MGM'S THRILLING NEW SUSPENSE THRILLER: "SIX (OR SEVEN) WOMEN (EIGHT AT THE ABSOLUTE MOST)"
Would have made for a more accurate title, but more work for the marquee and promotional dept.
MGM'S THRILLING NEW SUSPENSE THRILLER: "SIX (OR SEVEN) WOMEN (EIGHT AT THE ABSOLUTE MOST)"
she also showed up on a couple of episodes of...you guessed it MURDER, SHE WROTE. , there's one- a season 10 or 11 CABOT COVE EPISODE called something like MURDER IN PAIRS (it's one of the DARKEST CABOT COVE EPS) and JENNIFER WARREN plays a NUTTY RELIGIOUS PARANOIC who is spying on her neighbors and it's surprising to see an actor investing so much in a later season of MsW when most everyone is on autopilot.
kingrat wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2024, 1:05 am Since we've been posting lists of 1981 films in CinemaInternational's thread, I've had occasion to recall, from the deepest repressed memories, Tarzan the Ape Man (1981), starring Miles O'Keeffe. If you've seen the movie, and God bless you if you have, you may recall that he doesn't speak. According to acquaintances who said they had seen and heard him in the bars in New York, he had a high-pitched voice that seemed to contradict his manly physique.
If you check out his list of acting credits on imdb, the average ratings are hilariously low, with the exception of--wait for it, you know what it has to be--an episode of--what else????--MURDER SHE WROTE.
Lorna wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2024, 8:51 am i tried rewatching THIRTEEN WOMEN last night and couldn't make it much more than 30 minutes in, DAMN if it ain't a LOooooooNG 56 MINUTES.
It's so bad, and MYRNA LOY is SOOO BAD in it (although she LOOKS FABULOUS), and I will say, she seems to absolutely come alive when her character trash-talks IRENE DUNNE (who is apparently her least favorite of the "13" women, guess she borrowed her eyeliner and didn't give it back one time...?)
it just seems PERSONAL, I half expected MYRNA to start in with "she's really 38, you know; and did you see SHOWBOAT? What the HELL is the deal with her SINGING????"
MYRNA LOY'S character just doesn't scream "sorority girl" at any point in the film, nor does her blackballing from DELTA KAPPA EPSILON seem like enough of a motive for multiple, highly staged elaborate murders- almost all of which seem to hinge on incredible luck and coincidence.
(I know SHOWBOAT came out after THIRTEEN WOMEN, allow me the liberty for the joke.)
MYRNA LOY- to her credit- actually does a great job playing an even more awful ASIAN STEREOTYPE in THE MASK OF FU MANCHU- can't recall if that came before or after THIRTEEN WOMEN.
FROM IMDB:
There were only eleven actresses in the movie, not thirteen. Scenes involving the remaining two, Phyllis Fraser and Betty Furness, ended up on the cutting room floor. Several other roles also were telescoped in the editing process when the film was shortened from its original 73 minutes to 59 minutes for theatrical release.-
HOW GREAT WOULD IT HAVE BEEN TO SEE A SEQUENCE WHERE BETTY FURNESS IS KILLED BY HER NEW WESTINGHOUSE WASHER AND DRYER SET??????
It seems like half of Hollywood (on their way up or down) starred in a MSW episode!! Angela got a lot of people work (LOL).Lorna wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2024, 8:29 amkingrat wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2024, 1:05 am Since we've been posting lists of 1981 films in CinemaInternational's thread, I've had occasion to recall, from the deepest repressed memories, Tarzan the Ape Man (1981), starring Miles O'Keeffe. If you've seen the movie, and God bless you if you have, you may recall that he doesn't speak. According to acquaintances who said they had seen and heard him in the bars in New York, he had a high-pitched voice that seemed to contradict his manly physique.
If you check out his list of acting credits on imdb, the average ratings are hilariously low, with the exception of--wait for it, you know what it has to be--an episode of--what else????--MURDER SHE WROTE.
aH YES, MURDER SHE WROTE- the BRIGHT SHINING ORB at the CENTRE OF OUR LITTLE UNIVERSE!!!!!
Just some notes on MILES O'KEEFE:
1. He actually plays a REALLY EFFECTIVE and DEADLY HANDSOME COUNT DRACULA in the 1988 film WAXWORK. That sequence is the arguable highlight of the film- won't post any clips here though because it's pretty graphic
2. one of the ATOR movies in which he appeared was spoofed on MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 and- as I recall it- he wrote the gang a letter to tell them how much he LOVED their treatment of the film and his performance and I think something of a friendship evolved- they were effusive in their praise of him as a person in THE AMAZING COLLOSSAL EPISODE GUIDE published in 1996. . ATOR: THE FLYING EAGLE has since been done by RIFFTRAX and it's pretty funny...and a remarkably bad film as well.
It seems like half of Hollywood (on their way up or down) starred in a MSW episode!! Angela got a lot of people work (LOL).
I have been fortunately been spared the spectacle of Tarzan, the Ape Man with Bo Derek, but the film is legendarily horrid. I recall Leonard Maltin's movie guide candidly admitting that it was so bad that it nearly forced the editors of the book to create a rating lower than BOMB. As a matter of bleak record, when the film showed up on TCM a couple of months ago, it stayed in the cable company's on demand section for a whole month.....kingrat wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2024, 1:05 am Since we've been posting lists of 1981 films in CinemaInternational's thread, I've had occasion to recall, from the deepest repressed memories, Tarzan the Ape Man (1981), starring Miles O'Keeffe. If you've seen the movie, and God bless you if you have, you may recall that he doesn't speak. According to acquaintances who said they had seen and heard him in the bars in New York, he had a high-pitched voice that seemed to contradict his manly physique.
If you check out his list of acting credits on imdb, the average ratings are hilariously low, with the exception of--wait for it, you know what it has to be--an episode of--what else????--MURDER SHE WROTE.