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Ex-starlet Diane McBain's memoir: Laurence Harvey, Jack Haley Jr., and Carleton Carpenter were gay

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Also, Joan-Crawford-was-a-bitch dish.

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by Anonymousreply 265June 14, 2019 4:25 AM

[quote]Jack Haley Jr.

He was married to Liza, so that kind of goes without saying, n'est-ce pas?

by Anonymousreply 1July 14, 2014 4:27 PM

She also says Ed Kookioe Byrnes was kept by an old man.

by Anonymousreply 2July 14, 2014 4:31 PM

Hmph- just cause I didn't want to shag her!

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by Anonymousreply 3July 14, 2014 4:32 PM

Any ideas on the first blind item at the link?

[quote]What former child star serves the following monologue by way of dressing room conversation: “Mickey Rooney once grabbed me inappropriately…I did coke with Liberace, but I didn’t know what it was….Diahann Carroll is a c**t….”?

by Anonymousreply 4July 14, 2014 4:34 PM

R4: Drew Barrymore?

by Anonymousreply 5July 14, 2014 4:39 PM

She sounds fun - she should start posting at the DL!

I chuckled at the part where it said she never met most of the guys she was "linked" to in the press. I guess she was the Taylor Swift of yesteryear.

by Anonymousreply 6July 14, 2014 4:40 PM

It's a great dishy book,co-authored by Michael Michaud, Author of "Sal Mineo"

by Anonymousreply 7July 14, 2014 4:43 PM

She was a gorgeous lucious blond. Not much of an actress but I love CLAUDELLE INGLISH.

by Anonymousreply 8July 14, 2014 4:53 PM

I never met Mickey Rooney and the only coke I ever shared with Liberace we sipped together through a drinking straw, but man, that Diahann Carroll was a bitch.

by Anonymousreply 9July 14, 2014 4:53 PM

r8, Claudelle Inglish is so camp. I got it from the Warner Archive last month and I don't regret it!

by Anonymousreply 10July 14, 2014 4:56 PM

Ms. Carroll was a BIG BITCH!

by Anonymousreply 11July 14, 2014 5:05 PM

Btw, didn't John Waters say Claudelle Inglish was one one of his favorite movies?

by Anonymousreply 12July 14, 2014 5:16 PM

WHO is that oh-so-cute/hot hunk standing in front of Tab Hunter???

by Anonymousreply 13July 14, 2014 8:07 PM

John Fraser wrote about Laurence Harvey and Jimmy Woolf being longtime lovers, and labeled Harvey a whore for shacking up with older women to advance his career: Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Leighton, Joan Cohn.

by Anonymousreply 14July 14, 2014 9:11 PM

I bought the book on amazon. It sounds interesting.

by Anonymousreply 15July 15, 2014 12:48 AM

[quote]Laurence Harvey, Jack Haley Jr., and Carleton Carpenter were gay

Carleton Carpenter is still with us, so does the use of the past tense mean he is no longer gay?

by Anonymousreply 16July 15, 2014 1:00 AM

She was a victim of a violent rape.

by Anonymousreply 17July 15, 2014 1:11 AM

Let us know how it is R15.

by Anonymousreply 18July 15, 2014 1:23 AM

Okay, r18. I'll report any interesting bits.

by Anonymousreply 19July 15, 2014 1:42 AM

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by Anonymousreply 20July 15, 2014 1:45 AM

My God--with dish like that it's going to be a bestseller for sure! All anyone in America cares about today is the sexuality of Carleton Carpenter (not to mention Jack Haley, Jr!).

by Anonymousreply 21July 15, 2014 1:46 AM

Sadly, I'm the audience for this book.

And I'm dismayed that no one mentioned McBain's biggest star vehicle: the inimitable PARRISH.

by Anonymousreply 22July 15, 2014 2:01 AM

^ Parrish is campier than a row of tents. Most of Troy Donahue's 50s/60s movies are.

by Anonymousreply 23July 15, 2014 2:18 AM

I don't think I've seen Troy Donahue in anything more than A Summer Place and Palm Springs Weekend, and I remember nothing from the latter. When I was a kid the big gay Hollywood gossip was that Suzanne Pleshette had married Troy Donahue and had the marriage annulled because he was gay.

by Anonymousreply 24July 15, 2014 2:32 AM

And in other news, Joey Luft likes blue.

by Anonymousreply 25July 15, 2014 2:44 AM

r24, you should check out Susan Slade and My Blood Runs Cold. So campy.

by Anonymousreply 26July 15, 2014 4:19 AM

Carleton Carpenter outed himself to the Advocate in 1976.

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by Anonymousreply 27July 15, 2014 4:29 AM

Carleton was out back when hardly anyone in showbiz was

by Anonymousreply 28July 15, 2014 4:42 AM

[quote]What former child star serves the following monologue by way of dressing room conversation: “Mickey Rooney once grabbed me inappropriately…I did coke with Liberace, but I didn’t know what it was….Diahann Carroll is a c**t….”?

I bet this was Natalie Wood.

by Anonymousreply 29July 15, 2014 4:59 AM

I hadn't heard about Scott Marlowe being gay before but I am not too surprised.

by Anonymousreply 30July 15, 2014 5:30 AM

Tab Hunter writes in his memoir that Scott was bisexual.

by Anonymousreply 31July 15, 2014 5:38 AM

r29, I assume the star in question is still alive, because of the use of the present tense

by Anonymousreply 32July 15, 2014 1:31 PM

I like the book. It's okay. It talks A LOT about her career and her co-stars and her thoughts on them. It is the typical story of the Warner Bros. contract player of the time.

Certainly the brutal attack she went through - the description of which begins the book - was traumatic.

Diane (and her co-author, who also wrote a GREAT book about Sal Mineo titled SAL) tell us all we would ever want to know about her life. The last third is kind of a slog through some bad movies and questionable life choices, but it is a good read.

A career like McBain's could never happen today. I will say she was the most beautiful of the Warner Women at that time. With help from a director, she could also act. She says she always had trouble learning lines, which can be a problem for an actress....she admits.

It is highly recommended by the likes of me to anyone who thinks they might be interested.

She speaks well of almost all of her co-stars including Van Williams - who when asked about Diane a few years ago said that she didn't register with him at all, there was nothing there to connect with. Of course Van was married and Diane wouldn't have been interested it him....although she also details an early affair with another married man.

by Anonymousreply 33July 15, 2014 2:26 PM

Thanks for the report, r33.

by Anonymousreply 34July 15, 2014 2:44 PM

You are welcome.

I forgot to mention....there are a LOT of nice photographs, too.

by Anonymousreply 35July 15, 2014 3:51 PM

I always get her mixed up with Diane Baker.

by Anonymousreply 36July 15, 2014 3:55 PM

Everyone knew that Laurence Harvey was gay. Frank "The Sleazebag" Sinatra once called him a Pollack Jew Fag.Frank really knew how to offend three groups of people at the same time didn't he?

by Anonymousreply 37July 15, 2014 4:06 PM

Wasn't Sinatra really nasty and homophobic to Monty Clift as well?

by Anonymousreply 38July 15, 2014 4:16 PM

It's no surprise to me.

by Anonymousreply 39July 15, 2014 4:19 PM

[quote]Wasn't Sinatra really nasty and homophobic to Monty Clift as well?

