Rare is the day when I follow up one
movie tribute with another (they are typically quite labor
intensive), but this time I couldn't help myself (and I do try to be
unpredictable!) Hot on the heels of profiling The Big Cube (1969), I
happened to stumble upon 1965's My Blood Runs Cold, a movie I'd
wanted to see for many years and damn near missed due to not paying
attention to the TV schedule! The moody romantic-thriller marked a
turning point (in more than one way) in the careers of teen
heartthrob Troy Donahue and for pouting minx Joey Heatherton.
Unlike most of Donahue's movies, this
was shot in black and white, probably to increase the atmosphere of
it ala Psycho (1960), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and
others of the thriller ilk, but in truth it screams out for color,
what with the seaside location and the sometimes sumptuous settings
and costumes.
Directed by William Conrad, a busy
radio actor who segued into film and TV roles and found success as
the rotund star of Cannon (1971-1976) and Jake and the Fatman
(1987-1992), the movie opens with a quote from Lord Byron. The quote
provides the movie with its title and, if you're anything like me,
you ALWAYS associate Lord Byron with Troy Donahue and Joey
Heatherton! It's a no-brainer.
A young lady in period costume
(resembling Heatherton) looks out at the sea before returning to her
house along the shore. We know it's in the past because a burlap-like
filter has been placed over the picture! Next we see Heatherton in
contemporary gear (but with a similar scarf) zooming down the road
with Nicolas Coster in the passenger seat as he implores her to slow
down. They're on their way to a dedication of some sort and she says
they can't be late.
She'll have none of his pleading and,
when she comes upon a stopped truck on her side of the road, she
swerves into the other lane where an oncoming motorcyclist (Troy
Donahue) is forced to zoom off into some brush while she and Coster
careen into the surf!
When Donahue lays his eyes on
Heatherton, he's quite clearly stricken by her. Her name is Julie,
but he calls her Barbara and says he has a picture of her to prove
it. Coster thinks maybe he's a bit shaken up from the accident and
Heatherton suggests getting him to the hospital.
In an all-too-brief moment, we see
their friends John McCook and Linda Meiklejohn. McCook, in his big
screen debut here, would later go on to a lengthy and prosperous
career on soap operas such as The Young and the Restless and The Bold
and the Beautiful. Though he is billed in the opening credits this
little scene is all we see of him, sadly, and suggests that maybe
another sequence or two was edited out prior to release.
(Fun fact: Cleft-chinned McCook was the husband of
actress/dancer Juliet Prowse from 1972-1979 and they had a son
together. The year after their divorce, he married his presetn wife
Laurette Spang of Battlestar Galactica fame.)
We next see an empty set of folding
chairs and the remains of what had been the grand opening of a new
marina, courtesy of wealthy local figure Barry Sullivan and his
sister Jeanette Nolan. Sullivan is Heatherton's father and he isn't
pleased to see her tearing into the parking lot about two hours late
for the dedication.
Nolan is done up in an ostrich plume
hat that is as striking as it bizarre, though despite its
audacious-ness is nothing more than an appetizer of what is to come
from her. There is not one frame of Nolan in this movie that doesn't
feature either a preposterous hairdo or a hilarious costume or
sometimes both! Do not mistake me as disapproving of this, however.
Jeanette Nolan's hair in this movie is nothing short of life-changing
and is the kind of thing I take to and proceed to love forever!!
Nolan meets Donahue for the first time,
him having been brought along by Heatherton and Coster, and is
intrigued by him, especially when she hears his name. He is invited
to come to their mansion for champagne as a token of their thanks for
not making too much of a deal out of the smash-up with his bike.
At Sullivan's beautiful home,
Heatherton has her hair piled up in a delightful 'do, but Nolan
unveils her own concoction, sort of a follicle-filled, interstate
clover-leaf in which she rolled it with cans of Campbell's soup and
then slid them out after shellacking them to rock hardness! (She
wouldn't have been out of place on Star Trek had she moseyed over to
the Desilu stages in between set-ups for this movie...)
Donahue is clearly obsessed with
Heatherton, though she is chilly towards him in return. Besides,
she's practically promised to even-keeled Coster. Nolan is worried
that Heatherton is behaving too recklessly and impulsively and hopes
that she will settle down and marry someone nice (in her view,
Coster.)
