Posted on 03/13/2023 11:49:23 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
“My life is fair game for anybody. “ said voluptuous actress Susan Hayward.
She died on this date 48 years ago.
“When you’re dead, you’re dead." she'd said. " It’s what you do when you are here that’s important. ”
(Excerpt) Read more at freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com ...
All I can think of is her movie I Dont Want to Die about a female inmate sentenced to be executed ...
I loved her in Back Street. I thought Susan Hayward and John Gavin were perfect.
John Gavin played the first James Bond on TV.
When I was in college a few years later I recall picking up a biography of her that had just been published. I was just skimming through it at the University Bookstore, and noted at the end a recounting of her last days and the experience of the folks who went to see her one last time. The description of her was very disturbing and the apparent facts disclosed were upsetting. I put the book back on the shelf and wondered why any biographers would have included this. Then a few months later the two authors were on some talk show (this would have been Merv Griffin's wheelhouse) and the minute they came out and spoke you realized that these were these flaming queer adulators of glamourous stars. And while they professed to be such fans of hers they capped their book with a rather nasty recounting of her condition at the end. Totally unnecessary. But, as they were gay, maybe they resented her and included that section to cut her down a notch.
My father was very clever. He was always buying me coloring books and paper dolls of all the pin up girls. Wonder if mom ever caught on.
I did not know that. thanks
You’re welcome!
Woah! I made a mistake memory wise. Actor Barry Nelson was the first to play James Bond on TV. As for John Gavin, here’s this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gavin
James Bond
Gavin was signed for the role of James Bond in the film Diamonds Are Forever (1971) after George Lazenby left the role.[25] However, David Picker, head of United Artists, wanted the box-office assurance of Sean Connery. Gavin’s contract was honored despite losing the role to Connery. According to Roger Moore’s James Bond Diary, Gavin was slated to play Bond in Live and Let Die (1973), but Harry Saltzman insisted on a British actor for the role and Moore was given the part.[26]
Thanks again for the Wikipedia link. I do remember now that story about him missing out of the James Bond films. I had also forgotten about the movie A Time to Live and a Time to Die. Loved that one too.
She also was in a movie about a singer who entertained the soldiers ...
Robert Wagner was a young soldier she sang to at a concert ...
You know you’re getting old when you hear “48 years ago” and your mind starts thinking the 1940s or 1950s when, in reality, that was 1975.
I DUNNO....her acting was always so over the top.......
Keep
“With A Song In My Heart”, about Jane Froman. I love that movie!
“You know you’re getting old when you hear “48 years ago” and your mind starts thinking the 1940s or 1950s when, in reality, that was 1975.”
Inknow. 40 years ago was the 80s, seems like it could have been “Suddenly Last Summer.”
Who can forget her in Demetrius and the Gladiators with Victor Mature?
Quote: I am the emperors wife, and I will act the part.
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