Eldergays, Tell Me About Debette Goldry

I know she has been doing some Actor's Round Tables, too

Favorite movies?

Who?

Loved her in The Harlot and the Hare with Carey Grant as a bespeckled Intellegence Officer (code name The Hare) who mistakes Debette’s showgirl with a heart of gold for a German spy during WW2.

Kate McKinnon should play her in a biopic.

R4 Was Claude Rains in that one too, or am I thinking of Harold Lloyd?

Were she and Helen Lawson ever up for the same roles?

Quick glance at OP's photo and I thought it was a younger Molly Jong-Fast from Vanity Fair!

Debette: a director said he'd put me in his movie if I had sex with him.

A modern actress: that's terrible! What happened?

Debette: I had sex with him and he put me in his movie. 🤷‍♂️

"The studio made me marry a gay man. It was really some of the best years of my life."

The Giggle Sisters and Shimmy on the Train tracks are now part of the Criterion Collection

She and Eve Arden would always sneak upstairs during Bea Benaderet‘s New Year’s Eve party.

She puts the cunt in Cunt.

She looks like Scarlett Johannsen with a makeunder.

Also, a bit like Frances McDormand.

She hit her stride in Oh My Stars with Tab Hunter, and played off nicely against Geraldine Page in The Smelling Salt Sisters, but you could tell she was just doing psycho biddy flicks like The Vapors to pay off her gambling debts.

Her younger sister, Sidonie, was the talented one, and everyone knows it was the jealous Debette who worked behind the scenes to ruin it.

Is Debette still living?

She was wonderful in theAirport cameos. Pure Hollywood Gold

The secret romance between Debette and a young Aaron Spelling is coming to Netflix with Gaga and Efron-should be good.!

I still get chills whenever I hear how she survived the Titanic sinking and saved all those children! Recently discovered she was awarded Medal of Honor by Pres. Wilson.

Debette was in contention for Eve Harrington, but ultimately lost out on the role when she was institutionalized for sneezing twice on the set of “a Wiggle and a Wink”.

Debette shared a train car with Toodles the elephant during the nation-wide whistle stop tour for “The Greatest Show on Earth”. According to Debette, “you ran less risk of death by trampling with Toodles than you did sharing a train car with Betty Hutton. Cleaner, too.”

Debette also famously lost out on a part in “The Nun’s Story” when Jack Warner said “that even in a habit, I walked like a whore from Abilene with a wooden leg.”

R20, I thought why are they giving me a medal?

I thought we were shooting a movie and was going to get one of those little Oscars they later gave Judy Garland

Debette was so famous that the Agatha Christie wrote a mystery loosely based on Debette's life.

After a botched USO tour in the Pacific Theater, Debette spend almost a year in a POW camp in Osaka. Debette, who at the time was convinced that her imprisonment was actually extended reshooting for “Dragon Seed”, looks back fondly at the experience: “say what you will about the Japs, but I ate better there than I did when I was on contract with MGM.”

R24 The next year, Louis Meyer cast her in Expeditious Singapore with Myrna Loy

Debette was also Elaine Stritch’s standby in the original production of Company.

“I wasn’t working as much by then, so one way or another, I was spending a lot of time in his sex dungeon. When he offered me the part, I said ‘Steve, I’ll do it, but I have one question: what’s lunch?’”

Back in her day, actresses were part of the prop department

She rarely did Broadway, cause in the immortal lines of Helen Lawson, "Broadway doesn't go for . . ."

Debette recalls her time in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee:

“I said I didn’t know any reds personally, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Yvonne De Carlo turned out to be a full-blooded Algonquin!”

Broadway? They had to spoon feed her lines one sentence at a time.

Debette and Truman Capote slept with 3 of the same guys

Spoon feed, R30? I’ve been tube only since Meyer had my pancreas taken out in 47!

Louis Meyer traded her to Jack Warner for Esther Williams.

Jack Warner thought she was too fat to be a starlet and put her on a diet of cigarettes and black coffee

It’s a metaphor, dear.

A metaphor is . . . oh never mind.

Louella Parsons had a file on her Sapphic adventures.

Are they considered “adventures” if they were cases of mistaken identity?

R34, I don't get it.

[quote] Louis Meyer traded her to Jack Warner for Esther Williams.

Louis Meyer the Indy Car champion? Or Louis Meyer, heir to a lemon fortune?

Never heard of her. She doesn't exist other than as a character on SNL.

Well, he sure showed us up!

Debette recalls her audition for National Velvet:

“I told Mayer that he could put a saddle on me, but I would be damned if I was getting billed below Mickey Rooney. He punched me in the mouth and then poured me a Manhattan and said we had a deal. In the end I lost out on the part because the horse’s agent also represented Lana Turner.”

When there was a lull in Debette's career, her agent convinced her to do that three-month, guest starring role on daytime soap opera, "Coming of Age." When it was over, she fired him. Viewers couldn't accept her as a 21-year old coed involved with a college dropout who was a surfer living as a beach bum. She did, however, supposedly hook-up with the actor in real life - somewhat suspect, because, these days, he's obviously gay and lives with his husband in Malta.

Panel on gender equality with Leslie Jones, Emma Stone, and Jennifer Aniston.

