Grayson Hall in Satan in High Heels definitely tops my list. She was like buttah in that film! And rather sexy, too, which is something else that makes it stand out from the rest of her oeuvre.
Thayer David in the original Nero Wolfe pilot film of the Seventies is another treat. Thayer David is always fabulous to watch, but this gave him some wonderful lines and situations to play, plus he was at the center of the action, where I always felt he belonged. It's a shame that this movie has never been released on video.
I'd love to see Joan Bennett in the Reckless Moment, but have yet to track it down.
Haven't seen very much of Lara Parker's other work, but of what I have seen, her guest role on Kolchak: the Night Stalker is a lot of fun. Apparently it was less than fun for her to do because of some tension between herself and the show's star, Darren McGavin. Lara played a young, powerful witch moonlighting as a fashion model. Nina Foch was in the episode, too, in a role somewhat reminiscent of Susan Hayward in Valley of the Dolls.
Even though it was a non speaking role for him, I love watching Jonathan Frid in the early 70s TV film with Shelley Winters, The Devil's Daughter. He projected a great deal of emotion without speaking a word, plus the movie had a great cast.
At a Dark Shadows Festival many years ago I saw a wonderful clip of Clarice Blackburn appearing in a courtroom drama of the 1950s. I looked up the movie on IMDB. The name eludes me and I've never been able to track down a print, but it was a wonderful moment. I wish MPI would release stuff like this as part of their DS collection.
Two of my "holy grails" are Grayson Hall's first movie appearance, in a very low budget film shot on location in Greenwich Village in 1957, Run across the river. Interestingly it was also Jerry Stiller's movie debut. And the other one is a 1965 one hour featurette she did with Jack Hawkins and Shelley Winters, Back to Back, shown in the Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre series. It's proven frustratingly elusive.
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