What's your favorite Blanche Hudson movie?

Didn't a young Helen Lawson have a role in that one?

I never knew Candy Darling did a western!

Moonlight and Magnolias (1940), the antebellum South melodrama she did as a consolation prize after not getting the role of Scarlett O'Hara. A little birdie told me that this is one of The Senatrice's favorite films

Certainly not that CRAP pictcha [italic]Moonglow[/italic] from 1934!

I love the scene in M&M where she sets fire to the chicken coup with her bustle.

No, Helen was already a star in her own right by that point. Here she is as Jo in Monogram's contemporary musical update of Little Women, Girls on a Binge.

"Don't Fuck With Me Fellas!" - the pre-code musical.

[italic]Lost Honeymoon,[/italic] (1935), her last picture before "the accident," made me cry into my caftan. 😭

I agree, R8, the scene where she says "There will be no more pancakes" and shoots the waitress is ineffable.

I there hadn't been an "accident" she would've been so good in horror pictures later in her career.

I didn't really like Rendezvous in Detroit, her B-movie remake of The Philadelphia Story.

Blanche and Helen, oh those cards. Constantly hot and cold, mortal enemies in the press, scissoring at night. My publicist wanted to get me involved in the drama and I had to remind him I'm a straight girl.

R11 It was kinda cool though that they had her driving a Hudson in that film.

Its die feuchte Höhle, the smutty, proto-fascist picture she made for UFA-Film GmbH and denied for he rest of her miserable life. But Dietrich told everyone Hudson LOVED making that picture and confirmed that Hudson's sanctimony was an act. She was a stone cold bitch.

I didn't really buy her as a Chinese woman in Shanghai Stella (1933). Come on, was Anna May Wong too busy?

She was sure she'd be a big star in Germany until that big press conference in Hamburg where she announced "Ich bin ein Berliner." She thought she was saying "I belong to Berlin" but what she actually said "I am a pastry" and the German public thought she meant "Eat me."

I LOVE late-career Blanche Hudson, especially "The First Bikini On Mars" with Yvette Mimieux and The Three Stooges. Her scene with Steve Reeves and Boris Karloff is camp heaven.

[quote] the German public thought she meant "Eat me."

Wouldn't have been the first time she said that!

The QUEEREST/CAMPIEST scene in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?- was when Jane orders the liquor in Blanche's voice.

I thought she was very brave when she made "The Scarlett Habit" (1934), playing a former prostitute who becomes a nun, only to have her past catch up to her when the pimp she escaped from, and to whom she still owes a lot of money, finds her and forces her to become a call girl by night.

R19 apparently Davis tried to imitate Crawford's voice but couldn't master it, so Crawford dubbed the lines.

That’s a great photo.

Her best performance was as a light-skinned black woman who passed for white in Mulatto Millie

I wonder what type of movie we would be treated to if Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? had starred Helen Lawson along with Baby Jane Hudson instead of Joan Crawford.

Yes, r23, that film gave rise to the rumors that she and Jane were only half sisters,

OP- I think you're very inconsiderate not to have a thread about What's your favorite (Baby) Jane Hudson movie.

R26 = Baby Jane Hudson

Somebody's watching TCM tonight.

She licked Zasu Pitts’ unmentionables.

My Favorite Baby Jane Hudson movie was Mountain Harlot, a remake of Heidi.

"Grandfather! Grandfather! OH!"

Blanche was unforgettable as the tough-as-nails chorus girl turned crime-of-passion murderer in "But I AM in this Electric Chair".

Whatever happened to Blanche's sister?

Fun fact: Her searing social problem film Hooverville Horror (1932) is credited with helping Roosevelt get elected in 1932

I hope someday someone finds in a vault the footage that was shot for "Bitch of Burlesque" (1934), the risqué project Hudson had started before the Motion Picture Production Code had it completely shut down.

In retrospect, her screwball comedy Montreal Madness (1937) was a poor choice. Who told her she could pull of a French Canadian accent?

I hear she pulled quite a few things to get that role, R35.

When she went on suspension for refusing to do "UNASHAMED", she was replaced by Helen Twelvetrees. Blanche always gave Helen the high hat at Tinseltown parties after that.

Her gown in [italic]Lolly Langford[/italic] (1932) is still talked about today.