One of the greatest actresses to never even be nominated! Horrible!

Wasn't Debette blacklisted for awhile after being accused of being a commie?

Film panel.

On her work with Hitchcock:

“Originally the birds were going to be funny and talk.”

Debette on Alfred Hitchcock:

“He got the idea for The Birds when he saw Walt Disney sicc an ostrich on me at his private game reserve. I was upset at the time, but that ostrich caused me to miscarry Duke Ellington’s baby, so it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I sent Walt a fruit basket afterwards to say “thank you and think of me if little Hailey Mills gets too big for her britches”. We still exchange cards at Christmas.”

"If I can't save Tippi Hedren, what makes you think I can save you?"

My great knew her in her youth and says she had close to normal intelligence until she went to Palm Springs one long weekend with Lee Marvin.

Debette on professional rivalries:

“Natalie Wood may have gotten most of my parts, but none of my gay husbands ever managed to kill me at sea - and lord knows a few of ‘em tried.”

Dead

SNL did some comical skits about Debette that were clearly beneath her. Ms.Glodry’s contribution to film will live on for generations.

Did anyone see her as Lady Macbeth?

^oh, please.

She was in Macbeth in high school. She played a tree.

On working on Rebecca:

“I was Joan Fontaine’s double. Or maybe Alfred Hitchcock just burned down my house to get his kicks? In any event, I got SAG health insurance afterwards and I was able to get that penicillin in the nick of time!”

Cecil B. DeMille's best decision was casting her as Mary Magdalene in The Ten Commandments.

Debette called Anne Baxter a real bitch.

R15, I have to put in a good word for The Vapors, one of Paul Bartel's early flicks. Where else do you have the chance to watch Helen Hayes chase a teenage Shelley Duvall around Lauren Bacall's Dakota apartment with a pair of demonically-possessed pinking shears?

Great cameo from Betty Page in the nightmare sequence.

Is it true Mary caught her blowing Doug in the basement bar at Pickfair?

R58, it was supposedly her "reward" for digging it out in the first place.

She used to sell her pussy for $5 and a bottle of vodka in front of the delicatessen after falling on hard times.

how am I supposed to tell you about Debette when I don't know anything about her?

She was a ‘’good old gal’’ and I will miss her. What?- Oh she’s still alive. Never mind.

Her acceptance speech for the Humphrey Bogart Good Sport Award brought a tear to my eye

Does anyone remember her rival Gaye Fontaine?

Joaquin Phoenix just "Pulled a Debette" -- the famous Hollywood expression that came into being after she abruptly exited that film where she'd been lobbying hard for a scene where she'd be shown rimming Marlon Brando's character. .. But then she just up and quit, causing the entire production to be shut down and abandoned.

I heard she has a thick pubic forest above her labia

How many husbands did she have again? Six? Seven? Eight?

R67 are we counting the chimp?

R67 It gets confusing, because there was the one where the guy was a bigamist, so her marriage to him wasn't legal. Then there was the other one to the Italian tenor where she filed to have it annulled after just a few months due to "fraud." The maid with loose lips told "Confidential" magazine they never slept in the same bedroom.

R68 I don't think so. She claimed that one wasn't consummated either.

R69, that's what they all say.

Her third husband was tragic. He died of AIDS in 1992, with his antiques show partner by his side in New England.

Not funny.

Fabrication is an insult to those who are devoting their lives to the fucking craft.

And ain't she a dyke?

Well, she's no Marie Windsor.

She's not even an Ann-Veronica Moore.

Why does she look like Jane Fonda?

Because Fonda’s her goddaughter.

R75 she looks like Fond four face lifts ago

I'm the couple with three kids arriving at Pat Leahy-Burlington International Airport on a Friday afternoon during a wet, windy storm. We rent a GMC Yukon for almost $2000 for the weekend and drive to our $1300 AirBnB in Stowe (right next to a spa!). By Saturday morning, almost all the leaves have fallen from the rain and wind. The state looks like shit. And the kids are crying, we're fighting, and my husband is nowhere to be found.

GODDAM DATALOUNGE!

I think r78 is the opening montage to WEEKEND WHIPLASH, that cheapie slasher film where Debette played Mrs. Forrest, the deranged killer in the rental car trunk?

Does anyone know why Angela never got her cast in an episode of *Murder, She Wrote*? Was there still bad blood between them from the set of *The Awakening of a Geisha* back in the 60s?

R81 I think she refused to travel to Maine for location filming

A lot of the tension between the two goes back to volunteering for the servicemen at the Hollywood Canteen. I don’t know what happened, but eventually they had to be scheduled for different nights.

I remember her as the most beautiful girl in Hollywood and so talented.

I remember she was the most beautiful girl in Hollywood and so talented.

She was supposed to have her big breakthrough in 1935's Twisting My Pinky, the sequel to Helen Lawson's pre-code hit, Stinky Pinky, but the Hayes Code was in full effect when they made the sequel and they had to cut the part where Adolph Mejou who's having dinner with Lil' Pinky, as she's called, when he goes under the table to pick up her dropped napkin and he comes up and says, 'My goodness it smells like seafood paella down there!'

I loved her cameo in The Exorcist III

She was great as Teri Hatcher's grandmother in Desperate Housewives!