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Mikey and Nicky (1976) dir. Elaine May cine. Bernie Abramson & Victor J. Kemper

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Okay, Cicely, friends, we're here today to tie the knot between Ron Bantz and Erick Hillman.

Marriage, why do we do it? Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana.

Is it loneliness? Partly. Is it teamwork? Definitely. Things just go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double.

Ron, Erick, you ready to file jointly? Ron, will you have Erick to be your spouse? To love him, comfort him in sickness and in health? Stick it out until the fat lady sings?

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Golden Age of Hollywood Actors Born Before (And Including) 1939 Still Alive

This only includes actors that had at least one credited role in a Hollywood feature film or short up to 1959.

Caren Marsh Doll (b. 1919)

Patricia Wright (b. 1921)

Beulah Garrick (b. 1921)

Jacqueline White (b. 1922)

Annette Warren (b. 1922)

Ray Anthony (b. 1922)

Ann Donaldson (b. 1922)

Eva Marie Saint (b. 1924)

Anne Vernon (b. 1924)

Pat Parrish (b. 1924)

Lee Grant (b. 1925)

Peggy Webber (b. 1925)

Brigitte Auber (b. 1925)

Gloria Patrice (b. 1925)

Joyce McCluskey (b. 1925)

Terry Kilburn (b. 1926) 

Marilyn Erskine (b. 1926)

Bambi Linn (b. 1926)

David Frankham (b. 1926)

Stan Ross (b. 1926)

Larry Carr (b. 1926)

Rosemary Harris (b. 1927)

Donna Martell (b. 1927)

Peter Walker (b. 1927)

H.M. Wynant (b. 1927)

John Goddard (b. 1927)

Fred Darian (b. 1927)

Bette Ford (b. 1927)

Nancy Olson (b. 1928)

Peggy Dow (b. 1928)

Colleen Townsend (b. 1928)

Marion Ross (b. 1928)

Gaby Rodgers (b. 1928)

Garry Watson (b. 1928)

Ron Hartmann (b. 1928)

Mark Rydell (b. 1929)

Terry Moore (b. 1929)

Vera Miles (b. 1929)

Liseotte Pulver (b. 1929)

James Hong (b. 1929)

Rachel Ames (b. 1929)

Michael Forest (b. 1929)

Vikki Dougan (b. 1929)

Steve Terrell (b. 1929)

Regina Gleason (b. 1929)

Priscilla Montgomery (b. 1929)

James Congdon (b. 1929)

Eileen Bernstein (b. 1929)

Cecelia Murray (b. 1929)

Willie Mae Walton (b. 1929)

Peter Myers (b. 1929)

Clint Eastwood (b. 1930)

Joanne Woodward (b. 1930)

Nita Talbot (b. 1930)

Robert Wagner (b. 1930)

John Astin (b. 1930)

Tommy Cook (b. 1930)

Mary Costa (b. 1930)

Lois Smith (b. 1930)

Peggy King (b. 1930)

Don Burnett (b. 1930)

Clark Burroughs (b. 1930)

Sheila Connolly (b. 1930)

Judy Dan (b. 1930)

Patsy Currier (b. 1930)

Tony Franke (b. 1930)

James Valentine (b. 1930)

Cindy Adams (b. 1930)

Patricia Northrop (b. 1930)

Rita Moreno (b. 1931)

Leslie Caron (b. 1931)

Carroll Baker (b. 1931)

William Shatner (b. 1931)

Mamie Van Doren (b. 1931)

Robert Colbert (b. 1931)

Barbara Eden (b. 1931)

Angie Dickinson (b. 1931)

Claire Bloom (b. 1931)

Virginia McKenna (b. 1931)

Marianne Koch (b. 1931)

Sylvia Lewis (b. 1931)

Zohra Lampert (b. 1931)

Michael Dante (b. 1931)

Ann McCrea (b. 1931)

Jack Grinnage (b. 1931)

Maralou Gray (b. 1931)

Billy Mindy (b. 1931)

Sugar Dawn (b. 1931)

Joanne Arnold (b. 1931)

Diane Gump (b. 1931)

Janet Comerford (b. 1931)

Marilyn Saris (b. 1931)

Ducky Louie (b. 1931)

Gloria Moreland (b. 1931)

Douglas Madore (b. 1931)

Joan Corbett (b. 1931)

Joel Grey (b. 1932)

George Chakiris (b. 1932)

Felicia Farr (b. 1932)

Steve Rowland (b. 1932)

Jacqueline Beer (b. 1932)

Colleen Miller (b. 1932)

Neile Adams (b. 1932)

Jacqueline Duval (b. 1932)

Richard Tyler (b. 1932)

Mickey Roth (b. 1932)

Peggy McIntyre (b. 1932)

Christiane Martel (b. 1932)

Elsa Cardenas (b. 1932)

Carlos Fernández (b. 1932)

