BREAKING Dorothy Malone is DEAD

Now she has an interesting story - she became a real estate agent and sold....houses....after becoming an Oscar winner.

I'd thought she'd died like 20 years ago, but then I realized that was Dorothy McGuire.

Even as a senior, she kept working it.

Dorothy loved her oil derrick.

She was FABULOUS at playing cheap tramps with money.

So fucking sexy in Written On The Wind.

Shooter....

Another one Datalounge missed on all their celebrity death lists. And she was a pretty big star.

She was great in Written on the Wind.

I think people under 45 would only know her from “Basic Instinct.” I hope she went peacefully.

I am a huge movie buff and thanks to TCM I’ve seen nearly every Oscar movie, but have missed “Written on the Wind” somehow. Is she really good in it?

Not seeing her win I always thought Eileen Heckart in “The Bad Seed” was especially worthy that year.

I always liked her - blond, sensuous, and at times bitchy.

I thought she was already dead.

And then I realized that was Dorothy Loudon.

Her hot hubby.

This thread is making remember how bad some of the acting in Basic Instinct is... whew, and from Oscar winners/nominees!

JE is a shit script writer.

Had an unbilled cameo as dead pilot Rod Taylor’s nonplussed playgirl “friend” in 1964’s “Fate Is The Hunter,” also starring Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Suzanne Pleshette, Mark Stevens and Wally Cox.

Airplane disaster drama...

Looking like a dramatic floozy here.

Posing with her Oscar.

r10 "Written on the Wind" was directed by Douglas Sirk. The movie is a hoot. Dorothy is completely over the top (in a good way).

OMFG! Where is the "so young" troll?

So young!

Dorothy as Marylee Hadley was clearly the inspiration for Lu-Lu Fishpaw.

I'm 30 and love Written on the Wind. Own the Criterion DVD. She's fantastic in the film. I think most gay men know this and Sirk's other movies well.

I liked the movie "The Last Voyage", about a sinking ship, starring Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack.

R8, Nope. #6 in the 2018 Death Predictions Thread called it.

Here's video of her winning the Academy Award:

Also played an ex-hooker turned coffee shop owner in the classic TV movie "Little Ladies of the Night," starring DL fave Linda Purl.

R23 She was pinned down by debris and Robert Stack had to hold her head above the rising water.

"I always thought Eileen Heckart in “The Bad Seed” was especially worthy that year."

OMG, Heckart is pure camp in her Bad Seed scenes. It's like Carol Burnett as Eunice trying to act at the Pepperpot Playhouse.

No mention yet of "Peyton Place"? I loved that show as a young gayling.

She was a camp icon!!! Loved her. RIP.

The classic movie star pose.

Never a huge star. Great as nymphomaniacs, temptresses, hookers.

R29 Dorothy and Mia Farrow in Peyton Place.

I loved her one scene in the noir classic 'The Big Sleep' where she played a slutty bookshop clerk who closes down her shop in the middle of the day so she can fuck Bogie.

She was in that film for less than 3 minutes but managed to make a bigger impact than Lauren Bacall or Martha Vickers on me when I first saw the film.

R33 A color photo of them.

Her short scene in "The Big Sleep" was scene-stealing.

Did her pussy stink?

Dorothy would have been an incredible addition to a splashy 80s nighttime soap. She might even have made THE COLBYS work.

Young ingenue Dottie.

You know she must have entered Hollywood via the casting couch.

Pearls spilling over on bosom.

R13

I think Dorothy got him after Ginger Rogers had him.

She was Texas personified.

I love that photo at R33. Dorothy could overact (in a good way) even in a publicity still.

Driving her flashy car in Written On The Wind.

Now, I want everyone to get up and

MAMBO LIKE FOOLS ! ! !

^^ Think pink!

TV Guide cover.

Vickers steals The Big Sleep from Bacall and Malone damn near steals it from her.

Malone was one of the last two actors living who were in THE BIG SLEEP (1946), the Humphrey Bogart noir classic where he played Philip Marlowe. I think that Sonia Darrin (mother of Mason Reese) who played a bad girl in this is still with us.

