HI STEVE 1 Angie Dickinson made her debut in the 1954 Lucky Me starring my Doris and continued in supporting roles in a number of B movies until she got a good part as the Duke’s love interest in the 1959 Rio Bravo. Whilst a number of other reasonable parts followed and indeed some leading lady roles, to my mind overall she never broke out of the supporting actress league on the silver screen –no arguments please!- and perhaps her most prestigious performance there was in Sir Maurice’s 1980 Dressed to Kill in which she got star billing alongside the great Cockney thespian. That movie, Rio Bravo, The Chase, The Bramble Bush and the Lee Marvin gangster double Point Blank and The Killers are probably my favourite Dickinson flicks.
2 However she also has had a highly prolific TV career and it was in that medium that she became a household name with the 1974-79 series Police Woman. It was the first one hour long prime time TV drama series in which a woman was the star and ran for 91 episodes and because of her success in it many years later there was a standing joke in the TV sitcom Frasier that Frasier’s dad Martin had an obsession with Angie Dickinson movies.
3 Anyway your video is concerned with just Angie’s big screen career and certainly that in itself is sufficient for me with marvellous posters such as the eye poppers for Young Billy Young and Sam Whiskey, The Last Challenge [aka The Pistolero of Red River] China Gate, Captain Newman, and Shoot Out at Medicine Bend. However par excellence were those for Dressed to Kill, Point Blank and The Killers.
4 Equally pleasing stills in my eyes were (1) the lovely opening solo of Angie (2) those with Sinatra and Mr M (2) sitting alone on the bed (3) the classroom one from Pretty Maids All in a Row (4) in her virtual underwear with the Duke (5) being spanked by I think Dino. Overall your Angie video easily worth a 96.5 rating to my mind despite its relative brevity.
ANGIE ON THE SCREEN’s TOP MUMBLER:
(1) 11 Sept 2015 interview. “Incredible! Funny! A tease! Wonderful! Oh my God what an actor!”
(2) Further interview:”I was in awe of him. He just exuded greatness and richness but made me feel comfortable.”
ANGIE IN 1978 INTERVIEW TALKING ABOUT THE SCREEN’ TOP BOX OFFICE STAR
“I’d love to work with him again– he was such an endearing big lug when we did Rio Bravo”.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing my Angie Dickinson video, appreciate the rating, info, trivia and quotes, much appreciated.
Happy the visual presentation met with your approval.
I thought Angie’s filmography might provide some interesting new artwork and some nice stills, she was pretty and sexy. I won’t quibble about her being a leading lady, but like you said she was popular on TV in the 70s as Police Woman.
Dressed to Kill was Brian De Palma’s homage to Psycho, a shocking murder half way and a twist ending. It was successful though it didn’t do much for Angie’s career.
When I saw that still of her being spanked by Dino Martini I had to include it alongside the shot I had intended to use with her and Marion Morrison. 🙂
What I didn’t know was her 10 year on/off affair with her childhood idol Frank Sinatra. From Paul Anka’s memoir “And then there was Angie Dickinson. In later years, casino owner Steve Wynn asked the infamous swordsman (Sinatra), who, of all the women he’d known, was the best in bed? Dean Martin was there, too, and they both agreed: “Angie!” Dickinson had also been linked to John F. Kennedy.”
Looking at my datafiles two of her films scored 10 out of 10 – Point Blank and Rio Bravo, one scored 9 – Dressed to Kill.
1 STEVE Some good gossip in your feedback to me. Possibly a bit ironic that in view of your reported conservation about women in bed Dino’s first solo movie after breaking up with Jerry was 10,000 Bedrooms which flopped! It strikes me from a variety of reports that I have read that Hollywood stars certainly in those days had a habit of alluding to the fairer gender in the most vulgar way Another example was provided by Diane Keaton in an interview where she recounted how when she met Mr M for the first it was on the set of Godpop and on passing her in a corridor said “Hello big t***!” However comments that I have read by actresses such as my Joan would suggest that some of the women of Tinsel Town and even my “sweet little Deanna” weren’t far behind the men in the vulgarity stakes.
2 Interesting comment about homage to Hitch. In the movie The Dead Pool Liam Neeson is a director of horror movies and he is fond of copying the work of more renowned directors so Clint’s Dirty Harry accuses him of “rip-offs”. Haughtily he retorts “They’re not rip-offs, they’re homage.” So where does a rip-off end and homage start?