Christiane Kubrick (b. 1932)

Jo Jo La Savio (b. 1932)

Charlene Barry (b. 1932)

Kim Novak (b. 1933)

Julie Newmar (b. 1933)

Debra Paget (b. 1933)

Constance Towers (b. 1933)

Joan Collins (b. 1933)

Kathleen Nolan (b. 1933)

Brett Halsey (b. 1933)

Robert Fuller (b. 1933)

Barrie Chase (b. 1933)

Jackie Joseph (b. 1933)

Geoffrey Horne (b. 1933)

Tsai Chin (b. 1933)

Renee Taylor (b. 1933)

Lita Milan (b. 1933)

Vera Day (b. 1933)

Diana Darrin (b. 1933)

Ziva Rodann (b. 1933)

Jeanette Sterke (b. 1933)

Marti Stevens (b. 1933)

Patti Hale (b. 1933)

Gary Clarke (b. 1933)

Charlotte Austin (b. 1933)

Larry Chance (b. 1933)

Niki Dantine (b. 1933)

Laurie Carroll (b. 1933)

Francisca Santoro (b. 1933)

Wendy Wilde (b. 1933)

Ronnie Ralph (b. 1933)

Peg Shirley (b. 1933)

Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) 

Sophia Loren (b. 1934)

Shirley Jones (b. 1934)

Russ Tamblyn (b. 1934)

Pat Boone (b. 1934)

Audrey Dalton (b. 1934)

Tina Louise (b. 1934)

Karen Sharpe (b. 1934)

Joyce Van Patten (b. 1934)

Jamie Farr (b. 1934)

Myrna Hansen (b. 1934)

Priscilla Morgan (b. 1934)

Robert Fields (b. 1934)

Dani Crayne (b. 1934)

Donnie Dunagan (b. 1934)

Marilyn Horne (b. 1934)

Marilee Earle (b. 1934)

Don Crichton (b. 1934)

Jolene Brand (b. 1934)

Johnny Western (b. 1934)

Melinda Markey (b. 1934)

Rodd Dana (b. 1934) 

Clyde Dembeck (b. 1934)

David Garcia (b. 1934)

Johnny Stewart (b. 1934)

David Love (b. 1934)

Linda Bieber (b. 1934)

Lee Meriwether (b. 1935)

Ruta Lee (b. 1935)

Barbara Bostock (b. 1935)

Johnny Mathis (b. 1935)

Leslie Parrish (b. 1935)

Salome Jens (b. 1935)

Jean Moorehead (b. 1935)

Marco Lopez (b. 1935)

Joyce Meadows (b. 1935)

Christopher Severn (b. 1935)

Carol Coombs (b. 1935)

Patricia Prest (b. 1935)

Dawn Bender (b. 1935)

Jerry Farber (b. 1935)

Clyde Willson (b. 1935)

Joel Newfield (b. 1935)

Marlene Cameron (b. 1935)

Lisa Gastoni (b. 1935)

Gary Raymond (b. 1935)

George Kezas (b. 1935)

Rian Garrick (b. 1935)

Robert Paget (b. 1935)

Jimmy Murphy (b. 1935)

Susan Kohner (b. 1936)

Millie Perkins (b. 1936)

Burt Brickenhoff (b. 1936)

Mason Alan Dinehart (b. 1936)

Richard Harrison (b. 1936)

Anna Maria Alberghetti (b. 1936)

Lisa Davis (b. 1936)

Tommy Ivo (b. 1936)

John Wilder (b. 1936)

Gary Conway (b. 1936)

Michael Chapin (b. 1936)

Carol Morris (b. 1936)

Fernando Alvarado (b. 1936)

Dawn Richard (b. 1936)

Daria Massey (b. 1936)

Alan Reed Jr. (b. 1936)

Asa Maynor (b. 1936)

Judy Bamber (b. 1936)

Joan Bradshaw (b. 1936)

Maureen Cassidy (b. 1936)

Georgianna Carter (b. 1936)

Bunny Kacher (b. 1936)

Barbara Cowan (b. 1936)

Reita Green (b. 1936)

Ted Otis Jr. (b. 1936)

Susan Levine (b. 1936)

Gloria Donovan (b. 1936)

Hayward Soo Hoo (b. 1936)

Joan Wells (b. 1936)

Rollie Jones (b. 1936)

Barbara Wilson (b. 1936)

Jack Nicholson (b. 1937)

Billy Dee Williams (b. 1937)

Tommy Sands (b. 1937)

William Wellman Jr. (b. 1937)

Elinor Donahue (b. 1937)

Paul Hampton (b. 1937)

George Takei (b. 1937)

Margaret O’Brien (b. 1937)

Carol Nugent (b. 1937)

Patti Brady (b. 1937)

Paul Collins (b. 1937)

Ingrid Goude (b. 1937)

Luciana Paluzzi (b. 1937)

Jocelyn Lane (b. 1937)