Lauren Bacall had the good girl role in Written On The Wind and practically went unnoticed while Malone won the Oscar.

I guess Bacall didn't have enough FLAVAH

Thank God somebody finally did the High Point joke. I was beginning to think this wasn't the DL.

Sonia Darrin is also noted for being Mason Reese's mom. I believe Mason is currently dating Geri 'Fake Jan' Reischl.

I never heard about her selling real estate but she was living in a retirement community in Dallas and had raised her family there. I think her last husband was very wealthy and she wanted her kids not to grow up around the film industry/LA

After around age 35, anytime she wore a shirt with a collar she always popped it up. Once you realize that, you'll always notice it.

I remember her in Rich Man, Poor Man

So naturally pretty...next week she'd have turned ninety three.

She was a whore.

She was offered Miss Ellie when Barbara Bel Geddes left. She actually lived in Dallas at the time.

Loved her as uptight Constance on PP. She was what a tv mom should be.

Thanks for posting that, #34. I didn't know she started acting that young. Looks to me like the best acting she ever did.

Started at the top and worked her way down?

Miss Malone has left the room......

She once starred with Robert stack as the wife trapped on a sinking ocean liner.....the movie was called the last voyage. Now miss Dorothy is off on her last voyage.

"Sonia Darrin (mother of Mason Reese)"

She's pretty. Did she have a problem with the drink? Thalidomide?

She WAS Cleva!!!

Can someone pls blur the face on the mason Reese pic......some things just shouldn't be shown public .

Can someone please explain to me what's going on in this photo of Miss Malone? Is she about to receive a surprise anal by the abominable snowman?!

We have to include her famous "Death Dance" scene from "Written on the Wind."

Thought I didn't know her, until I saw the mention of The Big Sleep. RIP

Was she related to Moses?

That Jacques Bergerac was a hottie — so handsome! Get it, Dottie!

And yes, “The Last Voyage” was excellent — Malone’s being trapped under wreckage as the water was rising was truly harrowing.

r68 The long version of "Marylee's Death Dance"

[quote]Is she about to receive a surprise anal by the abominable snowman?!

Not just Yeti!

R54

Didn't I mention that in the post ?

that Oscar acceptance speech ... if you mute it her looks / mannerisms are a cross between Joan Crawford and Cybil Shepherd, but there's no denying Shepherd's resemblance to her with the sound on. If someone told me they are related I would believe it.

She was a better actress than both Crawford and Shepherd. RIP.

R51

What line ? The 'brush you out of my hair' line ?

Enjoyed the the clip R34. There is more going on in the 3 minutes then in a Marvel movie.

77 yes, hate Marvel movies

"I believe Mason is currently dating Geri 'Fake Jan' Reischl."

Link please.

What was on her phonograph?

Her teeth always looked like dentures. It gave her a harsh, low-rent stripper look.

[quote]What was on her phonograph?

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."

What the........

DM came to represent the Best Supporting Actor/Actress Curse. Once she won the Oscar for Written on the Wind, she made several not-so-good movies that almost ended career (until Peyton Place)

Robert Stack was favored to win the Best Supporting Actor Award, but was upset by Anthony Quinn for Lust for Life. Quinn's performance is the shortest performance to win Best Supporting Actor, approximately 9 minutes (but still longer than Beatrice Straight's five minutes in Network)

While Written on the Wind is fun, it borrows a lot from Giant.

Gaylings of the 1960s will remember her comeback in Peyton Place (televised TWO nights each week!) as sensational.

The snowman groping Dorothy from behind is frosty the snowman's pervert cousin.......frisky the snowman.

R80

Temptation (uncredited) Written by Nacio Herb Brown Lyrics by Arthur Freed Heard in the scene where Marylee dances and Jasper Hadley dies

Dorothy Malone in later years.

Errol Flynn and Malone in Too Much, Too Soon.

