Desire in the Dust: rare Joan Bennett Film on FMC Sat 1/24

[MagnusTrask]

So far my knowledge of JB's film career is Scarlet Street (great, and she was great... I couldn't believe it was her when I finally figured it out!) and Father's Little Dividend, where she would have been interchangable with any other actress of the time.

[Brian]

To add my 2 cents:

Angela Lansbury played Elvis Presley's mother (in Blue Hawaii) and Lawrence Harvey's mother (in The Manchurian Candidate).  She was just shy of ten years older than Elvis at the time she played his mother, and just three years older than Harvey when she played his mother.  Not to mention that, on DS, Louis Edmonds was 43 when he debuted as the 36-year-old younger brother of Liz Stoddard.

Great actors can play ALMOST any age, right?

Brian

[Gothick]

I don't think that either Bette Davis or Susan Heyward was pleased when Bette had to portray Susan's Mother in the 1964 ultra-glossy soaper, Where Love Has Gone.  A film that boasts DeForest Kelley in a great Addison de Wit style role as a vitriolic art critic.

G.