Samantha Eggar

Nope.

Beautiful woman. I know Ryan O Neill thought she was hot. She was great in The Brood, a cult horror film from Cronenberg.

She originated the role of Maggie Gioberti on Falcon Crest

Bitch couldn't do the pivot.

She once rescued a bunch of people from a burning jetliner.

A few years later, she killed herself.

Bitch!!!

She isn't dead.

Jetliner ? Are you thinking of INGER STEVENS ? SAMANTHA EGGAR is still alive. She's about 75 now. I don't doubt that most people under 50 don't know who she is. She was a 'hot property' for about 5 years in the 1960s from about '63 to '68. RETURN FROM THE ASHES, THE COLLECTOR, DR. D00LITTLE; those were her big pictures. She was also the female lead in the forgettable WALK, DON'T RUN (1966) whose sole distinction is that it was CARY GRANT last movie. EGGAR had also been a one time tenant of 10050 Cielo Drive.

"EGGAR had also been a one time tenant of 10050 Cielo Drive."

Ok, I am dying to know what significance this holds.

My eyes are green, my hair is auburn, and my dress is vivid red.

RCA wanted me to tell you the right colors because getting the color right is what their exclusive ColorTrak system is all about. It's a remarkable development that actually adjusts color and keeps it on track!

I remember her from an episode of Fantasy Island. She was all wrong for the Maggie Gioberti part.

Let me Google that for you, r9.

The Collector disturbed the hell out of me. Terence Stamp was so creepy in that movie. Ugh Freddie Clegg.

R4, I don't often laugh out loud, but I did at that.

NATALIE WOOD was the original choice for THE COLLECTOR. Don't know why she didn't get it/do it but EGGAR was likely a better pick. I liked WOOD fine but she was often (always) NATALIE WOOD; like KATHARINE HEPBURN who always plays KATHARINE HEPBURN.

KELT, why do you KEEP putting WORDS into ALL-CAPS?

Are you SHOUTING? We can HEAR just FINE.

She is a terrific sister-in-law and Rene says she's a great Mum!

Can you stop SHOUTING, r15?

From glamorous Oscar nominee starring in major studio dramas and musicals to cheesy ABC T.V movies and Love Boat appearances in less than 10 years...it seems lovely Sam was NOT fucking the right people!

La Eggar has her own website, and just yesterday (Saturday Feb 15 2014) did a play reading in Los Angeles....

Mother!

She suffered from being unfavorably compared to look-alikes Lee Remick and Diana Rigg.

She would be ideal casting to play NICOLE KIDMAN'S mother in a film.

Eggar was all set to join the daytime soap opera SANTA BARBARA as an Alexis-like character named Pamela Capwell. She pulled out at the last moment, and English actress Shirley Fields was cast in her place (Fields was later replaced by Marj Dusay).

She was great on Baywatch. Don't hear much about her these days.

I always remember her from Doctor Dolittle.

As she aged, her lazy eye became more apparent and that limited her casting appeal. It's very obvious now.

Same goes for Dame Maggie Smith.

Anyone remember that super weird horror movie Curtains where she played an actress who commits herself into an asylum to research a part and the director tells them to keep her there and he holds his own casting session at his house? Then, she breaks out - I don't think we ever find out how - and shows up at the casting session.

She was divalicious in that film. I'm surprised it hasn't been lined up for a remake. Unlike many others, it could legitimately use one to improve upon an interesting concept. I've heard it's finally coming to DVD this year.

She was also in a reaaaaally bad one called Demonoid about a killer hand. Believe it or not, it's a great deal of fun and more enjoyable than the other killer hand movie with Michael Caine.

Give me Julie Christie or Susannah York or Sarah Miles or the Redgrave girls any day.

[quote]Give me Julie Christie or Susannah York or Sarah Miles or the Redgrave girls any day.

She was never in any of the classy movies of the 60s that they were in. None of the top British directors seemed to cast her.

She was in The Walking Stick (great title!) with David Hemmings and was good in it, but it was a sort of classy B movie really, but worth watching if you get a chance.

She lost a lot of momentum in her movie career after 1967. For two years she did not appear in any films. She came back in 1970 starring in several box office bombs. So, after that she wasn't hot any more.

I thought The Collector was a cheaply made Hollywood version of what maybe could have been a good '60s British film. Dreadful cheap set. Total miscasting of Terence Stamp .

The book, I seem to remember was good though.

Last thing I remember her in was when she played Finola Hughes' evil secret agent mother on All My Children.

I always got her confused with Rula Lenska.

SE also starred in "The Molly Maguires."

KELT capitalizes performers' names, I guess the better to see them.

Isn't Samantha Eggar that one bitch that didn't like Rex Harrison in Dr. Dolittle?

Didn't she tear off her clothes and sing that song that goes, "Here I stand as the crossroad divides.." or some shit like that?

It's been so many years since I've seen that movie, so don't be mad at me if this all sounds bizarre...

[quote] so don't be mad at me if this all sounds bizarre...

Someone who's been bitten by The DL one too many times. lol

She was beautiful and could act but she had no charm.