Heatherton is busying herself with
restoring a family home called Spindrift, which is the one we saw at
the start of the movie. It's been closed up for years, but she's
decided to refinish the furniture and bring the accessories and decor
out of storage. While there alone the next day, she turns on the
radio and begins shimmying around the room (this IS Heatherton we're
talking about after all!) Just then, Donahue appears and starts to
spout some gobbledegook about how he and she are reincarnated lovers.
He even presents her with a locket that
contains a picture which looks very much like her, only it's over a
hundred years old. (I was going more for Sally Ann Howes in Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang myself...) Needless to say, she is disturbed by all
this and orders Donahue to leave, though in her heart she's still not
exactly sure what to think!
She takes the locket to a local jeweler
(Howard McNear, best known as Floyd the barber on The Andy Griffith
Show, 1961-1967!) who assures her that it is indeed old and
authentic.
She arrives home to find Sullivan,
Nolan and Coster at dinner, dressed to the nines and wondering where
she's been. He's not pleased to discover that she was up at the old
house unchaperoned with Donahue (the elderly caretaker of the place
has apparently gone missing.) Sullenly, she apologizes and says that
she cannot eat, nor attend the concert as planned. Here we get my
very favorite Nolan look as her hair is piled to the ceiling and
she's sporting dazzling earrings and an encrusted evening get-up.
Nolan tells of how Heatherton's
great-great grandmother was impregnated by a sailor she loved and
proceeded to have his baby before dying in childbirth. The baby was
then adopted by their ancestor and the family line continued on down
to them. In short, their family tree was spawned from (in her words)
a “bastard!” As the family historian, Nolan knows where all the
bodies are buried, but this news is a bit of a shock to Sullivan and
Heatherton.
Heatherton is miserable and Nolan
attempts to console her and listen to her, but with Sullivan
possessing such a domineering persona and Coster patiently hovering,
it's difficult for her to focus on what she want to do or should do.
Sullivan takes it upon himself to visit
Donahue down at the sloop where he lives on a sailboat and tells him
to stay away from his daughter. He hasn't even pulled out of the
parking lot when in swoops Heatherton in a nautical sun dress and
with a picnic basket, determined to go for a spin with Donahue! She
informs her father that she is twenty-one and will do as she pleases.
Donahue sets sail with Heatherton and
tells her that beneath her seaside property is an under-ground cavern
where the two of them met in their former lives and made love. She
denies the existence of such a place, but he swears he'll take her
there personally if she will only trust him. They don their swimsuits
and dive into the ocean, swimming towards the entrance to the grotto.
I love anything that involves
underwater swimming, including the lunatic jaunt shown here in which
the twosome seems to dive underwater far sooner than necessary and
then thrash around below the surface until they reach the hidden
entrance which, once there, looks like it could be reached within a
couple of feet!
I must say that once they are inside,
though, we are treated to some rare imagery, that being the sight of
Miss Heatherton with her hair wet and with minimal (for her!) makeup.
A soft mist is falling and that, paired with the lighting, gives her
a moist, luminescent glow that is quite becoming and which ought to
please any one of her heterosexual fans (or all three of them!)
He shows her where he retrieved the
locket, left there many years before in a heavy wooden box stuffed in a crevasse, and the couple
shares a haunted, erotic moment in which their wet bodies cling to
one another as soft mist bears down on them.
I will add that this movie also has the
rare distinction of displaying a shirtless Donahue for extended
periods of time. Most often in his prior movies, he would wear a
shirt or sweater with his swim trunks because, while slim, he wasn't
known for his impressive physique. Even here he is not what one might
call “cut,” just skinny.
They next head up to Spindrift where
Heatherton heads upstairs to put on some dry clothes. Donahue looks
around the room where he spies a box that has an old,jade statuette
in it that seems to trigger some disturbing memory for him. He
thrashes around, knocking over dishes and winding up bent over the
table in a position that he might possibly have discovered about the
time his agent Henry Willson discovered HIM!
When Heatherton discovers him in this
state, he tells her that the statuette is one that he gave to her all
those years ago. Again, she is torn about what to believe since the
whole thing seems so fantastic and yet otherwise unexplainable.
Meanwhile Sullivan is holding a board
meeting for his company and reveals a pretty ruthless attitude. (One
of his associates, seen here, is played by Ben Wright who, this same
year, played the villainous Nazi sympathizer Herr Zeller in The Sound
of Music.)
Coster is rather appalled at Sullivan's
cutthroat decision-making and tells him so. Here we find out that
Coster does actually possess a backbone and is not quote the
milquetoast that Sullivan has believed him to be.
