MB, thank you so much for this wealth of publicity photos you have been posting. What a treasure! And the color version of Angelique with the candle in the foreground--what an unexpected pleasure! (To quote someone from the wrong DS movie...)

It was funny revisiting the FM issue about this movie, and how it presents a "preview"... The issue is dated January 1972, and while issue dates were always way before the actual newsstand dates, this did come out well after the movie's release. But then again, I don't have any idea how long the movie actually traveled around the country. This was back when the number of prints circulating the country would have been in the (low) three figures, and films didn't open everywhere at once.

What's amazing is that the movie opened slightly over FOUR MONTHS from the first day of filming!

Do you think that Carlotta's explanation that the room had belonged to Mrs. Stoddard when she was a little girl was something that Carlotta came up with on the spot? Elizabeth would not have been a little girl in many years. The explanation should not really comfort Quentin since it doesn't explain why he saw a little girl in a house without children.

I'm wondering ... why would the child of a servant be given such an elaborate bedroom? (And even if it hadn't been so elaborate back then and had since been redecorated, it was a much larger room than would have been given to the servant class. Not to mention it was on the second floor--not the third, where the servants would be.)

* Except for Chris Jennings, in a couple of instances where he was just starting to transition into werewolf, or had just transitioned back from werewolf. I think some of us can figure out why.

I was so shocked to see the news when I saw it--it was the first thing on my Chrome home page when I came home after work today. So sad. I think this one hits me harder than the other passings in recent years. She has always had a special place in my heart, especially since I met her and had a (very brief) conversation with her at a summer stock theater in my hometown during the original run of DS. She was such a sweet and gracious person, and her passing is a great loss to all of us. Farewell, Ms. Parker.

(Remembering the damage sustained by the floor in the first floor hallway during the filming of House. And which was pointed out once in a tour, I seem to recall.)

But never mind the year. Ms. Hall might disagree with what most might say.

It's also quite telling that while Alex and Quentin connected almost immediately but Claire states that she spent quite a bit of time trying to figure Quentin out. She doesn't indicate that she ever did.

How very interesting, Uncle Roger! What you and MB said makes me want to watch the movie again sooner rather than later, with those things in mind.

Thanks for posting that, Gothick. Interesting. I wonder if Matt is mistaken about the date because it definitely reads like an outline for that segment of 1840. Quentin I, Samantha, Gerard, Gabriel, etc. were not planned for the '91 series, as far as I'm aware. Quentin Collins II (as portrayed by Adrian Paul) was planned, but I'm sure that would've been a re-do of the Quentin's ghost story, and eventually 1897. Maybe Sam was just tryping up summaries of ALL the storylines in 1990 as potential fodder for the Curtis recycling program.

Penny: Reading Matthew's blog post, it sounds like your last sentence is a very likely scenario. It was very interesting to read that Matthew had tried melding the Barnabas storyline with the Demeter episode from Dracula! I'm not sure how well that much "opening up" of the storytelling would have fit in with the claustrophobic world of DS.