R38 And just think, in her last film "Is It Dead Yet?", she was told to just wear her own clothes.

Has anyone seen her audition reel from "Springtime For Hitler"?

Forty posts in and nobody's talking about her miraculous rescue from the beach in 1962 and the subsequent surgery that restored her ability to walk?

Sadly, it didn't restore her career, although her late-period turkeys are a guilty pleasure of mine. My personal faves are [italic]Loony Bin[/italic] (1964) and [italic]Bonkers![/italic] (1967).

She wanted to play Hitler's niece in The Hitler Gang but Louis B Mayer talked her out of it

[quote] My Favorite Baby Jane Hudson movie was Mountain Harlot

No, that was "Mountin' the Harlot" with Charlie Chaplin.

I loved her "spring training" sex comedy where she hooks up with every member of a major league baseball team called "I Can Handle The Sox!"

Gosh, this thread makes me feel like I'm back in FAO Schwartz looking at Gene dolls.

I love that she made one of those female prison exploitation films. Even though the critics ripped it to shreds, “The Convict Wore Spike Heels” (1941) is one of those so-bad-it’s-good movies with so many hammy quotable lines!

“I clawed my way through life on the outside, and I’m sure as heck not gonna stop digging my nails in just because I’m in the clinker!”

“Listen, sweetheart. I’ve known broads like you my whole life. You’re all the same. You’d slice a man in the jugular just as sure as you’d slice into that apple pie you baked for him, as long as it means you get what you want.”

She was outstanding as the Madam in "Teenage Brothel".

Although she set the movie-going public on fire with her later tour-de-force performance playing a highly addicted Absinthe abuser, Hollywood insiders knew she wasn't acting at all in "Devil in the Bottle!" (1956)

I love her turn as a tough gangster's moll in Listen, Buster! (1940)

Some French film critics name this film as the first true "film noir"

I really liked Blanche in AIRPORT '69......but even then she was a bit too old to play a stewardess. However her bravery in the poodle rescue sequence was exquisite.

"Boxcar Bibi" (1930)- Helen plays a pampered heiress in this early talkie, who drops out of society after a scandal and becomes a hobo. She hooks-up with a charming criminal on the lam (Ramon Novarro) who gives off gay vibes. Stark scenes of the grinding Great Depression add realism.

oops Helen = Blanche

Loved her in "Rarin' To Go!"

Are all her early silents appearences lost? I'm dying to see "Charleston Salome" (1927).

R54, I've heard that Jacqueline Stewart of TCM is going to feature it on "Silent Sunday Nights," albeit with an advisory about the cringey "Watermelon Shimmy" musical number.

R54, they've recently discovered a dozen publicity stills, including one of Blanche's character, Mimsy Carkington, wedged hilariously into the servant's stairs in all her hoops!

The shot of the young and buxom Hattie McDaniels as a voluptuous Mammy-turned-Madam running a whorehouse called The Octoroon Room shows us what we've lost.

[italic]Those Tapping Trollops[/italic] (1928) had local decency leagues aghast with its frank portrayal of "flaming youth," including Billy Haines in a supporting role as "Miss Brucie."

Ok, I know by that point she needed money, but did she have to do those commercials for Earl Scheib?

Why were she and her daughter later estranged?

Definitely her first foray into horror, THE INCREDIBLE MELTING WOMAN (1937).

R60, the special effects look quite advanced for the time.

Another horror film she did was Dracula's Hussy (1938). Universal was pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel at that point.

I'll have you know, R58, that those commercials were the height of taste and refinement. Whether she was peddling Rotgutschky Vodka or Henrietta's Cold Cream, she made you want to go right out and buy it.

Didn't she do some Paul Masson wine ads like Orson Welles?

Here's Blanche with her all-time favorite co-star, Winkie, from IS THAT A BANANA IN YOUR POCKET? (1948)

This is the kind of thread that makes Datalounge, well, Datalounge.

Thanks for the laughs early in the posts.

Sœur Sourire, The Singing Nun Story. Blanche was a few years too old but her French contralto was surprisingly moving, and it being the late 60s, they didn't camouflage the lesbian antics with Annie Pécher (a ravishing Capucine).

Blanche was always giving back to the community, unlike her wayward sister...

Here she is posing with a young mongoloid child.

R50, those aren't poodles in the photo you linked. Those are the twins she adopted from Georgia Tann.