Sinatra wasn't alone.

by Anonymousreply 40July 15, 2014 4:33 PM

Don't miss Troy in his brief appearances in IMITATION OF LIFE and THE GODFATHER.

I always thought Suzanne Pleshette was gay, too.

by Anonymousreply 41July 15, 2014 4:50 PM

She is. On DL.

by Anonymousreply 42July 15, 2014 4:56 PM

^ For real?!

by Anonymousreply 43July 15, 2014 4:59 PM

[quote]She was a gorgeous lucious blond.

Blond? I remember Diane McBain as having brunette hair, at least in all the episodic TV she did in the 1970s. I guess I'm confusing her with another Diane who did lots of TV shows in the 1970s?

by Anonymousreply 44July 15, 2014 5:03 PM

^ Or are you thinking of Barbara Bain?

by Anonymousreply 45July 15, 2014 5:05 PM

"Laurence Harvey, Jack Haley Jr., and Carleton Carpenter were gay"

We knew Harvey was gay when he was alive even though he wasn't out.

Nobody talks about Jack Haley Jr because he was a fat fug. Liza was quoted as saying "I did it again!" in The Advocate a few years ago - I did it again was about her marrying another gay guy after Peter Allen. This was before David Gest.

Carleton Carpenter is openly gay, as has been mentioned.

by Anonymousreply 46July 15, 2014 5:07 PM

Barbara Bain was a gorgeous blonde Jewess.

by Anonymousreply 47July 15, 2014 5:08 PM

[quote]^ Or are you thinking of Barbara Bain?

No, I remember Barbara Bain, she was married to the late Martin Landau.

The brunette I'm thinking of did A LOT of TV shows in the early to mid 1970s, lots of mysteries and cop shows.

I know what she looks like, but can't remember her name, Now this is going to drive me crazy. Ha-ha!

by Anonymousreply 48July 15, 2014 5:26 PM

I just figured it out, the actress I was thinking of is Diane Baker. The similar name confused me.

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by Anonymousreply 49July 15, 2014 5:32 PM

R49, see R36.

by Anonymousreply 50July 15, 2014 5:34 PM

I was just about to pose, R49 -- Diane Baker is exactly who I pictured for Diane McBain!

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by Anonymousreply 51July 15, 2014 5:36 PM

Diane hated Fabian.

by Anonymousreply 52July 15, 2014 5:36 PM

Martin Landau is ALIVE.

Troy Donahue was in GODFATHER II (not the original).

I know several folks who've spent time with Diahann Carroll all of whom concur that she's an entitled pain in the ass. One of the ones I heard this from said that they were surprised how her husband at the time, Vic Damone was very nice and was puzzled how he could have put up with her prima donna antics. Of course, they did eventually divorce.

IMO, Diane McBain though beautiful did register enough with the audience. Another thing was that she looked 10 years older than she was. In one of those ELVIS movies, Diane was one of the younger cast members; she was about 25 but looked 30 something and ends up with the guy whose daughter is going off with Elvis.

by Anonymousreply 53July 15, 2014 5:39 PM

Diahann dated Sidney Poitier for a decade, so she gets points from me no matter how much o a bitch she is.

by Anonymousreply 54July 15, 2014 5:53 PM

Suzanne Pleshette gave an interview and talked about her brief marriage to Troy Donahue. She said that a few months after they were married, he told her that they should be divorced before the end of the calendar year or she would be stuck with his big income tax bill.

She said she was grateful to him for telling her that and giving her the opportunity to bail.

by Anonymousreply 55July 15, 2014 6:08 PM

Suzanne Pleshette was gay in The Birds (yes, she was), not in real life.

by Anonymousreply 56July 15, 2014 6:15 PM

[quote]Diane hated Fabian.

Didn't everyone hate Fabian? He was given a music career based on his looks so the teen girls would go mad for him. He couldn't sing, so studio magicians crafted everything he did.

He acted like he deserved everything that had been handed to him.

by Anonymousreply 57July 15, 2014 6:27 PM

[quote]I always thought Suzanne Pleshette was gay, too.

Well, she never fucked me.

by Anonymousreply 58July 15, 2014 6:30 PM

From his biography, Laurence Harvey, IF he liked dick, was at least bi.

by Anonymousreply 59July 15, 2014 6:34 PM

Warners in the late 50s and early 60s was camptastic. Susan Slade! Parrish! Claudelle Inglish! Was The Sins of Rachel Cade from Warners?

by Anonymousreply 60July 15, 2014 7:37 PM

Terence Stamp was another favored client of Jimmy Woolf's and even lived for a time in Woolf's Grosvenor House flat.

I always wondered if he were gay or bi. His affair with Jean Shrimpton was fraught with weirdness; he kept his distance from her physically and emotionally and made her feel unwanted. He refused to live with her.

In his old age, he married a young Australian pharmacist for about five minutes. His first marriage.

Anybody know what he's really like?

by Anonymousreply 61July 15, 2014 8:38 PM

He hates ABBA, apparently.

by Anonymousreply 62July 15, 2014 8:42 PM

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by Anonymousreply 63July 15, 2014 8:46 PM

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by Anonymousreply 64July 15, 2014 8:46 PM

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by Anonymousreply 65July 15, 2014 8:47 PM

Come to think of it, the Tin Man sure used a lot of eyeshadow.

by Anonymousreply 66July 15, 2014 8:48 PM

How could Haley go around in that horrible wig without becoming a laughing stock?

by Anonymousreply 67July 15, 2014 8:52 PM

[quote]Wasn't Sinatra really nasty and homophobic to Monty Clift as well?

No. He was very close to Clift, which is confusing considering all you hear about Sinatra's homophobia. Clift helped him through From Here to Eternity. Sinatra was very respectful of Clift's talent. They hung out together, got drunk together. Were photographed together. So, I wonder if Sinatra might even have taken a little walk on the wild side with Clift. Whatever it was, Sinatra turned in a great performance in that movie, as did Clift. But those guys were drunk a lot and sure spent time together.

by Anonymousreply 68July 15, 2014 8:58 PM

I thought Haley was black. Didn't he write ROOTS?

by Anonymousreply 69July 15, 2014 9:04 PM

Read the book by Sinatra´s former valet (apparently Pharrell wants to play him in the movie).

Sinatra was accepting of gays within the parameters of his time, but wasn´t above the "you now how bitchy fags can be" type comment typical of his generation.

Sinatra and Harvey were friends (and co-stars in the classic "The Manchurian Candidate").

by Anonymousreply 70July 15, 2014 9:14 PM

No, it was Haley Mills who wrote ROOTS.

by Anonymousreply 71July 15, 2014 9:16 PM

R68, Sinatra took a swing at Clift when he made a drunken pass at someone (not Sinatra) at a party.

