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Joyce Van Patten on the set of "Love, American Style" (1973)
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Joyce Van Patten (Brooklyn, New York, 9/03/1934).
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BLOGTOBER 10/2/2024: THE STRANGER WITHIN (1974)
I wish I had made this the first movie of the season, because it was an ABC Movie of the Week from October 1, 1974! I really enjoyed this weird thriller about how Barbara Eden gets pregnant despite her husband George Grizzard's vasectomy, and her increasingly bizarre behavior suggests that something more than infidelity is afoot. Screenwriter Richard Matheson adapted his own 1953 novelette Trespass, and I have learned that a novelette is longer than a short story and shorter than a novella. I did not know this.
Roe v. Wade was codified the year before THE STRANGER WITHIN came out, and the film is full of casual but surprisingly frank remarks why a person might need an abortion. Barbara Eden had a traumatic miscarriage not long ago, which motivated George Grizzard's vasectomy, and his suspicions about her mysterious new pregnancy are threatening the integrity of the marriage, and then she starts getting sort of sick or something--so it's clear that a person might be reasonably entitled to end a pregnancy based on various quality of life issues for the child and the mother. I wonder if it was a big deal for Barbara Eden to choose to do this movie where she and her costar regularly and openly discuss abortion with no moral quibbling. I wonder also if it was a big deal for ABC to show it, at the dawn of legal abortion.
Anyway, soon the couple has bigger problems than family planning, because Barbara Eden becomes hypersensitive to sound, and she needs the house to be ice cold, and she makes weird paintings, and she eats pounds and pounds of salt with scalding black coffee, and she craves information which she absorbs through her hands, rubbing and touching and feeling everything in the library. The couple gets Bob the hypnotist (David Doyle) involved, and it seems like hypnotism is a really great job if you are a gigantic busybody who immediately asks and won't stop asking probing personal questions, even if people beg you to stop. Anyway, Bob has one of the best lines of dialog I've heard all year: "Why do people always assume that anything from outer space is horrible?"
THE STRANGER WITHIN is not a perfect film; it's an obvious ROSEMARY'S BABY knockoff with a little EXORCIST sprinkled in, and for a movie that is only 75 minutes long it has a few too many long scenes of Barbara Eden wandering aimlessly in nature as she communes with whatever knocked her up. But it's intriguing and entertaining, and it seems like everyone enjoyed making it, especially cinematographer Michael D. Margulies whose pedigree includes John Cassavetes' MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ, POLICE ACADEMY, DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY, and of course, THE BABY. Night scenes are illuminated by dramatic pools of light and splashes of saturated color, which heightens the drama even of exposition and repetitive bickering; it's just a fun movie overall. Recommended for viewers who assume that anything from outer space is horrible.
#blogtober#2024#the stranger within#abc movie of the week#made for tv#barbara eden#george grizzard#joyce van patten#david doyle#richard matheson#lee philips#michael d. margulies#horror#sci-fi#science fiction#pregnancy horror#alien abduction
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Golden Age of Hollywood Actors Born Before (And Including) 1937 Still Alive
This only includes actors that had at least one credited role in a Hollywood feature film or short up to 1959.
Elisabeth Waldo (b. 1918)
Caren Marsh Doll (b. 1919)
Patricia Wright (b. 1921)
Jacqueline White (b. 1922)
Annette Warren (b. 1922)
Ray Anthony (b. 1922)
Tommy Dix (b. 1923)
Eva Marie Saint (b. 1924)
Anne Vernon (b. 1924)
Maria Riva (b. 1924)
June Lockhart (b. 1925)
Lee Grant (b. 1925)
