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INCREDIBLY STRANGE
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“Earl Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason, starring film noir veteran Raymond Burr as the titular trial lawyer, had been airing in black and white since its inception 1957, but CBS decided to take a chance by opening its September 1966 season with a color episode called “The Case of the Twice-Told Twist.” The scene: Burr and his secretary (Barbara Hale)
park on the northwest corner of Third and Olive (formerly the Angels Flight Cafe) and take the funicular down to see a client. By the time they return fifteen minutes later, juvenile delinquents have stripped their car.”
“The Outsider [I loved that show!] ran for only a season, in 1968-1969, on NBC, but in many ways, Darren McGavin’s down-on-his-luck loner detective, David Ross, served as pulp novelist and screenwriter Roy Huggins’s prototype for James Garner’s more successful Jim Rockford a couple of years later. One early episode called “Through a Stained Glass Window” took advantage of the last two vestiges of old Bunker Hill: Angels Flight and the Castle, which by then had been sawed into three pieces and moved to Highland Park.”
“The next time we see Bunker Hill, it’s playing itself: a post-apocalyptic wasteland in The Omega Man (1971), a Charlton Heston movie about earth’s last living human fighting an army of vampires. A hundred years of Los Angeles history — of beautiful old homes, tourist hotels and working-class apartments, each an integral part of the growth and survival of the city as a great urban center –has been trampled in the dust.”
Also
“INCREDIBLY STRANGE PEOPLE WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES!!?(1964)
Ray Debbis Steckler directed and starred in (under the name Cash Flagg) this nutty movie about a Long Beach carnival [The Long Beach Pike or Nu-Pike?] where a fortune-telling Gypsy hypnotizes a guy (Flagg) and makes him murder strippers.”
(“Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill” by Jim Dawson)
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Bobby socks with glasses:
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“took his eyes away from Miss Hattie, turning the pages of the catalogue.He stared down at the model figures in brassieres,corsets and undergarments.”
(“Dunbar’s Cove” by Borden Deal)
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Janet Mason PTA soccer mom sex bomb:
Sarah Young:
& Shawn:
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dandy133: “Nice stockings – I’m a real stocking lover and you have nice legs”
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Brie as Patty:
Virginia and Chasey
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Wikipedia:
“Virginia Weidler
(March 21, 1927 – July 1, 1968) was an American child actress, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s.
Weidler made her first film appearance in 1933. Over the next few years, she was cast in minor roles for RKO and Paramount Pictures. Neither studio made more extensive use of her, and when Paramount did not extend her contract, she was signed by MGM in 1938. Her first film for MGM was with their leading male star Mickey Rooney in Love Is a Headache (1938). The film was a success and Weidler was later cast in larger roles. She was one of the all-female cast of the 1939 film The Women, as Norma Shearer’s character’s daughter.
Her next major success was The Philadelphia Story (1940) in which she played Dinah Lord, the witty younger sister of Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). As a teenager she was less popular with audiences.
After a string of box-office disappointments, her film career ended with the 1943 film Best Foot Forward. At her retirement from the screen at age 16, she had appeared in more than forty films, and had acted with some of the biggest stars of the day, including Clark Gable and Myrna Loy in Too Hot to Handle, Bette Davis in All This and Heaven Too and Judy Garland in Babes on Broadway.
Her older brother, saxophonist George Weidler, (1926–1989) was married to Doris Day from March 1946 to May 1949. Prior to her birth, Weidler’s German-born father, Alfred Weidler, (1886–1966) had been an architect in Hamburg, Germany, but moved the family to Los Angeles in 1923 and went on to become a model builder with 20th Century Fox. Her mother, Margaret (née Meyer), had been an opera singer in Germany.
On March 27, 1947, aged 20, Weidler married Lionel Krisel.
Weidler refused to be interviewed for the remainder of her life, living in private. She remained married to Krisel until her death on July 1, 1968, when she suffered a heart attack in Los Angeles at age 41.”
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Chasey Lain demonstrates the poodle skirt!
and Brie too!