[quote]Didn't she do some Paul Masson wine ads like Orson Welles?

No, because she drank the wine before its time.

R63 That photo is a still from her Meineke Muffler commercial.

I loved how Blanche Hudson hid the wine bottle with her mantilla and comb in "Madalyn Goes South." I never believed Monte Westmore came up with the idea. After all, Blanche had done it at one of her parties.

You remember the one - I know, which one? - her sister Jane was so foul at, when she peed on the new Oriental Blanche had bought for her trailer.

Well, we know how THAT all ended up.

She did a film in Britain, 1936's Pip Pip Cheerio! The less said about it, the better. Her co-star John Gielgud said of the film "What a piece of shite! I only did it for the cash. They had to pay me lots of money to work with that cunt!"

There was a sequel to Dockyard Dottie called Dockyard Doris. I've heard it served as an inspiration to a certain member of the British royal family

I liked her in Don't Rain on My Parade, in which she stole Omar Sharif from Babs Streisand, and went down on him in that glorious tugboat scene on the East River.

They tried to make her into a "Great Lady" like Greer Garson but, bless her heart, she couldn't really play those type of roles. Mary Todd Lincoln (1942) was referred to as Mary Todd Stinkin' behind her back

My mentor in costuming learned at the ancient hands of FREDERIQ, who, as you know, was Blanche's favorite designer, and was also booted out of Hollywood for making a pass at Louis B Mayer at one of Cukor's parties, which Mayer only attended to woo Blanche away from her studio. Blanche was one of Mayer's follies.

The studio execs borrowed Nelson Eddy from MGM to star with her in the operetta Otto the Goatherd (1940). Her voice had to be dubbed and let's just say the two of them didn't exactly get along. This film was lost for years, before being revived. By the 70s it had attained camp classic status.

Blanche's searing performance in 1961's Limitation Of Life hasn't been seen since 1998 when TCM showed it during Black History Month (bad optics, TCM!) but nonetheless her portrayal of a dark-skinned white woman who passes for black to search throughout Harlem for the half-caste harlot she gave up for adoption is unforgettable.

When she made The Nancy Cunard Story she insisted her negro costars be over 8 inches, go commando, and no cock socks for the lovemaking scents. Her portrayal of Nancy's insatiable and carnal desire for BBC went right over the heads of popular movie goers but was praised by Helen Gurley Brown and Yvonne de Gaulle, of all people.

Former show girl Nadine de Rothschild hosted the after party at Régine's Blanche was down for Black Power.

I know it was just an early potboiler and not a quality b opic, but I thought the treatment of the Hudson sisters in the trash Universal "Stopped at the Gate" was terrible. I think it was 1942.

Particularly the invented Port-au-Prince voodoo subplot. But at least Constance and Joan Bennett could hide behind the makeup to spare their dignity a little.

Constance played "Baby Jane." Naturally.

My most sought after of all lost films is Three on a Swing, a swing musical based on Chekhov's Three Sisters. Helen Lawson stars with the Hudson Sisters, the only known appearance of the three together!

I thought it was terrible when they exhumed the five dead Hudson sisters, all of whom were younger than Jane and Blanche. They all had died unexpectedly at the same age. It was genetic, I guess, although there were rumors.

Apparently Jane as a teen refused to pay for the vault any longer, so the dead sisters were taken out and buried in a potter's field in El Segundo or some other horrible place.

It was a first-class embalming job.

Is it true that management found her scrubbing the lobby floor of the Imperial House?

R83, the most amazing thing about that film is that Helen evidently played the swing.

I always thought that Jane was behind the scandal Blanche endured just after "the accident."

People said it was a fake but the pubic hair looks like Blanche's. Of course Jane could have changed her makeup (hard to imagine) and dyed her snatch fur from her natural blonde.

R87, I don't know - I always heard that those were pictures of Joan Crawford (whom Blanche somewhat resembled). I also heard the two met several times and did NOT get along. Anyone have the scoop?

I LOVE Jane's European few films, when she was trying to stay in pictures despite her earlier, um, difficult adolescence and, um, "mannered" acting style.

This was from her best, I think. But it flopped and so did her tits.

You have to click to see the full effect.

Right now I'm watching another of her '60s schlockfests, [italic]Do You Have Prince Albert in a Can?[/italic]

Does anybody remember the details about Blanche getting axed from CBS's [italic]Lucy in London[/italic] special?