3 One of Sandra Bullock’s big hits was called While You were Sleeping and I notice that his site’s “role model” has been waxing lyrical as I slept overnight. Certainly if Joel displayed the kind of powers of observation that to my mind Angie demonstrated in her comments about The Duke and Mr M I would probably buy every copy of that Hirschhorn book that his disciple keeps trying to foist upon me. As it is I will have to settle for reading old copies of the satirical Billy’s Weekly Liar that used to be published in Belfast.
4 Will catch up with you again when I get back from Berlin in a few days when “The world shall hear from me again!” I know it’s boring and repetitive for me to keep saying that but I can never resist frightening guys like Bruce with Christopher Lee’s blood-curdling voice-over threat at the end of each Fu Manchu film. I suppose everyone has his/her favourite sayings. In the TV sitcom the snobbish Frasier admitted that he loved telling people “If you want me I’ll be at my Club.”
5 Anyway hope you have another treat(s) waiting for me when I return. Meanwhile do what you can to restrain the Big Guy from showering too many supporting performers with grosses that they never actually earned at the box office.
Hey Bob and Steve….so Angie is next at Top Ten Charts….I will be viewing, commenting and sharing here when I catch up on my comments. I feel in love with Angie during the 1970s Police Woman and Dressed To Kill…..even if that was a body double in the shower…lol.
1 STEVE: Piper was nominated for best supporting Oscar for Carrie, The Hustler and over a quarter of a century later for the 1987 Children of a Lesser God though she never won. However I recall Piper most fondly for the little known B western 1954 Dawn at Socorro where she played a naïve young lady whom one of my favourite B movie heroes back then Rory Calhoun saved from a “fate worse than death” as a dance hall girl.
2 Next to that one I liked her best in the movies that she made with Curtis – Son of Ali Baba, The Prince who was a Thief, No Room for the Groom and Johnny Dark. She jokingly referred to the 1st 2nd of them as “T**s and Sand romps!”
3 She claims that it was “The Great Communicator” who changed her from an innocent young girl into a woman if you get my meaning. That happened during the making of her 1950 debut movie Louisa which starred Mr President. I last saw Piper as a foul-mouthed harridan mother in a 1999 episode of the TV sitcom Frasier.
4 The lush posters in your video combined with some very interesting stills warrant a 98% rating in my eyes. Overall my favorites were Ain’t Misbehaving [teamed again with Rory]
Dangerous Mission, Son of Ali Baba, The Golden Blade, Smoke Signal and Prince Who Was a Thief. However I must single out as par excellence those for Dawn at Socorro and Mississippi Gambler
5 Best stills for me were (1) the ones of her and Tony in Johnny Dark and Prince who was a Thief (2) With Ty Power and Julia Adams in Mississippi Gambler (3) with the barely recognisable Mel Gibson in Tim (4) with Newman in The Hustler and (5) the shocker from Carrie. Well done.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info, trivia, quote and comment, always appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the posters and stills.
It was especially enjoyable putting this video together because there was an abundance of quality posters I hadn’t had a chance to show off before. Thank you Piper for appearing in so many colorful b-movies back in the 50s. 🙂
Bob, I’ve added Rory Calhoun to my video list, you’ve mentioned him a few times in your reviews it’s only fair I produce a video on him too.
In my youth I knew Piper Laurie best from the Brian De Palma movie Carrie (1976), she was very effective as Sissy Spacek’s religious nut mother. It was the first and still the best film adaptation of Stephen King’s novels IMO, sorry Kubrick fans.
Two of Piper’s films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Hustler and Carrie, no 9s but there is an 8 – Children of a Lesser God.
Some movie trivia. Which Tony Curtis movie has him uttering the classic line – “Yonder lies the castle of my fodder”? Some film books claim it was from The Black Shield of Falworth (Halliwell’s Movie Guide was the main culprit here), others say it was The Prince Who Was a Thief. But it looks like Son of Ali Baba is the winner, the line is misquoted, probably on purpose, what he actually says is “This is my father’s palace. And yonder lies the Valley of the Sun.”
2 I agree with you about “Yonda lies” but regardless of the precise words Tony always blamed people laughing at his diction in scenes like that one and his Jewish background for his never being given an Oscar by Hollywood. If you had been in his company back then you would probably have advised him to watch Mr M in Julius Caesar and take notes!
3 Am looking forward to the Calhoun video when you get around to it. Rory is long deceased and his 50s type of film is a thing of the distant past and will never be with us again but as your magical Dawn at Socorro poster demonstrates his kind of movie yielded many great posters even in those days.
Say hello to Steve’s Anne Bancroft You Tube video.
Added Steve’s Angie Dickinson You Tube video to his page.