Whatever, there is no fucking way Sinatra had a "little walk on the wild side with Clift" or anyone. He befriended many MGM gays, such as Rogert Edens and Lennie Hayton, and tolerated others.

by Anonymousreply 72July 15, 2014 9:16 PM

Lawrence Harvey had a nude scene in a shower in "Night Watch" (1973). Watched it online recently. His ass wasn't bad.

by Anonymousreply 73July 15, 2014 9:26 PM

John Huston had a falling out with Monty Clift on the set of [italic]Freud[/italic], and it was related to Monty's homosexuality. Huston is quoted by author Lawrence Grobel in his book [italic]The Hustons[/italic] regarding an incident where Monty had a man in his bed overnight at Huston's home in Ireland:

[quote]The incident seemed trashy—I felt Monty had insulted me. I wish he'd considered my family and how I felt about it. I can't say I'm able to deal with homosexuals.

by Anonymousreply 74July 15, 2014 9:30 PM

[quote]R63

regarding Laurence Harvey:

Yep 'gay' face & bad toupee

You know that Harvey was bald on top right ?

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by Anonymousreply 75July 15, 2014 10:47 PM

John Huston sounds like a dick

by Anonymousreply 76July 16, 2014 2:18 AM

He had very few redeeming qualities, R76, and people didn't get to see them often.

by Anonymousreply 77July 16, 2014 2:25 AM

McBain's book was interesting in regard to the career struggles faced by a lot of studio contractees once the studio system died.

by Anonymousreply 78May 20, 2015 11:33 AM

Diane McBain is on Facebook now -- and very active!

by Anonymousreply 79July 31, 2015 11:50 AM

BUMP! Because I'm in love with Laurence Harvey and TCM has randomly been playing several of his films lately: "Butterfield 8" with La Liz is on later tonight!!!

Was trying to find a good DL thread on him. Does anyone know if there are any better DL threads on Harvey (I've been looking)?

I feel like he's underappreciated as an actor, was incredibly handsome and charasmatic, and was a mystery as a person.

Was rumored to be bi and had (I think) 4 wives, but not much else seems to be known about him or his relationships/friendships within the industry (and he died at only 45☹️).

Even his Wikipedia is very brief and hasn't been altered in years. He's been totally forgotten apparently.

I love seeing him on the screen though (especially thought his performance in the gritty British drama "Room at the Top" was excellent) and am super interesting in learning more about his life and career....

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by Anonymousreply 80August 31, 2017 11:23 AM

r47 That's an oxymoron.

by Anonymousreply 81August 31, 2017 11:34 AM

Harvey and Liz in "Butterfield 8" (where Liz plays a high class call girl for whatever reason). On tonight on TCM as part of a day long tribute to Liz...

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by Anonymousreply 82August 31, 2017 11:36 AM

Just ordered the book. I get a lot of ideas for book purchases on DL.

by Anonymousreply 83August 31, 2017 11:36 AM

Interesting theory about McBain, R53 -- she was a stunner in her early films, but didn't really show that extra spark that would make her register with audiences. And by the late-60s, she seemed older than her actual age and more anachronistic than many of her contemporaries.

by Anonymousreply 84August 31, 2017 11:45 AM

I know who all the early 60s Warners male contract players were but who were the women besides Diane and Connie Stevens?

So, did Diane like Van Williams even if he couldn't remember her?

by Anonymousreply 85August 31, 2017 11:53 AM

R85, besides McBain and Stevens, Warners had Shirley Knight and Suzanne Pleshette at that time.

And McBain mentioned in her book that she very much liked Van Williams, but they were never an item -- if memory serves, during "Surfside Six", he was already married to the wife he would remain married to until his passing.

by Anonymousreply 86August 31, 2017 11:59 AM

R53, You're joking about Martin Landau, right?

by Anonymousreply 87August 31, 2017 12:39 PM

Does McBain talk about a friendship with Roddy McDowell in the book? If not the girl was out of the loop.

by Anonymousreply 88August 31, 2017 12:55 PM

I thought I read that Sinatra's close relationship with Clift ended when Monty made a pass at a male guest at Sinatra's house as noted above. Frank never forgave.

by Anonymousreply 89August 31, 2017 1:08 PM

I saw Nightwatch when it first opened and from what I remember you only saw the back of the nude man.

I thought it could have been a double the way it was shot. Harvey might have had a scrawny ass.

by Anonymousreply 90August 31, 2017 1:10 PM

Look at the date on that post, r87.

by Anonymousreply 91August 31, 2017 1:33 PM

[Quote]He befriended many MGM gays, such as Rogert Edens and Lennie Hayton, and tolerated others.

MY HUSBAND LENNIE HAYTON WAS GAY?

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by Anonymousreply 92August 31, 2017 1:44 PM

Butterfield 8 is on tonight?! Yesssssss!!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 93September 1, 2017 12:17 AM

Lol, [R93]! That's my favorite line from the movie!

by Anonymousreply 94September 1, 2017 11:49 AM

so confused - is Diane McBain one of the golden girls???

by Anonymousreply 95September 1, 2017 11:57 AM

Diane Baker was all over the place on TV in the 1970s. I always found her 'blah', despite the fact that she was beautiful and a competent actress. I remember there was a TV Guide article about her in which the author said that Diane was the most boring actress he/she had ever interviewed.

I didn't like her being cast in 'Silence of the Lambs', and would have much preferred Jessica Walter in that part.

by Anonymousreply 96September 1, 2017 11:59 AM

Did she remember to mention that the Pope is Catholic?

by Anonymousreply 97September 1, 2017 12:16 PM

The Golden Girls was the lamest show ever. You saw one episode, you saw all of them

by Anonymousreply 98September 1, 2017 12:43 PM

Diane claimed in her book that she lost her virginity to Richard Burton during the filming of "Ice Palace".

Channe-surfing not too long ago, caught her on an episode of "Love American Style", co-starring with Ted Bessell and Anjanette Comer. Ah, the 60s!

by Anonymousreply 99September 1, 2017 3:28 PM

Ted Bessell was the only thing that got me to see Same Time Next Year.

Does Broadway still have those lame comedies that for some reason nobody can explain become big hits and have long runs? Or did that die out with the 20th century?

by Anonymousreply 100September 2, 2017 2:53 AM

R100, those comedies seemed to have fallen by the wayside by the mid-1980s,.

by Anonymousreply 101September 3, 2017 6:14 PM

Bought the book. What a bore! She seems a mite homophobic.

by Anonymousreply 102September 4, 2017 12:29 AM

I get her mixed up with Susan Oliver.

by Anonymousreply 103September 4, 2017 2:31 AM

McBain and Oliver actually appeared in "The Caretakers" together.

