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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Carol Lynley wasn't the best or my favorite actress but she was talented &had an enviable career. Her WaPo obituary was condescending & failed to recognize her accomplishments. Too many people think you need to have a Streep-like career to be respected/considered a serious actor.

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10 months

When the LA Times mentioned in a 1978 article that Tina Louise had dated Henry Kissinger (they confused her with Jill St. John), this is the Letter to the Editor that Tina wrote in response.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

10 months

We will eventually return to a world where "Kevin McCarthy" means this:

Josh Mankiewicz

@JoshMankiewicz

10 months

Kevin McCarthy will retire from Congress at end of year

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

If we're doing prequels to Polanski classics, might I suggest one about the mysterious marriage of Hollis & Evelyn Mulwray?

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@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

Hopefully we'll reach a point where people stop thinking a "darker reimagining" of anything is a good idea.

Bloody Disgusting

@BDisgusting

4 months

Universal is rebooting The Munsters once more with a "darker reimagining" titled 1313. And James Wan is on board as producer of the series:

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

2 years

The thing to keep in mind about Murder She Wrote is that it aired at the same time as Falcon Crest and The Golden Girls, and we are not likely to see hit network series, with long runs and hundreds of episodes, starring actresses over 60 in lead roles anytime soon.

Farran Nehme

@selfstyledsiren

2 years

All I want is a show of hands. If watching MURDER, SHE WROTE helped get you through the first year of the pandemic, or any other rough patch, let me hear you say "yeah." #RIP Angela Lansbury; I've loved a lot of stars, but to you, I feel personal gratitude.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

I've interviewed 100 people from MCA/Universal Television such as executives, writers, producers, directors, contract players, editors, composers, secretaries, cinematographers, etc. They mentioned Markie Post was hired many times because she was kind, cooperative & professional.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Lesley Ann Warren was another actress with a refreshingly eclectic career spanning Disney, Mission: Impossible, TVmovies, guest shots & miniseries, cult indies like Choose Me & The Limey, & Broadway. She has always worked, always been around, but we still yearn for more from her.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

I always associated Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Walter & Elizabeth Ashley w/each other: deep voiced brunettes who started in NY theater at the same time, were prolific in the 60s & 70s, each married famous actors, were TV Guest Actresses Par Excellence & all appeared on "The FBI".

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@HillPlaceBlog

3 months

Griffin Dunne's book reminds me how Dominick Dunne, while covering the Spector trial, didn't demean Lana Clarkson's career, acknowledged she had good parts in Corman movies & didn't deserve to be labeled suicidal or a loser who deserved to die like the defense & some writers did.

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3 months

I'll never forget Mamie Van Doren asking me to forward an apology to Polly Platt for being high maintenance on Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women & hoped Polly would forgive her. Polly was amazed & said "What a wonderful woman! Nothing to apologize for! All is forgiven!"

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Remembering Anne Baxter on her birthday. A great star of classic Hollywood, Baxter was not only beautiful & talented but also shrewd & tenacious about her career & longevity. She embraced the medium of television & created a long & prolific second act in meaty character roles.

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Documentary on @tubi about Gloria Swanson's efforts to turn Sunset Blvd into a Broadway musical with gay couple who wrote score w/her. Entertaining reminder of how fragile personal happiness & show business careers can be, but strange how Billy Wilder's name is rarely mentioned.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

4 years

I hope this helps refute that stupid assertion made in @FeudFX that Joan Crawford was contemptuous of the idea of women directing.

TCM

@tcm

4 years

Joan Crawford, then married to the chairman of @pepsi , helped Dorothy Arzner get hired to direct over 50 television commercials for the soft drink brand in the 1950s. Here they are on the set of THE BRIDE WORE RED ('37). #WomenMakeFilm

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@HillPlaceBlog

4 years

@alexa_52299 You guys are doing to Amy Price exactly what the internet sleuths did to Morbid.

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6 months

Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Dean Martin, Nancy Kwan, and Tina Louise film the intro for the trailer of "The Wrecking Crew" (1969).

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

1 year

There are people who say they love classic cinema but are dilettantes who like a limited & rigid definition of it. Even if you don’t like a film on @tcm there’s always another being screened later. There's no need to trash a channel that works so hard to please its constituency.

