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Post by acousticwolf on Jul 15, 2016 20:24:13 GMT
Just watching Return of the Saint (The Nightmare Man) with Ian Ogilvy and have come across one Kathryn Leigh Scott!
Cheers
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2016 2:16:30 GMT
Watching the mammoth documentary about casting Scarlett on the Gone With The Wind 75th anniversary boxset. I had no idea Joan Bennett was in Selznick's final four along with Paulette Goddard, Jean Arthur and, of course, Vivien Leigh. It's fun that the reverence that Scarlett has for her home Tara is very much the same as Liz does for Collinwood As a big Chaplin fan, seeing Goddard, who had debuted as the female lead in his masterwork Modern Times, as Scarlett would have been quite something though she almost certainly wouldn't have been in The Great Dictator a couple of years later.
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Post by Trace on Jul 17, 2016 3:37:29 GMT
I have seen that documentary, and I think it's the universal opinion that the role of Scarlett went to the right woman. Vivien Leigh was mesmerizing in the role. Joan Bennett was a stunning beauty, and probably could have done it justice...but Paulette Goddard or Jean Arthur, I can't begin to imagine! Two others that tested were Tallulah Bankhead and Lucille Ball--and much as I love them both, they're even more wrong for Scarlett than Paulette or Jean!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2016 6:15:36 GMT
Yes, it wasn't so much the fact that Joan was in contention that suprised me - every starlet was at one stage - but that she got sooo close. I think the doc said that 34 actresses screentested but more like 100 were given consideration. In an alternate world Gone With The Wind was directed by George Cuckor and starred Errol Flynn and Joan Bennett. The roads not taken...
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Post by gljohnson17 on Aug 3, 2016 3:41:58 GMT
I think if we had seen the performances of the other actresses we nay have been as mesmorized...
But Ms Leigh... not being Scarlett?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 19:03:23 GMT
Rather obvious one one this, but just rewatched Chariots Of Fire and Ben Cross/Barnabas '91 plays the co-lead. He's maybe the best of the main cast too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 19:34:51 GMT
From Arrow Video this week, the bluray of Dan Curtis' Burnt Offerings. My copy came this morning
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2016 23:25:04 GMT
David Selby to appear in Legion, the X-Men TV spinoff. source: his own FB page!
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Post by agentten on Dec 6, 2016 23:03:35 GMT
I'm watching back through The X-Files and Roy Thinnes pops up in three episodes. I'm always excited when he shows up in something because I'm also a big fan of The Invaders.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2016 4:01:58 GMT
David Selby appearing as a lawyer in The Social Network!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Dec 8, 2016 7:28:10 GMT
I have great memories of being in a production of '1776' once - but not the same one as David Ford! You should have seen ours. KLS was in an episode of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. She was an alien, and it took me just a minute to place her, but she has a very distinctive voice. Mitch Ryan was also on Star Trek: The Next Generation and was very nearly cast as Captain Picard himself... Mitch Ryan has been in everything though.
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Post by silverednickle on Dec 27, 2016 14:56:59 GMT
Just caught a glimpse of Kathlyn Leigh Scott as a lovely matriarch in a Hallmark Channel Christmas special when I was flicking through the channels.
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Post by gregm on Jul 9, 2017 11:18:58 GMT
Re-watching the original Rooots (1977), and suddenly there's Thayer David. He's in 3 episodes (3, 4 and 5).
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Post by coldlazarou on Jul 12, 2017 7:55:57 GMT
I'm always slightly startled when i rewatch the Spider-Man pilot movie from '78 and there's Professor Stokes as the supervillain.
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Post by djquabcakes on Aug 13, 2017 1:10:22 GMT
David Selby was a client on an episode of Mad Men a few years ago as well.
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Post by gregm on Aug 24, 2017 7:37:06 GMT
Casually watch an episode of The Man from UNCLE from 1964, when who should rise like a phoenix from the ashes? Diana Millay as Ernestine Pepper (a suitably fiery name) in the episode The King of Knaves Affair.
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Post by gregm on Aug 27, 2017 7:56:31 GMT
This one's a bit different - it's not an appearance by a DS cast member in another production, but rather an event in a DS cast member's life inspiring another production. The cast member is Joan Bennett and the production is The Apartment (1960). Writer, director and producer Billy Wilder conceived of a story after seeing Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, in which a pair of adulterers have an affair in the apartment of a friend. Wilder's idea was a story from the perspective of the person in whose apartment the affair was conducted. It seemed a topic impossible to produce under the strict Hayes Code governing movie production, so it got shelved. Until 1951, when a scandal enveloped Joan Bennett... At that time, Joan Bennett was married to Walter Wanger, her third husband, but she was also conducting an affair with an agent, Jennings Lang. The liaisons were conducted in the apartment of an employee on Lang's. Wanger discovered the affair, and confronted his wife and her lover. Wanger shot them once each, but both survived. It is generally considered that the affair and its aftermath substantially damaged Joan Bennett's career. While the movie roles dried up, Bennett's stage career revived and she later began a TV career, including Dark Shadows. As for Wilder and The Apartment, his co-writer I.A.L. Diamond also contributed the experience of a friend who had split up with his girlfriend in his apartment. She was very upset, and he left her there to recover, but when he returned to find she'd committed suicide. From these dark beginnings arose a popular comedy with some very dark moments.... More info on the shooting by Wanger, have a look here. Incidentally, Bennett and Wanger remained married until 1965.
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Post by Trace on Aug 28, 2017 0:52:11 GMT
The story is well-known to Hollywood buffs, but I've never heard that Wanger shot Joan, as well as Lang. This article says the second shot went into the car's tail fin. How do you get that Joan was also shot, from that?
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Post by omega on Aug 28, 2017 9:04:52 GMT
Susan Sullivan, Lela Collins nee Quick from the 2015 audio story Panic, is in Castle as the title character's mother.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 9:25:42 GMT
At least three DS Cast Members have appeared in The Incredible Hulk series, which ran from the late 1970s.
Lara Parker was none other than David Banner's doomed wife in that fateful first episode, whose tragic death prompted Banner to indulge in the experimentation that would curse him to regularly turn green for the rest of his life. The curse of Angelique takes many forms!
Both Kathryn Leigh Scott and Dennis Patrick had guest roles later on. KLS as misunderstood doctor living in isolation, and Patrick as an elderly hunter who came face to face with the Hulk.
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