Still bothered by everything going on,
Heatherton is back at the old house when her aunt Nolan (in yet
another zany get-up, this one as if she's taking in much wampum at an
Arizona trading post!) suggests that she take a nice, mind-clearing
walk.
Heatherton strolls along the CRAGGY
terrain for her relaxing walk and stumbles right into the soggy,
seaweed-strewn body of the missing Spindrift caretaker! In her
hysteria, she's sure to get a piece of the kelp caught in her hand
after its been wound around his bloated, rotting body, so that she
can smear it in her face!
(This still photo shows Heatherton's makeup being reapplied after her incredible histrionics down at the shore with the corpse. Amazing the way she had to be picture perfect even when screaming and crying over the discovery of an old, dead body!)
Now, Donahue is in trouble because the
caretaker disappeared right about the time he arrived on the scene
and began spouting his reincarn-ation spiel. Sullivan has it in for
him anyway for interfering with his daughter against his wishes and
has him arrested. Heatherton, though, by now, is beginning to have
feelings for him and stands by him at the station.
Donahue's sweater in this scene is
quite interesting. It's thick, woolly and coming a bit unraveled and
he wears it with nothing underneath.
Back on his boat, he undergoes another
one of his spastic, convulsions, like something out of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde! He thrashes around all over the cabin and buries his head
in the bed before raising up to reveal his hair all smushed forward.
It's entirely possible that this is the
first instance in Troy Donahue's film career that his hair was every
shown mussed up! He was always photographed with such staggering care
that this had to be something of a jolt to his fans. (Of course, what
we see here is now a current hairstyle! But back then, this was an
unheard of look.)
He goes to see Heatherton, but is
threateningly turned away at the door by Sullivan. However, just as
it was at the marina, she arrives directly after their exchange and
Donahue convinces her that he loves her and gets her to run away with
him.
As they head to the marina to board his
boat and elope to Mexico, she realizes that she at least owes Coster
some sort of goodbye.
She calls Coster from a pay phone and
breaks the news to him that she is leaving with Donahue. She asks him
to tell her father and aunt the good news!
Coster heads over to the mansion to
inform the family and we are greeted with Nolan in one of her more
demure (though still considerable) looks, hair-wise. She knows that
something is wrong and demands that Coster tell her what has
happened.
Once the word is out, she lays into
Sullivan, blaming him for driving Heatherton into Donahue's arms with
his domineering ways. She reminds him that his controlling attitude
also cost him the love of Heatherton's mother.
Naturally, a storm is brewing at sea as
our young lovers are sailing for Mexico and it's knocking the boat
around like crazy. A frantic Sullivan wants the coast guard to find
the boat and bring his daughter back, but there's nothing to be done
in that weather.
The following morning, Heatherton is
awakened by the nuzzles of a smitten Donahue, though he does ask her
to fix coffee and breakfast! He goes out on deck to man the helm
while she rummages around for the food. He has a third mental and
physical convulsion while she has come upon something troublesome in
one of the boat's storage compartments.
That morning, we are treated to one
more doozy from Nolan as she descends the stairs (a staircase, by the
way, which was featured in many Warner Brothers movies including
Auntie Mame, 1958, A Summer Place, 1959, Parrish, 1961, and Rome Adventure, 1962, the last three starring Donahue!)
We're meant to believe that she woke up
after an anguished night of fretting over the missing Heatherton and
whipped up this insane coiffure?? It's deliciously preposterous. She
and Sullivan have one more showdown before coming to an understanding
with one another. He gets word that the coast guard has spotted his
daughter and bolts out the door with Coster.
Many of the lobby cards and stills for
this film feature the climax in them. I don't care to spoil the story
any further, but I will say that the finale is pretty protracted and
a bit tedious, perhaps because it starts to go the way we've seen so
many other movies and TV shows have. It's conventional and something
of a let down, though not without some degree of visual interest (a
lot of it occurs at a sand plant, which is at least an unusual
locale.)
My Blood Runs Cold signaled the end of
its stars place in the Hollywood studio firmament. Donahue, unhappy
with the roles he'd been given previously and despite this shot at
something different, departed Warner Brothers and was subsequently
(according to him) blackballed from consideration for decent roles
with any other studio. Heatherton, whose only prior films were
Twilight of Honor (1963) and Where Love Has Gone (1964), began to
focus on her career as a singing and dancing dynamo and didn't return
to the cinema screen until Bluebeard in 1972.