Dorothy Malone was a solid, dependable contract player with Universal Pictures, which might explain why she never really got elevated to the Hollywood A-list. Until the late 1950s-1960s, Universal concentrated on low budget horror, westerns, serials, and Douglas Sirk sudsers, and could seldom afford their stable of stars. When they did splurge on big budget films, they either borrowed top talent from other studios or hired freelance stars. Their own players were relegated to secondary roles in A pictures or headliners in B pictures. From 1958 to 1962, top talent agency MCA began its takeover of Universal, upgraded its facilities, and transformed it into a A-movie studio. But by then Dorothy's movie career was on the wane and she was transitioning to television.

"And Dorothy Malone as Constance McKenzie"

"It's nice to meet you . . . 'Shooter'."

She had quite popularity resurgence with her run on tv's PEYTON PLACE.

Didn't she become a Christian scientist in her latter years?

Anyway loved her in Written in the wind with Lauren Bacall. Such a camp movie!!

Did Lauren and Dorothy get along OK and did Dorothy Malone ever write an autobiography or get referenced much in other celebrities autobiographies?

Angie Dickinson has outlasted yet another 50's/60's/70's actress who was on the short list for classy, older femme fatale roles.

The stories those two could tell............................

Thanks, R34, for that clip from "The Big Sleep". Once seen, never forgotten.

It has little to do with whatever else was going on in that movie. (When asked, Raymond Chandler himself did not know who killed one of the dead guys!)

But this bookstore scene with Malone is truly wonderful.

Thanks again for reminding me.

Angie Dickinson isn't the kiss and tell type [R95] she's classier than that. Although I didn't know Dorothy had lots of naughty secrets she could tell too?! What do you mean?

So Kirk Douglas has outlived another one of his costars and leading ladies. He's outlived nearly all of his costars. So few left but of course Doris Day is one of the rare few still alive who co-starred with Kirk.

Wasn't she the one left out of the "Oscar's Class Photo" from around ten years ago?

She looks like Paula Deen at post R3.

I love Malone but I have to agree with R81 - she was gorgeous when really young but she started to look haggard very early. I guess it was because of her dentures, the combination of blonde hair and dark eyebrows (which is something very few women can get away with ) and her prominent nasolabial folds. It's hard to believe she was only 31 when "Written in the Wind" was made because she looked at least 10 years older.

I'm also surprised there's not much love for "Too Much, Too Soon" in this thread. I watched that film after I saw it featured in the "Bad Movies We Love" book and it did not disappoint - it's one entertaining mess of a movie. It's based on Diana Barrymore's book about the relationship with her father John Barrymore. Real life Diana died of OD shortly after the film came out.

R91 dear it was STARRING DOROTHY MALONE as Constance Mackenzie!

[quote] "I believe Mason is currently dating Geri 'Fake Jan' Reischl." - Link please.

Mason has talked about it in interviews - just google them.

These two lovebird are like Lunt and Fontanne of the autograph convention circuit.

The Last Voyage was based on an incident that occurred during the sinking of the Andrea Doria. But in real they were unable to free her. The ship's doctor or her husband, I forgot which, gave her enough pills to knock her out and she went down with the ship.

[quote] While Written on the Wind is fun, it borrows a lot from Giant.

Written on the Wind was very, very loosely based on the death of young tobacco heir Smith Reynolds after his marriage to Broadway and nightclub chanteuse Libby Holman She was a damnyankee, Jewish and much older. The marriage created quite the scandal in conservative, Southern Winston-Salem. The family had the death ruled a suicide but no one really knows whether it was suicide or murder or what actually happened that night after a drunken party with Smith, his best friend (and some say fuck buddy) Ab Walker and Holman. Holman was initially charged with murder but the Reynolds family got the charges dropped, gave the pregnant Holman a large settlement and hustled her out of town. Too much possible scandal could have come out in a trial.

From Wikipedia:

"Zachary Smith Reynolds (November 5, 1911 - July 6, 1932) was an American amateur aviator and younger son of R. J. Reynolds. The Zachary Smith Reynolds story was the basis for two movies, Reckless, starring Jean Harlow, and the popular 1950s classic, Written on the Wind. The latter was loosely based on a novel by Robert Wilder. In addition, the 1933 film Sing, Sinner, Sing was loosely based upon the allegations surrounding Reynolds' death."