Cilento was on the cover of "Life" several years before McBain's debut due to her success on Broadway in "Tiger at the Gates". Later, during her marriage to Sean Connery, she was terrific in the Paul Newman film, "Hombre".

by Anonymousreply 104September 6, 2017 11:51 AM

Same here, R49. I IMDBed Diane McBain expecting to find Journey to the Center of the Earth on her page, but it was Diane Baker who starred in it. It was the first movie I went to see multiple times.

by Anonymousreply 105September 6, 2017 12:01 PM

Diane Cilento was British; hard to get them confused.

by Anonymousreply 106September 6, 2017 6:42 PM

FINALLY, here is a photo of Diane McBain (looking like Doris Day's daughter).

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by Anonymousreply 107September 6, 2017 7:12 PM

Diane with the one and only Elvis.

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by Anonymousreply 108September 6, 2017 7:17 PM

Years ago I knew somebody who claimed to know that Diane Baker didn't have a bigger career because she wouldnt go the casting couch route.

by Anonymousreply 109September 6, 2017 7:40 PM

If true, then that's sad, [R109].

I just saw Baker a few weeks ago in a film on TCM called "The Best of Everything" and thought she was great in it as shady playboy Robert Evans' wide eyed innocent new girlfriend who is *not* from NYC...

by Anonymousreply 110September 6, 2017 8:00 PM

Lengthy blind item thread about a starlet that we generally agreed was Diane Baker.

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by Anonymousreply 111September 6, 2017 8:12 PM

That was a great thread, R111!

In regard to McBain, Google "Diane McBain Parrish" and see her in her gorgeous heyday. Unfortunately, she was still rocking that bouffant in the late-60s, when that look was passé.

by Anonymousreply 112September 6, 2017 9:41 PM

There were rumors that Diane Baker is a lez

by Anonymousreply 113September 7, 2017 12:32 AM

There was never any similarity between Diane McBain and Diane Baker except their first name. And they both reached stardom in the early 1960s.

McBain was just a run of the mill and easily replaced and forgotten Warners blonde bouffant starlet. She didn't make enough notable films to even be classifiable as a type, like Sandra Dee or Connie Stevens.

Baker, OTOH, was that rare young actress who was usually cast as a naive but grounded and intelligent brunette. Susan Kohner was sort of the same type.

by Anonymousreply 114September 7, 2017 12:44 AM

Diane as Pinky Pinkston

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by Anonymousreply 115September 7, 2017 1:01 AM

Didn't Natalie Wood nearly marry Scott Marlowe?

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by Anonymousreply 116September 7, 2017 1:06 AM

I figured out which one was Crawford and Carpenter in the OP's photo, but which one is Ed Byrnes?

by Anonymousreply 117September 7, 2017 1:15 AM

r116, if she had, it would have continued her streak of getting involved with closet cases

by Anonymousreply 118September 7, 2017 1:27 AM

[quote]Didn't Natalie Wood nearly marry Scott Marlowe?

Yeah, and so did Tab Hunter.

by Anonymousreply 119September 7, 2017 1:31 AM

Never mind CLAUDELLE INGLISH - here's Diane in her most memorable role in THE MINI-SKIRT MOB (with Patty McCormack, no less).

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by Anonymousreply 120September 7, 2017 2:05 AM

The fabulous poster...

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by Anonymousreply 121September 7, 2017 2:07 AM

Another McBain classic from her American International years, with Fabian as her co-star (playing an art teacher!)

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by Anonymousreply 122September 7, 2017 2:11 AM

Susan Oliver was a better actress than Diane McBain or Diane Baker, who usually got 2nd string good girl roles. McBain was originally from the eastern suburbs of Cleveland. I think she still has relatives there.

by Anonymousreply 123September 7, 2017 2:47 AM

Susan Oliver was Jeffrey Hunter's love interest in the Star Trek Pilot.

by Anonymousreply 124September 7, 2017 3:56 AM

Susan Oliver and Diane McBain were both peroxide blonde hair hoppers with black mascared eyes and pale pink lips.

That's why you bitches today confuse them.

by Anonymousreply 125September 7, 2017 11:32 AM

I always confuse Diane McBain with Leslie Parrish, who was in "The Manchurian Candidate".

Susan Oliver was one of the best actresses ever on the "Peyton Place" television series.

Susan died at 58 of lung cancer.

by Anonymousreply 126September 7, 2017 11:39 AM

That fucking Parrish bitch STOLE my Broadway role!!!!!!!!!

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by Anonymousreply 127September 8, 2017 7:08 PM

Edie, you were pregnant when they shot the film!

by Anonymousreply 128September 8, 2017 8:30 PM

They could have waited r128......

by Anonymousreply 129September 8, 2017 8:36 PM

I could have played the role behind a sink washing dishes!

by Anonymousreply 130September 8, 2017 8:38 PM

Edie, Why did Roz Russell prevent you from appearing in the 1958 television production of Wonderful Town?

by Anonymousreply 131September 8, 2017 8:46 PM

Downloaded the McBain book to my Kindle . . . she writes that Richard Burton broke her hymen during filming of "Ice Palace" and admits that Burton was the first man to ever eat her out. She also confirms that Burton's penis was huge.

by Anonymousreply 132September 8, 2017 8:48 PM

R123, Susan Oliver was a terrific actress and very interesting. She was the first woman to fly solo from the US to Russia (something like that). There's a documentary about her called "The Green Girl," in reference to a "Star Trek " role.

by Anonymousreply 133September 9, 2017 12:16 AM

[quote]Diane Baker, who usually got 2nd string good girl roles

She most certainly was NOT a good girl in Strait-Jacket!

by Anonymousreply 134September 9, 2017 12:40 AM

R134: Tormenting Mommy Dearest made her a good girl

by Anonymousreply 135September 9, 2017 2:57 AM

It was the Lizard of Roz who prevented me!

by Anonymousreply 136September 9, 2017 3:21 AM

Viva McBain!

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by Anonymousreply 137September 9, 2017 4:44 AM

R134, well she was good at doing what she did...

BTW, the actor (Michael something?) who played Diane's fiance' in that was smoking. And Crawford knew it, as shown in that scene where she sticks her fingers in his mouth.

by Anonymousreply 138September 9, 2017 4:54 AM

^^^John Anthony Hayes

by Anonymousreply 139September 9, 2017 5:30 AM

The Susan Oliver doc blatantly pushes Oliver deep in the closet when most of Hollywood knew she liked women. Its the Freddy M story all over again and here we are in 2017.

by Anonymousreply 140September 9, 2017 5:48 PM

LOVED ya in Broadside Kathy!

by Anonymousreply 141September 9, 2017 7:04 PM

[quote] so confused - is Diane McBain one of the golden girls???

In a manner of speaking.

