TCM TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES : STAR OF THE MONTH : PETER CUSHING PLUS DONALD PLEASENCE BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

TYING IN NICELY . . with the screening of the Amicus #PeterCushing... and Donald Pleasence . . film, 'From Beyond the Grave' (1974) which is being screened in #TCM #Halloween films season on Wednesday October 26th and their Peter Cushing 'Star Of The Month' season... is also the Birthday Anniversary TODAY of . .. #DonaldPleasence!

TODAY MARKS the anniversary of the birthday of actor Donald Pleasence on October 5th 1919. Born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, he was the son of Alice (née Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway stationmaster.

TODAY, after his passing... you can read all about Pleasence service during WW2, his capture as a prisoner of war, humbleness kept that under wraps for most of his life.. but he would talk and share about a fateful day and television broadcast, where both he and Peter Cushing received positive critical attention for their roles in the BBC version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) from the novel by George Orwell. Pleasence played Syme, to Cushing Winston Smith. BOTH terrified the British public! The post marking his birthday over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page is right now, extremely popular with comments and memories. If you have a fav film or role in which Pleasence excelled, please feel free to skip along there and share and comment too!

JUST OVER A MONTH AGO, we posted a heads up.. er not off!... that US Turner Classic Movies have made our dear #PeterCushing, Start of the Month for October 2020! Every MONDAY evening they will be screening a host of Peter Cushing films.. some of these also have a Halloween / Hammer films / Horror flavour too! They start tonight at 8pm with THESE titles : 

*CASH ON DEMAND (1961)1

* THE END OF THE AFFAIR (1955)

* TIME WITHOUT PITY (1957)

* JOHN PAUL JONES (1957)

* HAMLET (1948)

* A CHUMP AT OXFORD (1940)

* VIGIL IN THE NIGHT (1940)

 

An AMAZING TREAT! Over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE we are are asking which films will YOU be watching? AFTER the screening we are asking you to drop by and let us know what you thought of the film(s) you have watched and what are your thoughts on those films! Leading up to and during Halloween, TCM and many other channels are also screening their Horror Treats too. Feel free to let us know what's out there too! For our friends and followers in the US, this promises to be a fabulous weekly experience.. 

 

PLEASE COME JOIN US at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! With posts every day, rare images and photographs, features and prize competitions.You'll have good company with over 34 thousand followers, all celebrating the LIFE and CAREER of Peter Cushing OBE!

THE MAN WHO CREATED FRANKENSTEIN : CANDID CUSHING ON SET : LEE WITH PIPE AND REMEMBERING EDWARD JUDD AND JILL BENNETT

#HEADSUP! LOVE #PeterCushing? LIKE Peter Cushing's #frankenstein? Then, you'll LOVE this . .MORE news on this #documentary and BOOK, next Frida'sy #FrankensteinFriday!

 

ABOVE: Actor Richard Hunter poses with Peter Cushing during the making of 'House of the Long Shadows' in the grounds of Rotherfield Park, in Hampshire, England. Tea breaks were frequent during the making of the film, a common tradition with films made in the UK .. which US actor Desi Arnaz Jr. thought was a wonderful perk! It seems sadly that Richard has left the acting profession and now works in the tech crew, with lighting! A nice pic here though . . 

 

YESTERDAY, at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE during the #ChristopherLee Saturday, I posted and shared this rare pic of Sir Christopher foolishly saying . .  'Now, here's something you don't see everyday' 😏😔 Well, we all know #PeterCushing HATED the pipe and had problems when playing Holmes... keeping glasses of milk, just out of shot, to take a glug from, to stop him from gagging! ( see in the thread below, Peter Cushing was made 'Pipe Man of the Year' in the UK in 1969, ironically!) But Lee however, not so.... other than when playing Holmes himself, can you recall a role he played where he smoked a pipe on screen????? ...and everyone provide a VAST list of movies, where LEE DID smoke a pipe! Well, what do I KNOW??? 😕😆 - Marcus

 

REMEMBERING EDWARD JUDD today, who was born on this day 4th October 1932. Judd achieved his biggest successes with a series of science fiction films 'The Day The Earth Caught Fire' (1961) ,'First Men In The Moon' (1964) and co-starring with #PeterCushing in 'Island Of Terror' (1966) fighting the silicates…..