Has Mia Farrow commented yet?

Mia did comment about her beautiful tv mother for 2 years

Mia is too busy ragging on Woody on a bunch of other threads.

Has Kirk Douglas commented?

Kirk drooled and shit himself.

Malone said of the movies she made after her Oscar win that she knew most of them were terrible. She said she would go to parties and restaurants and people would give her the side eye as if to say: "WHY did I vote for YOU?"

She gave a charming Oscar acceptance speech and looked GORGEOUS !

Did Bacall or Malone play the Libby Holman role in Written on the Wind?

"Written on the Wind" was heavily fictionalized to avoid a lawsuit from the Reynolds family.

r96, you are so right about that scene in The Big Sleep". I've loved it for years and yet never realized it was Malone. Man, her transformation is so smoothly accomplished. Love it.

I read the LA Times obit and from the quotes they included, she sounds like a good old-fashioned "broad". Good with a quip, realistic about life, able to take it on the chin and move along.

i hope there's a Dorothy Malone film fest held in Dallas in the coming months.

She's great in "The Big Sleep". the scene was written especially for her. Her being under contract to Universal probably was a big problem--they were a pretty much nothing studio until the late 50s. Even Columbia was better poised to take on the majors when they lost their theater chains.

[quote] The Last Voyage was based on an incident that occurred during the sinking of the Andrea Doria. But in real they were unable to free her. The ship's doctor or her husband, I forgot which, gave her enough pills to knock her out and she went down with the ship.

I don't think this is true.

If you are referring to Dr. Thure Peterson and his wife Martha, she died as they were using a jack to lift the wreckage.

[quote] Mr. Peterson saw the white Stockholm prow pass him as he was thrown in the air through a wall into cabin 58. Mrs. Peterson awoke entangled and trapped in the wreckage. At 4:10 am Mrs. Peterson died as her husband and Rovelli lifted the wreckage with a jack. Thure was rescued by the Ile de France. Thure passed away in 1970.

Rovelli, mentioned above:

[quote] Giovanni Rovelli, the valient steward who worked through the night in cabin 56 with Dr. Thure Peterson to rescue two American women pinned in the wreckage.....Treated at St. Vincent's Hospital

Her hair had SUCH lustre!

Her Oscar acceptance speech is so lovely! Spontaneous, modest and sincere. Not like you see/hear today.

She doesn't seem to me to be speaking for a long time but I guess back then it was usually a simple thank you and off you go.

Not that it makes much difference now, but in what year was she born - IMDB says 1925 but wikipedia says 1924.

She just won an Oscar and she's doing cheap-o hair commercials in R118?

r121=Cher, seeking validation

She turned Liberace straight!

R115, she was under contract to Warners when she made Big Sleep. They put her mostly in crap. That is a great scene, and much credit should go to director Howard Hawks. All his women had this great insolence--Bacall in her debut, Angie Dickenson in Rio Bravo, Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby. Russell in His Girl Friday. Poor Martha Vickers as the crazy sister in Sleep.

R123 Is that really Malone? It looks more like Eleanor Parker to me.

R116 and r117, have you considered that there might be differences between the stories Dr. Peterson and the hero stewart Rovelli told publicly to the press and what they told privately to friends?

The Last Voyage was nonetheless inspired by a true incident that occurred on the Andrea Doria.

Regardless, as much as I love The Italian Line and its gorgeous ships, there is no doubt Rovelli was a hero. He stayed to help rescue passengers while his co-workers were commandeering lifeboats to rescue themselves, leaving passengers to their own fates.

I was going to post pics of Rex, Conte di Savoia, one of my favorites, Saturnia, and Cristoforo Columbo as well as Stockholm, on which my grandparents sailed shortly before the collision, but it would all be too off-topic.

Ruth Roman and her young son were on the ship. They were briefly separated during the ordeal.

