Said Mara Corday, about Richard Long, quoted in "Mara Corday, Starlet of Monster Movies and Magazines, Dies at 95/She appeared in Playboy and sci-fi films in the 1950s. Later, in Clint Eastwood’s 'Sudden Impact,' she was a hostage until he uttered five famous words" (NYT).
Wow! I love this poster:
And go ahead, make my day:
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Woo! They don't make women that look like that anymore!
Quite the Sweater Girl.
That muzzle view of the Model 29 is convincing.
Clint just turned 95 last week. I read he's working on another movie. Good to see he's still 'not letting the old man in'.
The NYTimes has started highlighting obituaries of obscure but interesting cultural players of the 20th Century. The stories tickle awake memory cells that were asleep for decades.
I liked her husband Richard Long:
Long served in the U.S. Army for two years during the Korean War,[21] where he was posted to Fort Ord, California, alongside actors Martin Milner, David Janssen, and Clint Eastwood.[22] He was also stationed in Tokyo, Japan.[21]
Long was twice married: his first wife, singer and actress Suzan Ball, whom he married on April 11, 1954, died of cancer 14 months later, at age 22.[23][24][25][26] They had met in 1953, after her cancer diagnosis; her right leg was amputated in early 1954 and they married in April.[ (Wikipedia)
What a small world. Susan Ball was Lucille Ball’s second cousin.
When she wed Richard Long, among the 100-plus guests in attendance were fellow UI luminaries Jeff Chandler, Barbara Rush, Rock Hudson, Lori Nelson, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Janssen, Julie Adams, Hugh O'Brien, Mala Powers, and Mary Castle. (Wikipedia)
Richard Long starred in the 1960s Western drama "The Big Valley" -- his tough-as-nails mother was played by Barbara Stanwyck. (That must have been one of the first examples of a big movie star turning to network TV.)
Then he did a sitcom called "Nanny and the Professor" (the nanny, played by Juliet Mills, had unspecified magical powers). (How is it that so many middle-class parents on TV shows from that era could afford live-in household help?)
I think both shows can still be seen on YouTube.
She sounds busy.
Four Clint Eastwood films, including Tarantula.
Thanks to all the above commenters for the history. It does my heart good to know that some of the "originals" are/were kept employed through the ages.
There is a meme where images of Clint Eastwood's son are juxtaposed with images of Robert Deniro's "son." The younger Eastwood is masculine, in shape and handsome. Mr. Deniro's son is, of course, a cross dresser.
AI summary: "The phrase “I divorce you” three times is a reference to the controversial practice of triple talaq, which allows a Muslim man to instantly divorce his wife."
I guess if you are a Muslim woman, you would have to say it six times? Which, for an outlandish claim, a Muslim Mara Corday would have to say it 30 times? If my math is right.
I'm trying to work in my new favorite adverb, 'outlandish', into this post. It's a stretch.
Meh. IMHO the movie poster for “Tarantula” is more scary.
Mothers hide your babies. It progresses from the inner sanctum of planned parenthood.
I love that poster as well. It's a masterpiece. Nothing like a giant, snarling metaphor for vagina dentata to remind 1950s America that the real monster... might just be sexual panic with lipstick and fangs. Pure Freudian pulp—and she bites back.
Marriage, and divorce, have been on my mind recently. We will be married 25 years in October, and I know that my life would be infinitely worse if we'd gotten divorced over "major" disagreements in our early years. Stick it out, people, it's worth it. (Unless infidelity is involved, then the offender can go fuck right off).
I remember the old movies, when you could actually shoot black criminals with guns, and make your day.
You try that now you'll be in the cell right next to George Floyd's cop.
It's nice to see accolades for "journeyman" actors. Movies wouldn't be made without them.
Women are way too quick to divorce their husbands for silly but horrible reasons (bored, changed POV). The loosening of divorce laws IMO and the resultant effect are one reason men today are bypassing marriage and remaining single. Women screw them over by taking their earnings, their equity, their children and all for selfish reasons.
I divorced him 10 times the first year of our marriage, getting a lawyer and everything, and 13 times the second year.
Unless I'm missing something, 23 divorces means 24 marriages.
I just imagine that wedding ceremony getting smaller and smaller. You start off with 200 guests, and by wedding number 19, you have to hijack a janitor to witness the thing.
They were still married when her husband died in 1974.
If I was writing a screenplay about that romance, I'd call it, 24 Weddings and a Funeral
I haven't seen the movie, but I agree with our hostess, the poster is way cool.
I like this one even more. $400 for B movie fans.
I like the big snaggle tooth and the smaller snaggle tooth. Making the teeth irregular was a stroke of genius.
Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton, and divorced him, and married him again. And divorced him again.
Pathetic! You're no superstar!
I love the never-say-die spirit of Mara Corday and Richard Long. "I loved him so much, I married him 24 times." That is some crazy love right there.
I meant it, I didn't mean it, I really do mean it, I didn't mean it at all, let's do it again, get away from me, I love you so much, never again, one more time, stop it, let's do it again, we're finished, please take me back, no way, this time it's forever, I hate you, maybe I'm pregnant, go away, I'm on my knees begging for forgiveness, fuck off and die, oh baby I love you so much, I want a divorce, our love is eternal, I need space, let's run away together, let's run apart, just a quickie in Mexico, divorce in Mexico, I'm not paying that lawyer so we're married again, I'll pay this lawyer so we're divorced again, by God I want to marry you one more time, you are evil and I am running away, our love is real, we are crazy and apart, what if we get married again, we'll just get divorced again, I know you love me, I know I hate you, oh crap I love you again, I want to see other people, other people don't want to see me, you cheated on me, I forgive you, somebody shoot me if we get married again, we were just kidding about that, we're finished, I think this one might be for keeps.
Happy 2 year anniversary!
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