BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #13

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
FRIGHTENS A MOTHER & CHILD ON THE BEACH


Ricou Browning, the stuntman who provided the underwater 
shots of the creature, once had to make an emergency 
bathroom visit while he was filming a scene. Browning
 had been underwater for several minutes and breached 
the water, in full costume, next to an unsuspecting 
mother and her young daughter on the nearby shore. 
Browning said that they fled in terror once they saw 
him. He recalled, "they took off, and that's the last 
I saw of 'em!"

Idmb Trivia. The Creature From  the Black Lagoon 
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BASEBALL STAR TED WILLIAMS & HIS GIRLFRIEND NELVA MORE 
GO TO THE MOVIES TO SEE THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK 
LAGOON

“In 1954 they went to see a horror movie called Creature 
from the Black Lagoon, starring Richard Carlson and Julie 
Adams. Ted emerged from the theater a bit too enthused 
about Adams for Nelva’s liking. ‘What a body!’ he said. 
‘How pretty!’ Ted promptly asked Fred Corcoran to arrange
 a meeting with Adams , the sort of request  from Williams 
that Corcoran was accustomed to receiving. Ted and the 
actress went out, and the news hit the gossip columns. 
‘Ted Williams is the kind of man that makes you glad 
you’re a woman!’ Julie told the New York Daily News 
on July 12, 1954. ‘I’ve really only had one date with 
him, but it was one date I’ll never forget if I live 
to be a million.’”

Footnote in The Kid:: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
By Ben Bradlee, Jr. (New York; Little , Brown and 
Company, 2013)
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JULIE ADAMS & PERRY MASON

“One noteworthy appearance in television history was 
as the only client of the defense lawyer Perry Mason 
ever to be convicted in the 60s series. More recently, 
Adams had a role in Murder, She Wrote, as an estate 
agent, Eve Simpson, and sometime-helper of amateur 
sleuth Jessica Fletcher, played by Angela Lansbury 
(1987-93).”

From the Julie Adams' obituary in The Guardian
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LAWRENCE BEESLEY, AN ACTUAL SURVIVOR OF THE SINKING 
OF THE TITANIC, NOT WANTED IN A FILM ABOUT THE EVENT

“…about the shooting of the film A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, 
dealing with the tragedy of the Titanic, and he relates 
an anecdote. Apparently Beesley wanted to be among the 
extras on board the replica of the Titanic even though 
he was not allowed to, and when the director spotted 
Beesley he told him to disembark.

BARNES: Yes, the first time you go down with the Titanic,
 it’s for real and the second time you go down, you are 
ordered off it before it sinks in the film…

from Conversations With Julian Barnes, edited by Vanessa Guignery and Ryan Roberts (University Press of Mississippi, 2009)
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ACCORDING TO IMDB TRIVIA, WHAT FILM
DID INGMAR BERGMAN WATCH EVERY
YEAR ON HIS BIRTHDAY? (answer below)

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SUSAN HAYWARD'S SELF PORTRAIT 

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, 
penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my 
way up in a town called Hollywood where people love 
to trample you to death .I don’t relax because I don’t 
know how. I don’t want to know how. Life is too short 
to relax..

Susan Hayworth, quoted in Susan Hayworth: Portrait of
 a Survivor by Beverly Linet (New York: Atheneum,1980) 

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SUSAN HAYWORTH

Hayworth, Susan
Called out: “Is that you, son?”
“No,” I said. “It’s your friend Lou.”
“Shit. That means another fucking  Clerihew?”
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The Home of Robert Taylor.Northridge Estates, California
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CONSIDERING THE DEATH OF JOHN WAYNE

He drove to Harvard in a tank
Which is one way to get there,
But a tank ain’t no horse,
I don’t have to tell you. I swear

Death’s horse is a gelding,
Mouth-sore with bad breath,
A runny-eyed roan, sway-backed.
What kind of horse is death?

It’s  bob-tailed with bad breeding,
Whopped with an ugly stick & fat.
Hey, Duke, why do you go ride
On a terrible old nag like that?

Louis Phillips