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by Anonymousreply 142September 9, 2017 7:56 PM

Burke's Law just started. Get a load o' these dames in the cast:

JOAN CAULFIELD

ANNETTE FUNICELLO

SHEREE NORTH

and

SUSAN OLIVER!

by Anonymousreply 143September 9, 2017 9:12 PM

OOPSIE! Left out CELESTE HOLM. She'll NEVER forgive me. Can you believe all these dames in this one episode?

by Anonymousreply 144September 9, 2017 9:20 PM

Sounds like a treasure chest!

by Anonymousreply 145September 9, 2017 9:31 PM

It is r145! Susan had quite a flair for comedy. They're all great. Well, Annette is basically.....Annette.....

by Anonymousreply 146September 9, 2017 9:40 PM

Here's the IMDB page for the episode. Sheree is wonderful, as usual, playing a stripper named Myrtle "Gigi" String. In the credits playing "2nd Chorus Girl" is an actress named Sonia Sonic which I thought was a great name. Tried to find a Google image of her, but all that came up was a cartoon character named Sonia Sonic. Did she transition?

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by Anonymousreply 147September 9, 2017 10:22 PM

Where did you see the Susan Oliver documentary, R140? Have not seen it anywhere!

by Anonymousreply 148September 9, 2017 11:53 PM

Amazon video

by Anonymousreply 149September 10, 2017 12:11 AM

Just watched another episode. The cast was as follows:

Elsa Lanchester

Debra Paget

Jane Darwell

Terry Moore

Nick Adams

Dean Jones

and Bobby Buntrock as another annoying child

The episode that just started looks like another winner as it features:

Miss Yvonne DeCarlo (with an accent that's there....then it isn't....then it is)

Miss June Allyson (avec standard coif)

and Miss Agnes Moorhead (who hasn't appeared yet)

Gene Barry sure didn't have a problem getting guest stars for his show!

by Anonymousreply 150September 10, 2017 12:18 AM

Aggie is playing a non-stretch role. She's an acidic rich bitch donned in a maribou-trimmed chiffon peignoir and girlish hair bow stroking a lap dog. Her doctor is played by Jack Haley Jr.'s dad.

by Anonymousreply 151September 10, 2017 12:40 AM

Burke's Law (actually producer Aaron Spelling) had an agreement with the William Morris agency--they'd hire Morris' clients for one day's work at scale and they would get the exposure. A lot of them were faded or fading stars, including Mary Aston. Often they had a chance to play against type--the good girl could be bad, the serious guy could get laughs. The main thing was exposure that was good for all concerned. McBain was already fading, so she fit the mold.

by Anonymousreply 152September 10, 2017 12:46 AM

Jack Haley Jr.'s dad

That would be Jack Haley...

by Anonymousreply 153September 10, 2017 12:50 AM

R152, That's Mary ASTOR, please! Oscar° winner.

R148, R133 Here. I mentioned the Oliver doc, which I haven't seen, but learned of recently. Youtube has a trailer for it, and I think it's available through Netflix.

by Anonymousreply 154September 10, 2017 12:54 AM

I know, r153. I was just attempting to keep my posts from thread heisting and keeping within the parameters of the subject header.

by Anonymousreply 155September 10, 2017 12:56 AM

Susan Oliver was gay?

by Anonymousreply 156September 10, 2017 1:38 AM

R150 has stars, unicorns and rainbows coming out herr arse.

by Anonymousreply 157September 10, 2017 2:47 AM

Yes, Susie O liked the ladies. Not one of her GF's is interviewed in the doc.

by Anonymousreply 158September 10, 2017 2:52 AM

That's interesting, I've seen her in various things and she didn't ping but my gaydar sucks.

by Anonymousreply 159September 10, 2017 2:54 AM

Sexy, talented, and skilled. She sounds like the average lesbian next door.

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by Anonymousreply 160September 10, 2017 3:09 AM

I found her coloring to be rather........

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by Anonymousreply 161September 10, 2017 3:18 AM

That makes sense r152. For the most part every guest star's scenes I've watched could have been shot in a day. I was switching back and forth on the last episode and unfortunately missed Gena Rowlands. I'm watching one now to see how Gloria Grahame looked in1964. Her scene doesn't happen until halfway through. She looked o.k. except for........that mouth.

by Anonymousreply 162September 10, 2017 3:46 AM

I remember watching the Wizard of Oz as a young'un and thinking that there was something 'different' about the Tin Man. It wasn't just the eyeshadow;) I also knew that there was a subtext to the way Lahr played the Cowardly Lion that I couldn't put my finger on. I was a very observant kid. It was just that I didn't know what it was that I was picking up on until my tweens. Haley really camped it up in If I Only Had A Brain. A true 'Friend of Dorothy'!

by Anonymousreply 163September 10, 2017 11:47 AM

McBain reminds me of Diane Kruger.

by Anonymousreply 164September 10, 2017 12:05 PM

Most of those Hollywood has-beens would have been in their 40s and 50s in 1964. Not even close to retirement age.

by Anonymousreply 165September 10, 2017 2:12 PM

Yeah, but if you were hired to be a blonde glamourpuss, that would have been ancient. Even among the men, only a few can continue in leading parts past 50.

by Anonymousreply 166September 10, 2017 2:39 PM

Warner Bros. had a curious and short-sighted career strategy during McBain's time at the studio: throw its young contract players into as many projects as possible. That's why you'd see folks like McBain, Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Edd Byrnes and Ty Hardin working as regulars on WB TV shows, guest-starring on other WB shows, and co-starring in WB feature films. It was total saturation and almost seemed to diminish their brand because of their over-accessibility.

by Anonymousreply 167September 10, 2017 6:29 PM

'Haley really camped it up in If I Only Had a Brain.'

Shit.

Well you sure as hell aren't any friend of Dorothy.

And if you think you are observant you are delusional.

by Anonymousreply 168September 10, 2017 6:57 PM

That's true r167, but all of that over-saturation was in the schlockiest material, whether it was on TV or film.

I can still remember reading an interview with Connie Stevens in some movie magazine in the mid-1960s in which she bemoaned the fact that her home studio Warner Bros. was producing My Fair Lady yet wouldn't even allow her to audition for Eliza Dolittle. Hah!! As if.......

God, I'm old.

by Anonymousreply 169September 10, 2017 11:51 PM

I read somewhere that Connie Stevens was disappointed that the powers-that-be at WB didn't consider her for "My Fair Lady"'or "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Delusional, thy name is Connie!

