, and now we know why — she really was scared to death! Poor thing, she must have really been traumatized by the frightening and harrowing scenes she had in the film. If memory serves, there was a scene where they have to pull her away from the pinned-down Malone that was really powerful. (FYI, she always reminded me of an even tinier Brenda Lee!)

by Anonymousreply 155January 21, 2018 10:27 PM

Stack was so hot. A bit of a butterface but still sexy. Does anyone know if he and Malone were friends in real life too?

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by Anonymousreply 156January 21, 2018 10:39 PM

Wish I had heard of her before. Will look her up. She seems like she was gay friendly. The clip of her on here dancing with Rock. Why are the leading men today only average in the looks dept.

by Anonymousreply 157January 21, 2018 10:47 PM

[quote] Why are the leading men today only average in the looks dept.

Because back then they needed magnetic and larger-than-life movie stars to carry the film and draw in the crowds. Nowadays, when all Hollywood seems to produce are comic book films, remakes and sequels, people say "We're going to see that Marvel film" or "We're going to see the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast"; no one says "We're gonna see that Chris Evans movie" or "That Emma Watson movie". Actors are just small props in those CGI shitfests. Sure, Chris Evans is gorgeous too, but he's hardly the main reason people go and see the movies he's in.

by Anonymousreply 158January 21, 2018 11:03 PM

Interesting and true, R158. And if “The Last Voyage” was remade today, they’d ratchet up the gore and cheesy CGI effects and render it bland. It worked perfectly because you could feel the panic and terror of Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone and Tammy Marihugh.

by Anonymousreply 159January 22, 2018 12:12 AM

According to imdb

[quote] Edmond O'Brien took issue with the safety precautions during filming, and left the production in protest. When he returned, he discovered that his part had been greatly reduced, and that he was no longer required on set.

I was watching the last scene on board as Stack (who is carrying Malone), Edmond O'Brien, and Woody Strode, who have finally made it up on deck, along with a couple of the last ship's officers, are moving through knee high water pouring over the deck heading for the waiting boat. I cannot imagine how they shot that scene because it looks really, really dangerous. At a certain point, O'Brien, who is at the back of the group, is still moving forward. But unlike the others, O'Brien is sticking close to the rail and seems to be looking to his left, over the rail. If you watch closely you can see that he eventually climbs over the rail (not much of a climb at this point) and swims away. When the others climb over the rail seconds later and make for the lifeboat, O'Brien is not with them. In fact, he does not even appear to be in the same lifeboat. The movie ends seconds after this.

Very, very scary. I was trying to figure how they even shot this scene.

by Anonymousreply 160January 22, 2018 12:43 AM

"Why are the leading men today only average in the looks dept."

It's the opposite. You really think Jimmy Stewart, James Cagney, and Humphrey Bogart were dreamboats? Talented, yes, but not much to look at.

by Anonymousreply 161January 22, 2018 1:15 AM

R161 Tastes change, you know. Bogie was quite a sex symbol back then.

And need I remind you that this was once considered to be the most desirable woman in the world!?

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by Anonymousreply 162January 22, 2018 1:41 AM

"Butterface?" Robert Stack? Nah, the man was fucking gorgeous right up to the end of his life.

Apparently he was involved in a menage a trois in the White House swimming pool with the other male being President horny himself, JFK. I can't remember who the lucky fish was at that pool party.

Now I ain't one to gossip, that info was discussed muchly a few years back.

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by Anonymousreply 163January 22, 2018 3:31 AM

There was no three-way with JFK, Darwin Porter made that up.

by Anonymousreply 164January 22, 2018 3:37 AM

Robert Stack was not much of an actor but was quite the beefcake pin up boy in his younger days. He was initially most famous for giving Deanna Durbin her first screen kiss in 1939's First Love, a tumultuous event in Hollywood history.

But he didn't really make an impact with American audiences until he played Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, a huge hit for Desilu 20 years later.

by Anonymousreply 165January 22, 2018 4:33 AM

I can remember lots of publicity about Tammy Marihugh being touted as the heir apparent to Shirley Temple when this film came out because of her dimples and resemblance to Shirley.

by Anonymousreply 166January 22, 2018 4:35 AM

Robert Stack also played the role of the hottie that Carole Lombard is fooling around with in the Ernst Lubitsch classic "To Be or Not to Be."

