#Celia Lovsky

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Celia Lovsky as T'Pau in:

S2E1: Amok Time ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ ·

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Peter Lorre & Celia Lovsky, "Mad Love" Premiere

That adorable, cherubic face of his! Melts me.

AND! That looks remarkably similar to the picture from yesterday's Modern Screen post:

So I deem these two pictures from the exact same event.

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Found some nice pictures: Lorre with Celia Lovsky on their trip to the US, and one with Kaaren Verne at the Stork Club

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I dreamed about Peter last night

It was the early 1930s. I was in an underground café (I mean it was literally underground, like a basement level) with Peter and Celia, as they drank cognac and coffee while conversing with fellow actor Oscar Homolka. This may be the first time anyone has had a dream in the last eighty years about Oscar Homolka.

In any event, Peter was wearing a knit cap because he had just shaved his head for a role (maybe Der Weisse Dämon?) and he was feeling a little shy about it, or perhaps chilly. Oscar was laughing and poking fun at him too. "It's no good for serious acting," Oscar said, pouring out more cognac, "but he can always play comedy." Peter looked insulted. "With WHOM will I play comedy?" he exclaimed. It was mostly rhetorical, and nobody answered him.

That dream ended there, and ran into another one. It was twenty years later, on the set of Der Verlorene. Peter wasn't feeling so well and I found him lying in bed, being consoled by Annemarie. She really did not want me there and kept demanding that I leave, but Peter didn't seem to care if anyone saw him. He was just trying not to betray the pain he was in.

...that was a really sad ending, I'm sorry. I just don't remember if I dreamed any more.

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The Power

There’s a good film to be made of gay writer Frank M. Robinson’s science-fiction novel “The Power” (today, btw, is his birthday). Sadly, George Pal’s 1968 adaptation (TCM, Tubi), directed by Byron Haskin and written by John Gay, isn’t it. The story of a scientific team picked off by someone with advanced mental powers requires a more imaginative director than Haskin, who was perfectly fine directing the more physical thrills of Pal’s THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) and THE NAKED JUNGLE (1954). It’s also damaging that apart from a brief sequence with toys that come to life, the film doesn’t allow for Pal’s expertise at stop-motion animation. Instead, you get rapid cutting and some space effects that seem dated compared to the work in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, released the same year.

George Hamilton is part of a group of scientists torturing college students to determine how much pain future astronauts will be able to endure. The team’s anthropologist (Arthur O’Connell) reports that he’s discovered one of them has an IQ that goes beyond any known measure (then how does he know it?). At that point, someone starts using telepathy and telekinesis to kill off the team’s members. You can tell he’s a misogynist, because he doesn’t consider geneticist Suzanne Pleshette enough of a threat to bother with. That’s a good thing, because otherwise he’s also something of a sadist where the audience is concerned; he persistently kills off better actors while Hamilton keeps on ticking.

The filming is terribly pedestrian, and after a while you may wonder what a David Lynch could do with this type of story. David Cronenberg came close with SCANNERS (1981), though that also suffers from a rather unconvincing leading man. On the plus side, the large cast of guest stars, billed alphabetically so it’s easy to confuse this with an episode of BURKE’S LAW, includes solid work from Michael Rennie, Barbara Nichols and Nehemiah Persoff, among others. Not prominently billed is Celia Lovsky, who has no lines but a strong presence as O’Connell’s dotty mother (we should all be so lucky), in a scene that could have wandered in from a David Lynch film. There’s also a great score by Miklos Rozsa, though it features in one of the film’s many logical lapses. In the opening titles, Rozsa establishes the use of the cymbalon, a form of dulcimer, to represent the villain’s mental powers. So why does Hamilton, who’s in the film and not watching it, react with fear when he hears a cymbalon? Is it that creepy?

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Horror Movie Review: Soylent Green (1973)

A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.

Soylent Green is a 1973 American ecological dystopian film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role. By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation and pollution have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing. New York City has a population of 40 million, and only the elite can afford…

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awwww, he and Celia are such cuties!! There's another photo I've never seen before. ^-^

December, 1927 Cover of “La Vie Parisienne” magazine. From talesofamadcapheiress.com.

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Star Trek POP-QUIZ #21

( 09 / 03 / 2024 )

Question 1. Who was the first host of the Dax symbiont? a. Tobin b. Lela c. Torias d. Emony

Bonus Question: What was this host's occupation?

Question 2. TRUE OR FALSE Nyota Uhura is fluent in 37 languages and Hoshi Sato is fluent in 76 languages.

Bonus Question: TRUE OR FALSE While at Starfleet Academy, Nyota Uhura wrote 3 papers on Hoshi Sato.

Question 3. Which of these actresses has not played T'Pring? a. Mary Rice b. Arlene Martel c. Gia Sandhu d. Celia Lovsky

Question 4. Where did Deanna Troi study psychology? a. Starfleet b. Yale University c. Ni'Var Institute d. University of Betazed

Question 5. Fill-in Question! How many ships has Kathryn Janeway commanded?