In the movie, the hero was portrayed by Woody Strode!

This thread made me download and watch The Last Voyage last night - I was surprised by how good and fast-paced it was. It's obvious it had a big influence on movies like The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Titanic. The only thing that really bothered me was the random narration by some annyoing British guy which popped up every once in a while. But Malone looked divine with that peach lipstick of hers, even when she was contemplating suicide while half-submerged underwater.

There was also a weird scene at the beginning of the film where one male member of the ship's crew was tapping the butts of other crewmembers who were putting out fire. Was this a standard gesture of encouragement among men in the past?

Here's the butt-tapping guy:

And another one:

You haven't lived till you see her play Diana Barrymore doing imitations in her nightclub act at some burlesque house drunk in "Too Much Too Soon." Perfection!

The only thing I've ever seen her in was 'Young at Heart', where she played the sister and second fiddle to DL icon, Ms. Doris Day, with Frank Sinatra as the leading man. It's sort of a strange film from that era, in that it is parts light-hearted family comedy, romantic melodrama and then ends with Sinatra killing himself by turning off his windshield wipers while driving during a snow storm.

Yes, R125, that's Dorothy Malone in 1955's Sincerely Yours, a bigger disaster film than The Last Voyage. Was there ever a less convincing impersonation of a straight man than Liberace's?

My stars r131, he's certainly a handsy one, isn't he?

Fun fact: the doomed ship in THE LAST VOYAGE was actually the Ile de France, which was slated for the scrapyard. The Ile de France was one of the ships that came to the rescue of the Andrea Doria.

I consider The Last Voyage, and not Airport, to be the first true modern disaster film. Andrew L. Stone who made it also directed Julie starring Doris Day which was later partially ripped off in Airport 75.

Stone was also responsible for one slightly different "disaster" film which I know is very dear to some eldergays around here - THE SONG OF NORWAY!

I've never watched Peyton Place. Was she the shows leading lady or was it more an ensemble cast kind of scenario?

Dorothy was in the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis musical-comedy "Artists and Models" with Shirley Maclaine, Eva Gabor, and Anita Ekberg.

Publicity still from Artists and Models

[quote]Is that really Malone? It looks more like Eleanor Parker to me.

They all look the same to me.

Lol, R141!

For R104, R116, R117, R126, R127, R129 and anyone else interested in true the story about the woman trapped in her cabin on the Andrea Doria , below is a link to the story fro Collier's Weekly, September 28, 1956. (The collision between the Stockholm and the Andrea Doria took place 2 months earlier on July 25, 1956.)

The article was written by Cornelius Ryan who would later become best known for his history books about World War II: The Longest Day, The Last Battle and A Bridge Too Far.

The name of the article is "Five Desperate Hours in Cabin 56".

The true story closely resembles the plot of "The Last Voyage".

Mrs. Martha Peterson's death is described on page 7 of the 8 page article.

R23 posted this picture from The Last Voyage" above.

I couldn't find any images of the last scenes when they are the deck trying for the waiting lifeboat as the water is pouring over the deck.

That scene is fucking terrifying and no phony CGI either.

R133

[quote]...then ends with Sinatra killing himself by turning off his windshield wipers while driving during a snow storm.

Nope.

Sinatra's character only tried to kill himself.

The movie ends on a sunny Easter with everyone reconciled, Doris and Frank cooing over their baby, and the rest of the happy family gather round. Frank is playing that song that he finally finished and Doris bursts into song.

Final scene shows the outside of the house, complete with picket fence, as the music soars.

THE END

I think Gig Young is in that. He did kill himself, after killing his young wife. The movie is a remake of Four Daughters, in which John Garfield was the Sinatra character.

Does anyone else think DM had a resemblance to Faye Dunaway? Something about the facial structure.

I’m going to rewatch “The Last Voyage” soon, and see if it’s as harrowing as I remember. Malone’s plot line was frightening, and she was vividly real.

TCM should have one of their tributes to her, but how many good films of Dorothy do they have the rights to?

Sexy bitch.

