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The Cult of Actress Jean Brooks in Women in the Night (1948)

m4mhello March 13, 2024 0

“Just how good an actress are you?,” asks Tom Conway (1904-67 cirrhosis) of Jean Brooks (1915-63 hepatitis and cirrhosis) in The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943). And that is the question. If ever there was an actress who was unremarkable it was Jean Brooks. Yet this actress who was doomed to a life of alcoholism…

The Genius of Writer Grace Metalious and Return to Peyton Place (1961) Part Two

cultfilmalley May 6, 2021 2

*contains spoilers This year of 1941 and the others are symbolised in Return to Peyton Place with the placement of cars. Selena drives an old 1941 series convertible just when the original movie was set, while the outsider Scandinavian ski instructor played by Gunnar Hellstrom (1917-2006 natural causes) drives a 1960 Renault which is a…