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« on: February 04, 2004, 07:04:55 PM »
Thayer David is really good in Savages, which also stars Chris Pennock. The movie itself is very odd but I enjoyed seeing it.
Not a film, but I really enjoyed Lara's guest role on Kojak: The Night Stalker. I think the title of her episode is something like The Trevi Connection. Nina Foch is in it, as well, and the episode sort of winks at both the dark Forties B-horror films in which Nina Foch got her start, and Lara Parker's work on Dark Shadows.
Satan in High Heels is one of my top ten movies of all time, for Grayson's performance and for the look and feel of the movie--great soundtrack, too. She was nominated for an Oscar in Iguana, and none of those big H'wood stars got noms, so I always cackle a bit when I think of that. It's cute that Gargoyles was mentioned; I was just thinking of that film the other day. I also love GH's moments in Adam at Six A. M. (she plays Michael "Mikey" Douglas' busybody, meddling aunt); End of the Road (short but bittersweet); and the DC produced telefilm, The Great Ice Ripoff, in which she's quietly effective as the wife of a retiring detective.
I really wish "Back to Back" would be made available. It's a 52 minute drama shot in color in 1965. Grayson played the imperious, snobbish head of an exclusive resort, opposite Shelley Winters and Jack Hawkins as a pair who were trying to get jobs on her staff. It was shown in Oct. 1965 on the "Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre" show. My attempts at finding a copy have gone absolutely nowhere.
Joan Bennett's scenes in Suspiria are fun--I find that film otherwise unwatchable, but I'm in a small minority on that--most people rate it as a classic.
There's more... but who knows where the time goes?
G.