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« on: July 24, 2020, 03:30:46 PM »
Steele is quite an interesting character and certainly brings an intensity to the roles that she played. She didn't take well to the starlet makeover that she got when she first came to Hollywood. The platinum blonde hair that was supposed to glamorize her ended up making her look matronly. She had been cast opposite Elvis Presley in Flaming Star but was replaced early by Barbara Eden. Stories vary as to whether Steele was fired or if she quit.
She does have a somewhat ambiguous relationship with horror movies. It's what she is known for but not her overall favorite. Black Sunday is regarded as a classic but several of her other films, not so much.
Honeymoon With a Stranger is a pretty good little suspense movie with a first rate cast: Steele, Janet Leigh, Eric Braeden, Cesare Danova. I believe that it's on YouTube.
I'm kind of surprised that Steele has never appeared in any Tim Burton movies, since he gave other horror icons like Vincent Price and Christopher Lee some of their final films. Stranger still is that she hasn't popped up on American Horror Story. She could easily have played the parts that Joan Collins did.