Shane

@sbliss89

1 year

As predicted, DRESSED TO KILL didn’t go over well in the TCM group.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

In addition to her film & stage career, Janis Paige was a TV Actress Par Excellence. In 1978 alone, she did The Love Boat, Alice, Fantasy Island, Hawaii Five-O, Charlie's Angels, The Rockford Files & All in the Family. And that doesn't even count a National Tour of Guys & Dolls!

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

6 months

46 years ago today, in the premiere episode of Dallas on CBS, Pamela Barnes married Bobby Ewing & moved in with the rest of the Ewing family at Southfork Ranch. Bobby's brother JR Ewing underestimated the new Mrs. Ewing, which he would surely never do again. And it was great TV.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

He was responsible (as director, producer, distributor, or mentor) for an incredible number of films we all enjoyed. His movies could be trashy, racy, violent & raunchy, but not ugly or mean-spirited, which is why they were so enjoyable. Long live New World Pictures! RIP.

Variety

@Variety

5 months

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

My favorite Frank Borzage picture is The Shining Hour. The central premise where Crawford marries into an established wealthy family and is trying to find her place in her new life is basically the blueprint for Dallas, especially the complex & relationships with her in-laws.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

6 months

Miles is very private, which I respect, but if she ever wrote a memoir or made a @tcm Film Festival #TCMFF appearance, that would be my dream come true. She & Tuesday Weld are the two actresses I would love to interview for my blog & *that* would be my ultimate dream come true.

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@noir_or_never

6 months

Rewatching “Hitchcock” (2012) made me feel compelled to remind all of you that Vera Miles is still with us at the age of 94

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

John & Gena were respected by MCA/Universal Television personnel I interviewed since they did so many TV guest shots there. Universal knew they were working to make money for their own films & kept hiring them because they were kind & worked hard to make Universal TV shows great.

Seventies Films

@70sFilm

5 months

A Woman Under the Influence (1974) Dir. John Cassavetes Gena Rowlands

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

. @cbsKnotsLanding FWIW, I was at the #TCMFF this weekend and chatted with someone who works on music clearances for TV shows & movies for @wbd and this person claimed to have worked on clearing Knots Landing & Flamingo Road & said that Knots should be streaming later this year.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

Zsa Zsa Gabor never pretended to be an actress & as such became a convenient, lazy punchline especially after her cop slapping incident. But she was a great raconteur who turned her talk show appearances into an authentic form of performance art w/o being bland, gross, or ironic.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

9 years

Julie Christie, Ursula Andress & Catherine Deneuve check out what the other is wearing. 1966 London. @JamesRosenFNC http://t.co/ADsLIq7Yiq

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

Happy birthday to the great Carroll Baker, an actress who worked w/George Stevens, Elia Kazan, William Wyler, Henry Hathaway, Gordon Douglas, Marco Ferreri, Umberto Lenzi, Andy Warhol, Rene Cardona Jr. & Bob Fosse, and who never knew how to have a boring or conventional career.

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@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

Wishing Sharon Gless, the best Universal contract player next to Susan Clark, a HappyBirthday today. In the 80s, when people proclaimed Gless a star due to Cagney & Lacey, I maintained she was already a star due to her 10 years at Universal appearing on almost all of their shows.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

3 months

Wishing the great Gena Rowlands a Happy Birthday today. I not only love her work in the films of John Cassavetes but also her extensive career in TV Guest Shots during the 60s & 70s, as well as her long & impressive list of TV movies. In my opinion, she should've been Marnie.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Lois Nettleton is one of my favorite actresses. I once interviewed her. She did Broadway & TV Guest roles & also had a decent film career at MGM in the 60s. Even though her MGM contract was brief, she liked her films there & appreciated all of her opportunities & experiences.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

3 months

Cheryl Ladd (botd) was IMO the best, most underrated actress on Charlie'sAngels. It was pure entertainment yet Ladd brought a lot to the role of KrisMunroe especially in scenes where she was pointed,direct & human. Genuine fans of the show recognize her importance & contribution.

