Mamie Van Doren and Elinor Donahue in ‘Girls Town’, ‘an awful picture’ from 1959

Mamie Van Doren, publicity photo for 'Girls Town', MGM 1959.

‘Girls Town’ was an MGM attempt to capitalise on the teen ‘exploitation’ B-movie genre that was popular in the 1950s. The dramatic plot centres around a teenage misfit named Silver (Mamie Van Doren) trapped in a juvenile detention facility run by nuns, whilst trying to save her sister (played by Elinor Donahue) from being sold into the Tijuana slave trade by Mel Tormé’s character. Featuring appearances by The Platters and Paul Anka, starring as themselves, this quirky and not particularly good film ended up being a financial loss for MGM and was later lampooned in the 1990s on ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’.

Elinor Donahue. Photo: Virgil Apger/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Elinor Donahue said of her part: ‘I would just as soon forget the whole thing. In the first five minutes of the picture it was established that I was a good girl, being pushed into being a bad girl. The rest of the picture I spent doing practically nothing but crying and saying, 'Help me, help me!' It was fun making it, but it was an awful picture’.

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Quotables 29 May 2024: John F. Kennedy in 1947, speaking about the true, insidious nature of the Republican Party

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The frightening part is that the GOP was a comparatively more sane and responsible party in the 1940s than in these Trumpian times, but JFK had them pegged even then: ‘(Republicans) follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth’. - John F. Kennedy, speaking at the Knights of Columbus, East Boston, MA, 18 May 1947.

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Quotables 28 May 2024: Marilyn Monroe on fame and envy

Photo: Ed Feingersh, circa 1955.

‘...when you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who is she who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature and it won't hurt your feelings. Like it's happening to your clothing. One time here I am looking for a home to buy and I stopped at this place. A man came out and was very pleasant and cheerful, and said, "Oh, just a moment, I want my wife to meet you." Well, she came out and said, "Will you please get off the premises?" You're always running into people's unconscious.

‘Let's take some actors or directors. Usually they don't say it to me, they say it to the newspapers because that's a bigger play. You know, if they're only insulting me to my face that doesn't make a big enough play because all I have to say is, "See you around, like never." But if it's in the newspapers, it's coast-to-coast and all around the world. I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other. I don't like to say this, but I'm afraid there is a lot of envy in this business. The only thing I can do is stop and think, "I'm all right but I'm not so sure about them!" For instance, you've read there was some actor that once said that kissing me was like kissing Hitler. Well, I think that's his problem. If I have to do intimate love scenes with somebody who really has these kinds of feelings toward me, then my fantasy can come into play. In other words, out with him, in with my fantasy. He was never there’.

Quote via an interview with Richard Merryman, published in LIFE magazine, 17 August 1962 - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/14/greatinterviews

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Quotables 19 May 2024: Coleen Gray on daydreams of Hollywood stardom dampened by the harsh realities of a Hollywood career

A publicity shot of actress Coleen Gray for ‘Kansas City Confidential’, 1952. Photo: United Artists

‘When I attended the University, I daydreamed about being a movie star. I would do my dressing room in Early American and give lovely presents to my make-up man and hairdresser for making me look so lovely, and so on. When I got my contract at 20th I was in seventh heaven, but I found out that a movie career is mostly hard work laced with disappointments’.

Interview with the Boston Sunday Post, 9 November 1947

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1960: May Britt in a publicity photo for the 20th Century Fox feature, ‘Murder Inc.’

Born 22 March 1934 in Stockholm, Swedish actress May Britt is oft recalled in present times as the wife of Sammy Davis Jr. from 1960 to 1968. In her own right, however, she was a star of some repute in Italy and in Hollywood during the 1950s, appearing alongside the renowned likes of Marlon Brando, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Montgomery Clift, and Peter Falk. Marrying a notorious, professional bachelor akin to those in the Rat Pack is a foolish endeavour for any lady anticipating a faithful husband. May Britt learned this lesson through adversity, as her union with Davis met its end amid whispers of an affair with actress and songstress Lola Falana. Removed from the limelight for many a decade now, and at 90 years-old, I doth sincerely hope the lady finds solace and joy in her days.

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Born #OTD 1949: Rick Wakeman

Rick Wakeman CBE. Photo: Steve Parsons/PA/Getty Images

Wishing the esteemed keyboardist, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Rick Wakeman CBE, a joyous 75th.

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Quotables 18 May 2024: Baseball great Reggie Jackson on the value of ‘the will to win’, Mickey Mantle, tolerating failure versus accepting it, the batter’s box belonging to him alone, and bringing his star to New York City

1977 Topps baseball card for Reggie Jackson

Words of wisdom from the all-time excellent right fielder Reggie Jackson, born on this day, 18 May 1946, in Abington Township, Pennsylvania:

‘The will to win is worthless if you don’t get paid for it’.