As a child I loved her on LOVE BOAT and as Mr. Roark's tragic love interest on FANTASY ISLAND. I wondered why she didn't do more movies. This is before I realized that if you were appearing on those shows, you'd already had your shot at the movies.

There's a great quote in that "Pictures at a Revolution" book where she either asks for more money or some perk on Doctor Doolittle because as she puts it "I've done the Rex thing".

I thought she was great in "The Collector."

Indeed r30, and her affair with Hemmings broke upo his marriage to Gayle Hunnicutt, that fascinating Texan actress who settled in the UK.

She was good in The Collector, one of Wyler's last, great book, but Stamp was all wrong - too glamorous, Tom Courtenay would have been ideal.

Wasnt she a Mrs Anna in a tv series of The King and I, never saw that though.

One reason her career stalled after 1967 was that she infamously unpleasant and difficult on the set.

She was, R42, and Yul Brynner once again played the King. It was on CBS and it flopped.

Doctor Dolittle was a big boring film. Was it or was it not a flop upon release? If it wasn't a success, was that the reason Samantha didn't appear in any more films for the rest of the sixties?

[quote]Doctor Dolittle was a big boring film.

I agree. I saw it as a kid and remember nothing. Apart from the song about talking to the animals...even then, the tune's unmemorable.

[quote]Was it or was it not a flop upon release?

I think it was a success.

Her role in the Cary Grant picture "Walk, Don't Run" always made me wish her career had gone on to something better than it did.

She was compared to Lee Remick and Diana Rigg, who look nothing alike?

Didn't she look more like Julie London?

More like Lee than Diana, I think. But I always thought she looked like a redheaded Jane Fonda.

Why didn't she get more parts in the seventies? She was still stunning then.

By the 70s she was doing made for TV movies. I remember her in a dull remake of Double Indemnity

Her daughter Jenna Stern seems to be a busy actress.

I've never heard of her, myself.

The things they did to hair in the 60s!!

Odd, only married once. Divorced in 1971 - no high profile romances!

I heard she was rude and demanding, which, coupled with several flop films, killed her career.

Best role was Wyler's The Collector, eerie precursor of so many actual kidnappings since then. That won her and Terrence Stamp Best Actor and Actress awards at Cannes.

Looks like she was more of a model turned actress, unlike he contemporaries, who had studied and done stage work.

[quote]Looks like she was more of a model turned actress, unlike he contemporaries, who had studied and done stage work.

NO! London stage school!

[quote]Best role was Wyler's The Collector, eerie precursor of so many actual kidnappings since then.

I remember the set looked so pathetically 'creepily' staged. Like the haunted house at Disney World.

London Stage School sounds like the Close-Cover-Before-Striking School of Theatuh.

She was no Senta Berger.

[quote] Doctor Dolittle was a big boring film. Was it or was it not a flop upon release? If it wasn't a success, was that the reason Samantha didn't appear in any more films for the rest of the sixties?

It lost about $9 million for Fox but she's not really to blame for that. The Sherman Brothers turned it down and stuck with Walt Disney for [italic]The Happiest Millionaire[/italic], also not a moneymaker but not nearly as expensive (ironically considering the subject matter), waiting until the 1970s and they had left the studio to work for Arthur P. Jacobs before his death. Alan Jay Lerner was the next choice with Christopher Plummer starring, but Lerner couldn't do anything with it and Plummer wanted out and got paid for not playing it.

The set was a nightmare. You think it's easy trying to control all those animals, you try it sometime. One of them even bit Sir Rex between takes! An environmentalist let off a bomb on the set, and at one point there were also protests over racial stereotypes in the book that didn't even make the final draft of the script. So there was a lot of negative publicity about it before it even came out. The budget ballooned from $6 million to $18 million, yet Fox was so convinced they had a hit that they spent a fortune in toys and soundtrack albums, thinking they would make back the same level of return that [italic]The Sound of Music[/italic] had. They spent themselves into a corner. Then after a disastrous preview that didn't even have any kids attending it, they cut the part of the film with him riding on a giraffe even though some of the posters still show it.

What sealed its fate was Disney opening [italic]The Jungle Book[/italic], which was half as long and infinitely more entertaining, at popular prices at the same time. Even [italic]Valley of the Dolls[/italic], which grossed a fortune for Fox despite the negative reviews, was a better film, all things considered.

This is such a great Wikipedia fact about the making of "The Collector":

"William Wyler (director of the film) knew Samantha Eggar had turned Terrence Stamp down when they both were studying together at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Wyler gave Stamp private instructions to stay in character and give Eggar the cold shoulder during the filming. This created tension on the set between the two actors.[3]"

Given the premise of the film, that "tension" was a definite plus.

Too freckly.

Return from the Ashes was on TCM last night. I just happened to see it and came here trying to find out nore about Eggar who, like all the main actors in this, turned in memorable performances. Sorry to hear she ended up in the land of lost careers with Love Boat / Fantasy Island type of roles.

If you get a chance to see Return from the Ashes, watch it!