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“Barbara came out of the bathroom naked and got dressed, first a bra and panties and a half-slip and a garter belt and stockings
(no girdle, not even after two kids), and then making up her face and doing her hair, and last, her jewelry: a watch, and her wedding ring.”
(W.E.B. Griffin)
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Bobby socks:
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dandy133: “Love those stockings – look much better on you than women”
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Rebecca Starr!
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Brie as Shirley:
Allison & Constance
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Wikipedia:
“Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious. The novel describes how three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy New England town, with recurring themes of hypocrisy, social inequities and class privilege in a tale that includes incest, abortion, adultery, lust and murder. It sold 60,000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 59 weeks. The novel spawned a franchise that would eventually run through four decades. Twentieth Century-Fox adapted it as a major motion picture in 1957, and Metalious wrote a follow-up novel that was published in 1959, called Return to Peyton Place, which was also filmed in 1961 using the same title. The original 1956 novel was adapted again in 1964, in what became a wildly successful prime time television series for 20th Century Fox Television that ran until 1969, and the term “Peyton Place” – an allusion to any small town or group that holds scandalous secrets – entered into the American lexicon.
The story starts in 1937 and continues through the years following World War II. While never mentioned explicitly by name, the novel does make several references that suggest Peyton Place is located within the state of New Hampshire: Vermont can be seen from across the Connecticut River.
The fictional Peyton Place also appears to be a composite of several real New Hampshire towns: Metalious’ hometown of Gilmanton, as well as Gilford, Laconia, Manchester and Plymouth, where at least some of the work was written at the Plymouth Inn on Main Street (the inn has since been torn down).
The main plot follows the lives of three women: lonely and repressed Constance MacKenzie;
her illegitimate daughter Allison;
and her employee Selena Cross,
a girl from across the tracks, or “from the shacks.” Several characters and events were drawn from events in nearby towns and people Metalious actually knew. Selena Cross was based on Barbara Roberts, a 16-year-old girl from the village of Gilmanton Ironworks, who murdered her father Sylvester after years of sexual abuse and buried his body under a sheep pen. In the novel, Selena kills her stepfather, since incest was considered too taboo for readers at the time. Metalious’ editor Kitty Messner made the change, much to the author’s dismay and disapproval.
Constance leaves Peyton Place for New York City at a young age and meets a man in the publishing business named Allison MacKenzie, who is already married with children. Constance becomes pregnant with Allison’s child, but Allison dies a few years after his daughter -also named Allison – is born. Both Constance and her daughter adopt Allison’s last name before the two return to Peyton Place as a “widow” and child, and Constance alters her daughter’s birth date to make her appear legitimate.
In Peyton Place, Nellie marries Lucas Cross shortly after their daughter Selena’s birth, although Selena is not Lucas’ child. Paul, Lucas’s son and Selena’s stepbrother, left Peyton Place after he accused Lucas of stealing his money. Nellie and Lucas later had a child together—Joey—who lives with the couple and Selena in “the shacks,” a poor section of town. When Selena turned 14 years old, Lucas began to abuse her, impregnating her and leaving the local doctor in a troublesome situation in which he decided to perform an abortion. The doctor made Lucas leave town, and after she discovered this, Nellie committed suicide by hanging. Leslie Harrington, the richest man in town, was shattered when he lost his only son, Rodney, in a car accident.”
From Peyton Place by Grace Metalious:
“Allison laughed and laughed as she made her way out of the fun house [at the carnival]. She shrieked with laughter when the wind machine blew her skirts up over her head.”
Also:
“Your [Constance] legs are absolutely wanton, do you know it?”
“Am I good for you, darling?”
And:
“The girl [Selena] was wearing a dress of lavender linen, and a pair of sheer stockings. Her shoes were new. Look at that girl! Earrings in court! She is the type who will cross her legs and hoist her skirts when she gets on the stand.”
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Someone’s mom at the beach:
Babysitter:
Wearing flats in the bathroom:
Hillary Summers & Kandi Barbour:
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Brie as Patty:
Before Shirley
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Before Shirley Temple there was Baby Peggy!
