Lynne Frederick: How is she not a DL Fave?

Can't say I remember her, but "Vampire Circus" has been a favorite of mine since I was a little boy. Have to watch it again and look for her.

Beautiful woman. She was married to a man who was very funny an d gifted but who was also a complete monster.

Just watched “Voyage of the Damned” on Tubi — quite a cast, and Frederick held her own among them.

She was truly lovely, one wonders what her life would have been like had she not gotten involved with Sellers.

The beautiful poster artwork by Richard Amsel features Frederick and led me to an Amsel rabbit hole. His film posters, album covers and magazine covers (mostly in the 1970s) were distinctive and stunning.

Did she marry David Frost as well or was she one of his many fiancees?

R5, she married David Frost about a year after Sellers’s death (apparently they’d dated before she was involved with Sellers) but it was a short-lived marriage.

She also did a couple of movies with the gorgeous Fabio Testi!

She was very pretty, but sounds like a head case. Just reading her biography, she sounds like a typical actress; self-absorbed, emotionally retarded and probably borderline personality.

How could Sellers’s daughter say she wasn’t pretty like his other women were? Frederick was very pretty!

I hope her daughter, the one with Unger, is okay.

Cool that she worked with legendary graphic designer/credits genius Saul Bass in the only film he directed.

And I’m sure that Sellers’s child saying that Frederick wasn’t as pretty as some of other women in his life has less to do with Frederick’s looks (which were lovely) than the fact that honored Sellers’s will, which left his children very little.

OP Oh, she is. On the secret DL threads, she is very popular. The gossip is amazing.

She drank herself to death?

Her mother was a casting director? Christian Slater's mother wouldn't let him destroy himself.

She loved us gurls

[quote]"Although not gay herself, Frederick was known for being a blunt and outspoken advocate for same sex relationships and LGBT rights during a time when it was considered highly taboo. Following her appearance on a controversial episode of the television series Play for Today, where she played a sexually fluid character and shared an onscreen kiss with her female co-star, Jane Lapotaire, she said "with homosexuality and lesbianism, I just don't think you can put a ban on it. I don't think you can say it's wrong. I think people should live how they want to live. I don't think it should be illegal."

YouTube has a feature-biography of Frederick. Its budget limitations definitely show and could have used some editing, but it was interesting to see some of the footage and photos of her over the years. There are even some rare tabloid photos of Frederick not long before her death.

It’s really a sad story.

She looked so different in the early 70s compared to her years with Sellers. Not just the shorter hair and different makeup, either.

Didn't she start the decade off as a 15 year old?

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Amanda Seyfried was born to play her in a biopic. The resemblance is eerie, especially in OP's photo.

Amanda Seyfried doesn't look young enough to play her.

[quote]Following her appearance on a controversial episode of the television series Play for Today, where she played a sexually fluid character and shared an onscreen kiss with her female co-star, Jane Lapotaire

I saw that play on British TV when I was about 12 - even a budding gayling like me was turned on when JL biked in in her leather gear and Harley Davidson pulled Lynn out of the limo on her way to her wedding and with Lynn in full wedding dress, made out with her in the middle of the road.

Why was this hairstyle popular in the 1970s? It made every woman mumsy.

She was supposed to be a middle class Berlin Jew of the 1930s -so it was right for her to look not 70s sexy.

But I get your point.

I know many of the films she was in but never really knew who she was, or her story. Interesting. Thanks OP!

I’ve been looking at old photos of her, very fetching.

It's a wonder she never hooked up with Aaron Spelling.

Good point, R25, one could definitely imagine Frederick turning up on one of Spelling’s shows.

It seemed like she met Sellers right after filming “Voyage of the Damned” (her costar Malcolm McDowell was with her at the party where she met Sellers) and once they got serious, she put her career on hold. The ingenue role in a high-profile, star-studded project like “Voyage” was a coup for Frederick, and her reviews were good, but for whatever reasons, she never followed up on it. (And no, her appearance on “Space: 1999” doesn’t count!)

VOTD was filled with fashion anachronisms. But it’s so compelling to watch. And the storyline of Lynne’s character was devastating.