My favorite was the musical "Our Modern Muffins" with Blanche as Kay Francis's older sister and Bette Davis 's college roommate, disguising herself as an older male professor who snuck into the faculty office to steal the history test by taking pictures of it with a camera that looked like a banana.

Baby Jane Hudson does NOT approve of the neighbors liking Blanche Hudson's movies.

I just read the FABULOUSLY bitchy review of What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? from the NYT November 1962. He says about Blanch Hudson- She is such a sweetly smiling FRAUD, such an artlessly helpless NINNY, that one feels virtually NOTHING for her. No wonder her crazy sister finds her a deadly BORE

But even in the 1960s she could STILL give a certain luster and prestige to films like "The Werewolf of Daytona Beach" (with Debbie Watson, Billy Gray, Dave Draper, Buddy Hackett, The Dave Clark Five, Gary Lewis & the Playboys and Sterling Hayden).

R91, she had an altercation with Lucy during rehearsals after Lucy visited Blanche's dressing room and accidentally ate one of Blanche's favorite "healthy" snacks, a raw chicken liver, thinking it was a chocolate ganache. Blanche's attempt to point out the benefits of all that B-12 without damage from sautéing did not have the desired-for result on either side of the conversation. Neither woman ever spoke to the other again, although Lucy made a dry reference to the episode in her otherwise polite observance of Blanche's passing: "She was a do-er and a liver."

She almost lost her career after the poorly received "Two Gold-Diggers, One Cup of Joe" (1936), co-starring Jean Harlow, was released. Critics called it "Hollywood's first studio stag film" and it was quickly pulled from theaters.

Her three sons took her name and appeared as The Hudson Brothers. She was close to daughter-in-law Goldie Hawn, but never liked Cindy Williams.

Lora Meredith hated her guts, as she was competing for the same campy, low-budget roles by the mid-'60s. She sabotaged Blanche's audition for that LSD movie, [italic]Reflections in a Platinum Wig,[/italic] by slipping real Sandoz googly juice into her ever-present bottle of Diet Lady Lee cream soda. (By this time Blanche also had a regular gig as the spokeslady for Lucky supermarkets.)

For me, put Blanche Hudson in dazzling costumes and exotic locales and I'm there!

I'm especially fond of "The Maharaja's Mistress," with Blanche as an Anglo-Indian courtesan who becomes the confidante of the King of Jammu and Kashmir in the British Raj. Passion and intrigue ensue.

My next favorite would probably be "My Passionate Pasha," with Blanche as a Circassian servant girl who becomes the lover of an Ottoman general during the waning days of the Empire.

The least successful would probably be "The Straits of Malacca." This "Anna and the King of Siam" knock-off has Blanche as a Kristang teacher brought to the Sultan of Johor's palace in British Malaya to educate the Sultan's children, but soon finds herself enamored with the charming Sultan.

That's true R100 - but even Blanche's version of "Straits" is better than the 1996 Jennifer Aniston remake.

Those Lucky Stores commercials were pretty strange in themselves. Supposedly Blanche was so ripped in one of them that she dropped her panties and pissed in a freezer case.

If you're in a non-fiction mood, The Atlas of Remote Islands is really interesting (especially if you're a geography buff)

Backdoor Babs is a personal favorite.

My favorite Baby Jane Hudson movie was "Calling All Cuckolds!" (1933) which sadly child star Jane Withers stole right out from under Jane's very sturdy performance as Stu Erwin and Slim Summerville's man crazy sister!

Her biggest silent and what I called her around our house, The Little Tramp.

Years ago, I caught a rare screening of Blanche's earliest pre-Code film, "Jazz Dollies of Fantasie Cabaret" (1931) at Film Forum in Greenwich Village. Blanche played an artist's model who is stranded in Shanghai and forced into "taxi dancing" at sleazy dives before becoming a world class bubble dancer and gangster's moll. But an illicit affair with a Filipino jazz musician brings about her tragic downfall. It was lurid and exploitative, and I was stunned by that brief flash of hairpie! Yet despite being a bit raw and perhaps a tad chubby, Miss Hudson had natural charm and presence that somehow stiffened into exasperating rectitude and manners in later outings.

I really don't know what anyone saw in Blanche.

