A VERY SWEET CHOICE: THIS WEEKS TUESDAY TOUGHY

THE TUESDAY TOUGHY . . .over at the PCAS website I have set this week's CUSHING TUESDAY TOUGHY. As I am sure any regular here knows , CUSHING LOVED his cuppa. He also had quite strict ideas about how it should be made and what tea was used... I am quite surprised to see he is using one of those tacky PYREX glass tea cups that were around in the 1970's! Anyone else remember those? I would have though his jaw would have dropped at the absence of a china cup and saucer... maybe it was just for the photograph..and he threw the slops and cup in the laboratory sink, after the pic was taken? 

SO SUGAR... what do you think? BELOW is  the answer to the LAST TUESDAY TOUGHY and a link to previous gallery and feature I wrote on Hammer films and their tea breaks, here at the website, should you want to learn more!

A FULL GALLERY AND FEATURE ON THE ABOVE YOU'LL FIND HERE! 

ANSWER: Peter Cushing was offered several plays on Broadway early in his career. Shortly before leaving the US for Canada on his efforts to get back to England, Peter was offered two plays that went to Broadway, The Seventh Trumpet and Golden Wings. He chose The Seventh Trumpet, which ran a week longer than Golden Wings. Cushing also auditioned for the role of Paul Verrall in Olivier's production of 'Born Yesterday' in 1946. But when Olivier asked him to try an American accent, Cushing didn't think he could do the accent justice. Olivier promised he wouldn't forget Cushing and if anything else came up, that he thought Peter was suitable for, he would contact him. He kept his word. Cushing was cast in Olivier's film production of HAMLET shortly after as Osric, and toured with Olivier's company in the US and Canada, for quite sometime afterwards. The production we were looking for however, was a 1975 Broadway production of The Crucifer of Blood, a play based on Conan Dolye's Sherlock Holmes story, The Sign of Four. Cushing, as with many theatre opportunities after the mid 1960's, declined.

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A CATCH UP : ALL POSTS FROM THE LAST FOUR DAYS!

CONGRATULATIONS TO FROLLY COOKE. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED HERE AND AT THE PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE!

YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, everything came to grinding halt here on the website for the past few days. A few problems with the uploading, cause by someone tampering with the site. YOu may have also noticed we lost our PCAS YOUTUBE CHANNEL two weeks ago. Despite much effort trying to get it back, I fear the same 'Peter Cushing and Hammer Films Fan' who made us a target for YOUTUBE taking us down, is also behind causing trouble with our website. Everything is now fixed, we will be reactivating our MARK ONE YOUTUBE ACCOUNT, which was superseded by our MARK TWO CHANNEL, about two years ago. It will just take time to update that channel to the point where, the closed channel was... over 2,000 clips and intervirews, trailers and rare Cushing films... before it was taken down. Worked has started on the channel already, and THIS post will bring us up date, with posts that WERE posted at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE during the short time, this website was having problems! 

THE 22ND OF MAY, brought us an opportunity to celebrate the BIRTHDAY of one of PETER CUSHING's favourite writers and one of his close friends. of his early days in theatre and film . . .

TODAY WE REMEMBER SIr Arthur Conan Doyle who was born on this day a writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Peter Cushing played Sherlock Holmes in Hammer's THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, then in the BBC TV SERIES and finally in Tyburn's THE MASKS OF DEATH

TODAY WE ALSO REMEMBER an acting legend! Laurence Olivier who was born on this day in 1907. Olivier dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles. Among Olivier's best known films are Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), and a trilogy of Shakespeare films as actor-director: Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), and Richard III (1955).
 

OLIVIER'S LATER FILMS included The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Sleuth (1972), Marathon Man (1976), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). For his on-screen work he received four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. The National Theatre's largest auditorium is named in his honour, and he is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given annually by the Society of London Theatre.
 

