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Jan 23, 2018 - 1:32 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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As she approached the age of 40, Dorothy Malone's feature film career began to wane, but she achieved her widest popularity starring in the television series "Peyton Place", the ABC series based on Grace Metalious' steamy novel that became a hit 1957 movie starring Lana Turner. Malone assumed the Turner role as "Constance Mackenzie," the bookshop operator who harbored a dark secret about the birth of her daughter "Allison," played on the show by 19-year-old Mia Farrow.
ABC took a gamble on "Peyton Place," scheduling what was essentially a soap opera in prime time three times a week. It proved to be a ratings winner, winning new prominence for Malone and making stars of Farrow, Ryan O'Neal and Barbara Parkins.
Malone was offered a salary of $10,000 a week, huge money at the time. She settled for $7,000 with the proviso that she could leave the set at 5 p.m. so she could spend time with her young daughters, Mimi and Diane. She had been divorced from their father, a dashing Frenchman, Jacques Bergerac.
"Peyton Place" was on the air for five seasons, with Malone appearing in 430 of the 514 episodes. In 1968, near the end of the fourth season, she was written out of the show after complaining that she was given little to do. Malone sued 20th Century Fox for $1.6 million for breach of contract; it was settled out of court. She would later return to the role in the TV movies MURDER IN PEYTON PLACE (1977) and PEYTON PLACE: THE NEXT GENERATION (1985).
Ed Nelson (as Dr. Michael Rossi) and Dorothy Malone (as Constance Mackenzie) in PEYTON PLACE
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Jan 24, 2018 - 1:56 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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In 1979's GOOD LUCK, MISS WYCKOFF, Anne Heywood plays a virginal thirty-five-year-old high school Latin teacher named "Evelyn Wyckoff" who lives in the small, conservative town of Freedom, Kansas. Evelyn seeks help from her gynecologist "Dr. Neal" (Robert Vaughn). Seeing that her problems are mental as well as physical, Dr. Neal recommends that she see a psychiatrist that he knows in Wichita, "Dr. Steiner" (Donald Pleasence), who specializes in sexual matters, for help in what's bothering her. Dorothy Malone plays "Mildred," one of the other teachers at Miss Wyckoff's school. Marvin Chomsky directed the drama, which was based on a 1970 William Inge novel. Ernest Gold's score was only released in Japan on a Polydor LP. Kritzerland reissued the LP on CD in 2010.
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Jan 24, 2018 - 11:59 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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THE BEING was a sci-fi horror film in which a police detective (William Osco) and a government scientist (Martin Landau) team up to save their rural town from a boy mutated by hazardous pollution. Dorothy Malone plays an eccentric woman named "Marge Smith," searching for her missing son, Michael, who may be that boy.
To make the film, director-writer Jackie Kong, a recent film-school graduate with no prior experience on a professional motion picture set, was given a $4.5 million budget by her husband, producer-actor William Osco, president of Cybelle Productions. In a later interview, Kong admitted that she gained access to actor Martin Landau by pretending to be a candidate for his theater workshop. After giving Landau the script and offering him the role of “Garson Jones,” the actor accepted, and later explained, “Her straightforwardness appealed to me.”
The film's unreleased score was by Don Preston.
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Jan 25, 2018 - 2:18 PM
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filmusicnow
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In their third and last film together, suitably named THE LAST VOYAGE, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone co-starred as husband and wife "Cliff and Laurie Henderson," who are sailing on the last scheduled crossing of the Claridon, a huge, old luxury liner. After the ship has a fire break out in her boiler room, and then has the boiler explode, Laurie is pinned beneath a fallen steel beam as the ship begins to sink.
The ship used by the filmmakers was the SS Ile de France, the famous French liner that cruised the Atlantic from 1926-59. She was leased for $4,000 a day. After shooting completed, she was re-floated (having been partially sunk for the film) and towed to the scrap yard. She has a more heroic place in history, however. It was she that played a major role in the rescue of the passengers from the Italian liner Andrea Doria in 1956, after the latter ship collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm and sank off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Ile de France was the first ship to arrive at the scene of the collision and immediately began taking aboard the Andrea Doria's passengers. Reportedly, the film's story was based, in part, on the real-life experiences of a woman passenger on the Andrea Doria.
Andrew L. Stone directed the film. During filming, Stone blew up the interior of the ship piece by piece, flooded parts of it, and toppled one smokestack. THE LAST VOYAGE did not have an original music score.
Malone married actor Jacques Bergerac on June 28, 1959, at a Roman Catholic church in Hong Kong, where she was on location for THE LAST VOYAGE. They had daughters Mimi (born 1960) and Diane (born 1962) and divorced on December 8, 1964.
Bob, according to Wikopedia's entry on "The Last Voyage", Rudy Shrager is believed to have composed some music for "The Last Voyage" along with some contributions from the director Stone and his wife Virginia.
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Jan 25, 2018 - 8:38 PM
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eriknelson
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In their third and last film together, suitably named THE LAST VOYAGE, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone co-starred as husband and wife "Cliff and Laurie Henderson," who are sailing on the last scheduled crossing of the Claridon, a huge, old luxury liner. After the ship has a fire break out in her boiler room, and then has the boiler explode, Laurie is pinned beneath a fallen steel beam as the ship begins to sink.
The ship used by the filmmakers was the SS Ile de France, the famous French liner that cruised the Atlantic from 1926-59. She was leased for $4,000 a day. After shooting completed, she was re-floated (having been partially sunk for the film) and towed to the scrap yard. She has a more heroic place in history, however. It was she that played a major role in the rescue of the passengers from the Italian liner Andrea Doria in 1956, after the latter ship collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm and sank off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Ile de France was the first ship to arrive at the scene of the collision and immediately began taking aboard the Andrea Doria's passengers. Reportedly, the film's story was based, in part, on the real-life experiences of a woman passenger on the Andrea Doria.
Andrew L. Stone directed the film. During filming, Stone blew up the interior of the ship piece by piece, flooded parts of it, and toppled one smokestack. THE LAST VOYAGE did not have an original music score.
Malone married actor Jacques Bergerac on June 28, 1959, at a Roman Catholic church in Hong Kong, where she was on location for THE LAST VOYAGE. They had daughters Mimi (born 1960) and Diane (born 1962) and divorced on December 8, 1964.
Bob, according to Wikopedia's entry on "The Last Voyage", Rudy Shrager is believed to have composed some music for "The Last Voyage" along with some contributions from the director Stone and his wife Virginia.
This film still holds up. It also has many of the harrowing situations that were copied by producers like master of disaster Irwin Allen in the 70s.
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