Eve Harrington acted circles around her in "Destiny in Dallas" and even Mavis Arden bounced her right off every scene of "It Takes Two to Taxi".

Mavis was Linda Arden's cousin, a fact neither woman was pleased with. When Linda heard Mavis was in a film with Blanche, she reportedly said: "First time Mavis is guaranteed to give the better performance." Mavis' response was more tart. "Linda is a cunt," she said.

Any truth to the rumor that Blanche had a lesbian liaison with Loraine Sheldon back in the day? I seem to recall Margo Channing alluding to it in an episode of the Dick Cavett show, but can't seem to find it on YouTube.

It wasn't Loraine Sheldon, R110 - it was Vera Charles. And it wasn't back in the day, relatively speaking - it was after Vera's infamous Broadway bomb., the one where her godawful friend fucked up the big musical number.

She also starred in the musical "Maria Of The Alps" (1942), the story TSOM was based on (though Margaret Whiting dubbed her voice). Jane Powell played Liesl, with Nelson Eddy as the Captain.

R110, Well, there is that scandal that broke in "Confidential" about Lord Cedric Bottomley walking in on his fiancée, Lorraine, in bed with Blanche and up-and-coming starlet, Georgia Lorrison, wearing nothing but their bra and panties, in Lord Cedric's Palm Beach retreat. According to "Confidential," Lord Cedric flew into such a rage, he sent them all running down the street, calling them "filthy dykes." Lorraine later claimed that the air conditioning had broken and she and the gals had simply stripped down to cool off.

I know it's OT, but whatever happened to Linda Arden? She was the biggest tragic actress on stage of her day and then - nothing.

I heard there was a family tragedy of some sort and the something after that, but it seems almost as if there was a cover-up.

So what's your favorite Belle Poitrine movie?

Ironically, R115, the one she co-stared in with Blanche, "Thee Cads in a Cadillac" (1950) where the gals play a pair of blowsy hitchhikers picked up by three much younger men and taken for a hilariously campy and innuendo-laden drive from Palm Springs to Plaster City.

R114, Linda Arden simply aged out of leading lady roles and became too preoccupied with family matters and plotting vengeance. Interestingly, her protégé and inheritor of great tragedienne roles, Myrtle Gordon, was a childhood friend of Miss Arden's daughter, Sonia.

Miss Gordon had her own personal demons to contend with...

Anita Page who starred with Blanche in the Erich Von Stroheim trilogy Our Lap Dancing Daughters, Milking Our Maidens, and Our Blushing Butts made with cut scenes from the 8 hour Greed said when she was visiting Blanche at home and went into the bathroom she found items of such a bizarre nature in the bathtub she thought they were sex toys for animals. Everyone from the biggest stars in Hollywood to the gaffers' assistants said Blanche had the happiest pets in Hollywood.

Myrtle Gordon! Now there was a talent! True inheritor of Linda Arden's crown. Even Margo Channing admired her. As did Norma Desmond, notoriously contemptuous of "talkie" actresses but willing to acknowledge a stage legend.

Poor Blanche! It seems she's out-shadowed in her own thread.

True, she never scraped the bottom of the bowl the way Faye Greener did.

"The Black Slipper," of course. Blanche brought humanity to what might otherwise have been a merely stern prison governor.

For me "The Black Slipper" was ruined by the location choices.

No way such a grim institute would have existed in Newport, Rhode Island.

And the bizarre choice, given that location, to film the movie in Santa Fe just made it even more absurd.

Blanche's late period Grand Guignol film "Pint-Sized Harlot" was a particular favorite of mine.

Who knew you could do that with a can of Bon Ami?

My grandma, a faithful soap-watcher in the '60s, loved to recount how Blanche filled in, drunk off her ass, for her ailing daughter, Clorinda, on [italic]The Sun Also Sets.[/italic] (This, of course, was way before the Celeste Talbert drama.)

I know it's generally badly regarded these days but my favorite Blanche Hudson film is "Madcap Manhattan," her sole foray into screwball comedy. Originally written as a vehicle for William Wyler to direct Katherine Hepburn as flighty heiress Anita O'Dell, on the town in the big city, The financing fell apart and it ended up as a B feature at Paramount directed by the upcoming Mitchell Leisen.