Donahue's peak years as a teen idol
were 1959 to 1965, after which he struggled to find meaningful
employment as an actor and eventually turned to alcohol and drugs
(which in turn led to financial ruin and even a period of
homelessness!) He did rebound to a degree in the mid-1970s in
low-budget films and TV appearances (also enjoying a small role in
The Godfather: Part II, 1974, playing a character with his own real name Merle
Johnson.)
Having Donahue, whose big blue eyes and
swath of blond hair inspired a legion of fans, in a black and white
movie is akin to having Shirley Temple minus her curls or Esther
Williams without the swimming. While I understand the case for black
and white, even understanding that candy colors might have diffused
the atmosphere of this movie, I still would love to have seen it in
color. This still shows the hue of his aforementioned big, furry
sweater.
Donahue died in 2001 of a heart attack
at age sixty-five, having navigated a bumpy road after the reasonably
short period of success he'd previously enjoyed.
Heatherton also faced rough times after
this. While she proved herself to be a captivating singer and an
eye-popping dancer on many variety shows, her personal life was
fraught with difficulty. In 1969, she married Dallas Cowboy football
star Lance Rentzel, but he wound up battling a lot of personal demons
that manifested themselves via indecent exposure to underage girls.
Following her 1972 divorce from him, a
degree of success on TV, including Serta mattress ads, and the
occasional low-budget movie gave way to a string of incidents in the
'80s involving monetary disputes, assault and drug possession.
Precious little has been heard from her since the early-1990s, though
she is still with us today at age seventy.
Sullivan is a member of the Underworld
Disaster Movie Club thanks to his appearance in 1974's Earthquake.
Though he possessed a certain presence and could be of good use in
supporting roles, I've never been able to reconcile that severe face
for use as a leading man (such as he was in Queen Bee, 1955, and
Forty Guns, 1957, among others.) He enjoyed a busy, fifty-year career
in the movies and on TV before passing away in 1994 at the age of
eighty-one from respiratory disease.
Coster, who some folks might be
surprised to discover was born in England, is best known for plenty
of work on daytime soaps including Another World, Santa Barbara and
As the World Turns, though he has always remained busy on all sorts
of television. Now eighty years of age, he still pops up regularly,
including quite a few appearances on the The Bay (2000-present), a
soap opera available on the web.
Nolan is another member of the Disaster
Movie Club (an organization that exists solely in my head!) for her
work in 1978's Avalanche. Already thirty-seven when she made her
first film appearance (as no less than Lady Macbeth in the 1948 Orson
Welles film, Macbeth, as seen here), she went on to a prolific career
before the camera.
In fact, she racked up fifty years
worth of on-camera work, ending her career in 1998 with a role in The
Horse Whisperer, the same year a stroke took her life at age
eighty-six. Four times Emmy nominated, she played everything from
dangerous dames to kindly grannies to haggard old biddies. Fans of
The Golden Girls might recall her guest spot as Rose's (later to be
deemed adoptive) mother in a 1985 episode. She also had one of
Tinseltown's most successful marriages, to frequent costar John
McIntire, which lasted from 1935 to his death in 1991.
In all honesty, Miss Nolan could
sometimes be guilty of overacting, though she was often terrific
nonetheless. Here, though, she really delivers a balanced, thoughtful
performance, regardless of all the silly cosmetic trappings, and
reserves her bigger moments for those times when they are
appropriate. I can honestly say that after seeing this movie, I have
a newfound affection for her as not only a actress, but as a major
league hair hopper!
Speaking of hair, the “Supervising
Hair Stylist” for My Blood Runs Cold was Jean Burt Reilly, a Warner
Brothers employee from the mid-1940s till the mid-1970s. (She's seen here assisting Petula Clark.) In 1976, she
won an Emmy for Eleanor and Franklin, a TV-movie (and was nominated
also in 1979 for Ike: The War Years, but lost to Janice Brandow for
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal.) She died in 1981 at age
sixty-five, having recently worked on Ordinary People (1980), Raging
Bull (1980) and True Confessions (1981.) It's no wonder I was gaga
over her work here since she is also the one responsible for the hair
in The Towering Inferno (1974)! (God knows no one had better have lit a match next to Nolan's shellacked 'dos in this movie!)
As the hair was my very favorite thing about this movie, I leave you with a series of "highlights."