Peggy Webber (b. 1925)
Lise Bourdin (b. 1925)
Brigitte Auber (b. 1925)
Kerima (b. 1925)
Terry Kilburn (b. 1926)
Marilyn Erskine (b. 1926)
Bambi Linn (b. 1926)
David Frankham (b. 1926)
Tommy Morton (b. 1926)
Jill Jarmyn (b. 1926)
Marilyn Knowlden (b. 1926)
Genevieve Page (b. 1927)
Donna Martell (b. 1927)
William Smithers (b. 1927)
Peter Walker (b. 1927)
H.M. Wynant (b. 1927)
Betty Harford (b. 1927)
Cora Sue Collins (b. 1927)
Marilyn Granas (b. 1927)
Ann Blyth (b. 1928)
Nancy Olson (b. 1928)
Peggy Dow (b. 1928)
Kathleen Hughes (b. 1928)
Colleen Townsend (b. 1928)
Marion Ross (b. 1928)
Gaby Rodgers (b. 1928)
Jan Shepard (b. 1928)
Walter Maslow (b. 1928)
Tom Troupe (b. 1928)
Sidney Kibrick (b. 1928)
Garry Watson (b. 1928)
Fay Chaldecott (b. 1928)
Mark Rydell (b. 1929)
Terry Moore (b. 1929)
Vera Miles (b. 1929)
Ann Robinson (b. 1929)
Liseotte Pulver (b. 1929)
James Hong (b. 1929)
Rachel Ames (b. 1929)
Olga James (b. 1929)
Michael Forest (b. 1929)
Vikki Dougan (b. 1929)
Steve Terrell (b. 1929)
Margaret Kerry (b. 1929)
James Congdon (b. 1929)
Betsy Gay (b. 1929)
Jack Betts (b. 1929)
Clint Eastwood (b. 1930)
Joanne Woodward (b. 1930)
Mara Corday (b. 1930)
Nita Talbot (b. 1930)
Taina Elg (b. 1930)
Robert Wagner (b. 1930)
John Astin (b. 1930)
Tommy Cook (b. 1930)
Mary Costa (b. 1930)
Lois Smith (b. 1930)
Will Hutchins (b. 1930)
Peggy King (b. 1930)
Lynn Hamilton (b. 1930)
Don Burnett (b. 1930)
Clark Burroughs (b. 1930)
Robert Hinkle (b. 1930)
Sheila Connolly (b. 1930)
Barbara Bestar (b. 1930)
Rita Moreno (b. 1931)
Leslie Caron (b. 1931)
Carroll Baker (b. 1931)
William Shatner (b. 1931)
Mamie Van Doren (b. 1931)
Robert Colbert (b. 1931)
Barbara Eden (b. 1931)
Angie Dickinson (b. 1931)
Claire Bloom (b. 1931)
Marianne Koch (b. 1931)
Sylvia Lewis (b. 1931)
Carmen De Lavallade (b. 1931)
Zohra Lampert (b. 1931)
Michael Dante (b. 1931)
Ann McCrea (b. 1931)
Jack Grinnage (b. 1931)
Maralou Gray (b. 1931)
Billy Mindy (b. 1931)
Sugar Dawn (b. 1931)
Joanne Arnold (b. 1931)
Joel Grey (b. 1932)
George Chakiris (b. 1932)
Felicia Farr (b. 1932)
Abbe Lane (b. 1932)
Steve Rowland (b. 1932)
Jacqueline Beer (b. 1932)
Colleen Miller (b. 1932)
Joanne Gilbert (b. 1932)
Olive Moorefield (b. 1932)
Neile Adams (b. 1932)
Jacqueline Duval (b. 1932)
Edna May Wonnacott (b. 1932)
Richard Tyler (b. 1932)
Mickey Roth (b. 1932)
Leon Tyler (b. 1932)
Peggy McIntyre (b. 1932)
Christiane Martel (b. 1932)
Elsa Cardenas (b. 1932)
Claude Bessy (b. 1932)
Kim Novak (b. 1933)
Julie Newmar (b. 1933)
Debra Paget (b. 1933)
Constance Towers (b. 1933)
Joan Collins (b. 1933)
Kathleen Nolan (b. 1933)
Brett Halsey (b. 1933)
Robert Fuller (b. 1933)
Pat Crowley (b. 1933)
Barrie Chase (b. 1933)
Jackie Joseph (b. 1933)
Geoffrey Horne (b. 1933)
Tsai Chin (b. 1933)
Lita Milan (b. 1933)
Vera Day (b. 1933)
Diana Darrin (b. 1933)
Ziva Rodann (b. 1933)
Jeanette Sterke (b. 1933)
Marti Stevens (b. 1933)
Annette Dionne (b. 1933)
Cecile Dionne (b. 1933)
Johnny Russell (b. 1933)
Patti Hale (b. 1933)
Gary Clarke (b. 1933)
Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934)
Sophia Loren (b. 1934)
Shirley Jones (b. 1934)
Russ Tamblyn (b. 1934)
Pat Boone (b. 1934)
Audrey Dalton (b. 1934)
Claude Jarman Jr. (b. 1934)
Tina Louise (b. 1934)
Karen Sharpe (b. 1934)
Joyce Van Patten (b. 1934)
May Britt (b. 1934)
Joby Baker (b. 1934)
Jamie Farr (b. 1934)
Myrna Hansen (b. 1934)
Priscilla Morgan (b. 1934)
Aki Aeong (b. 1934)
Robert Fields (b. 1934)
Dani Crayne (b. 1934)
Donnie Dunagan (b. 1934)
Richard Hall (b. 1934)
Charles Bates (b. 1934)
Marilyn Horne (b. 1934)
Marilee Earle (b. 1934)
Rod Dana (b. 1935)
Pippa Scott (b. 1935)
Ruta Lee (b. 1935)
Barbara Bostock (b. 1935)
Johnny Mathis (b. 1935)
Leslie Parrish (b. 1935)
Salome Jens (b. 1935)
Yvonne Lime (b. 1935)
Jean Moorehead (b. 1935)
Marco Lopez (b. 1935)
Joyce Meadows (b. 1935)
Christopher Severn (b. 1935)
Richard Nichols (b. 1935)
Carol Coombs (b. 1935)
Nino Tempo (b. 1935)
Patricia Prest (b. 1935)
Dawn Bender (b. 1935)
John Considine (b. 1935)
Jerry Farber (b. 1935)
Clyde Willson (b. 1935)
Bob Burns (b. 1935)
