Judy Geeson: what went wrong?

I just watched the Hammer film "Fear in the Night" today with Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, and the cute Ralph Bates; it was just put out on Blu-ray in the U.S. this week. I've owned the DVD for some years but haven't watched it in awhile. It's a solid thriller, and she is quite good in it. She seemed to land herself in a lot of lower-rate horror flicks; I've also seen her in a splatter flick called "Candle for the Devil" which I think was a Spanish film. In her later career, she has done several projects with Rob Zombie. I also wonder why she didn't have a bigger career.

She did trash from the outset, which probably put her out of the running for anything good.

We already had Susannah York.

Her sister (on left) was a successful TV actress in England.

[quote]She did trash from the outset, which probably put her out of the running for anything good.

She was in the horrid heavyweight film, 10 Rillington Place. Lest you forget.

She had big lips, no talent and the charisma of a loaf of bread.

She was the Poor Man's version of Julie Christie after Christie priced herself out of the market after her Oscar-winning role playing a sexually available slut.

Julie Christie was the Pommie version of Brigitte Bardot (who made a career playing sexually available sluts).

Gurl, puhlaise! - she now has an American accent.

WHO, FUCKING. CARES!

[quote]She was the Poor Man's version of Julie Christie

There were lots of Julie Christie type actresses in 60s London.

Seems mean to call them "poor man's".

Carole White for example.

& Suzy Kendall.

Fear in the Night is great. Joan Collins plays a devious, scheming bitch trying to trick poor doe-faced Judy into killing her husband so she and Ralph Bates can inherit his fortune. It's a fun flick.

I liked her in my grandmother's VHS of The Trouble With Angels. She was quite cute, great voice.

When doesn't Joan Collins play a devious, scheming bitch, i.e. herself?

This is true R13; I guess I meant to say that she's in top-form in it.

[quote]WHO, FUCKING. CARES!

Why post here if you don't fucking care! Fuck off!

I don't care for your tone R15.

This movie just might have been interesting because husband-and-wife Claire Bloom and Rod Steiger made only two films together.

But it wasn't. Steiger is a lump and Geeson is a lump.

The critics said these two lumps should have been edited out leaving a short, intelligent study with Claire Bloom and Peggy Ashcroft.

Judy and Joan Collins in 'Fear in the Night'

She was Paul Reiser & Helen Hunt's snotty neighbor in "Mad About You"

'In those days, dolly-bird Judy was a real sex-pot.

She could always throw her legs up in the air higher than any of us... and wider'.

There was a very funny audio of her on YT recording some audio-book - she kept making a mess of it and on top of that had brought along her little dog that wouldn't settle down. It seems to have disappeared.

She played Caroline Enys in the original Poldark, despite looking like a very modern 60s lass. She did a good job but then the whole original cast was better than the current one.

Wasn't Joanna Shimkus the poor man's Susannah York?

I thought Joan was good in those early 70s horror flicks.

I agree with Reply 9, she was one of many British actresses trying to have a career in the 1960s & 70s. A good actress but never did anything that really stood out or was a big enough hit to have an impact on her career.

She starred in a few movies with Barry Evans - I always had a crush on him. Beautiful looking man who had a very sad end to his career and life

^ That's not a man. I believe it's a young Billie Jean King or a current transitioner. But then again, aren't we all?

[quote] I always had a crush on him. Beautiful looking man

So, like a typical DLer, you found a very ugly photo of him - a guy famous for his great smile

Reply 28 - . Really? I think he looks beautiful in the picture I posted. To each their own. Here is Barry and Judy - so I don't get accused of taking the thread off topic

R28 Your picture of Barry Evans shows him as handsome as well as cute.

I understand he was one of the first to show his buttocks on screen— getting into a bath in "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush".

I'll stop myself googling to find how he came to his sordid, tawdry end.

She was great in "To Sir, with Love" with Sidney Poitier. She had a very swinging '60s look about her—Marianne Faithfull crossed with Susannah York.

I thought she was lovely in Danger UXB with Anthony Andrews.

R29 Fuckwit, just use an R do not put reply, you look stupid and old

^ That's one of the few movies she didn't wear bangs.

She had to wear bangs because she had a wide, noseless head.

He was a Bernardos orphan.

Doctor in the House was quite funny.

The film had a cult following. It wasn't shown for years and there was no DVD.

He was Judy's BF in real life.

Later said to be gay.

Definite gay face.

I knew how you felt, Jude.

I don't see anything but a red blooded heterosexual.

[quote]Gurl, puhlaise! - she now has an American accent.

That’s not an American accent you dumb Yank.

Tracey Ullman employed her for four year back in the late 90s for her HBO series Tracey Takes On.

Definitely not an American accent-- R42 is right. Her English accent is definitely there, though it is a bit toned down, I think probably because she's lived in Los Angeles for so many years.

She sounds American when she first speaks in that Being Beryl segment but her accent wanders. You can tell she's lived in both places and isn't exactly "putting on" and accent.

She seems to have shed much of her debby quality over the years. Bruce Davison still looked good as of 2012.

^ She has lived in Limbo for so many years.

She married a son of Vivieca LIndfors and has been pretty much unemployed for 3 decades.

(I wonder if she's a LA zombie like Norma Desmond and Maria Schell were?)

R46 She looks ghastly, like melted cheese.

She looks fine here.

^ She looks wrong without her schoolgirl fringe.

And she's very fair and wears no makeup.

[quote]Definitely not an American accent-- [R42] is right. Her English accent is definitely there, though it is a bit toned down, I think probably because she's lived in Los Angeles for so many years.

Toned down? Americanised.

[quote]That’s not an American accent you dumb Yank.

Always the stupid ones who are first to say dumb. ALWAYS....oh and I'm English.

R33 - thank you for pointing this point. I will use an R in future. I am so sorry that you seem so angry and bitter and frustrated with your life tho. Get professional help!

This British woman abandons her country and lives in sunny La-La Land— just like Gladys Cooper, Greer Garson and Julie Andrews before her.

[quote] just like Gladys Cooper, Greer Garson and Julie Andrews before her.

MANY more than that, dear.

Only married once. No kids.

Kristoffer Tabori (m. 1985–1989)

Kristoffer Tabori was almost a star in the 70's.

Gladys Cooper was less of a D-lister.

Gladys Cooper returned to live in Britatin in the 1960s, didn't she? I read a biography of her, though I've never seen any of her work.

She went back and forth.

She went back in '46 when the sea lanes were safe from German U Boats to make this movie (which I frequently recommend to SJW millennials).

After that, she went to The Old Dart for the odd stage or film role.

Flora Robson turned down a seven year contract with Warner Bros around 1940 because she didn't feel she could in conscience loll around in sunny La La Land while her fellow countrymen suffered the danger and privations of the Nazi bombing.

Only five left in stock, r20 — better get your order in now!

I love melted cheese.

Danger UXB is what I know her from primarily. She was great in that as was Andrews.

Oh God I forgot how beautiful Barry Evans was.

R58 Gladys Cooper ruined her face with her addiction to suntanning — according to her grandson.

Judy's been in so many of my favorite TV shows over the years, most notably "Mad About You."

Here she is in 2012 at a "Space:1999" convention, alongside a picture of her character from that show (and lots of Barbara Bain pics).