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Hill Place Blog

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5 months

I disagree. I think these shows helped primetime audiences get used to the concept of continuing storylines, which had once been the realm of daytime TV, because primetime used to be episodic. Almost every major primetime show now has continuing story arcs thanks to these shows.

MB

@PAEasy64

5 months

It’s incredible how little lasting cultural influence Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing, and Falcon Crest have had. That was a whole decade of culture right there.

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5 months

Robert Osborne once said Joanna Pettet's performance in The Group demonstrated she was a combination of Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Grace Kelly & Ida Lupino rolled into one. She never achieved their stardom but became a TV Guest Actress Par Excellence in GuestShots & TVmovies.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

6 months

"You’ve been murdered - who do you want on the case?" This is an exceedingly grim and morbid question, but if I'm being honest, these are the only individuals I would trust in such a matter.

Shemp S. Shempington

@ShempMeister

6 months

You’ve been murdered - who do you want on the case?

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

I once interviewed Janis Paige on the phone and she was awesome, a truly great lady. RIP.

Mike Barnes

@MikeBarnes4

4 months

#RIP Janis Paige. In ‘Silk Stockings,’ she told Astaire she could “catch the chandelier and swing out over all those people. He showed me & said, ‘You think you can do that?’ I said, ‘Sure … not knowing if I was going to fall on my face or not. I didn’t.”

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@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

I had dealings w/Suzanne Pleshette years ago trying to interview her. She never said yes & could be rather arrogant. She could also be very funny & nice & never played games with me. People have different aspects. I still like & respect her cuz talent wins out with me in the end.

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

After I college I had a job in BH where I ran into Billy Wilder many times at a coffee shop on Brighton Wy. He was very nice & very scary at the same time. Sometimes he'd be friendly/chatty, other times sullen/grumpy. I liked him no matter his mood because he was human & direct.

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Polly Platt told me to not believe every rumor you hear re: who slept with who & who might be gay, unless you were hiding under that person's bed each time they were allegedly sleeping w/so-and-so. I remind myself of that when I hear someone gossiping about another person's life.

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Tuesday Weld is one of our great actresses. More people would know it if she hadn't turned down great films & preferred TV movies & guest shots instead. If she were ambitious, the trajectory of 60s/70s cinema would have changed & we'd be discussing her alongside Fonda & Dunaway.

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@HillPlaceBlog

1 year

We need @jt_arn regularly introducing Poverty Row B pictures on @tcm on a regular, weekly basis. It's a continuing series I would welcome so I can look forward to rarities and new discoveries that haven't been given the attention they deserve.

Jeremy Arnold

@jt_arn

1 year

Tonight’s block of B movies on @tcm features 5 films from 5 studios, and begins with one of my favorites of the 20 titles I programmed with TCM for this spotlight: IDENTITY UNKNOWN (Republic, 1945). The story of an amnesiac solder (Richard Arlen) returning home and… 1/

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

6 months

Hollywood Yesterday✨

@HollywoodYeste1

6 months

If you could recommend one black and white movie to a person who dislikes them, what would it be? While it would depend on the individual (for example, what genre they’d prefer), one B&W film I’d recommend freely to ANYONE is Lilies of the Field, 1963).

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

3 months

My dad's friend & Chinese Opera colleague Lisa Lu is getting a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame #WalkofFame ! Please check out the great films she made in Asia, she had terrific parts especially in The Arch, The 14 Amazons, The Empress Dowager, The Last Tempest & Apart Together.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

9 months

Lynne Marta was a TV Guest Star Par Excellence who was also an excellent singer. I once met her at a party & she was a lot of fun to chat with about 70s TV. Shirley Knight told me that Marta was, next to Kathleen Widdoes, the best friend she ever had. RIP.

Lynne Marta, Actress in ‘Joe Kidd,’ ‘Footloose’ and ‘Love, American Style,’ Dies at 78

She also made multiple appearances on such shows as ‘The F.B.I.,’ ‘Medical Center,’ ‘Barnaby Jones’ and, notably, ‘Starsky & Hutch.’

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

I saw Sabrina at this years TCMFF at the ChineseTheater. I always liked it on TV but seeing it on the big screen made it resonate in significant ways I had never considered before due to the audience reaction. It's not just blockbusters that benefit from being seen in a theater.