McBain mentioned in her autobiography that Stevens (her costar in "Parrish") was much more ambitious than she was.

by Anonymousreply 170September 10, 2017 11:57 PM

WB endlessly recycled the same material, as well as many of the same actors in its westerns and detective shows, much as they did with programmers in the 30s. It was the old studio system model---it didn't work as well partly because most of these people had little talent and the material often sucked. They also denied credit to people like Roy Huggins who created their better shows like Maverick and tried to keep actors from making a decent living (as they did in the 30s). Other than James Garner, none of these people amounted to much--Suzanne Pleshette was talented but never had a big career in movies. Stevens may have been ambitious but she wasn't very talented. Revue (which was part of a talent agency and later merged with grade-B studio Universal) did a lot of the same things--recycling people, but had more varied material. Screen Gems/Columbia had never been a classic studio with a lot of contract players and had quite varied output. MGM didn't enter tv until late and 20th dind't have a lot of tv until later, while UA never had much at all and paramount got into tv production by buying Desilu.

by Anonymousreply 171September 11, 2017 3:21 AM

My bad, r168. It was If I Only Had A Heart. I also knew I would elicit at least one response like yours with that post.

by Anonymousreply 172September 11, 2017 8:18 AM

Interesting analysis, R171!

by Anonymousreply 173September 11, 2017 11:56 AM

Stefanie Powers was Warner Bros as well. Not a bad career, but not many movie credits though some of them are campy gems.

by Anonymousreply 174September 11, 2017 4:26 PM

R174, Stefanie Powers did the classic "Palm Springs Weekend" at Warner Bros., but she was actually under contract to Columbia. In her book, she wrote about the second-class citizen treatment she felt she received during the filming of "Palm Springs Weekend" as an outsider on the lot.

by Anonymousreply 175September 13, 2017 11:55 AM

Just finished the book. It was quite a slog. Poor Diane kept making the same mistakes over and over. It's kind of sad. And some editing would have been good. Anyway, she talks about getting raped early in her career but doesn't name the guy. (This is before the brutal rape later on by two strangers.) Even though she mentions Robert Evans briefly later in the book, it seems pretty obviously that he did it. Anyone have more info about it?

by Anonymousreply 176September 14, 2017 4:40 PM

R175, does Powers have anything to say about Lee Remick, with,whom she co-starred in the excellent "Experiment In Terror?" Also in that was Ross Martin, before he appeared in "The Wild, Wild West," opposite the finest ass in the world.

by Anonymousreply 177September 14, 2017 7:13 PM

As a kid I watched all those WB detective shows. The first was "77 Sunset Strip" which was followed quickly by "Hawaiian Eye", "Bourbon Street Beat" and "Surfside Six".

It was while watching all these, I realized that they kept recycling the plots from one show to the other to the other, etc. I suppose that experience allowed me to recognize reused plots even today. And to appreciate the original ones.

by Anonymousreply 178September 14, 2017 8:11 PM

R177 What am I -- chopped liver?

by Anonymousreply 179September 14, 2017 8:52 PM

Stefanie Powers as April Dancer in "The Girl from U*N*C*L*E" was unforgettable.

by Anonymousreply 180September 14, 2017 8:53 PM

R8 The Girl From UNCLE.

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by Anonymousreply 181September 14, 2017 9:01 PM

Breaktime at UNCLE.

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by Anonymousreply 182September 14, 2017 9:04 PM

R179, You're worm meat now.

by Anonymousreply 183September 14, 2017 10:06 PM

I always thought Laurence Harvey was gay. Uh, Carleton Carpenter is out and openly gay and has been for decades. Never gave Jack Haley Jr much of a thought, but it makes sense.

by Anonymousreply 184September 14, 2017 10:16 PM

Favorite bit of Parrish trivia -- the spoiled guy who Parrish beats up at the end is actually Hampton Fancher, better known as Barbara Hershey's long-time lover and more interestingly, the screenwriter for Bladerunner.

by Anonymousreply 185September 14, 2017 10:18 PM

Wasn't Hampton Fancher married to Sue "Lolita" Lyon, for a couple weeks?

I think that Sharon Huegeny, who plays the "good girl" in "Parrish," was briefly married to Robert Evans.

by Anonymousreply 186September 14, 2017 10:26 PM

OP, your pic doesn't fit. This one is better.

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by Anonymousreply 187September 14, 2017 10:36 PM

She was gorgeous. Someone who was actually alive at the time, tells me that she was compared to Carole Lombard in looks.

by Anonymousreply 188September 14, 2017 10:40 PM

[quote]actually alive at the time

As opposed to just being alive?

If the LA times compared her to Lombard, it was because they were paid to gush and because they were referring to her persona, or what was said to be seen in her capacity to become something like Lombard. The same thing about Cybill Shepherd, Anna Faris and Emma Stone. Please.

[italic]Actually[/italic], McBain was more attractive than Lombard was. Lombard had bad angles, a difficult nose (look at the contouring in the photo, worthy of Bianca Del Rio), a receded hairline and could, in bad lighting, look like a cross between Mammy Yokum and Larry Fine's sister. (Look them up.) McBain wasn't a creation of the camera. But then neither did she have the spirit and talent of Lombard, whose attractiveness was in the doing.

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by Anonymousreply 189September 14, 2017 11:13 PM

Also, wasn't McBain's character Daphne in Surfside Six supposed to be a "madcap heiress" much like those Lombard played in the 1930s?

I loved the show mainly for Van Williams in wet trunks (did he ever wear a speedo?) but IIRC McBain just seemed to breeze in for a brief moment at the beginning or end of the episode, rarely much involved in the silly plot.

by Anonymousreply 190September 14, 2017 11:23 PM

R189, Thank you for choosing the worst photo of Lombard that was ever taken.

by Anonymousreply 191September 15, 2017 1:44 AM

R177, Stefanie Powers writes in her book that making "Experiment in Terror" was a fine experience, and warmly recalls Lee Remick and director Blake Edwards. Don't remember anything about Ross Martin.

Agreed, R176, Diane McBain's book could have used some editing. Some of the lengthy descriptions of her guest star shots could have been eliminated, for instance -- certainly we didn't need to know some of the plotlines! The most interesting portion to me was her description of her struggle to find work after her WB contract wasn't renewed -- a situation faced by many of her peers. At one point, she was writing to directors and producers to be considered for upcoming roles. Humbling indeed.

It was very obvious that the guy who date-raped her was Robert Evans. His later ascension to major Hollywood player had to be salt in her wounds.

But other times, her candor doesn't present herself in the best light. She had several affairs with married men (no, I'm not a moralist, truly, but there was a habit with her) and if memory serves, she slept with her friend and roommate Sherry Jackson's boyfriend. And the man she married very impulsively was quite the character.

R185, I knew about Hampton Fancher's brief marriage to Sue Lyon, I didn't know about his involvement with Barbara Hershey! He's had quite the life -- I think there is a documentary about him coming out soon.

by Anonymousreply 192September 15, 2017 3:52 AM

Hampton & Sue

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by Anonymousreply 193September 15, 2017 4:02 AM

Suzette Pleshanne & Don Troyahue

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by Anonymousreply 194September 15, 2017 4:05 AM

That's pretty! Thanks. It does look like there's a hand emerging from Suzanne s shoulder, but that's a nice touch.

by Anonymousreply 195September 15, 2017 5:13 AM

Dennis Cole, Troy Donahue's stand-in and once Mr. Jaclyn Smith, claims that he used to get all the girls Troy couldn't handle.

by Anonymousreply 196September 15, 2017 12:39 PM

Dennis Cole was far hotter than Troy Donahue. As were just about all of those young hunks on the Warner Bros. lot in the early 60s.

I never got Troy's appeal at all.

by Anonymousreply 197September 15, 2017 12:50 PM

Troy always seemed kind of thick to me, never quite understood his appeal. His ex-wife Suzanne Pleshette spoke warmly of him in her excellent interview on the TV Emmy Legends website.