It's true Blanche was a bit too coarse as the devil may care aristocratic heroine. But the only holdover from the original casting, Jean Arthur, stole the show as Mimsi O'Hara, the carefree tomboy cab driver who somehow always shows up when Anita needs a cab. I love how they all affectionately call her Butch.

Thank God Leisen demanded to go back to Ben Hecht's original script. The film only really falls apart near the end of the third act when it turns out that Anita and Mimsi are actually separated at birth non-identical twin sisters with Mimsi having been born first, making her the real heiress. At the end you see Mimsi in the penthouse, swathed in ermine and pearls, while Anita drives away in the cab, muttering Mimsi's previous tagline "Well ain't that the Dickens!"

Aren't some of these just tired rehashes from old Helen Lawson threads?

[quote]"The Black Slipper," of course. Blanche brought humanity to what might otherwise have been a merely stern prison governor.

I'm shocked, frankly, that she didn't get a single mention in our lengthy [italic]Black Slipper[/italic] thread. The showdown between Blanche as Warden Millicent Puterbaugh and Ruth Roman as Knuckles LaTour, leader of the main prison gang, merited an entire article in [italic]Cahiers du Cinéma[/italic] regarding its parallels to Joan Crawford vs. Mercedes McCambridge in [italic]Johnny Guitar.[/italic]

There was a wonderful project being developed for Norma Desmond's "talkie" comeback. It was the story of a woman whose husband is accidentally killed, leaving her penniless. She fights her way back and dedicates her life to helping others. She moves to Cuba in the aftermath of the revolution and becomes a school teacher for the poor. But Desmond demanded so many unreasonable rewrites, cutting out all other plot lines and appearing in every single scene until studio executives gave up and fired her. The script was rewritten into a thriller about a woman who murders her husband and then flees to Cuba, where she becomes a successful bordello madame. The part went to Blanche Hudson, and that's how "Havana Hussy" (1943) came to be.

DL doing what DL does. Y'all ain't even gonna mention her blaxploitation hit MAMA AIN'T FOOLIN'

[quote] Y'all ain't even gonna mention her blaxploitation hit MAMA AIN'T FOOLIN'

Did she don blackface for that role?

No, R129—think Shelley Winters in [italic]Cleopatra Jones[/italic] meets Barbara Billingsley in [italic]Airplane![/italic]

Billingsley's part in Airplane was written for Jane Wyatt of Father Knows Best. She came in for a day, rehearsed all morning and shot all afternoon. She just couldn't handle the jive talk and they didn't get a single usable shot. Someone suggested Billingsley and she nailed it on the first take.

^ The two black guys in that scene said they really liked Billingsley and they took her aside during the lunch hour and coached her on the dialog, even writing it out phonetically. She was appreciative and a quick study and that's how she got it right the first time the cameras rolled.

She made an unconvincing Princess Dancing Bear in Teepee Temptress (1935). Some critics called it "The worst thing to happen to Native Americans since the Trail of Tears"

R119, Myrtle would've had a bigger career in films had she changed her name to something classier. 'Myrtle Gordon' sounds like a great aunt from Paducah.

It's a shame her drinking caused her to get booted off the set of "Batman".

And replaced by Tallulah Bankhead of all people...that's really saying something about how bad her drinking was.

Anyway, I love Blanche's “Blackglama" ad. Having the smoke from her cigarette hiding her neck was pretty cleverly done.

R127, The surprising success of "Havana Hussy" led to similarly themed Blanche Hudson b-movie vehicles, each one more outlandish than the previous--"Managua Madam," "The Countess from Caracas," "Panama Playgirl," "The Trinidad Trollop," "The Harlot from Haiti," "Red Hot in Rio," etc. Despite her limited range and trouble with foreign tongues, Miss Hudson became a superstar in Latin America, which caught the eye of many red-blooded suitors, like Rafael Trujillo, Fulgenio Batista, and Porfirio Rubisrosa.

That cunt stole all my parts.

I'm partial to Blanche's final film, CLOG (1970), where she journeys alone as a scientist to Siberia, and makes contact with a live prehistoric Woolly Mammoth. Amazingly, she teaches it American sign language only to ask it "How far is the nearest liquor store?"

She was at her absolute best in "Lounge Lizards of 1931."

I think when Blanche signed up with Roger Corman and did LITTLE SHOP OF WHORES, she really didn't know what she was getting into.