TCM

@tcm

4 months

SABRINA ('54), based on Samuel Taylor's Broadway hit Sabrina Fair, was Audrey Hepburn's follow up to ROMAN HOLIDAY ('53), and Paramount assigned it to Billy Wilder, one of their top directors. See it tonight at 8pm ET as we close out our spotlight, First Name Basis.

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

I never get why it's assumed Vera Miles didn't do anything after 1962. In addition to being a favorite of Ford, Hitchcock & Disney, Miles was the preeminent TV Guest Actress Par Excellence in episodic guest shots & TV movies, skillfully playing meaty parts her peers would envy.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Again, why do entertainment journalists assume most people wouldn't know about Classic Hollywood unless it's something campy, trashy, or sensationalized?

Entertainment Weekly

@EW

5 months

According to a new book, Faye Dunaway balked at beating a little girl with a wire hanger for a memorable scene in "Mommie Dearest."

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

3 months

Nita Talbot was another talented character actress capable of comedy & drama, sympathetic roles & otherwise. Even if she was cast as lower-class or shady ladies, Talbot was always likeable & sexy. Her arrival into any film or TV show is a big signal that the fun's about to start.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

6 months

I love Rope and wish the party lasted another 10 minutes because I like the interaction of the characters.

Farran Nehme

@selfstyledsiren

6 months

Saw ROPE with hubs and son last night; neither had seen it. Love the little NOTORIOUS in-joke. "He was thrilling in that new thing with Bergman. What was it called now? 'The Something of the Something.' No, no, that's the other one. This was just plain 'Something.'"

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@HillPlaceBlog

2 months

He spoke at my graduation because his daughter attended the same college. I recall he took time to honor the valedictorian but also said the average college student should be acknowledged as well because he was an average student. (Not sure if the valedictorian appreciated that!)

Mike Barnes

@MikeBarnes4

2 months

#RIP the wonderful Bob Newhart. “Somehow there’s a connection between numbers, music and comedy," he said. "I know it’s a case of 2 and 2 equals 5 in terms of a comedian. You take this fact & you take that fact & then you come up with this ludicrous fact.”

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Dabney Coleman was married to talented & beautiful '60s actress Jean Hale who was under contract to Revue/Universal. They met at the NeighborhoodPlayhouse & had 3 kids. Here they are in a '62 Rambler commercial where they are dashing & gorgeous together.

Dabney Coleman 1962 Rambler Commercial

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@HillPlaceBlog

1 year

Ironically, this is why @tcm and the #tcmff remains so valuable because they still put a premium on actually celebrating directors/filmmakers/story-tellers, and not just "content creators" which the rest of its Warner Discovery family of companies has evidently lost sight of.

John Frankensteiner

@JFrankensteiner

1 year

The new HBO Max (MAX) has eliminated writer/director credits in their interface in favor of a vague "Creators." This is what Raging Bull currently looks like. It's so fucking over.

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5 months

Arthur Hill was another of my favorite actors, capable of playing complex, white collar types w/shades of grey as his own hair. He was great in Petulia, Harper, Andromeda Strain & TV guest shots, but I wish I could have seen his George in the original Virginia Woolf on Broadway.

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@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

Roger Corman wasn't known as a director of actresses but his 6 Susan Cabot films are a fascinating collaboration of intense & vulnerable portraits of complex women in trying circumstances & demonstrates how she deserves to be remembered as more than a Hollywood Babylon footnote.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Polly Platt was my friend & we'd see 2 movies & have dinner on Sundays for years. She was as great as you heard but that famous podcast didn't fully capture her because she didn't see herself as a victim of chauvinist Hollywood & took pride in being respected in that industry.

Frank Wells

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1 year

#TheTerror helped launch Peter Bogdanovich's career. Karloff owed Roger Corman two days' work, so Bogdanovich and Polly Platt wrote "Targets" which borrowed "The Terror" footage for the climactic drive-in sequence where a sniper sees Karloff onscreen and in the flesh #TCMParty

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@HillPlaceBlog

6 months

This Tweet forgets that the "original" Freaky Friday is the superior 1976 film starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster. I would prefer to see a sequel to *that* version instead of this one.

