FOLLOWING ON from the rare behind the scenes clips we shared with you last
week...here's a question for you, again concerning Peter Cushing and
Christopher Lee's Hammer film the 1964 'THE GORGON' . .. it's known
that actress Barbara Shelley who played Megaera's 'other side' Carla
Hoffman, was quite happy to also play the make up laden, three pound
head-dressed Gorgon Megaera too! She also stated she
wasn't afraid of 'snakes' if they had to be used in the head-dress too!
It was Shelley's contractual commitment to other work, that prevented
her from playing the role. The whole planning and design of the Gorgon
make up had taken much longer than planned.. she HAD to leave and move
on to other work.
BUT LOOKING at her in the make up, makes you wonder . . what kind of
Gorgon do you think she would have made on the screen. A point that is
often made on the hit miss results of the big reveal and drama of the
ending of the film... has been, would it have been easier to except the
dual identity, if The Gorgon DID look a little like her other identity
played by Shelley.... Over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE, we've asked what do YOU think?
THE MANY FILM FATES OF PETER CUSHING . . . in his own words, text from
his second autobiography 'Peter Cushing: Past Forgetting' 1988,
Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Cushing had many a dramatic ending for some
of his roles, not as many as his good friend, Christopher Lee though 😮😃 . . AGAIN, over at our Facebook PCASUK Fan Page, we are asking . . which PC character 'bow-out' do you find the most interesting, dramatic, emotional? - Marcus
A HEADS UP! a VERY popular series that kicked off when PCASUK first came to FACEBOOK, 'The Twenty Two Screen Deaths of Peter Cushing', wrapped through lack of time, quite sometime ago. For those who enjoyed these posts, you'll be pleased, maybe . . to hear we are picking up where we left off, in just a few days time 😀😃 Look out for additions to the series soon . .
TODAY ALSO MARKS the Centenary of the birthday of actor, NIGEL STOCK! Stock, played a superb Watson in the BBC 'Sherlock Holmes' television series of the
60's, with Peter Cushing as Holmes. Sadly, Stock left us in 1986, aged
66. The marking of remembering Stock today, is being well supported with comments and opinions at the PCASUK Facebook Fan Page. .
#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY! Ok... The last time two of these people were on screen together, the set up was quite different...there was a table then too, but the 'lady' was the meal 😮What film was that? Who are the two sitting at the table and name THIS film too! Btw.. we posted the little insert photograph a few weeks ago, but no one then could site where that strange photograph car from...well, today you just might find the answer 😉 At the PCASUK Facebook Fan Page we are suggesting to Lee fans, they SHOULD now nail this quite quickly . . yes? -Marcus