With Dorothy, you always got a good portion of acting for the buck.

The little girl in THE LAST VOYAGE was Tami Marihugh who had roles in a couple of more films.....grew up and became a Las Vegas Showgirl.....kinda like Nomi and the Cheetah club.....

Robert Stack wrote in his autobiography that he was furious with her parents because they let her be put in dangerous shots and scared to tears in other scenes to make the film more "real." He took a few days of it, and then told the director and parents if they did it again, Stack would quit movie.....so they did it when he was away from the set.

Tami does look genuinely scared in most of her scenes.

It was also strange to see Stack and Malone playing man and wife when they had famously played brother and sister a few years before.

But they had also played husband and wife in Tarnished Angels.

This is true R152......

[quote]It was also strange to see Stack and Malone playing man and wife when they had famously played brother and sister a few years before.

I fail to see the problem.

Fascinating info, Joyce Haber at R151! Tammy Marihugh, the little girl in “The Last Voyage”, seemed truly terrified in the film, and now we know why — she really was scared to death! Poor thing, she must have really been traumatized by the frightening and harrowing scenes she had in the film. If memory serves, there was a scene where they have to pull her away from the pinned-down Malone that was really powerful. (FYI, she always reminded me of an even tinier Brenda Lee!)

Stack was so hot. A bit of a butterface but still sexy. Does anyone know if he and Malone were friends in real life too?

Wish I had heard of her before. Will look her up. She seems like she was gay friendly. The clip of her on here dancing with Rock. Why are the leading men today only average in the looks dept.

[quote] Why are the leading men today only average in the looks dept.

Because back then they needed magnetic and larger-than-life movie stars to carry the film and draw in the crowds. Nowadays, when all Hollywood seems to produce are comic book films, remakes and sequels, people say "We're going to see that Marvel film" or "We're going to see the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast"; no one says "We're gonna see that Chris Evans movie" or "That Emma Watson movie". Actors are just small props in those CGI shitfests. Sure, Chris Evans is gorgeous too, but he's hardly the main reason people go and see the movies he's in.

Interesting and true, R158. And if “The Last Voyage” was remade today, they’d ratchet up the gore and cheesy CGI effects and render it bland. It worked perfectly because you could feel the panic and terror of Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone and Tammy Marihugh.

According to imdb

[quote] Edmond O'Brien took issue with the safety precautions during filming, and left the production in protest. When he returned, he discovered that his part had been greatly reduced, and that he was no longer required on set.

I was watching the last scene on board as Stack (who is carrying Malone), Edmond O'Brien, and Woody Strode, who have finally made it up on deck, along with a couple of the last ship's officers, are moving through knee high water pouring over the deck heading for the waiting boat. I cannot imagine how they shot that scene because it looks really, really dangerous. At a certain point, O'Brien, who is at the back of the group, is still moving forward. But unlike the others, O'Brien is sticking close to the rail and seems to be looking to his left, over the rail. If you watch closely you can see that he eventually climbs over the rail (not much of a climb at this point) and swims away. When the others climb over the rail seconds later and make for the lifeboat, O'Brien is not with them. In fact, he does not even appear to be in the same lifeboat. The movie ends seconds after this.

Very, very scary. I was trying to figure how they even shot this scene.

"Why are the leading men today only average in the looks dept."

It's the opposite. You really think Jimmy Stewart, James Cagney, and Humphrey Bogart were dreamboats? Talented, yes, but not much to look at.

R161 Tastes change, you know. Bogie was quite a sex symbol back then.

And need I remind you that this was once considered to be the most desirable woman in the world!?

"Butterface?" Robert Stack? Nah, the man was fucking gorgeous right up to the end of his life.

Apparently he was involved in a menage a trois in the White House swimming pool with the other male being President horny himself, JFK. I can't remember who the lucky fish was at that pool party.

Now I ain't one to gossip, that info was discussed muchly a few years back.

There was no three-way with JFK, Darwin Porter made that up.

