Do any gays of a certain age remember Lee Montgomery?

He looks very familiar. I would have definitely offered him a blowie.

He's very...interesting.

He's now sadly too old for Miss Singer. She'd have to go back in a time machine.

I remember him as a child star. He was in "Ben" and "Burnt Offerings" with Karen Black and Bette Davis, I think.

Was he the love interest in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun?

R5 Yes. That was his first "adult" role. And then his acting career kind of evaporated after that.

I blame it on Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Do I? Girls Just Want To Have Fun was one of my staple films when I was growing up, mostly because of Lee and his hot, hirsute body (yes, he was the love interest). He was a child actor and has been in many films, including the '70s horror classics BEN and BURNT OFFERINGS. He was even hotter in the post-GJWTHF Canadian sex thriller INTO THE FIRE.

He used to annoy me as a child star. He had that All American suburban child look. Then he grew into a rather attractive youngster.

Not really.

That was then, OP.

This is now:

He's no Eric Shea, that's for sure.

[quote]He had that All American suburban child look

For a Canadian, that is.

Aging is a cunt.

R10, while he's passably, middle-aged cute in a bald, fey way now, he definitely had quite the rack in his day. Maybe we need to see him naked today.

He's got a Dack Rambo thing going here.

He's the younger brother of 1970s Movie of the Week staple Belinda Montgomery.

I wonder if he stuck it in SJP.

I don’t remember him, but I do remember his sister Belinda. She was a regular guest star in tv shows and stared in several made-for-tv movies back in the day.

R17 His IMDB profile doesn't list a wife or kids, so I'm guessing "no."

He was also in the Dan Curtis trilogy film Dead of Night, written by Richard Matheson. (It was their follow-up to Trilogy of Terror.)

The segment Montgomery was in was "Bobby," which co-starred Joan Hackett as a mother grieving over her drowned son.

The Savage is Loose was a big misfire vanity project for then A-lister George C. Scott.

I remember seeing an interview with him when he was an adult, talking about making "Burnt Offerings." He said in the pool scene where Oliver Reed goes nuts and tries to drown him, Oliver Reed really was holding him down in the water. Lee said he started to panic and flail around under the water, and his reactions you see in the film were real.

He said when the director yelled cut, Bette Davis really chewed Oliver Reed out for doing that to him.

Lee Montgomery was no Belinda Montgomery and Belinda Montgomery was no Lee Purcell.

And Lee Purcell was no ME!

He was in the ‘80s horror/comedy classic The Midnight Hour, which had an all-star cast.

[quote] I wonder if he stuck it in SJP.

Not if he had any taste.

He acted alongside Martin Milner twice, in a two-parter episode of Adam 12 and in the ‘70s tv movie Runaway!

He was Little Stevie in an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"...

and Mary didn't care for him

Someone claimed he was dating Doug Barr(Fall Guy) in the 80's. Pretty sure he's Canadian/American, if that's a thing. Remember his other sister, Tannis?

Yes, that is Mr. Lucie Arnaz, Lawrence Luckinbill, as Stevie's father in the MTMS episode.

Into The Fire is low-budget, sleazy Canadian fun. He got to bone Olivia D’Abo and Susan Anspach in it, but I’d say they were the lucky ones.

Here ya go...

He married actress/screenwriter Carole Burkett in the mid 1980s.

He’s a real estate agent in California.

R22 Stupid bitch. I'd have helped Oliver Reed hold the thoughtless, spoiled child down.

To make amends, I invited dear Ollie to a pool party at my Connecticut home in 1988 when BD was dropping by.

[quote] He married actress/screenwriter Carole Burkett in the mid 1980s.

Not mentioned in either his IMDB bio information or in his wikipedia entry.

R34. Shame. I guess we all age. Some better than others.

SO hot as Mallory’s boyfriend in an episode of Family Ties.

r16 Doogie's uncle?

He was very attractive in his youth. I believe he had some medical issues in recent years.

[quote] SO hot as Mallory’s boyfriend in an episode of Family Ties.

I detect a bit of vpl in that photo.

I wonder how he got the lead in Girls Just Want to Have Fun. In addition to SJP, it had Helen Hunt, Jonathan Silverman and Shannen Doherty. His character was supposed to be the best male dancer and it was obvious he had two left feet.

I wonder how many holes he had presented to him. He's so cute, in that 80s way.

[quote]I blame it on Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Is there anything that can't be blamed on Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker?

[quote]I detect a bit of vpl in that photo.

A bit of vpl is EXACTLY the same as no vpl at all.

Helen Hunt and especially SJP were really charming in Girls. In fact, the entire cast was good and it very much captured a moment in Southern California.

SJP was charming, but Helen couldn't help giving off her usual frosty cunt vibe.

Am I misremembering, or was there once an actress named Lee H. Montgomery?