Susan Kohner (b. 1936)
Millie Perkins (b. 1936)
Burt Brickenhoff (b. 1936)
Mason Alan Dinehart (b. 1936)
Anna Maria Alberghetti (b. 1936)
Lisa Davis (b. 1936)
Joan O'Brien (b. 1936)
Richard Harrison (b. 1936)
Tommy Ivo (b. 1936)
John Wilder (b. 1936)
Gary Conway (b. 1936)
Michael Chapin (b. 1936)
Carol Morris (b. 1936)
Fernando Alvarado (b. 1936)
Jack Nicholson (b. 1937)
Tommy Sands (b. 1937)
William Wellman Jr. (b. 1937)
Paul Hampton (b. 1937)
George Takei (b. 1937)
Margaret O’Brien (b. 1937)
Connie Francis (b. 1937)
Carol Nugent (b. 1937)
Patti Brady (b. 1937)
June Hedin (b. 1937)
Paul Collins (b. 1937)
Maureen Hingert (b. 1937)
#dannyreviews#eva marie saint#june lockhart#lee grant#marion ross#terry moore#vera miles#clint eastwood#joanne woodward#robert wagner#mamie van doren#barbara eden#angie dickinson#claire bloom#rita moreno#joel grey#leslie caron#william shatner#george chakiris#kim novak#julie newmar#shirley maclaine#sophia loren#joan collins#russ tamblyn#pat boone#jamie farr#ruta lee#shirley jones#joyce van patten
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Love has its own particular point of view. It sees everything larger than life. Nothing is too ornate, too fanciful, too dramatic. Love demands the theatrical, and then transfigures it. It turns the grotesque into the lovely, as a child does. With it, we can see what we wish to see in other people. Without it, we can't see anything at all. We can search forever, and never find.
THE TWILIGHT ZONE | 4.17 PASSAGE ON THE LADY ANNE
#thetwilightzone#ttz#thetwilightzoneedit#ttzedit#retro tv#retrotvedit#television#series 4#season 4#4.17#4x17#passage on the lady anne#rod serling#gladys cooper#wilfrid hyde-white#cecil kellaway#lee philips#joyce van patten#alan napier
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Peter Falk guest stars as Carbell Carney, a musician with a dark secret. Also, guest starring as Ethel, is Joyce Van Patten.
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Mikey and Nicky
directed by Elaine May, 1976
#Mikey and Nicky#Elaine May#movie mosaics#John Cassavetes#Peter Falk#Ned Beatty#Rose Arrick#Joyce Van Patten
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The Stranger Within (1974, Lee Philips)
6/3/24
#The Stranger Within#Barbara Eden#George Grizzard#Joyce Van Patten#David Doyle#Nehemiah Persoff#TV movie#70s#horror#mystery#science fiction#Richard Matheson#pregnancy#housewives#marital problems#babies#aliens#childbirth#Southern California
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Grown Ups is a perfect example of how a simple movie concept that doesn't try too hard and stars the perfect cast will always hold up.
#grown ups#the cast is absolutely perfect together#comedies#family comedy#adam sandler#(been watching a bunch of his films today while working on chores)#kevin james#chris rock#rob schneider#david spade#salma hayek#maria bello#maya rudolph#joyce van patten
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Yaphet Kotto and Joyce Van Patten squishing imaginary roaches in Larry Cohen’s incredible Bone, 1972. 🪳
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Joyce Van Patten in a 1969 TV Guide article
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Peter Sellers-Joyce Van Patten "Te amo, Alice B. Toklas!" (I love you, Alice B. Toklas!) 1968, de Hy Averback.
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Happy birthday, Joyce Van Patten
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MIKEY AND NICKY:
A frustrated man
Tries to protect friend from mob
Night with a train wreck
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#mikey and nicky#random richards#poem#haiku#poetry#haiku poem#poets on tumblr#haiku poetry#haiku form#poetic#criterion collection#peter falk#john cassavetes#william hickey#Joyce van patten#m. emmet walsh#ned beatty#elaine may#Peter R. Scoppa#Rose Arrick#Carol grace#Sanford meisner#Reuben Greene#David Pendleton#Youtube
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Day 26 — with friends
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