Joan Blondell Q&A Pt.3: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Condoms and Censorship Though I know that Joan Blondell and Ann Sothern were quite different as performers, they often played no-nonsense, wisecracking dames in lots of programmers — Blondell at WB, Sothern at Rko and then MGM. Now, Sothern became an A-list player at MGM in the late 1940s, after having been around for more than 15 years. Why didn't Blondell keep her leading lady status after the early 1940s? Did she refuse to sign any long-term contracts with the studios? There was a critical point in Joan's career in the late '30s and early '40s — after she left Warners and began freelancing — where opportunities were lost. The quality of roles offered at Columbia, MGM, and Universal, was no better than what she had at Warners. As she describes it, she wasn't a fighter for decent scripts the way Bette Davis was.
- 8/25/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
With ActionFest well under way, they handed the festival awards today with many a montage and tribute. Buddy Joe Hooker, Stunts Unlimited, Michael Jai White, Richard Ryan and their 30 seconds of Action film Contest, before handing out the Awards, the Best Film in Competition went to A Lonely Place To Die, whose director, Julian Gilbey is sitting behind me as I type this watching the John Saxon Drive-In classic The Glove here in the Action Lounge, waiting to introduce his film to the ActionFest audiences momentarily. The entire set of Awards announced this afternoon are below:Best Action Sequence: Tomorrow When the War Began (a nighttime garbage truck and armed dune buggy chase which ends in a bit of vehicular tetherball!)Best Stuntwork: Team Bangkok Knockout...
- 4/10/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Michael Pataki was a leading character actor from the 1960s, who was best known for his roles in cult horror films. Pataki starred as Caleb Croft, a vicious vampire rapist whose offspring (William Smith) seeks his destruction in 1974’s Grave of the Vampire, and was Count Dracula and his modern-day descendant Michael Drake in Albert Band’s cult classic Dracula’s Dog (aka Zoltan, Hound of Dracula).
Pataki was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on January 16, 1938. He studied drama and political science at the University of Southern California. He made his film debut in the late 1950s, and appeared frequently on television, often in villainous roles. He was featured in episodes of The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Batman as bat-villain King Tut’s henchman Amenophis Tewfik, Mission: Impossible, and Mr. Terrific. He starred as Korax, the Klingon, in the classic Star Trek episode “The Trouble with Tribbles,...
Pataki was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on January 16, 1938. He studied drama and political science at the University of Southern California. He made his film debut in the late 1950s, and appeared frequently on television, often in villainous roles. He was featured in episodes of The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Batman as bat-villain King Tut’s henchman Amenophis Tewfik, Mission: Impossible, and Mr. Terrific. He starred as Korax, the Klingon, in the classic Star Trek episode “The Trouble with Tribbles,...
- 4/27/2010
- by Jesse
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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