I read that when director Josh Logan was attached to the project, the original choices for the roles in "Parrish" later played by Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Claudette Colbert and Karl Malden were Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda, Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. Wonder if Diane McBain was attached all along.

by Anonymousreply 198September 15, 2017 2:55 PM

When Connie Stevens and Bob Conrad starred in Hawaiian Eye the studio did everything it could to make it seem like they were also a couple -- neither were in the slightest interested in each other, especially since Bob was more taken by the boys than the girls....

by Anonymousreply 199September 15, 2017 3:54 PM

R199, Diane McBain wrote in her book that she couldn't stand the arrogant Robert Conrad.

by Anonymousreply 200September 15, 2017 4:02 PM

Weren't Suzanne and Troy who are wonderful together in the scenically spectacular Rome Adventure married for less than a year?

What was up with that?

by Anonymousreply 201September 15, 2017 6:05 PM

Troy wanted her to wear more sweaters.

by Anonymousreply 202September 15, 2017 7:24 PM

Suzanne who?

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by Anonymousreply 203September 15, 2017 8:28 PM

Diane likes the gays!

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by Anonymousreply 204September 16, 2017 4:20 PM

What did she say about the guy who date-raped her?

by Anonymousreply 205September 17, 2017 12:51 AM

R205, all signs point to the man in question being Robert Evans during his pre-mogul days.

by Anonymousreply 206September 21, 2017 12:00 PM

But what are the signs she mentions in her book, [R206]? That's a pretty big accusation (against Evans); and did he (Evans) have a reputation as a date rapist in Hollywood?

by Anonymousreply 207September 21, 2017 12:24 PM

R207, McBain describes a handsome young actor who’d had supporting roles in a few films. He hadn’t really caught on as an actor, but made no bones about having higher aspirations in the film business. In the meantime, he’d temporarily steeped away from films to work with a friend establishing a fashion company. She doesn’t allude to any rumors of being a serial date rapist.

by Anonymousreply 208September 22, 2017 2:43 AM

So they just went out on the one date and the "film guy" (whoever he is) raped her? Did she tell anyone at the studio, etc.? (Wouldn't Evans have been small potatoes at the time?)

by Anonymousreply 209September 22, 2017 9:00 AM

If that's really how she describes him, who else could he be but Robert Evans? The only differences are that his fashion company came before his acting jobs, and he founded it with his brother, not a friend.

by Anonymousreply 210September 22, 2017 9:08 AM

According to the popular (but I don't know how accurate) "Who dated who?" site, Diane has dated 10 "notable" men, including: Robert Evans, Warren Beatty, Omar Sharif, and Richard Burton.

(In addition to Troy Donahue and the other guys named on this thread)

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by Anonymousreply 211September 22, 2017 9:15 AM

According to that site, Diane is allegedly still close friends with actresses Connie Stevens, Tippi Hedren, Sherry Jackson, and Deborah Walley.

So do Connie and Tippi probably know for sure who the date rapist is?

by Anonymousreply 212September 22, 2017 9:20 AM

Diane as Pinky Pinkston in the Batman series...

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by Anonymousreply 213September 22, 2017 9:27 AM

Her facial features look a bit Sharon Tate-like to me there ^

by Anonymousreply 214September 22, 2017 9:28 AM

I want to see Parrish again. I watched it years ago and somehow missed that it was set in Connecticut. I thought it was Georgia.

by Anonymousreply 215September 22, 2017 2:09 PM

Deborah Walley has been dead for years.

by Anonymousreply 216September 23, 2017 2:03 PM

:( :(

by Anonymousreply 217September 23, 2017 2:06 PM

R109, wasn't that because Diane Baker is gay?

by Anonymousreply 218September 23, 2017 3:05 PM

I guess that's why she hasn't been returning my calls.

by Anonymousreply 219September 23, 2017 3:06 PM

Did Jack Haley Jr. die of AIDS? He died of respiratory failure at age 68. That sounds like pneumonia.

by Anonymousreply 220September 23, 2017 4:12 PM

LOL, [R219]!

by Anonymousreply 221September 24, 2017 10:02 AM

Jack Haley, Jr. was known as an escort to single women in Hollywood, i. e., Debbie Reynolds, Nancy Sinatra, Jr., etc.

by Anonymousreply 222September 26, 2017 10:55 AM

Well, in that case.

R216, Diane has a great medium.

by Anonymousreply 223September 26, 2017 11:02 AM

Diane is funny about working with Bob Conrad. She despised him. She'd worked on a lot of shows and hated when she got a call to work with him, esp. after he got Wild Wild West. First of all, he was gay and therefore not interested in her, which must have been a punch in the gut to this floozy. But most of all, Conrad made all the other actors who were taller than he was (i.e., all the other actors) stand in trenches to be filmed with him in a scene. I heard of this being done back in the early days of the movies, Alan Ladd comes to mind, but had not idea they still did it.

She was especially homophobic in her description of Laurence Harvey another good looking guy who couldn't/wouldn't sleep with her. Diane was the type of girl who had to be sure she raised the cocks of every man in the room when she walked in. She didn't handle her frustration with people like Conrad and Harvey all that well. But she quotes him beautifully. He was quite a mess, but a funny mess.

by Anonymousreply 224September 26, 2017 12:13 PM

Facebook has a great page called Beefcake Babylon.. Great photos....check it out! Bob Conrad is often mentioned but those who knew personally have no kind words.

by Anonymousreply 225September 26, 2017 12:18 PM

I went to Beefcake Babylon. Can you link the part about Bob Conrad.

Also, who is this gorgeous guy? Is it Josh Brolin?

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by Anonymousreply 226September 26, 2017 12:23 PM

Robert Conrad fathered 8 children by 2 wives. He must have done his best acting in the bedroom.

by Anonymousreply 227September 26, 2017 3:21 PM

A good (male) friend of mine had a torrid affair with Bob in the mid-1970s. Said he was about 5'8" (at best) and still had that amazing butt. Also said he was flat out crazy -- they had to check into a hotel at different times because Bob was paranoid about being caught. My friend couldn't call Bob -- Bob had to call him, and even then used code words to set up their next assignation. In bed, Bob was a total bottom, liked rough sex, and particularly liked to beat up his partners afterward -- or at least, knock them around... luckily for my friend, he was a strong guy who resisted the rage.... for a while... as much as he said Bob was wildly handsome and his body almost ridiculously perfect, he just couldn't put up with the insanity. He broke it off and never heard from Bob again.

Another friend was close to Bob and his family for a while but had to break off the friendship when he learned that Bob beat his wife as well.

Bobby might have been one of the handsomest men to hit Hollywood but he was just too crazy and controlling to ever get further than two successful tv shows and a ton of crappy tv movies.

And yes, his real last name was Falkowski.

by Anonymousreply 228September 26, 2017 3:36 PM

Did r226 wander over here from the Theatre Gossip thread?