16 comments:
Yay! Another recap! I live for these! I have this movie on my DVD-R right now. I need to watch it already, but it's hard for me to get into anything starring Troy Donahue. I know loads of people think he's dreamy, but he always struck me as a big lump of bland, undercooked potatoes who was conventionally handsome, albeit in a boring and wholly predictable way. He seemed like a nice enough guy and I don't wish homelessness on anyone (ok, a few people!) but I think him being an absolute dullard is why his career really tanked.
Love me some Joey though. I have her 1972 album AND her CD (she's nekkid on the cover!), both of which are pretty good. Girl had singing and dancing talent galore, but I think her poor acting skills along with that perpetual come hither she always had her mug did her in.
I hope Liz Taylor never saw "My Blood Runs Cold" or ET woulda been mighty jealous of Jeanette Nolan's jumbo dos! She made Liz' Alexandre of Paris look like a slacker! Hard to believe that Jeanette was the same gal who gleefully played "Dirty Sally!"
And Joey, whose hair don'ts were only exceeded by her eye makeup! Whenever I think of her, I think of Catherine O'Hara's wicked SCTV spoof "Lola Heaterton!"
Poseidon, I thought of you during this ridiculously wonderful movie and so happy you caught it! Thank you, TCM!
Rico
It looks like Jeannette Nolan's hair upstaged everyone in this movie, including herself. The movie sounds ridiculous and fun to watch. I need to pay more attention to the TV schedule too.
I believe Troy Donahue played Merle Johnson in The Godfather II (1974).
Thanks for the review.
Devil, despite the fact that several of his movies have been profiled here, I'm also not much of a Donahue fan either! I happen to like the era his films were made in, as well as some of his costars, so watching him is usually a by-product of that. But my tolerance for him has increased over the years, perhaps due to the polish of the movies he starred in.
As for Joey, I enjoyed her in this (more than in "Where Love Has Gone!" I was so relieved that she didn't call Sullivan "Daddy" in this one...) Her sultry, pouty ways saved this from the cutesiness that would have come had Sandra Dee or Connie Stevens had her role. Diane McBain might have been the ideal person, though.
Rico, I thought about mentioning "Lola Heatherton" and even "Troy McClure" (of "The Simpsons"), but didn't in the end. And, yes, Nolan, definitely sank her teeth (what? all four of them??) into the role of "Dirty Sally!" LOL
Armando, believe it or not, even with the crazy styling, Nolan manages to come across very, very well. Not everyone could have acted effectively from underneath all that stuff! And I'm so sorry about "The Godfather" thing... too much going on at once and sloppy research. It's fixed now! Thank you.
Oh Poseidon I knew when I was watching this that it would be something to touch your hairdo loving heart, even if several of Jeannette's creations would be hairdon'ts in real life. And that hat!! Still she glams the movie up considerably though some of those wiglets must have weighed a ton when you take into account that a couple were the same size if not larger than her head.
As far as the movie as a whole goes your right that Diane McBain would have given a better performance as Julie/Barbara but I think having Joey and her pout singles the movie out from the pack since it's the only one she did in this particular vein. Who knew they had bottle blondes in the 17th century!
As a Heatherton fan, this is a film I've been wanting to see for a long time as well. Since DVR-ing on TCM I confess to having watched it about four times by now.
It's wretched in a lot of ways (really cries out for color) but as soon as I saw the hairdos I thought of you.
Nolan looks like Ruth Gordon Crossed with Agnes Moorehead and would come close to upstaging Heatherton had director Cannon not been savvy enough to keep Lola, I mean Joy, in Baby Doll nighties and skintight jeans throughout.
Doughy-faced Donahue never registers, but it was a relief to see him cast in something more fitting with how creepy I've always found him.
Thanks for all the background info on the players and for highlighting what has become a new favorite.
Just saw this the other night...bravo on your astute overview! Troy Donahue was the hottest beefcake around in those days, wow, he is a looker, but soo wooden and flat in his performances, to the point of unintended hilarity...fortunately, for his psycho role here, it kind of plays well!
My favorite performance in this is by Jeannette Nolan...great character actress in a rare diva turn! Great role, and GREAT hats!!
-Chris
The collapse of any one of the Jeanette Nolan hairdos in this movie had to be the inspiration for Dirty Sally's signature bedhead coiffe. That said, Miss Nolan was a brave and talented actress.
PS, this site is a lot of fun. Thanks.
I love Nolan's ini dan trading post garb, leftovers brought directly from Yma Sumac's "Inca Taqui" cover shoot.
