#shirley kilpatrick

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Shirley Kilpatrick in The Astounding She-Monster (1957)

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“If Shirley Stoler shows up in something you’re watching, chances are at the very least it’s not going to be boring - and she shows up in the damndest places, impossible to ignore when she shoulders her way on-screen. There she is, for example, dubbed into Italian to play the zaftig commandant in a German concentration camp in Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties (1975), where she’s serviced by prisoner Giancarlo Giannini. And as nasty neighbor Mrs. Steve on the television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, a toxic character axed after the first season in 1986, apparently because Stoler so rubbed Paul Reubens the wrong way. And in Frank Henenlotter’s Frankenhooker (1990), of which little more needs be said than it’s titled Frankenhooker. And as the pawnshop proprietress who whacks off Alec Baldwin’s digits in Miami Blues (1990), George Armitage’s adaptation of Charles Willeford’s blackly comic detective novel, in which her casting, per Armitage, was a homage to her breakthrough role in The Honeymoon Killers (1969), Leonard Kastle’s road trip through an all-American hellscape.”

/ From “All-American Medea: Shirley Stoler in The Honeymoon Killers”, Nick Pinkerton’s astute essay for The Criterion Collection, 22 March 2017 /

Born on this day: fiercely charismatic, menacing and memorable American character actress Shirley Stoler (30 March 1929 – 17 February 1999). If all Stoler did was star in vicious 1969 cult classic The Honeymoon Killers, her legacy would be secure. In addition to the credits Pinkerton cites above, she also crops up in Klute (1971), The Deer Hunter (1978) and Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) and (on TV) Charlies Angels, Miami Blues and soap operas The Edge of Night and One Life to Live. What a résumé! A persistent urban myth: that Shirley Kilpatrick – leading lady of el cheapo sci fi b-movie The Astounding She-Monster (1957) - and Stoler are one and the same person. To complicate things considerably: Kilpatrick died in 1971. Portrait of Stoler by John Deane.

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Bad movie I have As Good as it Gets 1997

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Shirley Kilpatrick, star of the ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER (1958)

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Shirley Kilpatrick

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Shirley Kilpatrick- the ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER (1958)

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Channeling his inner Roger Corman and Ed Wood comes Ronnie Ashcroft with THE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER (1958), the film he (likely) wrote, produced and directed! With a badass poster from Albert Kallis, what could go wrong with this horror sci-fi b-movie??

The film stars Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Shirley Kilpatrick and Ewing Brown.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 17:31; Discussion 27:31; Ranking 46:41

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Episode #132 of The Swampflix Podcast: The Astounding She-Monster (1957) & A Tale of Two Shirleys

Episode #132 of The Swampflix Podcast: The Astounding She-Monster (1957) & A Tale of Two Shirleys

Welcome to Episode #132 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Britnee and Brandon investigate the urban legend that Shirley Stoler (The Honeymoon Killers/Seven Beauties) is actually an alias of Shirley Kilpatrick (The Astounding She-Monster), a relic of pre-Internet rumor & speculation. https://soundcloud.com/swampflix/132-the-astounding-she-monster-1957-a-tale-of-two-shirleys 00:00…

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Wait! Was Shirley Kilpatrick of el cheapo sci fi b-movie The Astounding She-Monster (1957) and brilliant character actress Shirley Stoler (30 March 1929 – 17 February 1999) of cult classic The Honeymoon Killers (1970) one and the same person? Has this ever been officially verified? Let’s have a heated debate! (To complicate things considerably: Stoler died in 1999, while Kilpatrick is still alive).

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Pat Connelly

Shirley Kilpatrick

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3-D Slides by George Mann (c.1950’s)

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Shirley Kilpatrick- the ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER (1958)

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Shirley Kilpatrick- the ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER (1957)

I don't know why, but I love this movie. I have it on an old clamshell Sinister Cinema VHS.