Barbara Luna (b. 1937)

Vitina Marcus (b. 1937)

Corinne Cole (b. 1937)

Cynthia Chenault (b. 1937)

Bill Anderson (b. 1937)

Curtis Loys Jackson Jr. (b. 1937)

Peggy Miller (b. 1937)

Robert Aiken (b. 1937)

Skip Torgerson (b. 1937)

Jacqueline Curtis (b. 1937)

Diane Baker (b. 1938)

Richard Beymer (b. 1938)

Billy Gray (b. 1938)

Dolores Hart (b. 1938)

Nina Shipman (b. 1938)

Connie Stevens (b. 1938)

Eilene Janssen (b. 1938)

Norma Jean Nilsson (b. 1938)

Sharon McManus (b. 1938)

Kathryn Beaumont (b. 1938)

Timmy Hawkins (b. 1938)

Danielle De Metz (b. 1938)

Scilla Gabel (b. 1938)

Marilyn Hanold (b. 1938)

Patsy Nash (b. 1938)

Arlene Gray (b. 1938)

Sandra Church (b. 1939)

Patrick Wayne (b. 1939)

George Hamilton (b. 1939)

France Nuyen (b. 1939)

Jo Morrow (b. 1939)

Donna Anderson (b. 1939)

Bart Patton (b. 1939)

Anne Collings (b. 1939)

Orley Lindgren (b. 1939)

Sammy Ogg (b. 1939)

Marjorie Kent (b. 1939)

Harper Carter (b. 1939)

Bobby Dolan Jr. (b. 1939)

Steve Stevens (b. 1939)

Wesley Morgan (b. 1939)

Malcolm Cassell (b. 1939)

Sandra Knight (b. 1939)

Jennifer West (b. 1939)

Cathy Crosby (b. 1939)

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Joyce Van Patten on the set of "Love, American Style" (1973)

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Joyce Van Patten (Brooklyn, New York, 9/03/1934).

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BLOGTOBER 10/2/2024: THE STRANGER WITHIN (1974)

I wish I had made this the first movie of the season, because it was an ABC Movie of the Week from October 1, 1974! I really enjoyed this weird thriller about how Barbara Eden gets pregnant despite her husband George Grizzard's vasectomy, and her increasingly bizarre behavior suggests that something more than infidelity is afoot. Screenwriter Richard Matheson adapted his own 1953 novelette Trespass, and I have learned that a novelette is longer than a short story and shorter than a novella. I did not know this.

Roe v. Wade was codified the year before THE STRANGER WITHIN came out, and the film is full of casual but surprisingly frank remarks why a person might need an abortion. Barbara Eden had a traumatic miscarriage not long ago, which motivated George Grizzard's vasectomy, and his suspicions about her mysterious new pregnancy are threatening the integrity of the marriage, and then she starts getting sort of sick or something--so it's clear that a person might be reasonably entitled to end a pregnancy based on various quality of life issues for the child and the mother. I wonder if it was a big deal for Barbara Eden to choose to do this movie where she and her costar regularly and openly discuss abortion with no moral quibbling. I wonder also if it was a big deal for ABC to show it, at the dawn of legal abortion.

Anyway, soon the couple has bigger problems than family planning, because Barbara Eden becomes hypersensitive to sound, and she needs the house to be ice cold, and she makes weird paintings, and she eats pounds and pounds of salt with scalding black coffee, and she craves information which she absorbs through her hands, rubbing and touching and feeling everything in the library. The couple gets Bob the hypnotist (David Doyle) involved, and it seems like hypnotism is a really great job if you are a gigantic busybody who immediately asks and won't stop asking probing personal questions, even if people beg you to stop. Anyway, Bob has one of the best lines of dialog I've heard all year: "Why do people always assume that anything from outer space is horrible?"

THE STRANGER WITHIN is not a perfect film; it's an obvious ROSEMARY'S BABY knockoff with a little EXORCIST sprinkled in, and for a movie that is only 75 minutes long it has a few too many long scenes of Barbara Eden wandering aimlessly in nature as she communes with whatever knocked her up. But it's intriguing and entertaining, and it seems like everyone enjoyed making it, especially cinematographer Michael D. Margulies whose pedigree includes John Cassavetes' MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ, POLICE ACADEMY, DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY, and of course, THE BABY. Night scenes are illuminated by dramatic pools of light and splashes of saturated color, which heightens the drama even of exposition and repetitive bickering; it's just a fun movie overall. Recommended for viewers who assume that anything from outer space is horrible.

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Love has its own particular point of view. It sees everything larger than life. Nothing is too ornate, too fanciful, too dramatic. Love demands the theatrical, and then transfigures it. It turns the grotesque into the lovely, as a child does. With it, we can see what we wish to see in other people. Without it, we can't see anything at all. We can search forever, and never find.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE | 4.17 PASSAGE ON THE LADY ANNE

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