Wow, a killer recap and some great comments. I just watched this too, thank goodness. On her greatest hits cd(what?) Joey does a song called "My Blood Runs Cold" I kept expecting to hear it during the credits, but never did. The opening "burlap" scene confused me, as the costume looks almost medieval (before blond white people were in California)but then you find out it's early 19th century. Joey sticks out from the pack with her unique brand of tortured sexiness-crazy, pouty faces. I loved the seaweed scene! who would wade through slimy seaweed? This might be one of the best hairdo movies for me, on par with "What A Way To Go"
So fun Poseiden
Yes, Joel. Joey is cute and sexy and all, but the glam in the film comes from Jeanette (and not only her hair and clothes, but some great earrings, too!)
Ken, if you're a Joey fan, you must have found yourself in heaven when you finally got to see this! I daresay it's probably her best or close to best bit of film acting? This movie in color is something that might have blown my mind.
Angelman, so glad that you (and apparently so many other of my www friends!) made it a point to see this. And you're right, it's rare to see Nolan as one of the "haves" since she so often was schoolmarms, bag ladies, household staff and so on. She clearly relished it!
Harpo, thanks for reading and for commenting! Glad to see you here. For those who never saw "Dirty Sally" it is 180 degrees from this in every way, isn't it?? Shows the range she had. That was one committed, low-down (but endearing) hillbilly role!
Narciso! LOL Thanks for invoking Yma Sumac here at The Underworld. I think the only time I've ever written about her was in my tribute to "The Apple."
LOL Gingerguy, I was drinking water through a straw while reading your comment and almost shot some through my nose when I got to your "(what?)" HILARIOUS! And it does still slay me that she went for "a walk" amongst huge boulders and globs of seaweed with old bodies entangled in it. LOLOL
I'm so delighted that a large contingent of my readers caught this when it aired! Hopefully, it will run again soon for anyone who missed it and wants to see it in all its glory.
OMG Poseidon you are addictive! I just discovered your blog and have been binge reading for two days. (My husband wonders why no housework is getting done.)
I love your movie recaps and this one and the prior one (for The Cube) made me laugh out loud (and spit out coffee if truth be told.).
What I really love about you -- aside from your love of Robert Conrad and The Battle of the Network Stars -- is how you treasure great character actors who make movies memorable in supporting roles.
In particular, I was glad to see Nicolas Coster here. I adored him on Another World as the Put upon Robert Delany. He has appeared in so many TV shows (just saw him on a Hart to Hart rerun) and I am glad he is not forgotten.
When I was growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania I thought I was the only weird kid obsessed with movies and TV shows. I lived for it all, from Lana Turner to Lani O'Grady. I realize now that I was no the only one! You and your wonderful readers make me feel right at home.
Sorry for the long comments so late after your original posting, but as I mentioned I am just catching up on the blog.
Can't wait for more!
OMG Poseidon you are addictive! I just discovered your blog and have been binge reading for two days. (My husband wonders why no housework is getting done.)
I love your movie recaps and this one and the prior one (for The Cube) made me laugh out loud (and spit out coffee if truth be told.).
What I really love about you -- aside from your love of Robert Conrad and The Battle of the Network Stars -- is how you treasure great character actors who make movies memorable in supporting roles.
In particular, I was glad to see Nicolas Coster here. I adored him on Another World as the Put upon Robert Delany. He has appeared in so many TV shows (just saw him on a Hart to Hart rerun) and I am glad he is not forgotten.
When I was growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania I thought I was the only weird kid obsessed with movies and TV shows. I lived for it all, from Lana Turner to Lani O'Grady. I realize now that I was no the only one! You and your wonderful readers make me feel right at home.
Sorry for the long comments so late after your original posting, but as I mentioned I am just catching up on the blog.
Can't wait for more!
Roberta, never apologize for commenting "late" on a post! I'm alerted to all comments via e-mail, so I still see them as if their fresh and new (which they are!) I'm thrilled that you like the site and my (exhaustive, as one reader put it!) movie tributes such as this one and the crazy "The Big Cube." They take a lot out of me, so when someone likes them, I'm pleased to death.
And, yes, it's always been a goal of mine to turn the spotlight on the folks who otherwise get just some "spill light" from the one shining on the big stars, LOL! There are always websites devoted to major movie and TV stars, so The Underworld tries to give an occasional boost to the lesser-heralded talents (though, even saying that, I still pay tribute to my own favorite big-leaguers.)
Thanks again for reading and commenting!
Meanwhile, in a different part of town...
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