Wikipedia:
“Baby Peggy
(Diana Serra Cary), is an American former child actress, author and historian. She is considered to be the last living film star of the silent era.
She was born on October 29, 1918, in San Diego, California, as Peggy-Jean Montgomery, the second daughter of Marian (née Baxter) and Jack Montgomery. Her older sister, called Louise or, occasionally, Jackie, was legally named Jack-Louise.
Baby Peggy was “discovered” at the age of 19 months, when she visited Century Studios on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood with her mother and a film-extra friend. The Montgomery family was already somewhat involved in the motion picture industry: Her father, Jack, a former cowboy and park ranger, had done work as a stuntman and stand-in for Tom Mix in a number of his cowboy movies. Impressed by Peggy’s well-behaved demeanor and willingness to follow directions from her father, director Fred Fishbach hired her to appear in a series of short films with Century’s canine star, Brownie the Wonder Dog. The first film, Playmates in 1921, was a success, and Peggy was signed to a long-term contract with Century.
Between 1921 and 1924, Peggy made close to 150 short comedy films for Century.
In 1923, Peggy began working for Universal Studios, appearing in full-length dramatic films. Among her works from this era were The Darling of New York, directed by King Baggot, and the first screen adaptation of Captain January.
The success of the Baby Peggy films brought her into prominence. When she was not filming, she embarked on extensive “In-Person” personal appearance tours across the country to promote her movies. She was also featured in several short skits on major stages in Los Angeles and New York, including Grauman’s Million Dollar Theatre and the Hippodrome. Her likeness appeared on magazine covers and was used in advertisements for various businesses and charitable campaigns. She was also named the mascot of the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York, and stood onstage waving a U.S. flag next to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
By the age of 5, she had her own line of various endorsed items, including dolls in her likeness, sheet music, jewelry, and even milk. As a child, Frances Gumm (later Judy Garland), owned at least one Baby Peggy doll. Cary would later befriend Garland, and wrote in her autobiography that she believed Garland’s mother had pursued fame for her children based on Baby Peggy’s success.
While under contract with Century and Universal, Peggy commanded an impressive salary. By 1923 she was signed to a $1.5 million a year contract at Universal (equivalent to $20.6 million in 2014 dollars); on her vaudeville tours she made $300 per day. Her parents handled all of the finances; money was spent on expensive cars, homes, and clothing. Nothing was set aside for the welfare or education of Peggy or her sister. Peggy herself was paid one nickel for every vaudeville performance. Through reckless spending and corrupt business partners of her father, her entire fortune was gone before she hit puberty. When fellow child star Jackie Coogan sued his parents in 1938, Peggy’s parents asked her if she was going to do the same. Believing it would do no good, Peggy did not pursue legal action. Coogan’s case, and cases like Baby Peggy’s, eventually inspired the Coogan Act to protect child actors’ earnings. Working conditions
Schooling for both Peggy and her sister, Louise, was sporadic at best. Neither attended school until the end of the vaudeville era;[Fairfax High in Hollywood didn’t work for her because she needed to work mostly as an extra to support her family during the Great Depression!} for their secondary education, they worked to pay for their tuition at Lawlor Professional School, which offered flexible schedules and allowed them to continue performing in films.
Baby Peggy’s film career abruptly ended in 1925 when her father had a falling out with producer Sol Lesser over her salary and cancelled her contract. She found herself essentially blacklisted and was able to land only one more part in silent films, a minor role in the 1926 picture April Fool.
From 1925 to 1929, Peggy had a successful career as a vaudeville performer. Although her routine, which included a comedy sketch, singing and a dramatic monologue, was initially met with skepticism, it soon became a popular and respected act. Although she was prohibited from “playing the Palace” because of her young age, she appeared onstage there as a special guest. Peggy and her family toured the United States and Canada, performing in major venues, until the family tired of touring.
While on the vaudeville circuit, Peggy was frequently ill with tonsillitis and other ailments; however, she continued working.
