MB--I've seen several publicity stills from the NoDS shoot that had no relationship to any version of the script of which I am aware.

Darren would be able to speak to this more definitively, but it may be that DC was just exploring options in working on the staging and blocking of some sequence or other.  Or it may be that whoever was the stills photographer just thought it might be "different" to have some of the actors up there posing.

Another possibility is that the shots were done when they were working on material for the various one-sheets that were ultimately produced to promote the movie.

Best,  G.

Happy Birthday Darren!

Best, Steve

I'm probably misremembering, but I recall that the FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND "filmbook" of this movie which had nearly the entire story set out in text and photos (so why bother to go see it, some may have asked) ended with the scene of Tracy screaming in the basement room.

I assume those captures are from the "blu ray."  I have to admit they look awesome.

G.

Just catching up with this thread... that's a very cool capture of Carlotta hiding in the Tower, several entries back now.  I wish they had styled her hair to look really "wild" but for whatever reason she looks as composed as if she had just gotten up from her escritoire to check the day's menu.

Of course it takes A LOT to rile the hair of someone as hardcore as Miss Carlotta Drake...

G.

As I said, I had never heard of it, so I found what he had to say about it interesting.  I'll have to let him know about David Hurst.  I don't know if the Conjure Doll has ever seen PT 1841. 

I was living in a dorm room without a television set in 1978 and had to walk all the way across campus if I wanted to see anything. So, I saw very little television that year, or generally during the period from 1976 through much of the 1980s.

G.

Fans, a friend sent me the short review pasted in below of the DS TV movie CHILD OF GLASS earlier today.

I had never heard of the film, and I thought what he had to say about it was quite interesting.

If nothing else, worthy of note since Denise Nickerson was involved.

Best,

G.

Review by the Conjure Doll:

A couple of days ago I revisited the Walt Disney made-for-tv movie CHILD OF GLASS, with an eye toward the elements it shares with DARK SHADOWS.  Shot in late 1977 and released in 1978, the film is nominally based on Richard Peck’s book THE GHOST BELONGED TO ME (but the adaptation is an extremely loose one).  The production is by no means a Disney version of DS.  However, I am of the firm opinion that its screenwriter, Jim Lawrence, was aware of DARK SHADOWS, and scavenged bits and pieces of it while crafting his adaptation of Peck’s novel.  In particular, he borrowed liberally from Sam Hall’s presentation of Sarah Collins. [Note by Gothick:  I think the ghost of Sarah character was originally created by Malcolm Marmorstein--I just wrote to the Conjure Doll and explained about this.  Sam did write some or all of the episodes involving Sarah as a little girl in 1795.]

CHILD OF GLASS begins with a family moving into an old plantation house, and the ghost in the production is a young girl who died during the house’s glory days.  She implores the son of the new owners to help her break the curse which binds her to the house, so she can move on.  Obviously, she dresses in period costume, but she also carries a doll, and her appearances are typically marked in the musical score by a signature tune – Frer Jacques (not the same as Sarah’s London Bridge, but certainly quite close).  The film also features a drunken caretaker (in the mold of Matthew Morgan), a party which everyone attends dressed in garb from the time in which the house was first built, and a teenage girl played by DS’s Denise Nickerson (she’s actually the first person to utter a line in the film).  If the connections to DARK SHADOWS in this film are coincidental, they certainly are striking ones.
 

KLS is again running a holiday book sale on her website and facebook pages.  This time around, she's doing three different book combo sales.  This one includes a personalized photo and card:

http://kathrynleighscott.com/products/kathryns-super-secret-backstage-holiday-gift-bundle

She appears to have phased out the special offer which included her phoning you a personal holiday message.  That was a feature of at least one of her packages last year.

G.

That's a really silly list.  I also don't understand the omission of Nicholas de Brabant/Nick Knight, as portrayed by Geraint Wyn Davies on FOREVER KNIGHT which was a 1990s series that lasted three seasons.  In some ways, Nigel Bennett's Lacroix on the same show was even more significant since he was really scary in a coldly calculating way.  Brilliant acting...

I could mention a lot of other vampires.  Several of the ones that were included were just plain silly or only a blip in their respective series. 

Still, I'm sure most of the readership found the feature entertaining...

G.