I personally wished she had continued those Doris Day knockoff she did in the 60's. BEDSIDE MANNERS and THINK FAST, LOVER weren't thaaat bad.

I prefer "The Magnificent Storm" with Frankie Fane as a reckless lothario who causes an accident that puts music teacher Blanche in a wheelchair. Humbled, he becomes a concert violinist and woos a seemingly immovable Blanche with his music.

Behind the scenes, the two stars loathed each other, with Fane calling the aging Hudson an "old hag," causing Blanche to retort, "I thought his kind liked hags."

I heard Frankie Fane sucked off Van Johnson

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R143. Not true! Frankie Fane was a ladies man who simply could not be tamed by any one woman. Just because that hateful Alice Wood said she could not seduce him does not mean he was a homosexual. Maybe he just didn't like self-absorbed bitches like Alice.

Please, we all know Frankie sucked every dick from here to Timbuktu! Remember when he was "mentored" by Rock Hudson?

[quote]I heard Frankie Fane sucked off Van Johnson

Who didn't? Other than June Allyson, of course.

I wish Blanche hadn't turned down that late-'70s project with Margaret Elliot, [italic]Crones on the Coast.[/italic] Norma Desmond playing a feisty New England spinster in drag makeup and leopard print didn't exactly lend an authentic air to the project.

Didn't Blanche do a stint on Falcon Crest?

Does anyone remember that one year when Blanche mocked her sister's Baby Jane character on Halloween?

Sorry, here's a better picture of Blanche's costume!

Jean-Luc Godard, who is alive and lives in Rolle on Lake Geneva, has the largest collection of Blanche Hudson answer prints in the world. He's a huge fan. He has offered the prints to the Cinematheque Suisse several times, but it declines politely and coldly. No answer whatsoever from Eastman House and UCLA.

[Quote] Who didn't?

Mrs. Van Johnson.

"Le cinema, c'est Blanche Hudson."

"Blanche Hudson IS cinema"

"Have you seen Blanche Hudson recently? Cunt is as big as a cinema."

When she was 17 she lived in Germany when her “sponsor” at the time moved to Berlin to oversee construction of a manufacturing plant. She allegedly appeared uncredited in a couple of Leni Riefenstahl films, although she supposedly became incensed and refused to comment whenever she was asked about it.

"Drive-in $2 double features ARE Blanche Hudson"

This topic is of little interest to me being that I'm totally TEAM Helen Lawson and someone needs to start a thread -

What's Your Favorite Helen Lawson Movie?

R159, haven't we discussed Miss Lawson's mediocre filmography ad nauseum?

I'm still waiting for the behind-the-scenes tell-all on the making of "Blood Sisters," that low budget Grande Dame Guignol schlock-horrorfest that Blanche and Helen made on location high up in the Andes. Either they weren't getting enough oxygen at that altitude or they were hitting the sauce pretty hard because I heard that Helen, who played the cruel Mother Superior at the abbey, and Blanche, who played her repentant, alcoholic murderess sister, terrorized and creeped out those poor girls who played the novices (a young Pia Zadora, Ann Jillian, and Suzanne Capito). I won't even go into details what they did with those used tampons!

[quote]ad nauseum?

How do you say "oh, dear" in Latin?

O cara

"O cara" is what my inline translator says too but I'm pretty sure it's just a translation of the words proper and doesn't really translate into the idiomatic use of "Oh, dear" in English.

I loved her suspenseful turn as a defiant high school senior blackmailed by a couple of sophomores who film her engaging in hedonistic revels with her gym teacher, in I Saw Who You Did.

Although the 24 year old Blanche felt some initial trepidation playing a Grade12 high school student, her subsequent Oscar-nominated performance allayed her fears, and introduced her to an entire new generation of fans.

DL people, I have a question. Who would you say aged better over the years- Blanche Hudson or ( Baby) Jane Hudson?

Milk.

After she became a 'scream queen' just before retirement, she filmed the low-budget "For Reasons Well Known To Them..." (1955) in Spain- A wheelchair-bound famous actress (B.H.) flies all her friends and family to a Mediterranean villa for a Big Announcement. But each will soon find out what she really thinks of them. Also starring Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Jane Withers. Directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. and filmed near The Salton Sea.

Her first porn, Blanche Blows Baltimore.