Peggy’s father planned to buy a ranch and convert it into a high-end getaway [dude ranch]. However, the stock market crash of 1929 put an immediate halt to the plans. Having made a $75,000 deposit on the land and existing property, the Montgomerys were forced to move to rural Wyoming where they lived near the Jelm Mountains. Peggy found the change in pace refreshing and hoped her stage days were over. However, the family struggled to make a living, and as a last-ditch effort returned to Hollywood in the early 1930s, much to the teen-aged Peggy’s chagrin.
Peggy posed for publicity photos with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and signed George Ullman as her manager. Hopes of a comeback were mostly dashed by false rumors of a bad screen test that had never taken place. The entire family was forced to take extra work. She loathed screen work and retired soon after appearing in Having Wonderful Time in 1938.
Peggy married Gordon Ayres in 1938 and a few years later adopted the name Diana Ayres in an effort to distance herself from the Baby Peggy image. Working at the time as a writer for radio shows, she found that people who figured out who she was were more interested in her Baby Peggy persona than in her writing abilities.
Eventually, after years of emotional struggle and open derision from Hollywood insiders and the media, Cary made peace with her Baby Peggy past. She has had successful careers as a publisher, historian, and author on Hollywood subjects, writing, among other works, an autobiography of her life as a child star, What Ever Happened to Baby Peggy: The Autobiography of Hollywood’s Pioneer Child Star, and a biography of her contemporary and rival, Jackie Coogan: The World’s Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood’s Legendary Child Star.
As an adult, Cary has worked on numerous books about the early film industry, Hollywood cowboys, and harsh working conditions for child stars in Hollywood. At the end of her own autobiography, she recounts the fates of numerous child stars, including Judy Garland and Shirley Temple. She has also advocated for reforms in child performer protection laws, most recently as a member of the organization A Minor Consideration.
She has appeared in numerous television documentaries and interviews about her work, and she has made guest appearances at silent film festivals.
At the age of seventeen, trying to escape the film industry and her parents’ plans for her life, Cary ran away from home and rented an apartment with her sister Louise. She married actor Gordon Ayres, whom she met on the set of Ah, Wilderness!, in 1938. They divorced in 1948.
In 1954, she married artist Robert “Bob” Cary (sometimes listed as Bob Carey). They had one son, Mark. They remained married until Bob Cary’s death in 2001.
On December 3, 2012, Turner Classic Movies presented the 2011 documentary Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room.
The vast majority of Cary’s Baby Peggy films have not survived and records related to their production have been lost. Century Studios burned down in 1926.”
& from “What ever happened to Baby Peggy” by Diana Serra Cary:
“Okay,” Gould interrupted, “so you can sing. Now let’s see your gam!” He pointed his cigar at my hemline. I’d played this game before with casting directors. Sometimes it led to a lively chase around the office and, if you were lucky, out the door. Other times it got you the job without a struggle. I lifted my skirts. “Higher!” he ordered.
“Yeah!” he breathed, fixing me with a lecherous gaze. Then his mood changed sharply. “You eighteen?” I nodded, visions of seventy-five dollars a week dancing before my eyes. “Of course I am!” I said in a throaty, Kay Francis voice. His eyes bored right through me. Quick as a cat he threw his cigar to the floor. “Like hell you are. You’re San Quentin quail. I don’t waste my time on jail bait. Beat it!”
Also elsewhere in the book:
“When I objected, he slipped his hand under my skirt
and said, “You told me you wanted to be a writer. Well, you can’t write about life if you don’t experience it!”
“Still, a child-star mania of the magnitude and intensity that had surrounded me in the twenties did not occur again until 1934, when Shirley Temple burst upon the screen. With her arrival public adoration of child stars once again became a worldwide phenomenon, and every major studio had to have one.” “MGM had Judy. Fox had Shirley Temple and Jane Withers, Paramount boasted Virginia Weidler, Edith Fellows starred at Columbia, and Deanna Durbin’s box-office magic was bringing Universal back from the brink of bankruptcy.”
