RIP
Sad to hear she passed a few years ago.
shareThat is a shame. Belated RIP
shareI remember she was posting briefly on the old Britmovie forums, she was often very frank about some of the people she'd worked with...did manage to retrieve some of those posts a few years ago.
shareInteresting.
shareI'll see if I can transcribe a few of them, think the older version of that site is down now.
shareHer post about Barry Stokes:
"Barry was a player and I heard he left his wife for their nanny. Then I was sorry to hear Barry had a heart attack and left the profession. Hopefully the nanny is gainfully employed and Barry is enjoying his early retirement. Handsome man but handsome is as handsome does".
On 'Spaced Out':
"The best performance in Spaced Out was my dog 'Sara' who followed directors orders and was a 'first take' artist. Barry Stokes was in both films (Prey and Spaced Out) and Sara had a pash for him. Sat on his shoulder between takes like a parrot. Can't recall if they filmed that but it was pretty funny".
On Cruel Passion:
"I did one Marquis De Sade script while still at Webber Douglas academy starring Koo Stark and directed by Chris Boger, a Norwegian wild man director who beat up his beautiful black girlfriend in front of us at a party. All the men stood around and did nothing while the girls freaked out equally useless. then everyone pretended nothing has happened.
Domistic violence will never stop unless society stops tolerating it. Harrison Ford was there for awhile with a very young girl in tow who he clicked his fingers at and she behaved like a puppy in training (stay, sit, shut up, come)"
More 'Cruel Passion':
"I haven't seen the Boger film but I probably appear in a number of guises including a novice nun. Koo was very kind. It was winter and we were in 18th century lace dresses at one point with cinched in waistlines. The old house at Bay Studios (which was crumbling with dry rot) was as cold as death. We were waiting around a long time and the other glorified extra and I started to die of exposure on the spot. Ms Stark saw us shivering and bundled us into her trailer to warm us. She didn't know us and it was a spontaneous act of kindness much appreciated.
Earlier that day or three 'girls' were being cinched into these ridiculous corsets in front of a huge standing mirror. The tall redhead suddenly popped out in an unexpected direction. I was an innocent Canadian abroad and for a while it did not compute that 'Crisis' was a transsexual despite the clear evidence. Just before the incident i had noticed her staring at my bosom and then her own clearing thinking that hers were better and they were certainly more voluptuous.
The gossip was that 'she' was the son of famous American parents. I know she worked at the Raymond Revue Bar trying to save the money to complete the process. So many struggles people go through in life!"
On 'Supergirl':
"Supergirl was great fun. Faye Dunaway appeared to be a little Hollywood which was unusual and interesting to watch unfold in various ways. Allot of American actors I came across seemed to indulge in class A drugs. I could be wrong but I had the feeling she may have been suffering from addition but to what I am unsure. She always looked picture perfect but seemed.. a little intense. Maybe she was just 'out of tune' with the relaxed English film studio.
Not allot of films were being made in the 70s and early 80s in England. English actors (and the odd Canadian mutt) were cast mainly in cameos in American financed movies. There was no way to learn unless you lucked into being cast in an independent and then you learning as you went along. It was not a pick and choose situation. When we made Prey, Superman was the only other film shooting at Shepperton Studios. Chris Reeve and I were sometimes the only other actors in the restaurant during a break. The studio was partly owned (I think) by 'The Who' who were often practising in the 'Alice in Wonerland' prop strewn grounds...maybe they found the giant mushrooms creatively stimulating! I went out with Michael Crawford briefly and he played the mad hatter I think in the film".
BTW: the person she refers to as 'Crisis' is likely to have been Chrysis St Laurent aka International Chrysis, born Billy Schumacher (1951-1990)
Glory also appears in 'Evil Heriage' a 1999 documentary about Norman J Warren which I suspect was originally intended as an extra for an abandoned VHS release of Prey, but eventually ended up being included on the early UK DVD release of Inseminoid.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=n82aBeDJqLw
Fascinating.
shareAll of these are really interesting 👍
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