Sunday, June 30, 2024

Tuesday Weld - Never heard of her.

 


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    1. She was also spoofed on the Flintstones as starlet "Tuesday Wednesday"

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  2. By far the best actress, and best looking, to ever appear on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis."

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  3. Her "Serial" co-star, Martin Mull, died a few days ago.
    That's a fun, mindless film, with a good cast.

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  4. She was Kubrick's first choice to play the title role in "Lolita". Turned it down because she said she wouldn't have to act; she WAS Lolita.

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  5. Back in the day, she could have been any day of the week, and I would not have loved or lusted after any less.

    ***SIGH!!!***

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  6. Yes we're gonna have a wingding
    A summer smoker underground
    It's just a dugout that my dad built
    In case the reds decide to push the button down
    We've got provisions and lots of beer
    The keyword is survival on the new frontier

    Introduce me to that big blonde
    She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld
    She's wearing Ambush and a French twist
    She's got us wild and she can tell
    She loves to limbo, that much is clear
    She's got the right dynamic for the new frontier

    Well I can't wait 'til I move to the city
    'Til I finally make up my mind
    To learn design and study overseas

    Do you have a steady boyfriend
    Cause honey I've been watching you
    I hear you're mad about Brubeck
    I like your eyes, I like him too
    He's an artist, a pioneer
    We've got to have some music on the new frontier

    Well I can't wait 'til I move to the city
    'Til I finally make up my mind
    To learn design and study overseas

    Let's pretend that it's the real thing
    And stay together all night long
    And when I really get to know you
    We'll open up the doors and climb into the dawn
    Confess your passion, your secret fear
    Prepare to meet the challenge of the new frontier

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  7. She’s still alive. 80-year-old now.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday_Weld
    DaleC in Idaho

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  8. She was The Hotness in the 1960s, hit the wall by the 1980s, and dropped off the map thereafter, as a perennially unrealized and underutilized star.
    More famous for being famous than for actually doing anything noteworthy.
    "Celebrity" vs. "star".
    Tale as old as time.

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  9. Tuesday Weld was beyond me as I was an awkward pre teen but Dobie, Zelda and ("It's only you") Maynard with his dislike of toil "Work!" responses were on my radar.

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  10. the movie College Confidential, had in it's cast Rocky Marciano, heavyweight boxing champ, and Conway Twitty, country music star, along with Mamie Van Doren who both were in "Sex Kittens go to College with Jackie Coogan - who broke into Hollywood as the Kid in Charlie Chaplin's movie, but is most famous as Uncle Fester - and Charlie Chaplin Jr... along with Tuesday Weld, who was forced to be the family bread winner by age 8 due to her father's death, by 9 she had a nervous breakdown, by 10 was a drunk, and by 12 attempted suicide.

    At age 18 Tuesday had an affair with co-star Elvis, later she married Dudley Moore but turned down the starring roles in Lolita, True Grit, and Bonnie and Clyde, but did star with Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason in Soldier in the Rain, and was on Many Loves of Dobie Gillis for one season along with Norm Grabowski. And Tuesday also starred in Teacher's Pet with Clark Cable and Doris Day, and Jet Pilot with John Wayne, and The Big Operator with Mel Torme, who Les Baxter once played music with... and Mel, Norm, and Mamie all were in Girl's Town 1959 with this car in the LA River storm drains. Steve McQueen and Mamie had a fling too in 1959. Because of her, McQueen publicly threatened to break Howard Hughes' nose if Hughes did not stop harassing Mamie. Needless to say, Hughes never bothered Van Doren again.
    If you need your brain melted, watch Falling Down with Michael Douglas, and then take a while to deal with the fact that Mrs Pendergrast is played by Tuesday Weld. Yup, Robert Duvall has Tuesday Weld playing his wife.
    Oh the thing's I've learned while learning about cars

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    1. Jesse, I wish we could hang out in the garage... those three paragraphs, I could have written! How many people even know who those people are, anymore? My hat's off to you, brother!!

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  11. Didn't she become known for marrying Frederick March III to become Tuesday March 3?

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  12. There's even a UK (London) based band - The Real Tuesday Weld - named after her. A lot of interesting music of their own plus one or two cover versions with their own take, The Day Before You Came (Abba) being one of them.

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  13. Wow. It all comes flooding back. Thanks to all for the memories.

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  14. She starred as Bobbie Jo Pepperdine alongside Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason in "Soldier in the Rain". Great film.

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    1. They filmed that movie at Fort Ord while I was going through basic training. At the end of a day's shoot she rode off with McQueen in his Cobra while we sweated on the parade field. It still hurts.

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  15. She played James Caan wife in the movie Thief.

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  16. I remember seeing her film debut in Hitchcock's The Wrong Man. Film Noir about an innocent man charged with a crime.

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