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

6 months

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, who starred in the original 'Freaky Friday,' are in negotiations to reprise their roles for a sequel. Details here:

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Human beings are flawed. None of us think our favorite film&TV figures are saints. Even the best people have ambiguity. But I do think we should be cautious in believing random rants from persons who proclaim to be experts without demonstrating first-hand experience or knowledge.

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

People are remembering Susan Buckner from Grease but I remember her as the 2nd George Fayne on Nancy Drew, her ABC-Universal sitcom When the Whistle Blows & the Wes Craven chiller Deadly Blessing. Buckner was very good playing beautiful women who could friends w/other women. RIP.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

1 year

Here's a podcast I did with @JimSanFrancisco about the 2023 @tcm @TCMPR Classic Film Festival & why my first-ever visit to this event turned out to be a great experience & the best weekend of my life. @BenMank77 @davekarger @EddieMuller #TCMFF #TCMFF2023

Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival. Talking with Shaun Chang of the Hill Place Movie and...

4 day classic film festival in Hollywood and Warner Brothers Centenary was the theme for the weekend.

www.thesanfranciscoexperiencepodcast.com

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@HillPlaceBlog

3 months

Remembering the great Shirley Knight--a Warner Brothers contract player, 60s starlet, cult movie actress, TV Guest Star Par Excellence, Tony-winning stage veteran, 2-time Oscar nominee, versatile character actress, and great human being all rolled into one--on her 88th birthday.

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@HillPlaceBlog

6 months

I come home and find out my best friend sent me a shipment of lox, bagels and cream cheese from @ZabarsIsNY for Easter! This is one of the best gifts I've ever received!

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Remembering TyronePower on his 110th birthday. My favorite Power performance is The Long Gray Line, where he is enjoying himself & allows MartyMaher's vulnerabilities to show throughout. We were deprived of more when he died as he was becoming the character actor he longed to be.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

8 months

Tina Louise as the brutal and evil Badham County prison trustee Greer in the ABC TV movie "Nightmare in Badham County" (1976).

DepressedBergman

@DannyDrinksWine

8 months

Which is your favourite 'against-type' performance by an actor? I'll begin: Henry Fonda in, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Director: Sergio Leone

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3 months

This documentary was entertaining & insightful & the perfect antidote to this crazy week. Interestingly, the best talking head, besides Faye, is her son, who comes across as realistic & understanding about his mother. I only wish it was longer, because there is so much to cover.

HBO

@HBO

3 months

Portraits of an icon. Faye Dunaway speaks candidly about the triumphs and challenges of her illustrious career in the HBO Original Documentary #FayeHBO , premiering tonight at 8 pm ET on @StreamOnMax .

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

Robert Young was a misunderstood star whose career supposedly embodied the bland traditional American male. He was more complex than that & was capable of representing those values but also had the guts to challenge or comment on that image much like his colleague James Stewart.

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@HillPlaceBlog

3 months

I love how James Stewart has to rely on Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter & even Wendell Corey in the final act of "Rear Window" to solve the mystery and, more importantly, to stay alive. The final 2 still photos on here are really cool because you see all four main characters together.

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@HillPlaceBlog

2 years

This is not Nancy Sinatra. This is a photo of actress Phyllis Davis (who later played Aunt Susan in "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" and starred on TV in "Love American Style" and "Vega$") from the same film. Nancy Sinatra stars in this film but she is not even in this scene.

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@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

Before it was ruined by tacky & gimmicky plots, increasingly annoying relatives, heavy-handed allegories, awkward counterculture references & DickSargent, Bewitched was a charming, character-driven comedy of manners with a supernatural element. The early seasons remain a delight.

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

The #TCMFF reminded me of how life is to be appreciated and enjoyed and is inspiring me to make changes in my life so it can be better and not settle for less just to be complacent.

ChrisSturhann

@ChrisSturhann

5 months

I always post this at about this time, don't be sad that it's over; be glad it happened #TCMFF #TCMParty

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5 months

Polly Platt felt protective of Corman after a relationship he was in had broken up. She saw his humanity & vulnerability & it made her love him even more. After her marriage to Peter ended, Corman was supportive of her when she needed it by saying she could work for him anytime.