PETER CUSHING co-starred and was directed by Olivier in Hamlet (1948) with Cushing playing Osric. Another notable thing about the film although they shared no scenes together it was the first film to star both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, who had an uncredited role as a spear carrier with no spoken lines. What are some of your favorite Olivier films and performances?

THIS LADY NEEDS no introduction... and we covered her special day on the 23rd of May! TODAY WE ARE are wishing Joan Collins a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY today.

AT AGE 22 in 1955, Collins headed to Hollywood and landed sultry roles in several popular films, including The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) and Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1958). While she continued to make films in the US and the UK throughout the 1960s, she also guest-starred in an episode of Star Trek in 1967 named "The City on the Edge of Forever", as Edith Keeler.

DURING THE 1970'S she appeared in a number of Horror films such as Hammer's FEAR IN THE NIGHT (1972) Amicus's TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1972) both with Peter Cushing and also Tales That Witness Madness (1973)

 MORE ON 'TALES FROM THE CRYPT' HERE!

JOAN COLLINS WITH JUDY GEESON IN  HAMMER FILMS FEAR IN THE NIGHT

HER BIGGEST SUCCESS came in 1981, she landed the role of Alexis Colby, the vengeful and scheming ex-wife of John Forsythe's character, in the 1980s soap opera Dynasty, winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 1982; she is credited with the success of Dynasty, which was the most-watched television series in the United States during the 1984-85 broadcast season. 

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CHRISTOPHER LEE SATURDAY! ON THE SET OF RISEN AND REMEMBERING WALTERS ON HIS 105TH BIRTHDAY!

#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY! Here is a rare and neat photograph taken during the making of Hammer films, 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave' . .. with co stars Veronica Carlson and Barbara Ewing. Often when shooting, Lee was known not to hang around on set during the Hammer Dracula films... similar to Peter Cushing. So that makes this pic all the more interesting . . and NOT in costume either!

YOU CAN FIND PART ONE OF THAT ABOVE FEATURE : HERE!

SOMEONE WHO HAD quite a few connections with CHRISTOPHER LEE and would have been 105th TODAY is actor THORLEY WALTERS. THORLEY was known for often playing eccentric characters in a variety of different films, and a fair share with both PETER CUSHING and CHRISTOPHER LEE!

DIRECTOR TERENCE FISHER WITH CUSHING AND THORLEY WALTERS HAVING A CHILL AND A GIGGLE WHILE MAKING 'FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN FOR HAMMER FILMS AT BRAY STUDIOS

HE MADE A NUMBER of appearances in Hammer films, The Phantom of the Opera (1962), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), with Christopher Lee, Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) with Peter Cushing and Vampire Circus (1972).

ABOVE: THORLEY WALTERS AS MR PRINCE IN LITTLE GEM OF A CUSHING FILM CALLED 'SUSPECT' OR 'THE RISK'  . . .

AND OUR FEATURE ON THE FILM :CLICK HERE! 

THORLEY ALSO PLAYED Dr Watson to Christopher Lee's Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) and co starred with Peter Cushing in a non hammer film Suspect (1960)

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NEWS : COMPANY STRUCK BLU RAY RELEASE DEALS ON TYBURN FILMS TITLES!

NEWS: WE HAVE DISCOVERED SOME VERY INTERESTING news, from a very reliable source, that a reputable dvd and blu ray distributor has sealed the deal on several TYBURN film releases . . the titles and regions we can not release right now, but as soon as we are given the OK and authority to do so, you'll see it here first 🙂 LOTS of interest on our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE  today with this great news! Which Tyburn titles would you like see released from their movies? Great news . .or what?

ONE OF MANY  features and galleries on THE GHOUL 

GIFS STILLS and YOUR FACEBOOK COMMENTS CLICK HERE!

FULL PCAS FEATURE WITH STILLS GIFS AND 

COMMENTS FROM FACEBOOK  HERE!

ABOVE: THE JOYS OF THE UK POSTER MAGAZINE 'MONSTER MAG' AND THEIR

COVERAGE OF THE RELEASE OF 'LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF' BACK IN 1975

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