And yes, who is that??

by Anonymousreply 229September 26, 2017 7:43 PM

R224/R228 your imagination is wild!

by Anonymousreply 230September 26, 2017 9:22 PM

R227, Maybe it was his stand-in?

R228, thanks for the pretty tale

by Anonymousreply 231September 26, 2017 9:28 PM

Best thing about Datalounge is that when you post the truth, the idiots think it's a lie. When you make up a story, the idiots believe it.

by Anonymousreply 232September 27, 2017 11:23 AM

Wow, that Beefcake site has Pat Boone nude! He was kind of tasty back before he became a fundy freak.

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by Anonymousreply 233September 27, 2017 12:14 PM

Fun thread!

by Anonymousreply 234June 18, 2018 9:49 PM

Did anyone ever think Laurence Harvey was straight???

by Anonymousreply 235June 18, 2018 9:50 PM

Carleton Carpenter was really cute back in the day

by Anonymousreply 236June 18, 2018 10:09 PM

[quote]Did anyone ever think Laurence Harvey was straight???

A mother always knows.

by Anonymousreply 237June 19, 2018 12:16 AM

I think that Carleton Carpenter wrote an autobiography a couple of years ago, too.

by Anonymousreply 238June 19, 2018 2:26 AM

Oh my stars, my life has been flashing before my eyes with all this RICHNESS. The memories! "Strait-Jacket," Connie, Annette, "Parrish," the confusion about Diane's,"Surfside Six".....I'm going to have to take a sedative!

by Anonymousreply 239June 19, 2018 3:07 AM

Suzanne Pleshette says in an interview that's on You Tube that she and Troy were married just a few months. He came to her and told that he was having serious tax issues and owed a huge amount to the IRS.

He said - if we're married at the end of the year, half of that debt is yours....so why don't you get out now....

Suzanne says she appreciated the favor he did her, and she had no mean words for Troy...

by Anonymousreply 240June 19, 2018 3:25 AM

I don't know this Diane woman. This thread is telling she has only appeared opposite some men-candy in laughable trash.

by Anonymousreply 241June 19, 2018 3:41 AM

Has Diane weighed in on the midterms?

by Anonymousreply 242November 7, 2018 8:51 PM

She will as soon as she's finished with her makeup....it's takes a bit longer nowadays.

by Anonymousreply 243November 7, 2018 9:03 PM

Laurence Harvey another good looking guy?????

by Anonymousreply 244November 7, 2018 9:55 PM

LOL, R243!

by Anonymousreply 245November 7, 2018 11:34 PM

Sinatra was pretty liberal, but he hated phonies and poseurs, especially after so many in Hollywood turned their backs on him from 1949 to 1953 when he left his wife for Ava and his career went to hell. The same people who ignored him came running back after he won his Oscar. He never forgot that. He hated Dominick Dunne, and called him a climber. He once paid the Maitre d' at The Daisy, a club in Beverly Hills in the 60's, to punch Dunne in the head. Dunne tells that story in his memoirs.

by Anonymousreply 246November 7, 2018 11:57 PM

I thought I remember reading that while shooting from here to eternity Sinatra and Clift DID hang around together all the time but it was almost exclusively drinking and Sinatra absorbing all the acting abillities he could from leaching onto Clift. When he finally figured out Clift was gay he was disgusted and dropped him............

by Anonymousreply 247November 7, 2018 11:58 PM

Just saw the Dominick Dunne documentary, and that Sinatra story is recounted there, too, R246. Neither McBain nor Dunne mention the other in their respective tomes, that I remember.

by Anonymousreply 248December 17, 2018 12:03 PM

MORE!

Why on earth would Sinatra single out Dominick Dunne of all people?!?

by Anonymousreply 249December 17, 2018 1:12 PM

Because he was queer

by Anonymousreply 250December 17, 2018 2:13 PM

Most of Sinatra's favorite song writers were gay. He had no problem with gays but back then they did their business in private. It was a different era. But Dunne was a phony and a climber which Sinatra hated.

by Anonymousreply 251December 17, 2018 4:27 PM

She would probably be better remembered if she'd transitioned to television in a lead female role like Stephanie Powers did. But if you go by the clever title of her book—Famous Enough—she didn't care about that.

by Anonymousreply 252December 18, 2018 12:01 PM

Has Diane's interview with the idiotic Skip E. Lowe been posted here upthread? She is quite lovely and sincere there. I should check. And does she mention Van Williams in her book? He was dreamy.

by Anonymousreply 253December 18, 2018 12:06 PM

When one of of T. Donahue's ex-wives remarried him and was asked why, she answered, "If at first you don't succeed, Troy, Troy again."

by Anonymousreply 254December 18, 2018 12:23 PM

A disenchanted lover of Diane said that she was the McBain of his existence.

by Anonymousreply 255December 18, 2018 2:32 PM

And Diane said of Diva Joan, "She sticks in my Crawford."

by Anonymousreply 256December 18, 2018 3:05 PM

R251, Sinatra was a asshole and a bully (think Trump with better suits), you seem not to know that. Additionally, his songwriters were not mostly gay. Sinatra loved a few, like obviously gay Billy Strayhorn, but that was an exception.

by Anonymousreply 257December 18, 2018 3:20 PM

^ I'll add in Cole Porter before you do.

by Anonymousreply 258December 18, 2018 3:22 PM

He tried and failed to sing "Lush Life."

by Anonymousreply 259December 18, 2018 3:22 PM

Another gay Sinatra tolerated: Lena Horne's husband, Lennie Hayton. He must have liked him as a conductor (though he never hired him) and the fact that Hayton was an alcoholic non-practicing gay. Hayton was at Sinatra's Palm Springs house at a party when he went into cardiac arrest that killed him a few days later. Sinatra got Miss Lena on the phone (she lived in NYC) and demanded she come to Palm Springs. She grudgingly complied. They had separated a decade earlier but were still legally tied.

by Anonymousreply 260December 18, 2018 3:33 PM

I’m not sure if McBain’s interview with Skip E. Lowe has been posted upthread. It’s on YouTube, but as usual, I could only tolerate about three minutes of the obnoxious and stupid Lowe before I shut it off. McBain looked good in the interview, and she talked about Joan Crawford in the part I saw, bit life is too short to revisit Lowe.

by Anonymousreply 261December 18, 2018 5:34 PM

[quote]What former child star serves the following monologue by way of dressing room conversation: “Mickey Rooney once grabbed me inappropriately…I did coke with Liberace, but I didn’t know what it was….Diahann Carroll is a c**t….”?

Shirley Temple

by Anonymousreply 262December 18, 2018 11:11 PM

Jane Withers

by Anonymousreply 263December 19, 2018 6:30 AM

McBain comes off well here. Lowe, on the other hand, is as hard to take as ever!

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by Anonymousreply 264June 14, 2019 3:00 AM

J'adore DL for the imagery of Shirley Temple doing lines with Liberace.

by Anonymousreply 265June 14, 2019 4:25 AM
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