No. 15 / Summer 1994

Since last month's Spring post we had such warm days that I had to get out and mow the front yard.  Then immediately after that it became so cold that this April has been, in my mind, the coldest I've ever seen it around the Great Lakes area.  At the beginning of this week it was warm again, and now it's back to somewhat normal temperatures for this time of year.  With that, I'm happy to come up with a second Spring event with the posting of SS #15, actually from the Summer of 1994.

Naturally my favorites from this issue are Johnny Sheffield & Acquanetta!  Nonetheless, there's much to learn about Val Guest, Dashiell Hammett, the Quatermass Phenomenon and more.  (See you at the end of May for SS#16.)

*Val Guest

*Director Val Guest with Stephen Boyd and Camilla Sparv on the set of "Assignment K" [1968]

*Val Guest

*Two stills from "Miss Pilgrim's Progress" [1950].  Val Guest (Director, Screenwriter)

*Val Guest

*Val Guest with Janina Fay from "Beauty Jungle" [1964]

Playwright Reginald Beckwith (left) sits with Yolande Donlan, actress wife of writer/director Val Guest (right) in London, England [1951]

*Val Guest

*On the set of "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" [1970] with Val Guest

*Val Guest with actress wife Yolande Donlan, at home and in the kitchen, England [1955].

After Val Guest retired in 1985, the couple lived together in retirement in California.  An autobiography "So You Want to be in Pictures" was published in 2001.  A "Golden Palm Star" was   dedicated to both Val Guest and Yolande Donlan on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars in 2004.  

Val Guest passed away from prostate cancer on May 10, 2006 at age 94.  Yolande Donlan died on December 30, 2014 at the age of 94.

*Quatermass artwork

*"The Quatermass Experiment" [1955]

*American title "The Creeping Unknown"

*"The Quatermass Experiment" [1955]

*American title "The Creeping Unknown"

"Quatermass II" [1957]

*American title "Enemy From Space" [1957]

*"Quatermass II" [1957]

*"Quatermass and The Pit" [1967]

*"Quatermass and The Pit" [1967]

*With Love from Julian Glover

*Nice photo of Michael Ripper taken from petercushing.co.uk

*Michael Ripper to a fan taken from clickautographs.com

*Dashiell Hammett

*Dashiell Hammett

*Dashiell Hammett

*Dashiell Hammett

*Johnny Weissmuller & Johnny Sheffield "Tarzan Finds A Son" [1939]

*Acquanetta

*Acquanetta

*Acquanetta

*Acquanetta

*Acquanetta

*Johnny Sheffield as "Bomba"

*Johnny Sheffield as "Bomba"

*Johnny Sheffield as "Bomba"

*Johnny Sheffield

*Johnny Sheffield as "Bomba"

*"Tarzan and the Leopard Woman" [1946]

*"Tarzan and the Leopard Woman" [1946] above & "Tarzan Triumphs" [1943] below.

*"Captive Wild Woman" [1943] above & "Tarzan's Desert Mystery" [1943] below.

*"Rhythm of the Islands" [1943] above & "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" [1941] below.

*Acquanetta

*Val Guest (right)

*Val Guest (left)

*Val Guest with Sarah Branch

*Acquanetta

*Johnny Sheffield & Johnny Weissmuller

 

* Supplemental images are noted with an (*) asterisk.  My intention is to only enhance the reading experience and not take away from the original publication.