HI STEVE 1 Angie Dickinson made her debut in the 1954 Lucky Me starring my Doris and continued in supporting roles in a number of B movies until she got a good part as the Duke’s love interest in the 1959 Rio Bravo. Whilst a number of other reasonable parts followed and indeed some leading lady roles, to my mind overall she never broke out of the supporting actress league on the silver screen –no arguments please!- and perhaps her most prestigious performance there was in Sir Maurice’s 1980 Dressed to Kill in which she got star billing alongside the great Cockney thespian. That movie, Rio Bravo, The Chase, The Bramble Bush and the Lee Marvin gangster double Point Blank and The Killers are probably my favourite Dickinson flicks.
2 However she also has had a highly prolific TV career and it was in that medium that she became a household name with the 1974-79 series Police Woman. It was the first one hour long prime time TV drama series in which a woman was the star and ran for 91 episodes and because of her success in it many years later there was a standing joke in the TV sitcom Frasier that Frasier’s dad Martin had an obsession with Angie Dickinson movies.
3 Anyway your video is concerned with just Angie’s big screen career and certainly that in itself is sufficient for me with marvellous posters such as the eye poppers for Young Billy Young and Sam Whiskey, The Last Challenge [aka The Pistolero of Red River] China Gate, Captain Newman, and Shoot Out at Medicine Bend. However par excellence were those for Dressed to Kill, Point Blank and The Killers.
4 Equally pleasing stills in my eyes were (1) the lovely opening solo of Angie (2) those with Sinatra and Mr M (2) sitting alone on the bed (3) the classroom one from Pretty Maids All in a Row (4) in her virtual underwear with the Duke (5) being spanked by I think Dino. Overall your Angie video easily worth a 96.5 rating to my mind despite its relative brevity.
ANGIE ON THE SCREEN’s TOP MUMBLER:
(1) 11 Sept 2015 interview. “Incredible! Funny! A tease! Wonderful! Oh my God what an actor!”
(2) Further interview:”I was in awe of him. He just exuded greatness and richness but made me feel comfortable.”
ANGIE IN 1978 INTERVIEW TALKING ABOUT THE SCREEN’ TOP BOX OFFICE STAR
“I’d love to work with him again– he was such an endearing big lug when we did Rio Bravo”.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing my Angie Dickinson video, appreciate the rating, info, trivia and quotes, much appreciated.
Happy the visual presentation met with your approval.
I thought Angie’s filmography might provide some interesting new artwork and some nice stills, she was pretty and sexy. I won’t quibble about her being a leading lady, but like you said she was popular on TV in the 70s as Police Woman.
Dressed to Kill was Brian De Palma’s homage to Psycho, a shocking murder half way and a twist ending. It was successful though it didn’t do much for Angie’s career.
When I saw that still of her being spanked by Dino Martini I had to include it alongside the shot I had intended to use with her and Marion Morrison. 🙂
What I didn’t know was her 10 year on/off affair with her childhood idol Frank Sinatra. From Paul Anka’s memoir “And then there was Angie Dickinson. In later years, casino owner Steve Wynn asked the infamous swordsman (Sinatra), who, of all the women he’d known, was the best in bed? Dean Martin was there, too, and they both agreed: “Angie!” Dickinson had also been linked to John F. Kennedy.”
Looking at my datafiles two of her films scored 10 out of 10 – Point Blank and Rio Bravo, one scored 9 – Dressed to Kill.
1 STEVE Some good gossip in your feedback to me. Possibly a bit ironic that in view of your reported conservation about women in bed Dino’s first solo movie after breaking up with Jerry was 10,000 Bedrooms which flopped! It strikes me from a variety of reports that I have read that Hollywood stars certainly in those days had a habit of alluding to the fairer gender in the most vulgar way Another example was provided by Diane Keaton in an interview where she recounted how when she met Mr M for the first it was on the set of Godpop and on passing her in a corridor said “Hello big t***!” However comments that I have read by actresses such as my Joan would suggest that some of the women of Tinsel Town and even my “sweet little Deanna” weren’t far behind the men in the vulgarity stakes.
2 Interesting comment about homage to Hitch. In the movie The Dead Pool Liam Neeson is a director of horror movies and he is fond of copying the work of more renowned directors so Clint’s Dirty Harry accuses him of “rip-offs”. Haughtily he retorts “They’re not rip-offs, they’re homage.” So where does a rip-off end and homage start?
3 One of Sandra Bullock’s big hits was called While You were Sleeping and I notice that his site’s “role model” has been waxing lyrical as I slept overnight. Certainly if Joel displayed the kind of powers of observation that to my mind Angie demonstrated in her comments about The Duke and Mr M I would probably buy every copy of that Hirschhorn book that his disciple keeps trying to foist upon me. As it is I will have to settle for reading old copies of the satirical Billy’s Weekly Liar that used to be published in Belfast.