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@HillPlaceBlog

4 months

Nashville was released 49 years ago today, filming started 50 years ago this summer. I mentioned this to Cristina Raines & she was shocked to realize that many years had passed. She was in her early 20s when she filmed it, now she's a grandmother. She's still proud of the film.

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

There are folks who claim to want to know the "truth" about certain topics but, rather than doing actual research of reading books or going to libraries w/archival material, put their faith in pied pipers who allege they know everything but have their own agenda & axes to grind.

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5 months

Hope Lange was a great actress w/a good film career who found even greater opportunities in television. In sitcoms, her comedic chops demonstrated concise precision. In TV movies & guest shots, she conveyed empathy & sensitivity playing complex women in challenging circumstances.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

10 months

One of my favorite Hitchcock films, one I underrated in the beginning but now truly love. The characters are great at that party, I wish the movie lasted a little longer because I found them all fascinating.

Criterion Channel

@criterionchannl

10 months

James Stewart, John Dall, and Farley Granger star in this macabre chamber piece by Alfred Hitchcock—striking for both its daring queer subtext and experimental visual style.

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@HillPlaceBlog

5 months

To be a regular in one classic series is one thing. But to have three in your career is monumental. RIP.

Mike Barnes

@MikeBarnes4

5 months

Terry Carter, Actor on ‘The Phil Silvers Show,’ ‘McCloud’ and ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ Dies at 95 via @thr

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This cannot possibly top the 1976 ABC TV movie "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby" w/Patty Duke Astin, George Maharis, Ray Milland, Tina Louise, Broderick Crawford, Lloyd Haynes, Donna Mills & Ruth Gordon, which turned out to be an unsold pilot for a "Fugitive"-type series.

Variety

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“Rosemary’s Baby” prequel “Apartment 7A,” starring Julia Garner and directed by Natalie Erika James, will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ ahead of the Halloween season.

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This was one of their best guest shots. My friend who produced the Alfred Hitchcock Presents revival in the 80s wanted to remake this episode w/John & Gena returning,even offering John the chance to write & direct it. Gena was interested but John unfortunately not in good health.

Neville F Chamberlain

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Gena Rowlands stars with John Cassavetes in the Season Two episode “Murder Case” (1964) directed by John Brahm from the 🇺🇸American anthology 📺 television series “THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR”

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4 months

BOTD: Susan Strasberg was a TV Guest Actress Par Excellence & a Cult Movie Star but never quite attained the stardom she might have had if she were allowed to reprise her Broadway role as Anne Frank on the big screen. Nevertheless, she had a long, prolific & accomplished career.

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4 months

2 of my favorite TV characters in recent years are Michelle Dockery's Lady Mary on Downton Abbey & Mimi Rogers' Honey Chandler on Bosch/Bosch Legacy. There's much complexity & ambiguity to them, which creates detractors, but ultimately there's a lot of decency & humanity as well.

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6 months

When I interviewed Cristina Raines for my blog, she praised Barbara Rush, who she worked with on Flamingo Road. I tried to reunite them for lunch several times but things would come up and unfortunately it never happened. Here's Raines' memory of Rush when I interviewed her.

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Hill Place Blog

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When I interviewed Jacqueline Bisset, what was refreshing about her is she didn't act embarrassed about When Time Ran Out or Inchon! She acknowledged their flaws while at the same time remembered good things about the experience of making them. She appreciated all of her films.

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5 months

My favorite Audrey Hepburn film is Wait Until Dark. I sense what she would have done w/The Exorcist. It also has 2 of my favorite actors: Zimbalist & Crenna. I love Crenna's Mike cuz you sense he is falling for Hepburn & she is concerned about him while still loves husband Sam.

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4 months

These posters for The Longest Day advertise "42 International Stars" for marquee value but also underscore how there's no one main character because it tells the story of D-Day from multiple perspectives. It's one of the greatest ensemble movies, next to Grand Hotel & Nashville.