‘Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original "Mr. October", but thank god it didn't stick’.

‘I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it’.

‘Fans don't boo nobodies’.

‘I’m a businessman. I bring my bat and glove and attache case to the office and go to work. I don’t give a damn if the other workers at the office like me or not’.

‘When I stepped into the box, I felt the at-bat belonged to me. Everybody else was there for my convenience. The pitcher was there to throw me a ball to hit. The catcher was there to throw it back to him if he didn’t give me what I wanted the first time. And the umpire was lucky that he was close enough to watch’.

‘There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There’s the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn’t want two out of three. I wanted them all’.

‘So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start’.

‘In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium’.

‘I didn’t come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me’.

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Quotables 17 May 2024: Ava Gardner speaks on beauty, stardom, Frank Sinatra, and George C. Scott

Ava Gardner, circa 1945. Photo: PictureLux

‘All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through’.

‘What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted’.

‘I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill’.

‘Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every single day during our relationship, no matter where in the world I was, I'd get a telegram from Frank saying he loved me and missed me. He was a man who was desperate for companionship and love. Can you wonder that he always had mine’.

‘Love is nothing but a pain in the ass’.

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R.I.P. David Sanborn

David Sanborn, circa 1980. Photo: David Redern

The esteemed saxophonist David Sanborn, renowned for his manifold contributions to hundreds of recordings as both a session musician and band leader, has departed at the age of 78 after battling prostate cancer. {AP 5/14}

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Born #OTD 1898: Arletty

A publicity shot of French actress Arletty, for ‘Hôtel du Nord’, 1938. Photo: Bridgeman Images. 

French actress, singer, and model Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat, professionally known as Arletty, entered this mortal coil on 15 May 1898 in the Paris suburb of Courbevoie. Notorious for her dalliance with Nazi Luftwaffe officer Hans-Jürgen Soehring during the dark days of her homeland’s occupation in the crucible of World War II, she was convicted of treason in 1945 and served eighteen months in confinement for this crime. Yet, the French people did prove to be a forgiving lot and Arletty's stage and film career resumed by 1948 and flourished into the 1960s. In 1995, the French government honoured her memory by printing a limited edition coin with her visage. Arletty lived to the ripe age of 94, departing on 23 July 1992.

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Born #OTD 1928: Barbara Ann Scott

Barbara Ann Scott. Photo: Getty Images

Canadian figure skating icon and horsewoman Barbara Ann Scott, hailed in her days of skating as 'Canada's Sweetheart' and victor of the world championship in 1947 and 1948. Born on 9 May 1928 in Ottawa. 

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Quotables 9 May 2024: The matchless Lena Horne ponders whether 'second class' status be innate, delving into why women can never seem to triumph in a society that demands both sensuality and prudence from them; and extolls the greatness of Count Basie

Lena Horne. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images

‘You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game’.

‘I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else’.

'I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody’.

‘The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe’.

‘Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life’.

Quotes via https://www.azquotes.com/author/6910-Lena_Horne

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#RIP Steve Albini: Renowned producer of bands such as Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, departs at the age of 63 following heart attack

Record producer Steve Albini, circa 2023. Photo: John Semley/WXPN/NPR

NPR - Steve Albini, iconoclastic rock musician and engineer, dies at 61

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Quotables 8 May 2024: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) reflecting on the true value - or lack thereof - of public opinion, and the persistent collective failure to glean lessons from history

Portrait of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, circa 1831. Public domain.

Food for thought for the day from the esteemed German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, born in Stuttgart:

‘To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science’. - from ‘Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts’ (1820/1821).

‘What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it’. - from ‘Lectures on the Philosophy of History’, published 1832.

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Quotables 7 May 2024: Sue Lyon reflects on the mental anguish that ensued from her portrayal of 'Lolita' in the 1962 Stanley Kubrick classic

Sue Lyon as the title role of ‘Lolita’ in a 1962 publicity photo for the MGM feature. Photo: Bert Stern.

In a 1996 interview, actress Sue Lyon discussed her experience playing the titular role of 'Lolita' in the 1962 cinematic adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov novel: ‘My destruction as a person dates from that movie. Lolita exposed me to temptations no girl of that age should undergo. I defy any pretty girl who is rocketed to stardom at 14 in a sex nymphet role to stay on a level path thereafter’.