THIS IS Lee H. Montgomery.

Belinda J. was the real star! —was she ir wasn’t she?

R47, that's why this was interesting casting. Most would have put Helen into the lead as the daughter of an Army man and SJP as the madcap friend. I think they both hit well with Helen being happy as Ethel Mertz

[quote]Someone claimed he was dating Doug Barr(Fall Guy) in the 80's

You just made my closeted teen self's head explode!

He did a low budget WarGames-ish movie called Prime Risk that I've always liked. He runs around in snug jeans that show off his ass and crotch and even flashes a bit of butt getting out of bed at one point. It's pretty obscure but surprisingly available to buy on Amazon and AppleTV

Ben!

Don’t leave me this way!

[quote]Someone claimed he was dating Doug Barr(Fall Guy) in the 80's

Doug Barr gay/bit? I can't believe that...where did you hear this?

[quote]Doug Barr gay/bit? I can't believe that...where did you hear this?

What are you saying?

I just don't understand.

R46, Girls Just Want to Have Fun was supposed to be set in Chicago, though clearly the only shots of Chicago were stock location footage.

R57, regardless of where it was set, it was a total Southern California vibe.

[quote]Helen Hunt and especially SJP were really charming in Girls.

Who?

R22. I have a DVD copy of "Burnt Offerings." On the commentary track it was very obvious that Karen Black and Dan Curtis went out of their way to not mention Oliver Reed. They spoke glowing of everybody else, including Joan Hackett who was not even in the film. Oliver really was the asshole that I heard he was.

Time can be a cruel beast, but he was beautiful once. Let's remember that. I do wonder what SJP would look like if she had aged naturally.

What did they say about Bette, r60?

Wasn't there an Elizabeth Montgomery, too?

Yes, and a Queen Elizabeth.

Not to mention Montgomery Ward…

A late bloomer. As a kid he was no Scott Jacoby, that’s for sure.

I just Googled Scott Jacoby, R66. You're joking, right?

R67, was Lee Montgomery on The Golden Girls even once, let along three times? Jacoby was the only actor portraying an offspring of one of the four leads to ever be asked back for a second appearance...and then a third!

R67 Fuck you! I was in "Bad Ronald," the best ABC TV Movie of the Week ever made!

Early in his career, he was always billed as Lee HARCOURT Montgomery.

Checking

That’s wild

Not many do

R70 any relation to Cynthia?

R66 I kid you not. It’s 1973: Would any gayling pick the small, chubby Lee H. over the lithe, thoughtful Scott at age 10? No—

Correction! For R67 !

I kid you not. It’s 1973: Would any gayling pick the small, chubby Lee H. over the lithe, thoughtful Scott at age 10? No—

R62. It's been years since I listened to it. All I remember is that it was positive.

R77 In that same interview about Oliver Reed trying to drown him, I recall Lee saying that in the movie, he and Bette, who played his grandmother, were supposed to be very close, so before filming began, she spent the day with him in LA and took him to lunch and had ice cream with him so they could bond.

As horrific as she could be, it sounds like she was very kind to him on the set of this movie.

[quote]I kid you not. It’s 1973: Would any gayling pick the small, chubby Lee H. over the lithe, thoughtful Scott at age 10? No—

In 1973, I'm assuming most of us were in nursery school or kindergarten.

R78 She obviously knew nothing about how to deal with children.

By all accounts Bette was a decent human being with a strong moral compass. Unfortunately for her, as she aged and began to drink more and buy into her legend, her treatment of certain people was not always the best. With that said, she was fundamentally a down to earth yankee and prided herself on that (probably to a fault). Her issues with her fellow actors usually have to do with her objections to their unprofessional behavor. Miriam Hopkins and Faye Dunaway--her other two signifcant rivals outside of the famous one--were both notorious for their unprofessional, difficult behaviro when working. Her rivalry with Crawford went deeper and has been well examined. However her treatment of Joan was the exception for Bette not the rule. Many (most) of her costars have positive things to say about her.

Wow…

Can we please stop talking about those old biddies and get back to the subject at hand?

He was hot as hell in the 1982 pilot for Hotel - where Bette Davis played the Owner, in what was a glorified cameo - his character led a group of boys to rape hooker Morgan Fairchild. Bette actually singled out how impressed she was with Morgan for that ep.

No I sure as hell don’t.

[quote]As horrific as she could be, it sounds like she was very kind to him on the set of this movie.

I remember reading/hearing somewhere she really looked out for him during the making of the movie. In addition to the pool incident, the filmmakers apparently weren't very interested in following rules for child actors and she had to step in and prevent them from overworking him or putting him in potentially dangerous situations.

I remember Burnt Offerings but not the kid. I don’t remember this guy at all.

R79 Why assume? In 1973 I was 15.