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by Anonymousreply 167January 22, 2018 4:37 AM

In the race for the 1956 Best Supporting Actress Oscar, Mercedes McCambridge was probably the favorite for her work in GIANT. McCambridge said that given her choice she would have preferred to have won the Oscar for GIANT rather than ALL THE KING'S MEN. Likewise, she said Luz Benedict in GIANT was her favorite role and used a still from that film for the cover of her autobiography.

As much actors respect the work of Mildred Dunnock, I cannot see the Motion Picture Academy giving an Oscar to BABY DOLL, movie more sensational than good.

Patricia McCormack was 12 when she was nominated for THE BAD SEED. Back then the Academy didn't want to honor many child actors. Her nomination was her reward.

Had I been a member of the Academy, I probably would have voted for Eileen Heckert for THE BAD SEED. Yes, her performance is over the top, which is exactly as it is written, to be the counterpoint to Christine's (Nancy Kellly) poised demeanor.

I suspect that McCambridge and Heckert (and possibly Dunnock) cancelled each other out, letting Malone win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

by Anonymousreply 168January 22, 2018 4:50 AM

Robert Stack was a championship skeet shooter and during WWII he was an Aerial Gunnery Officer and a gunnery instructor. A friend's father was one of Stack's students during the war.

by Anonymousreply 169January 22, 2018 4:55 AM

And Malone's torso was moreso.

by Anonymousreply 170January 22, 2018 4:57 AM

r168, I don't understand how those actresses "cancelled each other out".

Maybe you could say MacCormick and Heckart cancelled each other out as they were both in the same film. But Malone got the most votes. It's that simple.

I've never really understood that "cancelling" concept. Even with Judy Holliday in 1950.

by Anonymousreply 171January 22, 2018 5:00 AM

R171: Let's say 100 people vote. 60 people want Bette Davis or Gloria Swanson to win. 30 vote for Bette, 30 vote for Gloria. Four vote for Ann Baxter, Four vote for Eleanor Parker.

68 people do not want Judi Holiday to win. At all.

But a minority of 32 people vote for Judy Holiday. Judy wins.

by Anonymousreply 172January 22, 2018 5:09 AM

She was good at playing wild girls...but she could also be a bit boring, like as the divorcee in THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.

by Anonymousreply 173January 22, 2018 5:09 AM

Dorothy Malone wasn't in The Best of Everything.

by Anonymousreply 174January 22, 2018 5:17 AM

R174 Sorry....I sometimes mix her up with Martha Hyer : o

My apologies!!

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by Anonymousreply 175January 22, 2018 5:20 AM

She also reminds me of Lola Albright. Sorry!

BUT....I think she was GREAT in [italics] Gone with the Wind! [/italic]

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by Anonymousreply 177January 22, 2018 5:35 AM

Elizabeth Taylor was the alleged third person in the pool with Stack and JFK according to the notoriously unreliable Darwin Porter. I had always thought it was JFK's fling Angie Dickenson until I just googled it. Liz also allegedly got it on with Ronald Reagan when she was still underage because he treated as if she were an adult, which thrilled her.

by Anonymousreply 178January 22, 2018 6:07 AM

Darwin Porter? Master of fiction?

by Anonymousreply 179January 22, 2018 6:34 AM

Admit it: which of you bitches has a Tammy Marihugh paper doll set?

And do you keep it in plastic or take it out and play with it?

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by Anonymousreply 180January 22, 2018 6:46 AM

I always thought Tammy looked like a mini Deborah Kerr in The Last Voyage.

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by Anonymousreply 181January 22, 2018 6:59 AM

And here's Tammy after she became a bad girl:

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by Anonymousreply 182January 22, 2018 7:01 AM

That "finger in the mouth" pose is ickily reminiscent of the pose a lot of grown actresses used. Subliminal fellatio.

by Anonymousreply 183January 22, 2018 7:04 AM

You can blame Tammy Marihugh and the song TAMMY for an entire generation of girls born in the 1950s with the awful name Tammy. Fortunately, it went out of vogue in the 1960s.

by Anonymousreply 184January 22, 2018 2:55 PM

[quote] Fortunately, it went out of vogue in the 1960s.

There's at least one Tammy born in the 1960's I know of!

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by Anonymousreply 185January 22, 2018 3:06 PM

[quote]You can blame Tammy Marihugh and the song TAMMY for an entire generation of girls born in the 1950s with the awful name Tammy. Fortunately, it went out of vogue in the 1960s.

Ummm ... what about the "Tammy" movies, the first of which gave birth to the song?

by Anonymousreply 186January 22, 2018 6:26 PM

Tammy did squat for me......SQUAT!!!

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by Anonymousreply 188January 23, 2018 3:40 AM

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