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David Pastrnak's OT goal to knock out the Maple Leafs: A great moment in Boston Bruins history

Canadian Press

David Pastrnak scores in OT to deliver game seven to the Boston Bruins; the B’s are on their way to Sunrise. {ESPN 5/05}

Verily, a standout amidst a throng of unforgettable moments. Maple Leafs fans are in mourning today, and I do extend sympathy to the wonderful city of Toronto. A proud and iconic franchise, its last taste of championship glory now 57 years past. For me personally, of course, this stands as one of the more gratifying sporting moments of recent years: David Pastrnak's overtime goal did secure the decisive game seven for the Boston Bruins on Saturday night at TD Garden, whilst goaltender Jeremy Swayman did deliver unparalleled brilliance throughout the series. The Bruins now embark upon Sunrise, FL, seeking redemption for last season’s epic playoff collapse against the Florida Panthers. Naturally, yours truly shall be fervently supporting them every step of the way towards what we do hope will culminate in a Stanley Cup-winning campaign.

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Born #OTD 1929: Audrey Hepburn

Remembering the ever graceful Audrey Hepburn on what would have been her 95th birthday. Shown here lensed by Bob Willoughby in a promotional photo for the 1964 Paramount feature, ‘Paris When It Sizzles’, in which she starred opposite William Holden.

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Quotable 4 May 2024: Bette Davis reflects on 'boys' competing for renowned women, the male ego, love culminating in marriage, and the distinction between the anguish and joy of love

Bette Davis by Jack Freulich, circa 1930

‘I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay’.

‘The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with’.

‘Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did’.

‘The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms’.

‘Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over’.

‘Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime’.

Quotes via https://www.azquotes.com/author/3703-Bette_Davis

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Kentucky Derby day: a reflection on the diminishing thrill of horse racing and beyond

Bill Brine/Wikimedia Commons

Perhaps some of you may recall my frequent posts on horse racing in the past. Today marks the Kentucky Derby, yet I find myself struggling to muster the excitement I once had. There's a pang of shame within me for this lack of enthusiasm. I used to anticipate this day eagerly, but over the past three or four years, my fervor for the sport has waned almost completely. Pinpointing the exact cause of this shift is elusive, though I will say the distressing frequency of horse fatalities weighs heavily on my conscience.

Nevertheless, there remains an unparalleled thrill in witnessing the intense competition as horses thunder toward the finish line, a sensation I yearn to experience anew. Sadly, my passion for many pursuits and hobbies has dimmed in recent years. The loss of my long-term girlfriend in 2017, followed by two more relationships that were utterly disastrous, myriad betrayals by former ‘friends’ in a 12-step cult from which I have long since disentangled myself, the turmoil of COVID, the ongoing political upheaval, the grief of losing pets, and financial woes - all of that and more have exacted a toll on my mental well-being.

Even my enjoyment of baseball, once a steadfast source of joy, has become increasingly elusive. I long to rekindle that fire within me, to recapture the exhilaration I once felt on Kentucky Derby day, and to feel truly alive once more. /rant

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1957: Vikki Dougan dazzles and gleams

A monochrome portrait captures actress and pin-up girl Vikki Dougan, lensed by Earl Leaf, adorned in a sheer white nightgown, accompanied by a seductive smile amidst a splendid backdrop. Verily, this lady personifies immaculate grace.

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Born #OTD 1934: Sir Henry Cooper

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Widely regarded as one of Britain's greatest heavyweight boxers and the singular recipient of knighthood in the sport, Henry Cooper entered this world ninety years ago, hailing from council housing in the South London district of Lambeth. Pictured alongside Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) in 1963, before their bout at Wembley Stadium, which concluded due to an eye injury to Cooper. A rematch at Arsenal Stadium in 1966, with Ali defending his world heavyweight championship, ended in almost identical circumstances. Yet, Cooper persisted in pugilistic prowess until 1971 and after retiring remained a cherished public figure, gracing the advertisements of Brut aftershave and commanding attention as a revered speaker at banquets. Sir Henry Cooper was granted pardon from this mortal coil at the age of 76 on 1 May 2011.

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Born #OTD 1934: Shirley Horn

Shirley Horn, photographed by Keter Betts, circa 1961

In celebration of the life of the incomparable singer and pianist, Shirley Horn, a native of Washington D.C. who on this day would have seen her ninetieth year.

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Adele Mara, 1923-2010

Adele Mara, an American actress of Spanish descent, here depicted adorning the pages of Cinelandia magazine, circa 1947. Hailing from the Detroit area, this noble lady was not only a skilled actress but also an accomplished singer and dancer. She is best remembered for her roles in westerns, having appeared in numerous film and television productions over a span of 37 years. Of particular note, she did share the screen with John Wayne in the iconic films 'Wake of the Red Witch' (1948) and 'Sands of Iwo Jima' (1949). Furthermore, she did attain top billing in the 1945 film noir 'The Tiger Woman', as well as the 1948 western 'Angel in Exile'. Adele Mara lived a life replete with accomplishment, departing from this mortal realm at the venerable age of 87 in 2010.

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‘One good joint deserves another’

Alberto Vargas for Playboy magazine, circa 1975.

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