 

FULL PCASUK REVIEW with STILL GALLERY. RIGHT HERE! 

 

REMEMBERING #JillBennett today . . many will remember Bennett for her role as Jane Maitland in Amicus films '#THESKULL' from 1965. She played Peter Cushing's wife, in a role that could have been a little like many of Hammer's Jimmy Sangster's female characters. Thankfully, #MiltonSubotsky had a more of an expanding range when it came to actresses roles... and her role in The Skull is all too brief but, when both her and Cushing share screen time, it's worth the watch! 

 

YOU'LL FIND THE PCASUK full REVIEW and RARE STILLS GALLERY HERE! 

 

BENNETT MADE MANY appearances in British films including Lust for Life (1956), The Criminal (1960), Hammer films, The Nanny (1965), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), I Want What I Want (1972), Mister Quilp (1975), Full Circle (1977) and Britannia Hospital (1982). She also appeared in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), Lady Jane (1986) and Hawks (1988). Her final film performance was in The Sheltering Sky (1990). Bennett was married to play-write John Osborne. She and Osborne divorced acrimoniously in 1978.

 

BENNETT SADLY died by suicide on October 23rd 1990, aged 58, having long suffered from depression and the brutalising effects of her marriage. In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress #RachelRoberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. A very sad end to a very talented actress . . .  

 

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#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: ON SET SNAPS FOR SIX WEEKS HAMMER /CUSHING FRANKENSTEINS STARTS TODAY!

#FRANKENSTEINfriday! Over the next SIX weeks we'll be sharing an album of 'behind the scenes' snaps from Cushing's Hammer Frankenstein films... Here's the FIRST 'Frankenstein Created Woman' (1967) . .

#PeterCushing and Susan Denberg pose for a 'crazy snap' on the back lot of Bray studios during the making of 'Frankenstein Created Woman'

MAKE UP ARTIST George Partleton puts the finishing touches to Denberg's make up before the camera

EDDIE COLLINS Clapper loader, shows the slate on the latest shot, before the camera rolls at Hammer's 'go to' location just down the road, Black Park . .

TAKING A BREAK, #PeterCushing takes five and reads the newspaper.. with his essential 'cup of tea' in hand!

 

A RARE SNAP of Eileen Head head of continuity with Cushing on set . .

GEORGE PARTLETON on make up and Frieda Steiger hair stylist, working on Cushing before a take...

WE HAVE NO IDEA why Susan Denberg has her left foot in a white metal enamel kitchen jog in this shot? It looks like Rosemary Burrows from wardrobe is doing something with Denberg's shoes..? BUT why the jug and foot.. I have no idea 😕😧 Suggestions?

 

PRODUCER Anthony Nelson Keys, the crew nicknamed him 'Bunch of..' no I am not kidding 😆... Thorley Walters and Peter Cushing have chat during a break on the back lot . . .

 

ABOVE SIX BLACK AND WHITE press stills that were used to promote 'Frankenstein Created Woman' ... none of these poses are from the actual film, these snaps of Peter and Denberg became the main push of the publicity machine and were seen across the world in newspapers, magazine and publicity . These impressive photographs were devised and taken by Tom Edwards, who covered many Hammer film productions... 

 

OUR PCASUK review feature complete with RARE STILLS GALLERY you'll find at this website : RIGHT HERE!

IT CAN BE a long day on a film set, Denberg takes a stretch and a few moments to prep herself for the next shot . . 

 

 

NEXT WEEK WE'LL BE NOSING around this set at Bray, in our SECOND ON SET SNAPS for #FrankensteinFriday gallery featuring #Hammerfilms 'The Revenge of Frankenstein'

 

 

 

PLEASE COME JOIN US at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! With posts every day, rare images and photographs, features and prize competitions.You'll have good company with over 34 thousand followers, all celebrating the LIFE and CAREER of Peter Cushing OBE!