Bonus Question: Name one ship she has commanded ( other than the USS Voyager ).

Score: __/ 5 + 3 bonus ( Answers under cut )

Question 1. b. Lela

+ Lela was a famous legislator in the Trillian government, and one of the first women to be appointed as a council member.

Question 2. FALSE. Although Nyota Uhura is fluent in 37 languages, Hoshi Sato was known to be fluent in 86 languages.

+ TRUE.

Question 3. d. Celia Lovsky

Question 4. d. University of Betazed

Question 5. 2.

+ She also commanded the USS Dauntless.

Happy ( late ) Women's Day!

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I really hope this is how people will learn it’s Celia Lovsky’s birthday today.

Also me… do a lie… on the internet… No one lies on the internet who would do such a thing haha… Anyway it wouldn’t be the first time someone did a weird claim regarding him. Hey, remember Peter Lorre Jr.? That was certainly a guy. Hope those 5 film roles were worth it lol

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S2E1: Amok Time ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ ·

keep reading for some rambling from me about these scenes because i love them!!! :)

I’ve always thought that each character’s reaction directly following Spock killing Jim was profoundly… aware. Spock standing slowly, horrified, the blood fever suddenly gone, not victorious or triumphant. This was no ordinary kal-if-fee, and you can read that in everyone present. Even Bones has a look of shit, I didn't think about how affected Spock would be, just look at him. To me, it was always this palpable sense of 'this isn't how it was supposed to turn out' and discomfort at having witnessed an ending which, at least to Vulcans, must essentially seem like an open expression of emotion.

Spock begged T'pau to spare Jim and she was surprised he could even speak. Bones had to pry the ahn woon from his hands because the shock of what he had done wouldn’t allow him to look away from his Captain's face. The way he walked over to the waiting line of guards like a ghost. Addressed T’pring with such a subdued tone, even when complimenting her logic. Rejecting T’pau’s departing ‘live long and prosper...’

I wonder how it looked to them, seeing this half-Vulcan man, the legend Spock, take down an outworlder whom he calls ‘friend’ before their eyes and not abandoning the devastation of it for the logic required of their traditions. Were these reactions brought about by Joseph Pevney's direction, or could the humanity of the actors simply not be totally lost in their portrayals? It's always spoken to me. I just love this episode.

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Star Trek History ...

At my very first glimpse of this photo of Sophia Loren...

... I thought "Ah! T'Pau when she was younger".

Of course, Loren never appeared in Star Trek. Celia Lovsky was T'Pau, "all of Vulcan in one package", as Kirk put it. Still, to me at least, the resemblance is striking.

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Peter Lorre aboard ship (going to or from England), 1935.

And Peter and Celia Lovsky arriving in Southhampton, England, Nov 7, 1935:

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Peter  Lorre and his wife Celia Lovsky

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                            S T A R   T R E K    the original series

                        2nd Season (September 1967 -- March 1968)  

  Great Guest Stars and the Memorable Characters they Portrayed 

T’Pau (Celia Lovsky) and T’Pring (Arlene Martel) from “Amok Time”   Apollo (Michael Forest) from “Who Mourns for Adonais”    Nomad (voice by Vic Perrin) from “The Changeling”    Commodore Matt Decker (William Windom) from “The Doomsday Machine”    Sarek of Vulcan  (Mark Lenard) and Amanda Grayson  (Jane Wyatt) from “Journey to Babel”    Eleen (Julie Newmar) from “Friday’s Child”      Nils Baris (William Schallert) and Arne Darvin (Charlie Brill), Captain Koloth (William Campbell) and Korax (Michael Pataki) from “The Trouble with Tribbles”     Bella Oxmyx (Anthony Caruso) and Jojo Krako  (Vic Tayback) from “A Piece of the Action”     Nona, a Kahn-ut-tu of the Hill People (Nancy Kovack) from “A Private Little War”     Kelinda (Barbara Bouchet) from “By Any Other Name”     Captain Ronald Tracey (Morgan Woodward) from “The Omega Glory”     Dr. Richard Daystrom (William Marshall) from “The Ultimate Computer”    Procounsel Claudius Marcus  (Logan Ramsey)  slave girl Drusilla (Lois Jewell) from “Bread and Circuses”     Roberta Lincoln (Teri Garr) and Gary Seven (Robert Lansing) from “Assignment: Earth”

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This floral printed gown, designed by Rene Hubert, was first worn by the wonderful Gene Tierney as Miranda Wells in the 1946 film 𝑫𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒘𝒚𝒄𝒌. 🎥 The gown was reused for the 1947 film 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒙𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘, 🦊 in which Celia Lovsky, as Minna Ludenbach, wore it.   The dress was sold through Julien’s, and photos show that it has been heavily made over 🪡 with blue trim added to the bodice, different buttons, and sleeve alterations, indicating further usage that still needs to be documented.   Where else do you think this dress was used?