This will be my 5th and final Memorial Day Weekend which includes a Scarlet Street issue posting here on this blog! I'm excited actually, and not sad, as once more I get to enjoy the holiday weekend with my mother (even though she's just had a hip replacement and pacemaker installed) along with the excitement of something 'new' from the SS gang.
The other thing which is especially exciting is that for the most part, excluding Ann Rutherford unfortunately, the main people represented in SS Issue #48 are still alive today. David Hedison just had a birthday May 20th and is now age 92, my own Dad's age had he lived past 63. Equating him with my Dad makes it (I suppose strangely) comforting knowing he's with us today as I recall how I enjoyed watching him in "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" on Television as I was growing up.
Brett Halsey is also still with us, clocking in at the young age of 85. He'll be 86 on June 20th of this year. Charles Edward Pogue is the youngest at a mere 69 years of age, and David Frankham turned an amazing 93 last February.
For good measure I must mention Ricou Browning, who's interview with Scarlet Street concludes with this issue, is also thankfully still around at age 88. I'm gratified each and every day we all make it through!
Even as I draw to a close this year all of the postings necessary to complete the Scarlet Street collection, I still wish to continue work on it fixing up the "Index Page" to make sure it's easier to locate information. I'm also thinking early next year I'll put a new post on the blog with all of the issue covers and where to find their posts via links to complement the "Blog Archive" listings.
The Scarlet Street Forums still exists and remember I have a Scarlet Street Twitter account which was set up to keep the memory of the magazine alive after this blog is completed. After all, there are always Issue Anniversaries and photos out there that were never published in the magazine...always a reason to keep it going. It was a great time in my life I shall not want to forget.
Happy Memorial Day Weekend for now! See you next month!
*Artwork and still photos from "The Fly" [1958]
*Artwork and still photos from "The Fly" [1958]
*Still photos from "The Fly" [1958]
*David Hedison with Irwin Allen co-star (top) and in "The Fly" [1958] 2nd from top, "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" [3rd from top], and I am presuming the bottome photo is from "Marines, Let's Go!" [1961].
*David Hedison
*David Hedison with his wife, Bridget Hedison (top) and his mother, Rose Boghosian (2nd from top)
*Brett Halsey with Eve Brent (2nd from top), in "Spy in Your Eye" [1965] 3rd from top, and in "Hot Rod Rumble" [1957] bottom.
*Brett Halsey in "Four Fast Guns" [1960] top, "Desire in the Dust" [1960] 2nd from top, "Today We Kill...Tomorrow We Die!" [1968] 3rd from top and "Ma and Pa Kettle At Home" [1954] bottom.
*Brett Halsey in "Four Fast Guns" [1960] 2nd from top and "Today We Kill...Tomorrow We Die!" [1968] bottom.
*Still photos from "The Fly" [1958]
*Still photos from "The Fly" [1958]
*David Frankham with co-stars Henry Hull, Mary Webster and Vincent Price from "Master of the World" [1961].
*David Frankham from his days in the British army during World War II (top) and several photos from his appearance on the original "Star Trek" television series.
*Although he might have been a soldier representing United Earth in an episode of "The Outer Limits" (top 3 photos) David Frankham is from English descent.
*Charles Edward Pogue (top) along with Deanna Dunagan [1974] 2nd from top and stills from the set of "The Fly" [1986] bottom two photos.
*Charles Edward Pogue [top] with Larry Drake [2nd from top] and "The Fly" [1986] with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis (bottom two photos.)
*Charles Edward Pogue (top), performing in "The Underpants" 2nd from top and scenes from "The Fly" [1986] bottom two photos.
*Artwork and still photos from "Return of the Fly" [1959]
*Stills and behind-the-scenes photos from "Return of the Fly" [1959]
*Stills from "The Curse of the Fly" [1965]
*Ann Rutherford
*Ann Rutherford
*Ann Rutherford with co-star Mickey Rooney. Mickey may have been after all the girls, including Judy Garland and Lana Turner (3rd from the top), but he tries he best to show how special Ann is (bottom photo).
*David Frankham with co-stars, Mary Webster and Charles Bronson from "Master of the World" [1961].
*David Frankham with Basil Rathbone and Vincent Price in "Tales of Terror" [1962] top, in "Return of the Fly" [1959] 2nd from top and with co-stars Henry Hull, Mary Webster and Vincent Price from "Master of the World" [1961] 3rd from top.
*Stills from "The Curse of the Fly" [1965]
*From "The Fly" [1986]
*From "The Fly II" [1989]
*Ricou Browning with Flipper (top) and as The Creature (2nd and 3rd from top) and finally as himself with a drawing of the iconic gillman (bottom photo).
*Inside "Creature From The Black Lagoon" inside "Mechanix Illustrated" magazine (top 2 photos) and Ricou Browning (left) with an unidentified diver underwater during the making of "Thunderball" [1965] 3rd from top, and finally Mr. Browning directs a sequence being shot in 'quicksand in the Everglades area' for Ivan Tors Studio. (It's too bad about the water-mark, but I still think it's an interesting photo.)
*Tom Hennesy as The Creature in "Revenge of The Creature" [1955]
*Joey Vieira (right): "The kid was a bully," says Mr. Hennesy.
*Mr. Hennesy didn't work with Annette Funicello one-on-one, but he was involved with "Spin and Marty" 'quite a bit' and recalls her having 'a role as one of the girls over in the girls' camp.'
*Ethan Wayne (shown here with Dad John Wayne in "Big Jake") wasn't the best of students in school, but after working with Mr. Hennesy as his teacher (who also had a part in the film) "...hell, he was at the top of his class and they couldn't believe it!" recalls Mr. Hennesy.
*Tom Hennesy
*Mr. Hennesy worked with both Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood, but knew her best. As for Mr. Wagner, Mr. Hennesy recalls him mostly as being 'hostile'.
*Vintage photo of Director Jack Arnold, who shamelessly threw a party after nearly killing Mr. Hennesy during a dangerous scene in "Revenge of The Creature".
*Tom Hennesy
*David Hedison in "The Fly" [1958] top, with Timothy Dalton in "Licence To Kill [1989] 2nd from top, "The Lost World" [1960] 3rd from top and a wonderful portrait from Mr. Hedison's own website: David Hedison
*Ann Rutherford
* Supplemental images are noted with an (*) asterisk. My intention is to only enhance the reading experience and not take away from the original publication.