Robert Stack was not much of an actor but was quite the beefcake pin up boy in his younger days. He was initially most famous for giving Deanna Durbin her first screen kiss in 1939's First Love, a tumultuous event in Hollywood history.

But he didn't really make an impact with American audiences until he played Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, a huge hit for Desilu 20 years later.

I can remember lots of publicity about Tammy Marihugh being touted as the heir apparent to Shirley Temple when this film came out because of her dimples and resemblance to Shirley.

Robert Stack also played the role of the hottie that Carole Lombard is fooling around with in the Ernst Lubitsch classic "To Be or Not to Be."

In the race for the 1956 Best Supporting Actress Oscar, Mercedes McCambridge was probably the favorite for her work in GIANT. McCambridge said that given her choice she would have preferred to have won the Oscar for GIANT rather than ALL THE KING'S MEN. Likewise, she said Luz Benedict in GIANT was her favorite role and used a still from that film for the cover of her autobiography.

As much actors respect the work of Mildred Dunnock, I cannot see the Motion Picture Academy giving an Oscar to BABY DOLL, movie more sensational than good.

Patricia McCormack was 12 when she was nominated for THE BAD SEED. Back then the Academy didn't want to honor many child actors. Her nomination was her reward.

Had I been a member of the Academy, I probably would have voted for Eileen Heckert for THE BAD SEED. Yes, her performance is over the top, which is exactly as it is written, to be the counterpoint to Christine's (Nancy Kellly) poised demeanor.

I suspect that McCambridge and Heckert (and possibly Dunnock) cancelled each other out, letting Malone win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Robert Stack was a championship skeet shooter and during WWII he was an Aerial Gunnery Officer and a gunnery instructor. A friend's father was one of Stack's students during the war.

And Malone's torso was moreso.

r168, I don't understand how those actresses "cancelled each other out".

Maybe you could say MacCormick and Heckart cancelled each other out as they were both in the same film. But Malone got the most votes. It's that simple.

I've never really understood that "cancelling" concept. Even with Judy Holliday in 1950.

R171: Let's say 100 people vote. 60 people want Bette Davis or Gloria Swanson to win. 30 vote for Bette, 30 vote for Gloria. Four vote for Ann Baxter, Four vote for Eleanor Parker.

68 people do not want Judi Holiday to win. At all.

But a minority of 32 people vote for Judy Holiday. Judy wins.

She was good at playing wild girls...but she could also be a bit boring, like as the divorcee in THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.

Dorothy Malone wasn't in The Best of Everything.

R174 Sorry....I sometimes mix her up with Martha Hyer : o

My apologies!!

Dorothy and Gena

She also reminds me of Lola Albright. Sorry!

BUT....I think she was GREAT in [italics] Gone with the Wind! [/italic]

Elizabeth Taylor was the alleged third person in the pool with Stack and JFK according to the notoriously unreliable Darwin Porter. I had always thought it was JFK's fling Angie Dickenson until I just googled it. Liz also allegedly got it on with Ronald Reagan when she was still underage because he treated as if she were an adult, which thrilled her.

Darwin Porter? Master of fiction?

Admit it: which of you bitches has a Tammy Marihugh paper doll set?

And do you keep it in plastic or take it out and play with it?

I always thought Tammy looked like a mini Deborah Kerr in The Last Voyage.

And here's Tammy after she became a bad girl:

That "finger in the mouth" pose is ickily reminiscent of the pose a lot of grown actresses used. Subliminal fellatio.

You can blame Tammy Marihugh and the song TAMMY for an entire generation of girls born in the 1950s with the awful name Tammy. Fortunately, it went out of vogue in the 1960s.

[quote] Fortunately, it went out of vogue in the 1960s.

There's at least one Tammy born in the 1960's I know of!

[quote]You can blame Tammy Marihugh and the song TAMMY for an entire generation of girls born in the 1950s with the awful name Tammy. Fortunately, it went out of vogue in the 1960s.

Ummm ... what about the "Tammy" movies, the first of which gave birth to the song?

It wasn't cause of me?

Tammy did squat for me......SQUAT!!!