4 Will catch up with you again when I get back from Berlin in a few days when “The world shall hear from me again!” I know it’s boring and repetitive for me to keep saying that but I can never resist frightening guys like Bruce with Christopher Lee’s blood-curdling voice-over threat at the end of each Fu Manchu film. I suppose everyone has his/her favourite sayings. In the TV sitcom the snobbish Frasier admitted that he loved telling people “If you want me I’ll be at my Club.”
5 Anyway hope you have another treat(s) waiting for me when I return. Meanwhile do what you can to restrain the Big Guy from showering too many supporting performers with grosses that they never actually earned at the box office.
Hey Bob and Steve….so Angie is next at Top Ten Charts….I will be viewing, commenting and sharing here when I catch up on my comments. I feel in love with Angie during the 1970s Police Woman and Dressed To Kill…..even if that was a body double in the shower…lol.
1 STEVE: Piper was nominated for best supporting Oscar for Carrie, The Hustler and over a quarter of a century later for the 1987 Children of a Lesser God though she never won. However I recall Piper most fondly for the little known B western 1954 Dawn at Socorro where she played a naïve young lady whom one of my favourite B movie heroes back then Rory Calhoun saved from a “fate worse than death” as a dance hall girl.
2 Next to that one I liked her best in the movies that she made with Curtis – Son of Ali Baba, The Prince who was a Thief, No Room for the Groom and Johnny Dark. She jokingly referred to the 1st 2nd of them as “T**s and Sand romps!”
3 She claims that it was “The Great Communicator” who changed her from an innocent young girl into a woman if you get my meaning. That happened during the making of her 1950 debut movie Louisa which starred Mr President. I last saw Piper as a foul-mouthed harridan mother in a 1999 episode of the TV sitcom Frasier.
4 The lush posters in your video combined with some very interesting stills warrant a 98% rating in my eyes. Overall my favorites were Ain’t Misbehaving [teamed again with Rory]
Dangerous Mission, Son of Ali Baba, The Golden Blade, Smoke Signal and Prince Who Was a Thief. However I must single out as par excellence those for Dawn at Socorro and Mississippi Gambler
5 Best stills for me were (1) the ones of her and Tony in Johnny Dark and Prince who was a Thief (2) With Ty Power and Julia Adams in Mississippi Gambler (3) with the barely recognisable Mel Gibson in Tim (4) with Newman in The Hustler and (5) the shocker from Carrie. Well done.
Hey Bob…..good feedback on Steve’s Piper Laurie page. Lots of good trivia nuggets in this comment…thanks for sharing the information.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info, trivia, quote and comment, always appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the posters and stills.
It was especially enjoyable putting this video together because there was an abundance of quality posters I hadn’t had a chance to show off before. Thank you Piper for appearing in so many colorful b-movies back in the 50s. 🙂
Bob, I’ve added Rory Calhoun to my video list, you’ve mentioned him a few times in your reviews it’s only fair I produce a video on him too.
In my youth I knew Piper Laurie best from the Brian De Palma movie Carrie (1976), she was very effective as Sissy Spacek’s religious nut mother. It was the first and still the best film adaptation of Stephen King’s novels IMO, sorry Kubrick fans.
Two of Piper’s films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Hustler and Carrie, no 9s but there is an 8 – Children of a Lesser God.
Some movie trivia. Which Tony Curtis movie has him uttering the classic line – “Yonder lies the castle of my fodder”? Some film books claim it was from The Black Shield of Falworth (Halliwell’s Movie Guide was the main culprit here), others say it was The Prince Who Was a Thief. But it looks like Son of Ali Baba is the winner, the line is misquoted, probably on purpose, what he actually says is “This is my father’s palace. And yonder lies the Valley of the Sun.”
HI STEVE
1 Good feedback, thanks.
2 I agree with you about “Yonda lies” but regardless of the precise words Tony always blamed people laughing at his diction in scenes like that one and his Jewish background for his never being given an Oscar by Hollywood. If you had been in his company back then you would probably have advised him to watch Mr M in Julius Caesar and take notes!
3 Am looking forward to the Calhoun video when you get around to it. Rory is long deceased and his 50s type of film is a thing of the distant past and will never be with us again but as your magical Dawn at Socorro poster demonstrates his kind of movie yielded many great posters even in those days.
Steve Top 10 You Tube Update….Piper Laurie now has Top 10 Charts You Tube video..and it is added to the page.
Thanks for the share Bruce and Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