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Hill Place Blog

@HillPlaceBlog

8 years

Great photo of two brothers supportive of one another. @JoshMankiewicz @BenMank77 #TCMFF

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1 year

At my college graduation, OrsonBean (whose son was a classmate) shared an anecdote about breaking up a backstage fight between TinaLouise & MoniqueVanVooren over Belafonte, while they were all appearing in John Murray Anderson's Almanac on Broadway. Both ladies were dating Harry.

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Hill Place Blog

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Joanna Pettet and Alex Cord attend the North American premiere of "Krakatoa, East of Java" on May 14, 1969 at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.

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3 months

I guess Nationwide is not on our side.

KTLA

@KTLA

3 months

Nationwide Insurance to non-renew 100,000 pet insurance policies

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3 years

This was from the publicity photos taken for The Wrecking Crew.

Peter Avellino

@PeterAPeel

3 years

Happy Birthday Tina Louise.

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1 year

@JoshMankiewicz Well when Greg establishes enough credentials to produce Dateline, then he can show the rest of us how it's supposed to be done.

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3 years

@monsieur_serge @ladygaga Nobody should get worked up over a singer who is dabbling in film acting, has made only 2 movies, and already has a songwriting Oscar when GlennClose still hasn't won an Oscar, and legends like CaryGrant, DeborahKerr, Barbara Stanwyck & Peter O'Toole never won one in competition.

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4 months

As we celebrate the Linda Darnell @tcm double feature it's important to mention she did great work for Ford, Sturges, Sirk, Preminger & Mamoulian but probably did her best work for Joe Mankiewicz in A Letter to Three Wives & No Way Out where she was memorably cynical yet hopeful.

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6 years

@JamesRosenTV Trailer for new faith based indie feature starring @StephenBaldwin7 , @burtyoungartist and @TheTinaLouise . Premieres on DVD and streaming February 4th. Tapestry - Trailer via @YouTube

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4 months

Tony Lo Bianco worked w/Friedkin, Lumet, Jewison, Oliver Stone, Larry Cohen & Doris Wishman. He was a TV Guest Star Par Excellence who also directed a great slasher/giallo in 1985. His one-man show as LaGuardia was superb. An underrated actor who deserves all the accolades today.

Mike Barnes

@MikeBarnes4

4 months

#RIP Tony Lo Bianco. Outside of ‘The French Connection’ and ‘The Seven-Ups,’ the Golden Gloves boxer from Brooklyn played Fiorello La Guardia and was great in ‘The Honeymoon Killers’ — Francois Truffaut's favorite American film (!) — and ‘God Told Me To.’

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3 months

The earliest TV memories from my childhood.

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5 months

The 1979 Mod Squad TV movie is everything a reunion should be, with fun moments of fan service as well as touching scenes that allows us to see how these characters grew. Tige Andrews was my favorite character & even Simon Scott returns, but Peggy Lipton was as radiant as ever.

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Lois Nettleton had a bit part at the end of A Face in the Crowd on @tcm tonight, it was her first feature film role. She worked with Elia Kazan previously as Barbara Bel Geddes' understudy in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. #TCMParty #AFaceintheCrowd

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4 months

God, who knew they were creating an enduring TV classic? There were other hit shows at the time that haven't sustained in popularity in reruns like Golden Girls has.

TVMoJoe

@TVMoJoe

4 months

It’s June 4, 1985, and Betty White is on Super Password. Bert Convy asks her about the new show she’s landed. “Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty and I are doing a show called The Golden Girls,” she says. “And it’s gonna be on Saturdays at 9 on NBC. We’re so excited.”

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It's intrigued me that when Aaron Spelling didn't give Kate Jackson time off Charlie's Angels to do Kramer v. Kramer, which led her to quit the show, it forever changed the lives of Meryl Streep, Shelley Hack & Tanya Roberts, names you'd never expect to see in the same sentence.

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My favorite insight from Cristina Raines about Robert Altman's Nashville is that Barbara Harris was her best friend during the production. They had dinner every night & would talk for hours. She was sorry the sequel didn't get made because she wanted to work with Harris again.

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Farrah Fawcett was impressive in this 1981 TV movie as Houston socialite Joan Robinson Hill whose mysterious 1969 death is the focus of this story. Without her Feathered hair & confidence, she was a revelation as a woman unloved by her husband, which was unimaginable at the time.

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