[Baby Peggy currently resides in Merced County California. Also, She is the oldest living silent movie star.]
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Red ballerina flats!
Just like mine from Walmart:
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& Brie as Shirley:
Valentine
Valentine:
Bunker Hills
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“There is a Bunker Hill in Boston which symbolizes America: 1776. When you think of it you think of brave young hearts looking up to behold a vision worth all they’ve got to give. You think of strength and hope and defiance <snip>
But there is another Bunker Hill, and it symbolized a portion of America: 1941. This other Bunker Hill is not in Boston; it is in Los Angeles. When you think of it your heart aches, for it is the antithesis of the Boston Bunker Hill. It stands for weakness and hopelessness and cynicism and surrender. It is covered with houses for men. Grotesque, misshapen houses, with eight stories in the back and three stories in the front, clinging to the steep hillside.”
(from “Mud on the Stars” by William Bradford Huie)
Elsewhere in this book: “They wore their saddle shoes with plaid skirts.”
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bobby-soxing:
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Brie as Shirley:
Stag Film & Veronica
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Stag film is a term used to describe a type of pornographic film produced clandestinely in the first two-thirds of the 20th Century. Typically, a stag film had certain traits. Stag films were brief in duration (about 12 minutes or less), were silent, depicted explicit or graphic sexual behavior intended to appeal to heterosexual men, and were produced clandestinely due to censorship laws.
Stag films were screened for all-male audiences in fraternities or similar locations; observers offered a raucous collective response to the film, exchanging sexual banter and achieving sexual arousal. In Europe, stag films were often screened in brothels.”
“Film historians describe stag films as a primitive form of cinema because they were produced by anonymous and amateur male artists who generally failed in achieving narrative coherence and continuity. Today, many of these films have been archived by the Kinsey Institute; however most stag films are in a state of decay and have no copyright, credits, or acknowledged authorship. The stag film era ended due to the beginnings of the sexual revolution in the 1950s, in combination with the new technologies of the post war era, such as 16mm, 8mm, and the Super 8.
Scholars at the Kinsey Institute believe there are approximately 2000 films produced between 1915-1968.”
“American stag cinema in general has received scholarly attention first in the mid-seventies by heterosexual males such as in Di Lauro and Gerald Rabkin’s Dirty Movies (1976) and more recently by feminist and queer cultural historians such as in Linda Williams’ Hard Core: Power Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible” (1999) and Thomas Waugh’s Homosociality in the Classical American Stag Film: Off-Screen, On-screen (2001).”
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Cathy
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Veronica Chaos the X-Rated Ventriloquist!
Huffington Post:
Veronica Chaos is definitely taking ventriloquism into new places — like the bedroom. For the past year, the 26-year-old former stripper has been doing online
ventriloquism shows that climax with her having sex with a dummy, “Slappy.” “He’s bad cop and I’m good cop. He’s the misogynist and I’m the battered wife,” is how she describes their dynamic to The Huffington Post. “The idea is, I put up with him because I love him so much.”
The sex shows are designed to be slightly creepy.
Chaos, who only gives her address as somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, does her kinky ventriloquism shows three times a week online. The idea of combining ventriloquism with sex came in a moment of desperation when she realized she needed a gimmick to stick out in the crowded online sex show market.
“There were only 10 to 20 people in my ‘room’ at any given time, and I found my site ranking falling every day. It was time for something new,” she told Cracked.com.
One day, when Chaos was looking at YouTube videos, she saw a ventriloquist and inspiration struck.
“Honestly, I was just really lonely and wanted someone to talk to,” she told Cracked.com.
Shari Lewis
has got nothing on you!
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A sneaky mommy:
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Shirley:
Enigma
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Dawn Delray
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“Claire insisting on painting Hester in her makeup, dressing her up like a doll
and standing back in mock surprise: “Why,darling, you are beautiful…” Claire in nothing but a pair of white silk knickers and a string of pearls”
(“ENIGMA by Robert Harris)
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From the video “Brie Bride”
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Brie as Shirley
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